Safe (4k Restoration)

The December 13 show will be introduced by Aaron D. Casias & Carlee Gomes, hosts of the Hit Factory podcast!

Julianne Moore gives a breakthrough performance as Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After the doctors she sees can give her no clear diagnosis, she comes to believe that she has frighteningly extreme environmental allergies. A profoundly unsettling work from the great American director Todd Haynes, Safe functions on multiple levels: as a prescient commentary on self-help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what you cannot see. This revelatory drama was named the best film of the 1990s in a Village Voice poll of more than fifty critics.

“Hit Factory is a podcast about the films of the 1990s, their politics, and how they inform today’s cultural and cinematic landscape. Each episode, hosts Aaron and Carlee examine a film from the decade, trading nostalgia for incisive analysis and a distinct critical lens. They reveal fresh dimensions within familiar titles while expanding listeners’ aperture to embrace new cinematic discoveries. Hit Factory has welcomed notable guests from around the film world including veteran film critics Bilge Ebiri and AS Hamrah, podcasters Will Menaker and Matt Christman of Chapo Trap House and HeidiWorld’s Molly Lambert, and filmmakers Pascal Plante (Red Rooms), Vera Drew (The People’s Joker), and Alex Cox (Repo Man).”