MARCH 28 - OCTOBER 24, 2023 You Must Remember This: Erotic Tuesdays Series | A companion screening series highlighting select films from the podcast You Must Remember This ‘Erotic 90s’
ABOUT THE SERIES: The acclaimed podcast You Must Remember This returns with its ‘Erotic ‘90s’ Season. The American Cinematheque is proud to co-present with You Must Remember This a weekly companion series of select films that are highlighted in each week’s podcast episode. The screenings will take place on Tuesday evenings at the Los Feliz 3. You Must Remember This is dedicated to exploring the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood’s first century, the show returns with sizzling new episodes this spring. Created, written, produced and narrated by Karina Longworth, this season follows up on the success of “Erotic 80s” with a look at sex in film and TV during the 1990s. You Must Remember This is presented in partnership with premium podcast studio Cadence13, an Audacy company. The 21-episode season subtitled “Erotic 90s” is available wherever you get your podcasts. In the 1980s and 1990s, Hollywood movies explored the sexual lives, mores and fantasies of adults with degrees of candor, realism and imagination not seen before or since. While “Erotic 80s” episodes covered the theme one year at a time, the super-sized “Erotic 90s” breaks down themes from Lolitas and sex symbols to gender politics and more. The first episode serves as a prologue discussing the disastrous rollout of NC-17 and the evolving state of both porn and feminism at the dawn of the 90s, with topics including David Lynch, Harvey Weinstein, “pro-porn” feminism, “the new morality,” video stores, Magic Johnson, date rape and much more.