Deep Cut: A Film Podcast

Deep Cut: A Film Podcast

By Wilson, Ben, and Eli

Deep Cut: A Film Podcast is a director-focused film podcast featuring deep-dive discussions about international, art-house, and independent cinema. Each episode we discuss either a director's most popular film or a "Deep Cut Pick": a personal favorite chosen by one of us. We've covered movies from filmmakers like Hirokazu Kore-eda, Agnes Varda, Éric Rohmer, Kelly Reichardt, Wong Kar-wai, S.S. Rajamouli, Bong Joon-ho, and more.
Looking for film recommendations off the beaten path? This is the pod to follow!

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101. HKIFF49 Dispatch (Youth Trilogy, Phantosmia, I'm Still Here, Dreams (Sex Love), and MORE!)

101. HKIFF49 Dispatch (Youth Trilogy, Phantosmia, I'm Still Here, Dreams (Sex Love), and MORE!)

Wilson comes on the podcast to talk about all the films he saw at the 49th edition of the Hong Kong International Film Festival. Come listen to us talk about the newest films from around the world, including Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy, Lav Diaz’s Phantosmia, Andrea Arnold’s Bird, and many more. 

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Intro

00:03:17 Festival as a whole

00:08:44 Baby

00:10:25 Youth Trilogy

00:15:47 Bel Ami

00:17:50 Drug War

00:20:09 Bird

00:21:54 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

00:24:46 Man’s Castle

00:27:58 Việt and Nam 

00:31:24 Yalla Parkour

00:36:09 Harvest

00:38:55 Never Too Late

00:40:04 Fire of Wind

00:42:15 To Kill a Mongolian Horse

00:44:10 Santosh

00:45:41 I’m Still Here

00:49:21 Bona

00:53:08 Dreams (Sex Love)

00:56:40 Misericordia

00:58:38 The Botanist

01:00:17 Seeds 

01:02:05 Blue Sun Palace 

01:04:58 On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

01:06:22 Separated 

01:09:04 Phantosmia 

01:13:15 Outro

May 26, 202501:16:24
100. Hirokazu Kore-eda: Still Walking

100. Hirokazu Kore-eda: Still Walking

Released as an exclusive Patreon post at the end of 2024, we’re now releasing this video podcast to publicly to commemorate ONE HUNDRED EPISODES! What a milestone. See you at 1000! 

The summer of 2024 saw Ben, Wilson, and Eli all together in the same place for the first time in six years! To mark the momentous reunion, we recorded a special video episode. It's time to go all the way back to the start by revisiting the work of the podcast's first director, Hirokazu Kore-eda, with 2008's Still Walking. Learn about our history together, hear our musings on the complications of family, and watch as Wilson gets six pounds of blueberries.


Links

Ben’s video essay on Still Walking

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Timestamps

00:00:00 Intro

00:05:50 Plot summary

00:07:25 General thoughts

00:14:10 Gifting interlude

00:24:53 Still Walking continued

00:27:43 Story and characters

00:37:01 Deliberate cinematography, use of space

00:42:36 Food

00:47:43 Non-judgmental filmmaking

00:50:23 Melodrama?

00:52:22 Yoshio scene

00:54:15 Atsushi

01:01:06 Blue Light Yokohama

01:04:35 Tokyo Sonata comparisons

01:06:10 Stealthy emotional narratives

01:12:02 What does Kore-eda not show us?

01:16:58 Best food, best outfit

01:19:57 Closing thoughts

01:25:29 Longest outro ever

May 18, 202501:28:53
099. Nick Park & Merlin Crossingham: Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
May 04, 202541:44
098. The Wedding Banquet (2025): Interview with Director Andrew Ahn

098. The Wedding Banquet (2025): Interview with Director Andrew Ahn

Director Andrew Ahn is back for a three-peat with his new film The Wedding Banquet, a re-imagining of Ang Lee’s 1993 classic. 


We chat with Ahn about his updates to the original to capture the new nuances of queer lives today, get behind the scenes tidbits of his time working with his incredible AAvengers cast, and see how the original and his remake have shaped him on a personal level. 


The Wedding Banquet is currently premiering in the United States, get tickets in the cinema! 


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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Intro

00:02:13 Film Synopsis

00:03:00 General Reactions (spoiler-free)

00:05:42 Spoiler warning (for both films)

00:06:21 Interview begins

00:12:45 Reimagining The Wedding Banquet

00:13:38 Ahn's first encounter with the original

00:15:19 Adapting with James Schamus

00:17:14 Ahn's updates to the original

00:23:05 Stylistic shifts

00:26:13 New concerns for an evolving queer audience

00:27:48 The films’ endings

00:33:07 New families

00:34:06 The original being more subversive

00:36:00 Watching Ahn's version before Ang's

00:36:54 Connection between Ahn's features

00:38:40 Giving actors their due

00:41:29 Casting the ensemble

00:46:32 Good acting vs most acting

00:48:54 Directing a scene

00:52:01 Editing

00:53:41 Modern gay rom coms

00:55:28 Landscape and location

00:58:44 Coincidences

01:01:49 Has Ang Lee seen the remake?

