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We're re-releasing our This Is My Life episode after our sold out screenings of the film in Melbourne earlier this week. (Thank you all for coming!) It's a real trip down memory line, taking us back to episode 20 of the pod, to 2022, to the coining of the term POODLE EPISODE!!

Here's what we wrote about it then:

This week, Kate and Brodie are talking about The Girls™️: Nora, Meg, Samantha and Gabby. It's our first Toy Poodle Episode (you'll see why) and it's all about Nora Ephron's 1992 directorial debut, This is My Life. There might not be Also Alsos this week, but don't worry, there's still plenty of further reading and ideas to Add To Cart – or at least Open in New Tab.

Starring Julie "literal Marge Simpson" Kavner as hopeful stand-up comic Dottie Ingils, and Samantha Mathis and Gabby Hoffman as her daughters Erica and Opel, This is My Life is about everything that matters: mums! daughters! sisters! ambition! Carrie Fisher!

Co-written by Nora and her sister Delia, the film was adapted from Meg Wolitzer's novel This is Your Life. As a special treat for us and you, Meg was kind enough to write in to See Also with her memories of having her book adapted by Nora.

See Alsos

• Samantha Mathis on River Phoenix and her career revival
• The Chelsea Hotel Had Its Own Eloise
• Seeing Nora Everywhere
• Girl Talk: Lena Dunham on Her Brooklyn Movie Series
• Sam Cohn's obituary
• One of Jinxy's "everything is material" moments
• Meg Wolitzer on What Happens When a Book’s Character Comes to Life

Watch Also

• Hacks
• Muppets Take Manhattan
• The Hairy Bird (aka Strike! aka All I Wanna Do)
• The Wife
• Everything is Copy
• Pump up The Volume
• The Thing Called Love
• C'mon C'mon

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Don't forget: we're hosting two screenings of Nora Ephron's 1992 directorial debut, This is My Life, at Thornbury Picture House on June 25. That's next week! Tickets are on sale now and going fast.

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This week, Kate and Brodie go deep on Miranda July's new novel, All Fours. BUT NOW WE SAID IT. (Sorry to Camille Grammer, who Kate realised actually said that long after the mics switched off. She really said that.) We cover the plot, the perimenopause of it all, how it queers traditional relationship dynamics, the polyp, how to recommend Miranda July to other people, Kate's experience of embroidering and carving next to her, and Give Us Back The Stuff We Loaned To You Ages Ago!!!!

See Also listeners in Melbourne can get 20% off their purchase of All Fours at My Local Bookshop. Simply enter the code SEEALSO20 at checkout, select Click and Collect, and pop in to Brunswick Street Bookstore, Avoca Hill Bookstore or Coventry Bookstore to pick it up. If you're shopping IRL, just mention the podcast at the checkout to claim your discount.

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We're hosting two screenings of Nora Ephron's 1992 directorial debut, This is My Life, at Thornbury Picture House on June 25. Tickets are on sale now!

Pop over to Patreon.com/SeeAlso and sign up to the Hogg Hive to support the podcast!

This week, Kate has shared air with Austin Butler, has popped into Lucky Kwong one last time, and is furious at HBO Max for teasing the majick community with a fakeout Practical Magic announcement. Brodie has discovered she loves lasers, has been listening to BRAT and and invites about boutique hotels – associated with Girlbosses or otherwise – to invite us to stay and pod. We LOVE sleep!!

Together, we discuss the MIFF First Glance announcement and our trip into the city to see The First Bad Man, a book club based on the book by Miranda July.

Speaking of! Next week we're going to be discussing Miranda July's new book All Fours. We're obsessed. If you're yet to buy a copy, we've got a special deal for you :)

See Also listeners in Melbourne can get 20% off their purchase of All Fours at My Local Bookshop. Simply enter the code SEEALSO20 at checkout, select Click and Collect, and pop in to Brunswick Street Bookstore, Avoca Hill Bookstore or Coventry Bookstore to pick it up. If you're shopping IRL, just mention the podcast at the checkout to claim your discount.

Also Alsos

• The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing
• Muli Express oyster bar
• Kylie Kwong’s stir-fried Australian native greens with garlic
• 'Deep Forest' incense (and companion cassette) by Agaric Fly x Butter Sessions
• Words and Music, a reissue/collection of music by Margo Guryan
• Shulz Dairy 'milk in glass' program

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We're hosting two screenings of Nora Ephron's 1992 directorial debut, This is My Life, at Thornbury Picture House on June 25. Tickets are on sale now!

Pop over to Patreon.com/SeeAlso and sign up to the Hogg Hive to support the podcast!

This week, Kate is catching up on sleep and thinking about whether slowness can save us. Brodie is railing against the culture of lining up for sandwiches and frozen yoghurt. Then: a live unboxing! Jinxy brought BL a cute gift back from LA!

Jinxy has some huge reccs for Sydney Film Festival, and will be seeing Our Austin Butler IRL. SPEAKING OF: We simply need to discuss THE Baz Lurhmann TikTok video.

Then, a debrief on season 3 of Hacks, season 2 of Loot and Palm Royale. RT does NOT equal endorsement, turns out. Justice for Ricky Martin, though.

