The Bend

By Elinor Lewy

A podcast about our choices and what compels us to make them

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The podcast currently has 34 episodes available.

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June 26, 2023 Episode 34: Sandra
Sandra published her debut novel "Der Himmel Muss Warten" (trans. Heaven Must Wait) in late 2022. We spoke about the path that led her to publish her book, the tricky media landscape for new writers, making the decision to pursue her dream, and more! Hope you enjoy!

You can purchase Sandra's novel here (in German): https://www.muerysalzmann.com/neuerscheinungen/der-himmel-muss-warten

Sandra's website

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1h 4min
October 14, 2022 Episode 33: Harley
Harley is a curator, researcher, and the kind of person who could make any topic interesting. We settled on talking about the ups and downs of friendship. Harley is a New Yorker and she came to Berlin with her best friend from college, but things started changing between them after the big move. We talk about adolescent anger, what we need from our friendships, and becoming more settled than you ever thought you‘d be. This was my first in-person chat in a while and it was a windy day, so some of the audio might sound off at times!

Harley's art collective COVEN
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1h 12min
August 09, 2022Episode 32: Male Nudity in Cinema w/ Alexandra Heller-Nicholas & Peter Lehman
And now for something completely different. I sat down with film professor Prof. Peter Lehman and horror scholar Dr. Alexandra Heller-Nicholas to discuss male nudity in cinema. We discuss our connections with the topic, the phallus vs the penis, rape revenge, the pitfalls of “respectable cinema,” the prosthetic penis and a lot more. I’m so glad and grateful that I had a chance to talk to these bona fide experts about a topic that I have been wondering about for a very long time. I hope you take something away from this unusual film exploration.

A Selection of Peter Lehman’s Work:
Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body
Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture
Pornography: Film and Culture
Peter Lehman’s Arizona State University Profile
A Selection of Alexandra Heller-Nicholas’ Work:
Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study
1000 Women In Horror, 1895-2018
The Giallo Canvas: Art, Excess and Horror Cinema
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas’ Website

Watching Rape, the book Alexandra mentions
Wesley Morris’ NY Times article on Black male sexuality
Films mentioned:
The Virgin Spring (1960)

Drive, He Said (1971)

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)

Last House on the Left (1972)

I Spit On Your Grave (1978)

Sweet Savage (1979)

A Room With A View (1985)

Drifting Into Chaos (1989)

The Pillow Book (1996)

Traps (1998)

Baise Moi (2000)

Irreversibel (2002)

Django Unchained (2012)

Promising Young Woman (2020)

PVT Chat (2020)

Zola (2020)

Minx (2022-)
Kevin Bacon’s penis PSA
Lastly, thank you to Karolin Schnoor for all the support and for making the brilliant illustration!
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1h 17min
June 20, 2022 Episode 31: Freyia
Freyia is a trainee wellness practitioner, podcaster and aspiring lingerie
designer who reached out to me on social media. Freyia experienced a
psychotic break a few years ago and we talk about what that was like for
her as well as what changed in her life afterwards and what didn‘t. I want
to thank Freyia for giving her first-person account and being so open with
me, a stranger. My side of the chat sounds a bit off at times, apologies in
advance!
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1h 12min
March 25, 2022 Episode 30: Grace
Grace, a student of psychology is interested in decision-making and
therefore pretty perfect for the podcast. Grace, previous podcast guest
Jess and I have been virtually movie watching for a year now, but this was
the first non-movie related conversation Grace and I ever had. We talk
about overthinking, some decision rules of thumb, inexplicable decision
moves, and more. I was trying to go for a bit of a Hidden Brain ambience in
this one. Hope you enjoy and take something away from this one!
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1h 9min
June 30, 2021 Episode 29: Dyan
During the pandemic I joined a book club filled with great, admirable
women. One of these women is Dyan, my guest this episode. Dyan is a
multi-instrumentalist and singer currently working on her first solo album
after almost two decades of working in bands. We talk about what led to her
producing a solo album, what rising in the indie ranks with bands The Blood
Arm and Mexican Radio was like, the catharsis that can come from music, and
more. Dyan’s debut single “Fade Away” will be released this fall and her
debut album “Stand” is coming out in early 2022! Be sure to follow her on
social media for updates!
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1h 2min
April 05, 2021 Episode 28: Robby Hoffman
The Bend is back with a light and hopefully fun episode! I chatted with
Robby Hoffman, a Canadian stand-up comedian. I first saw Robby on The Chris
Gethard Show where she was working as a writer. A year or so later, I found
her comedy/advice show Dykevice on YouTube. Robby’s brand of comedy is
really refreshing because she is clearly being herself the whole time,
which is unfortunately rare to see! Robby actually started off as an
accountant. We talk about her transition from accounting to comedy, her
healthy amount of self-confidence, what winning a Daytime Emmy is like, and
the art of advice giving.
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49min
December 05, 2020 Episode 27: Tony (The Up Series)
One film project that has had a huge impact on me is the Up Series. The Up
Series is an ongoing British series of documentary films that began in 1964
and followed 14 children from different socio-economic backgrounds in
England. Every 7 years director Michael Apted meets up with the kids, who
are now 64 years old, and talks about what has happened in their careers,
mindsets, families and so on. The project packs an emotional wallop, and
the longer it continues, the more compellingly humanist it becomes. The
latest episode, 63Up, came out in 2019. I started to watch the series in my
early teens and I’m now 35, so these individuals have accompanied me in
some way for more than half my life. With all this in mind, you can imagine
how happy I was when I got the chance to speak to Tony, the very
charismatic London cabbie and former jockey, the “cheeky chappie” as he
calls himself, who is one of the protagonists of the film series. We talk
about his life, his priorities, and of course, we talk about the Up Series.
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50min
October 09, 2020 Episode 26: Sophia
Sophia is is the owner of the charming English-language bookstore Another
Country in Kreuzberg and is quite a known entity in some Berlin circles
because of it. She spent most of her life in England and moved to Berlin
more than two decades ago. Trans coming out stories are very diverse, of
course, and Sophia‘s experience is no exception. What started off as one of
the effects of a health issue went on to change her life and led to her
transition. Sophia was diagnosed with liver cancer a year ago and we
discuss that as well as her many insights into the transitioning process.
We did this interview over the phone and the sound isn’t optimal, I
apologize in advance!
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1h 2min
August 03, 2020 Episode 25: Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Borden is the director of the influential sci-fi/agitprop cult film
BORN IN FLAMES (1983) and Sundance award winner WORKING GIRLS (1986). We
showed BORN IN FLAMES as part of Final Girls Berlin Film Festival’s special
sci-fi event in 2019 and I decided to reach out to Lizzie Borden during
these Corona times and ask if I could interview her for the podcast.
Luckily, she agreed! We spoke about her background, her films, what it was
like to work with Harvey Weinstein, her current projects, and quite a lot
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1h 2min

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The podcast currently has 34 episodes available.