The Mubi Podcast returns with a look at Yesenia, an obscure Mexican melodrama that bizarrely became the biggest box office hit in the history of the Soviet Union. Below film professor and historian Masha Salazkina adds to her commentary featured in this episode, discussing her love for international films growing up in the Ussr in the late 70s and early 80s. To listen to the episode and subscribe on your preferred podcast app, click here.Growing up in the Soviet Union in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I hated war movies. The march of these solemn dramas across our television screens was inescapable, accelerating towards the month of May (V-Day), and then again towards November, with the Revolution and Civil War occasionally replacing the Great Patriotic War (World War Two) as subject matter. During the school year, my dad took me to the movies—and he always chose the film.
- 7/1/2021
- MUBI
Scarlett Johansson gives a breathtaking performance as an alien femme fatale in Jonathan Glazer's mesmerising new movie Under the Skin.
Johansson's unnamed character inhabits the body of a young woman in order to lure male hitchhikers to their deaths, as she travels around Glasgow in her white transit van.
The silver screen has a long tradition of both spine-tingling and silly sci-fi seductresses, so prepare to be charmed by a few of our favourites below:
The Astounding She-Monster (1957)
"If you're not too afraid, make a date with a woman you'll never forget... a woman impervious to bullets....The Astounding She Monster!!!" warns the trailer for this 1957 sci-fi horror.
Shirley Kilpatrick played a beautiful yet highly-radioactive alien who lands on earth after accidentally crashing her spaceship. Unbeknownst to her, she's capable of killing with the touch of her delicate, bare hands, and begins stalking and unwittingly harming humans around her.
Johansson's unnamed character inhabits the body of a young woman in order to lure male hitchhikers to their deaths, as she travels around Glasgow in her white transit van.
The silver screen has a long tradition of both spine-tingling and silly sci-fi seductresses, so prepare to be charmed by a few of our favourites below:
The Astounding She-Monster (1957)
"If you're not too afraid, make a date with a woman you'll never forget... a woman impervious to bullets....The Astounding She Monster!!!" warns the trailer for this 1957 sci-fi horror.
Shirley Kilpatrick played a beautiful yet highly-radioactive alien who lands on earth after accidentally crashing her spaceship. Unbeknownst to her, she's capable of killing with the touch of her delicate, bare hands, and begins stalking and unwittingly harming humans around her.
- 3/21/2014
- Digital Spy
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