Might be coming out of my creative burnout! New Visual Aroma! open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...
Some Kind of Female Gothic
On Mother Mary (David Lowery, 2026)
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Dr Sarah Artt
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academic, feminist, lover of clothes, devoted audience member and reader (she/her) 🏳️🌈 ‘without community there is no liberation’-Audre Lord
My thoughts on THE BRIDE! and why making bad films is allowed substack.com/@sjartt/note...
Unquiet Influences
On Maggie Gyllenhall’s The Bride! and being allowed to make ‘bad’ films
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I wrote about WUTHERING HEIGHTS and it’s aromatic qualities: open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...
“I can smell you from here”
On Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights
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You can still catch a screening of SILENCES OF THE PALACE @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social read my intro from last night here: open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...
"I wanted their eyes to speak"
On political melodrama in Moufida Tlatli's Silences of the Palace (1994)
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On Saturday 6 December, I will be introducing Moufida Tlatli’s hard-to-see masterpiece SILENCES OF THE PALACE @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/the-si...
The Silences of the Palace
The screening on Saturday 6th December, 17:30 will have an introduction from Dr Sarah Artt. Book tickets for two or more of our Melodrama films (excluding Safe + Discussion & Stronger Than Love: ...
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If you missed my BFI talk you can read a version of it here! Officially ‘the filthiest’ chapter in the collection btw. open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...
Thinking with pleasure
On Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017)
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For anyone coming to the CALL ME BY YOUR NAME event at the BFI, I am gonna talk about THIS SCENE
If you missed my intro to Letter from an Unknown Woman you can read it here! open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...
Champagne always tastes better after midnight
On fuck boy lotharios and longing in Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls, 1948)
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Thank you to @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social and the gorgeous audience last night for LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN! I’ll be back on 6 December to introduce Moufida Tlatli’s SILENCES OF THE PALACE! www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/the-si...
It is my privilege to introduce LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN on Monday 3 November @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/letter...
Letter from an Unknown Woman
The screening on Monday 3rd November, 20:15 will have an introduction from Dr Sarah Artt. Book tickets for two or more of our Melodrama films (excluding Safe + Discussion & Stronger Than Love: ¡T...
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Btw, if you go to the Letterboxd listing for the del Toro Frankenstein you get lightening and your phone vibrates slightly boxd.it/Ecsg
Frankenstein (2025)
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
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New Visual Aroma! On Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...
Venus as a boy
On Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (2025)
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On The Rocky Horror Picture Show at 50: open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...
Come up to the lab
On the Rocky Horror Picture Show at 50
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Ahead of next week’s premiere of the Guillermo del Toro FrankensteinPo: reposting this piece I wrote back in 2018 for University of London’s Living Frankenstein event: Our cyborg bodies our cyborg selves: www.london.ac.uk/news-events/...
Our (cyborg) bodies, our (cyborg) selves
As we prepare for our Living Frankenstein event, Dr Sarah Artt explores cinema’s enduring fascination with sexually threatening female cyborgs.
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New Visual Aroma! More about Jeanne Moreau being hot and sexy in Joseph Losey’s Eva open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...
Very chic. Very expensive
On the precarious glamour of Eva (Joseph Losey, 1962)
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A SPECIAL VISUAL AROMA: On the cult of Lana Del Rey open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...
Born to Die
On the Cult of Lana Del Rey
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New Visual Aroma! On Leontine Sagan’s Maidens in Uniform and lending clothes open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...
Different from the others
On Leontine Sagan's Mädchen in Uniform and lending clothes
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Cleaning out the garage and forgot I once purchased one of the most unhinged pieces of movie tie-in merchandise ever devised
Gillian Anderson and Viola Davis at Cannes 2025
