Unquiet Influences On Maggie Gyllenhall’s The Bride! and being allowed to make ‘bad’ films

My thoughts on THE BRIDE! and why making bad films is allowed substack.com/@sjartt/note...

An exciting Scottish literature publishing opportunity!

“I can smell you from here” On Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights

I wrote about WUTHERING HEIGHTS and it’s aromatic qualities:

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Looks Dirty On pornography, clothing, and the body

New Visual Aroma! open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

"I wanted their eyes to speak" On political melodrama in Moufida Tlatli's Silences of the Palace (1994)

You can still catch a screening of SILENCES OF THE PALACE @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social read my intro from last night here:

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TONIGHT!!!

Thank uuuu and good luck with your move!

Quiet Pictures Quiet Pictures approaches the films of Joanna Hogg, Lynne Ramsay, Céline Sciamma, and Lucile Hadžhalilovicthrough the lens of silence as a motif and texture.Thi…

My book is now out in paperback and is under £20!!!!! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/quiet-pic...

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: ...

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...

Thinking with pleasure On Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017)

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...

For anyone coming to the CALL ME BY YOUR NAME event at the BFI, I am gonna talk about THIS SCENE

I do agree!

Champagne always tastes better after midnight On fuck boy lotharios and longing in Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls, 1948)

If you missed my intro to Letter from an Unknown Woman you can read it here! open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

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...

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...

It is my privilege to introduce LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN on Monday 3 November @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social

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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.

Btw, if you go to the Letterboxd listing for the del Toro Frankenstein you get lightening and your phone vibrates slightly boxd.it/Ecsg

Venus as a boy On Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (2025)

New Visual Aroma! On Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

London People! I am speaking at the BFI in November: whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

Come up to the lab On the Rocky Horror Picture Show at 50

On The Rocky Horror Picture Show at 50:

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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.

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/...

Viewing Notes/Aromas/Tastes Flash Gordon, All We Imagine as Light, A Room with a View, and Amadeus

New Visual Aroma! films I watched in August: open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

Brigitte Bardot Mary Elizabeth Winstead Zoe Kravitz Scarlett Johansson Natalie Portman

Girls in pink wigs in film 💖

🩷Brigitte Bardot: Two Weeks In September
🩷Mary Elizabeth Winstead: Scott Pilgrim
🩷Zoë Kravitz: The Batman
🩷Scarlett Johansson: Lost In Translation
🩷Natalie Portman: Closer
#FilmSky #PinkWigs

Are you telling me you’re building the orgasmatron from Barbarella in your spare time? Everyone should see Barbarella (Roger Vadim, 1968)

New Visual Aroma! On Roger Vadim’s Barbarella open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

Very chic. Very expensive On the precarious glamour of Eva (Joseph Losey, 1962)

New Visual Aroma! More about Jeanne Moreau being hot and sexy in Joseph Losey’s Eva

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Born to Die On the Cult of Lana Del Rey

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“Beauty is pain” On The Ugly Stepsister/Den stygge stesøsteren (Emilie Kristine Blichfeldt, 2025)

New Visual Aroma! UGLY STEPSISTER: open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

Different from the others On Leontine Sagan's Mädchen in Uniform and lending clothes

New Visual Aroma! On Leontine Sagan’s Maidens in Uniform and lending clothes open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

A titane coloring book

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

Ah thank you so much! I was pleased to find the time to revisit it