Mary Lambert
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Sep 13, 2026
RowanHOST
So her pick is the 1989 film Pet Sematary.
Willow Catelyn MaclayGUEST
Mary Lambert.
RowanHOST
Mary
Willow Catelyn MaclayGUEST
Lambert,
RowanHOST
mother.
Willow Catelyn MaclayGUEST
Mary Lambert, the woman who directed a ton of Madonna music videos.
Willow Catelyn MaclayGUEST
She made her iconic.
Willow Catelyn MaclayGUEST
She made her iconic.
Dustin MorrowHOST
Jonathan Kaplan, a very prominent filmmaker from that period, directed videos by Rod Stewart and several by John Cougar Mellencamp.
Dustin MorrowHOST
Mary Lambert, who went on to make a number of horror films like Pet Sematary, directed a lot of, got her start in videos.
Dustin MorrowHOST
She did a lot of Madonna, a lot of Madonna's most famous videos were by Mary Lambert.
Dustin MorrowHOST
She also did stuff for Janet Jackson and the Eurythmics.
Dustin MorrowHOST
One of the most famous music video directors of the 80s was an Australian guy named Russell Mulcahy.
Josh GorskiHOST
The director does well with it.
Josh GorskiHOST
I mean, it's Mary Lambert, which we'll get into, who is a very famous, not only film director, but also music director, music video director.
Josh GorskiHOST
And so you can see all that aesthetic in my mind.
Josh GorskiHOST
You know what I mean? She has sort of a grittiness to her earlier films and even this one, this 2000, that it's shiny and beautiful and polished, but yet it has a little bit of dark edginess.
Josh GorskiHOST
In fact, being a young closeted queer boy, all I ever wanted to do is have a little jar of lip gloss that I put on with my ring finger.
Josh GorskiHOST
So anyway.
Josh GorskiHOST
With that said, I had kind of mentioned off the top that the director is the infamous Mary Lambert.
Josh GorskiHOST
And so, Joe, do you want to get into a conversation about her and or some of our favorite female directors?
Derek SheenGUEST
Old man brain.
Derek SheenGUEST
The thing that I'm about to say is I I'm I'm I'm fine with Mary Lambert's version of Pet Sematary as it sat in 1986 or 87.
Derek SheenGUEST
I'm fine with it.
Derek SheenGUEST
I read the book.
DanHOST
... album out.
DanHOST
They release Valley of the Kings, right? Uh, a, a music video directed by Mary Lambert was shot over the course of two days in North Los Angeles.
DanHOST
The v- video featured model Meg Register, who had a small role in the 1986 film, Running Scared.
DanHOST
The song became a minor hit, reaching number 15 on the rock track charts.
Brad GreenquistGUEST
Mm-hmm.
ErikHOST
Mary Lambert, she did a great job-
Brad GreenquistGUEST
Yes
ErikHOST
... adapting that really disturbing novel, and did it with care and brought her own style and talent to it.
Jack O'BrienHOST
She's good at spotting directors.
Jack O'BrienHOST
She works with Mary Lambert on borderline who she goes on to direct like a virgin material girl.
Jack O'BrienHOST
And like a prayer, she also directed Bethlehem, Pet
Matt AltmixADVERTISER
Sematary.
Connor BridgesHOST
Like, if he starts pulling ahead, which would be a fucking miracle because Democrats don't win anything in this state, uh, he should start investing in some bulletproof glass.
Connor BridgesHOST
[laughs] Uh, director Mary Lambert, who did Pet Sematary, said that the story is fairly atypical for a Stephen King novel because it explores notions of nonlinear time, which is a weird thing to focus on.
Mysia DowerHOST
Yeah, that's kind of odd, that direction.
Connor BridgesHOST
She, she is an odd...
Connor BridgesHOST
We're gonna talk more about Mary Lambert when we do Pet Sematary, but yeah, she...
Connor BridgesHOST
Whenever she's...
Connor BridgesHOST
Like, all the stuff she says on this podcast or on this countdown is, like, kind of odd.