Returning to the podcast this week, we have a very talented freelance writer and lecturer specializing in women surrealists and visual culture. Sabina Stent's bylines include Magnum Photos and Crime Reads and she also writes a substack newsletter called Love Letters During a Nightmare. Her next online lecture is for the Morbid Anatomy Museum and is titled Cinematic Surrealism in Los Angeles: Maya Deren and David Lynch. (Tickets are available on the museum's website, which you can also find a link to in Sabina's current pinned tweet.)

Joining me to discuss the fantastic range of character actor Robert Downey Jr. (whom she's dubbed Walking Charisma), in this thoughtful celebratory conversation, we analyze what it is that makes him so unique, and champion his work in the films ONLY YOU, KISS KISS BANG BANG, FUR: AN IMAGINARY PORTRAIT OF DIANE ARBUS, ZODIAC, & IRON MAN.

Note: This episode also includes a lengthy introduction covering what you can expect to hear on the podcast for the rest of Season 3 and a few guests we have lined up for S4.

Originally Posted on Patreon (10/4/22) here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/72872065

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