Hello, my name's Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.

And today, we're going to be talking about someone that you've all been waiting to hear about,

Doris Wishman.

I've been waiting to hear about her. Now, you really wanted to do an episode on Doris Wishman and explain to me why. Okay. Or in the audience, because they're like, who is this person? I will explain why, because every now and then we need to do female filmmakers, because it's the right thing to do. And we need to educate herself. Doris Wishman is a lot easier than Chantal Ackerman. That's true. And also because I like her films.

Doris Wishman is a lot easier than Chantal Ackerman. Yes, that's true. And also, because I like her films. Doris Wishman is the queen of sex exploitation. Do you? Like her films? Yeah, I do. Just because you don't. It doesn't mean I can't. I mean, she's a bad filmmaker. She's been called the female Ed Wood. And I think that label fits her very well.

But her films do have a certain charm.

Films like Nude on the Moon.

Diary of a Nudist.

Bad Girls Go to Hell.

Another day, another man.

Let Me Die a Woman.

And one of her final films, Dildo Heaven.

These are just a few of the 30 feature films that this, one of the most prolific female

filmmakers of all time, made.

And I think that looking at her filmography, what really was fascinating to me is that she

actually started pretty late in her life making movies.

She was in her 40s.

Apparently, I mean, she had been involved sort of peripherally in film distribution, but she started filmmaking because her husband died, and she just needed to do something.

This is literally like the third act of someone's life.

Yeah.

And because she never really had any interest in making movies, it sounds like, or a passion to do so.

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