This week, Kate and Brodie debrief on a bodybuilding competition (where is a delt?), Dopesick (what even is it?), Kate didn't DJ a sex party but did go to The Almighty Sometimes at MTC, Brodie tries to explain who Jerrod Carmichael is and wrote the latest Good Weekend cover story on Angourie Rice.

Then, we discuss the disgraceful new Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black, a debrief on the massive, overwhelming and excellent Alex Garland film Civil War.

Skip from 35:08 – 55:43 for Civil War spoilers.

See Also

• Amy (2015) by Asif Kapadia
• Mark Ronson on working with Amy Winehouse
• New Yorker Critics at Large episode on Civil War
• Kirsten Dunst in Variety
• Kirsten Dunst on choosing roles with female directors
• Men (2022)
• Power of the Dog (2021)

Also Alsos

• Hate Read, anonymous essays in Deez Links
• Steve! on Apple TV+
• Robe 3–in-1: Clean & Finish haircare
• CosRX Good Morning Low-pH Gel Cleanser
• Autumn Also playlist
• Get your flu and booster vaxx!!

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It was only a matter of time.

In this re-release of a classic Poodle episode, Kate and Brodie come together to discuss Girlfriends, Claudia Weill's directorial debut from 1978, and an absolutely perfect film. Co-written by Vicki Polon, it starts Melanie Mayron as Susan Weinblatt, who has a perfect face and spends her days shooting bar mitzvahs and waiting for her big, artistic break in late-'70s New York City. When her best friend and roommate, Anne (Anita Skinner), a writer, gets married and moves out of their apartment, Susan searches for ways to repair her loneliness. She meets Eric (a hunky young Christopher Guest), grows close to Rabbi Aaron Gold (Eli Wallach), brings home a hitchhiker named Ceil (Amy Wright) and tries to bridge the distance by spending time upstate with Anne and her husband, Martin (Bob Balaban). A film about friendship, making art and platonic love, Girlfriends is so much more than the sum of its parts and a tidy plot summary. Seek it out as soon as you can!

See Alsos

• BL's piece in the Guardian
• Stanley Kubrick interview
• Turner Classic Movies intro to Girlfriends
• Claudia Weill speaking about Girlfriends at BAM, BFI and UCLA; on Criterion and Bobbie Wygant.
• Millie De Chirico's podcast I Saw What You Did with Danielle Henderson

Watch Also

• Joyce at 34 (See Also for us!!)
• It's My Turn
• Crossing Delancey

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This week, Brodie is joined by Isobel Beech, the author of a true See Also FAVE book Sunbathing, to discuss the work of another a fellow auteur, Jennifer Lopez. Issy is trying to start a movement, and spread the word about JLo's "feature film" This Is Me … Now and its companion making-of documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told. So consider this episode activism.

We discuss the way she handles mud, her obsession with "The Block", how insuring your butt was 2000s culture, the "Zodiacal Council", and everyone dressing like they're extras on Younger. Brodie pitches a Freaky Friday reboot with her and JLo, and Issy declares, "There's nothing that JLo does that can't be done by someone else" … except this movie!!!

See Also

Buy a copy of Sunbathing

Pop Stars vs the attention economy

Wesley Morris on This Is Me … Now

Also Alsos

Sinus irrigation

Beautician and the Beast

Reality Day

Amy Odell's newsletter Back Row

Mariah Carey's 2018 album Caution

Get Right, JLo's 2001 single

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