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Orpheus, Eurydice, and Turning Around on 2020 with Laura Jan 01, 2021

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Laura returns to help us "turn around" and wave goodbye to 2020 by unpacking what the Orpheus and Eurydice myth means and all the ways it's woven into Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

Follow Laura on Twitter! https://twitter.com/labhistorical

Check out her podcast! https://anchor.fm/labhistorytime

Bonus Holigay Mini-sode! Dec 28, 2020

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A teeny episode with an extra Portrait synopsis rewrite, more Portrait Nation fan names, and queer holiday rom-com ideas. See you in 2021!

Wrapping Up 2020 with Aimée: Unfilmed Scenes from the Portrait Screenplay Dec 25, 2020

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Joyeux Noël, y'all! For our last episode of the year, we're bringing back our first guest . . . Aimée! She takes us behind the scenes of the project to translate the Plain Archive script into English, and we discuss some of the major differences between the script and the final film.

Stuff from the show:

The unofficial English translation of the Portrait of a Lady on Fire script: https://mlleclaudine.tumblr.com/post/634613427269173248/english-translation-of-c%C3%A9line-sciammas-screenplay

Aimée on Tumblr: https://ladyonfire28.tumblr.com/

Aimée on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AimeeLoved_B

Happy Holigays: Gay-ly Regifting to You Your Gay Gifts to Us! Dec 18, 2020

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We confetti'd a bunch of questions at you last week, and you were generous enough to confetti us back with answers! So now we're here to gather all that answer confetti, sort it into categories, convert it into an audio file, and party horn it into your ears! 🤷🏽‍♀️ We'll be sharing your responses to Valerie Complex's request for a rewrite of Portrait of a Lady on Fire's logline, your suggestions for what we Portrait Nation folks should call ourselves, and then we wrap things up with your dream queer rom-com ideas. Warm up that cocoa, don your gay apparel, and enjoy this super queer holiday bonanza!

Valerie Complex Returns! (Part 2): Riddick, Ridiculousness, a Lesbian Film Marketing Conspiracy(!!!), and More Dec 11, 2020

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Valerie's back to finish answering your (well, Gina's) questions! We also unpack some racist and creepy fandom behavior and accidentally uncover a suspiciously consistent trend in how lesbian films are marketed! Quite the journey, tbh.

Stuff from the show:

Angelica Jade Bastién's review of Antebellum:https://www.vulture.com/2020/09/antebellum-movie-review-i-am-tired-of-films-like-this.html
Valerie's review of The Great Wall:https://blackgirlnerds.com/bgn-movie-review-great-wall/
Film Fag's "LGBTQ+ movies that aren't just about white people + where you can find them!" list: https://twitter.com/dame_judi_dench/status/1334955022103302144

Happiest Season (not) LIVE (anymore) Watch Party & Post-Watch Discussion Dec 04, 2020

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Make yourself some hot cocoa and snuggle up with our Happiest Season watch party! Also, thanks again to everyone who was able to join us on Twitch—you made it super fun and held our hands through some tough scenes. 💖

How to sync the movie with the podcast: we'll cue you in, but if you want to double-check . . . 06:26 on the podcast should line up with 01:58 on Hulu (-01:39:55 if you're on a laptop).

Want to skip ahead to the discussion? Fast forward to 01:43:26.

Links from the show:

Watch Happiest Season on Hulu! https://www.hulu.com/movie/happiest-season-8bd1884d-b39d-4dc7-9c44-29f07de2f1ef

The article Laurel mentions about Happiest Season being in between two different goals: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/shannonkeating/kristen-stewart-lesbian-rom-com-hulu-happiest-season#google_ads_iframe_/6556/bfnews.desktop/en/reader/promo-inline5_0:~:text=Instead%2C%20Happiest%20Season%20is%20neither%20a,in%20some%20sort%20of%20middling%20in%2Dbetween.

Happy Birthday, Noémie Merlant! A Shakira Appreciation Discussion Nov 27, 2020

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This episode falls right on Noémie's birthday, so we decided to talk about how much we loved Shakira, the short film she wrote and directed. Shakira follows its title character, a young Roma girl, as she tries to make a better life for herself and her family.

Watch and support Shakira (official video with English and French subtitles)

Variety interview with Noémie

Valerie Complex Returns! (Part 1): Q&A, 2020 Movie Recommendations, and More Nov 20, 2020

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Film critic and writer Valerie Complex joins us to answer some of your questions, share some of her favorite movies of the year (so far), and weigh in a bit on Ammonite.

Stuff from the show:

Valerie’s previous episode
Follow Valerie on Letterboxd
Movies: Jumbo, Cuties (Mignonnes), Relic, Miss Juneteenth, Summerland, Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children, Coded Bias, Giving Voice, Zola (plus the tweetstorm Zola is based on), Birds of Prey, Saint Maud, La Llorona, Pariah, Shiva, Baby, Tahara, Princess Cyd, Good Manners, Tender, Ammonite, Happiest Season, The World to Come
Short stories: Antlers, Escape from Spiderhead, They Came in Through the Bathroom Mirror

How Portrait of a Lady on Fire Reframes History, a chat with Laura from LAB History Time Nov 13, 2020

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Why did Céline set Portrait of a Lady on Fire in 1770? What was happening in the late 18th century that made this time period so meaningful? To find out, we talk to Laura, an archaeologist, historical consultant and history teacher from London. She helps us unpack how women have often been rewritten or left out of traditional retellings of historical events and urges us to seek out other real-life versions of Héloïse and Marianne and bring them into mainstream conversation.

Stuff from the show:

Laura on Twitter @labhistorical
Laura's podcast LAB History Time on Women through time (Ancient Greece and Anglo-Saxon and Viking World) and the French Revolution
From the Smithsonian: Researchers Reaffirm Remains in Viking Warrior Tomb Belonged to a Woman
Céline Sciamma on Portrait being set in 1770 (Vulture)

Our Ears Are Burning Vol. 6: Regret, Ghost Poll, Portrait Merch Wishlists and More! Nov 06, 2020

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For this mailbag we dig deeper into a couple of key lines: What did Héloïse regret when she said she felt regret? And what did she mean when she said now and then she'd be consoled in Milan? We talk about how Portrait and Portrait Nation have changed our vocabularies. Then we talk about the results of our Halloweenie poll: were those Héloïse ghosts just memories or were they actually following Marianne around the château in real life?? (Rude!) Finally, we discuss what Portrait merch we'd each want, and we wrap everything up by getting meta and talking about the podcast on the podcast. Will it implode? Do we incept ourselves? Find out!

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