Episode 17: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma AND Late Fame

Written By Charlene Wang de Chen

It’s an end of summer double header! Charlene and Jackie go in on not one but two festival films, Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Miasma which premiered at Cannes and Late Fame which premiered the Venice International Film Festival.

There are laughs, mind blowing metaphor explanations, an on screen kiss that gave us the ick, and a truly unforeseeable digression (into the race war season of Survivor). Let’s go!

COMPLETE SHOW NOTES:

1:55 The Sparrow & The Chimney: A film we didn’t understand and don’t care to 
5:00 The Film Comment Podcast With Jane Schoenbrun 
10:00 There are in fact 12 Friday the 13th Movies, including the ones where Jason goes to Space and to Manhattan 
13:12 Charlene’s Zine!!!
18:30 The week it came out Camp Miasma averaged more money per screen than The Odyssey and Spiderman!!
23:12 We also touch on Jolly Rancher Gummies in our History of Sound episode 
24:06 BonBon Swedish Candy Store!
29:35 “...A William Shatner Mask…”
32:25 Richard Brody’s New Yorker review where he says movies about films are inherently personal to the director 
38:00 I Saw The Matrix Glow: Similarities between The Matrix & I Saw The TV Glow
48:37 Vulture’s The 100 Most Powerful Directors in Hollywood 
51:06 A Brilliant 1895 Novel On the Emptiness of Literary Fame: Arthur Schnitzler’s Late Fame
56:30 The Hipster Grifter (who then inspired the character of Homeless Heidi on High Maintenance), just in case you forgot 
1:03:08 The trailer for WICKER
1:04:52  Survivor Cook Islands: “It’s the one about the race wars”
1:09:18  The NY Times Article: Inside the Nantucket Home of Elin Hilderbrand 

Full List of Movies and TV Shows Referenced In This Episode:

  • Tony

  • The Sparrow & The Chimney 

  • High Maintenance 

  • I Saw the TV Glow 

  • We’re All Going to the World’s Fair 

  • I Know What You Did Last Summer 

  • Scream VI

  • Friday the 13th 

  • Jason X

  • American Horror Story 

  • Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

  • The Substance

  • Mamma Mia 

  • The Odyssey 

  • The X Files 

  • The Crown 

  • Clouds of Sils Maria 

  • The Studio 

  • The Producers

  • Living in Oblivion

  • Saturday Night

  • The Matrix

  • Speed Racer

  • Cloud Atlas 

  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer 

  • Urban Legend 

  • Mystic Pizza

  • Random Acts of Flyness 

  • A League of Their Own (2022)

  • May December

  • Coyote Vs Acme

  • Eyes Wide Shut 

  • Sense & Sensibility (2026)

  • Sense & Sensibility (1995)

  • Wicker 

  • After Hours

  • Fatal Attraction

  • The Green Ray (aka Le Rayon Vert)

  • Survivor (specifically the Cook Islands season from 2006 where they had a race war)

  • The Real Housewives (general reference to full housewives universe)

  • The Five-Star Weekend

Charlene Wang de Chen
Next

Episode 16: Blue Heron