Dr Sarah Artt (@sjartt)

“I can smell you from here” On Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights

I wrote about WUTHERING HEIGHTS and it’s aromatic qualities:

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14.02.2026 14:37 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Looks Dirty On pornography, clothing, and the body

New Visual Aroma! open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

18.01.2026 20:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"I wanted their eyes to speak" On political melodrama in Moufida Tlatli's Silences of the Palace (1994)

You can still catch a screening of SILENCES OF THE PALACE @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social read my intro from last night here:

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07.12.2025 15:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

TONIGHT!!!

06.12.2025 11:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank uuuu and good luck with your move!

06.12.2025 10:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Quiet Pictures Quiet Pictures approaches the films of Joanna Hogg, Lynne Ramsay, Céline Sciamma, and Lucile Hadžhalilovicthrough the lens of silence as a motif and texture.Thi…

My book is now out in paperback and is under £20!!!!! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/quiet-pic...

01.12.2025 08:39 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Silences of the Palace The screening on Saturday 6th December, 17:30 will have an introduction from Dr Sarah Artt. Book tickets for two or more of our Melodrama films (excluding Safe + Discussion & Stronger Than Love: ...

On Saturday 6 December, I will be introducing Moufida Tlatli’s hard-to-see masterpiece SILENCES OF THE PALACE @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/the-si...

26.11.2025 08:47 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1

Thinking with pleasure On Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017)

If you missed my BFI talk you can read a version of it here! Officially ‘the filthiest’ chapter in the collection btw. open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

25.11.2025 16:12 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

For anyone coming to the CALL ME BY YOUR NAME event at the BFI, I am gonna talk about THIS SCENE

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I do agree!

04.11.2025 19:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Champagne always tastes better after midnight On fuck boy lotharios and longing in Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls, 1948)

If you missed my intro to Letter from an Unknown Woman you can read it here! open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

04.11.2025 12:12 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you to @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social and the gorgeous audience last night for LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN! I’ll be back on 6 December to introduce Moufida Tlatli’s SILENCES OF THE PALACE! www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/the-si...

04.11.2025 07:18 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Letter from an Unknown Woman The screening on Monday 3rd November, 20:15 will have an introduction from Dr Sarah Artt. Book tickets for two or more of our Melodrama films (excluding Safe + Discussion & Stronger Than Love: ¡T...

It is my privilege to introduce LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN on Monday 3 November @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social

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21.10.2025 08:51 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Frankenstein (2025) Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.

Btw, if you go to the Letterboxd listing for the del Toro Frankenstein you get lightening and your phone vibrates slightly boxd.it/Ecsg

17.10.2025 10:40 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Venus as a boy On Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (2025)

New Visual Aroma! On Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

17.10.2025 10:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Buy cinema tickets for New Writings: Call Me by Your Name: Perspectives on the Film | BFI Southbank 2025-11-24T18:30:00.000

London People! I am speaking at the BFI in November: whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

06.10.2025 16:31 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Come up to the lab On the Rocky Horror Picture Show at 50

On The Rocky Horror Picture Show at 50:

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05.10.2025 16:24 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2

Our (cyborg) bodies, our (cyborg) selves As we prepare for our Living Frankenstein event, Dr Sarah Artt explores cinema’s enduring fascination with sexually threatening female cyborgs.

Ahead of next week’s premiere of the Guillermo del Toro FrankensteinPo: reposting this piece I wrote back in 2018 for University of London’s Living Frankenstein event: Our cyborg bodies our cyborg selves: www.london.ac.uk/news-events/...

02.10.2025 07:53 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Viewing Notes/Aromas/Tastes Flash Gordon, All We Imagine as Light, A Room with a View, and Amadeus

New Visual Aroma! films I watched in August: open.substack.com/pub/sjartt/p...

04.09.2025 11:06 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Brigitte Bardot Mary Elizabeth Winstead Zoe Kravitz Scarlett Johansson Natalie Portman

Girls in pink wigs in film 💖

🩷Brigitte Bardot: Two Weeks In September
🩷Mary Elizabeth Winstead: Scott Pilgrim
🩷Zoë Kravitz: The Batman
🩷Scarlett Johansson: Lost In Translation
🩷Natalie Portman: Closer
#FilmSky #PinkWigs

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