See Alsos

• Kate's review of ‘Menus-Plaisirs’ and ‘La Cocina’ in The Monthly
• Can Slowness Save Us?
• The Baz Lurhmann TikTok video
• Baz @ Harry Styles
• Everyone in This TV Show Should Be Smoking

Also Alsos

• Kate's 10 tips for films at SFF (that are not sold out at the time of recording) are: Dahomey, A Different Man, Eephus, Grand Tour, Menu Plaisirs–Trois Gros, the Substance, Problemista, Sasquatch Sunset, The Substance, Pepe
• Melbourne Out Loud: life through the lens of Rennie Ellis, on at State Library Victoria til January
• Every Outfit is coming to Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, Auckland in December
• Brodie's two new fave true crime pods: Once Upon a Time in Nashville + Trial By Water
• Tap is Fine! newsletter by Khushbu Shah
• Reading Room gallery + Back Room shop on High St in Northcote

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Kate's back from Cannes! She and BL catch up on the last films of the festival and her journey in the Tom Crui-niverse. BL went to see Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency in Ballarat and is very excited to tell you about the two special editions of the mX she guest-edited for RISING this year!

This week, Brodie is joined by Lucia Aniello for a chat about Hacks, a recent visit to Schwartz and Sandy's, the Tom Cruise Coconut Cake and some incredible recommendations. Lucia is the co-creator, -writer, -producer, -director and showrunner of Hacks, along with Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky. She was a director on Broad City and the Netflix reboot of The Babysitters Club (vale queen!!!!!), and she and Paul co-wrote and -directed the film Rough Night and the webseries Time-Traveling Bong, which BL recommended way back in episode 8!

See Also

• An interview with Hacks' costume designer
• Lucia and Paul on Talk Easy
• Real Housewives of South Boston

Also Alsos

• Lucia recommends: Mary and George, On Writing by Stephen King, buying a pair of socks when you're visiting a new place
• Brodie recommends: the fresh-squeezed OJ from Northcote IGA, Renee Gracie: Fireproof on Stan(nes), The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer (and the related story, ‘Mitzvah Night Is CANCELLED’ Inside the sex strike that has infuriated husbands and shaken the ultra-Orthodox world by Talia Lavin in the Cut)
• Kate recommends: Officine Universelle Buly bath salts, 'How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals' by Sharon Lerner, the AirFly Pro Deluxe Bluetooth Transmittor.

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See Also is 100! But you'd never tell because we moisturise. Thank you for listening to and enjoying the pod – it's a pleasure to bring you silly-smart conversations every week.

Also celebrating their birthdays this week are Sofia Coppola – who turned 53 on Tuesday – and her debut feature The Virgin Suicides, which came out 25 years ago. To mark two of these three occasions (guess which), Kate and Brodie go deep on the Lisbon sisters and the boys who loved them.

Even if you're seen the film a million times, it holds up to a re-watch – trust us.

We cover the Eugenides BTS cynicism, Hartnett at his prime, Trip's gay dad(s), the time Brodie met Kathleen Turner, memory's flimsy logic and the time Kate first tried Pepsi Max, the comedy Sofia never gets credit for and the image-making she's so skilled at, the boys who'll always remember and the girls who were never really theirs/there.

See Alsos

• “The Virgin Suicides” Still Holds the Mysteries of Adolescence by Emma Cline
• “They Hadn’t Heard Us Calling” by Megan Abbott
• Why I’m obsessed with this dark, dreamy novel" by Dizz Tate
• Sofia Coppola’s Bedrooms by Katie McDonough
• Scores on Screen. Clouds Up: Air and the Soundtrack of "The Virgin Suicides" by Clare Nina Norelli
• Josh Hartnett on THE kiss
• Dan Levy's story of visiting the set
• Kiki in Interview in 2000
• Sofia Coppola x Tavi Gevinson in Rookie
• Tavi Gevinson on The Virgin Suicides in NPR in 2012
• Bill Owens book 'Suburbia'
• Idea LTD
• Air will play Moon Safari at the Sydney Opera House for VIVID

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This episode opens with a live review of the Hailey Bieber smoothie from Erewhon. Jinxy's sipping her way across LA, and fills us in on brunch at Canter's, an iconic but annoying day out with Angelyne at the Pleasure Chest, and an enviable visit to Noodle Stories. She's hit the Vanderpump Triangle in WeHo – but only to Bottega Louie, not TomTom (yet).

BL goes deep on a night with Niall Horan and a life-changing day at SPUDFEST in Trentham. Is she the spudman after all?

Then it's time for a discussion of our favourite Highsmith menacing gay, Tom Ripley, and the latest Netflix iteration of the guy who "likes" "girls", from creator/writer Steve Zaillan.

See Alsos

The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing

The American Friend (1977) by Wim Wenders

The Night Of

Also Alsos

Here in the Pitch by Jessica Pratt

Hacks season 3 (on Stan in Australia)

Ed Ruscha / Now Then retrospective at LACMA

Soft Services Software Update

Vegethreads Organic classic T

Archive No. 1 by Hattie Stewart (with an intro by Brodie!)

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This week, Kate and Brodie participate in their pre-scheduled catch-up time – you know how friends do that?

Kate's in LA and packed badly, watched 3 Body Problem, attempted to go to Schwartz and Sandy's, keeps seeing Cybertrucks, visited the Indigo Girls-themed bathroom at Rubyfruit and caught up on Mission Impossible on the plane. BL has to do a quick post-season recap of Vanderpump Rules, had a bit of an annoying trip to Sydney, devolves into a complaint about circus performers in hotels, watched an entire movie on free-to-air TV and experienced a very silly case of mistaken identity at France-Soir.

If you're in LA, come see Zoe's show Every Single Thing in My Whole Entire Life at UCB on Fairfax 6 May as part of Netflix is a Joke festival.

See Also

• Ingrid Goes West
• Kajillionaire
• The First Bad Man a book club based on a novel by Miranda July
• Cole Escola on Straightiolab
• The Sydney airport train

Also Alsos

• HB Achive's Poet shirt
• Another Slice by Nat Paull
• Carrot, Fennel and Wild Rice Soup
• D'Arcy'Carden's podcast Wikihole
• Violette Bisou Balm FR in Amour Fou from Mecca
• Inner Studio

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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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