01:03:19 Eat Drink Man Woman Sidebar

01:05:36 Cinematography

01:08:34 Favorite moment on set

01:11:23 Artmaking as personal diary

01:15:36 The artwork in the film

01:16:19 Directing Youn Yuh-jung

01:18:09 Good filmmaking

01:19:58 Wrap-up

Apr 19, 202501:24:28
097. Bong Joon-ho: Mickey 17
Apr 13, 202549:16
096. The Best Movies of 2024, According to Deep Cut

096. The Best Movies of 2024, According to Deep Cut

Do you know how much of A Real Pain it is to keep the years straight with us straddling three different global release windows? We do! 

We got Caught by the Tides and are a little late with this one but nevertheless, join our Conclave for the fifth (!) time as we huddle around the Ghostlight to talk about the films of the last year! We cover award-winning films (Anora, The Brutalist, No Other Land), notable blockbusters (Dune: Part Two, Wicked), blitz through some honorable Challengers to our top picks, and then Look Back on our personal top fives. 

You know podcast favorite Luca Guadagnino is going to feature in Wilson’s favorite films… but how Queer will it be?? 

If you’re A Different Man, you’ll have different faves, so enter our Red Rooms and tell us your favorite 2024 films on our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com

Links:

Ben’s 2024 List

Eli’s 2024 List

Wilson’s 2024 List

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) Intro

(00:03:21) 2024 in general

(00:17:06) Obligatory mentions

(00:17:28) Anora (dir. Sean Baker)

(00:22:55) Conclave (dir. Edward Berger)

(00:25:14) The Brutalist (dir. Brady Corbet)

(00:33:53) Nickel Boys (dir. Ramell Ross)

(00:36:53) Hit Man (dir. Richard Linklater)

(00:39:45) All We Imagine as Light (dir. Payal Kapadia)

(00:43:02) Flow (dir. Gints Zilbalodis) 

(00:46:14) Emilia Perez (dir. Jacques Audiard)

(00:50:29) Sing Sing (dir. Greg Kwedar)

(00:52:01) The Substance (dir. Coralie Fargeat)

(00:55:26) Wicked (dir. Jon M. Chu)

(00:59:09) Deep Cut Coverage of 2024

(00:59:20) All Shall Be Well (dir. Ray Yeung)

(01:00:19) The People's Joker (dir. Vera Drew)

(01:02:37) Happyend (dir. Neo Sora)

(01:05:13) Deep Cut Upkeeps of 2024

(01:08:55) Honorable mentions

(01:08:57) Megalopolis (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)

(01:12:43) Trap (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)

(01:14:13) An Unfinished Film (dir. Lou Ye)

(01:14:26) The Monk and the Gun (dir. Pawo Choyning Dorji)

(01:16:02) Hard Truths (dir. Mike Leigh)

(01:17:41) Not Friends (dir. Atta Hemwadee)

(01:19:08) Fly Me to the Moon (dir. Sasha Chuk)

(01:20:38) Black Box Diaries (dir. Shiori Ito)

(01:24:06) A Traveler's Needs / By the Stream (dir. Hong Sang-soo)

(01:25:56) Look Back (dir. Kiyotaka Oshiyama)

(01:27:34) The Room Next Door (dir. Pedro Almodovar)

(01:30:10) Didi (dir. Sean Wang)

(01:31:22) Last Summer (dir. Catherine Breillat)

(01:32:33) Hundreds of Beavers (dir. Mike Cheslik)

(01:33:43) The Diarrhea Brothers Save the Day (dir. Joel Haver)

(01:35:09) Rap World (dir. Conner O'Malley)

(01:37:11) Janet Planet (dir. Annie Baker)

(01:38:43) Ben’s #5

(01:41:06) SKIP ELI'S BIT!!

(01:42:19) Wilson's #5

(01:46:33) Eli's #5

(01:50:14) Ben's #4

(01:52:54) Wilson's #4

(02:00:50) Eli's #4

(02:01:47) Ben's #3

(02:03:16) Wilson's #3

(02:08:22) Eli's #3

(02:12:30) Ben and Wilson's #2

(02:23:46) Eli's #2

(02:27:19) Ben's #1

(02:31:50) Wilson's #1

(02:38:39) Eli and ???'s #1

(02:43:34) Upcoming from Deep Cut

(02:46:32) Outro

Mar 31, 202502:48:30
095. Edward Yang: A Brighter Summer Day

095. Edward Yang: A Brighter Summer Day

We’ve finally done it: all seven Edward Yang films discussed on Deep Cut. The only podcast to give Edward Yang the time and space he deserves as one of the all time greatest directors (and Wilson’s favorite director)!

We end our coverage on Yang with what is considered to be his magnum opus, 1991’s A Brighter Summer Day, an intimate epic of teenage angst, romance, and rebellion that also captures Taiwan in a specific era of political and social turbulence with incredible detail. Together, we discuss ABSD’s unique visual palette compared to Yang’s other non-period work, and go in depth into its thematic concerns regarding Taiwan on a scale both personal and national. Wilson highlights the virtuosic blocking in large crowd scenes, Eli makes a case for proper education as the salve for social ills, and Ben asks, can a film be “too perfect”?

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Links:

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro

(17:57) Synopsis and background

(25:16) Directorial style

(32:09) Subjectivity and Chang Chen’s performance

(39:14) Misogyny and control

(47:07) Ming’s characterization

(52:48) Historical context

(55:35) Tribalism and nihilism

(59:53) “Novelistic”

(01:04:57) Si’r as spectator

(01:07:39) What is the movie about?

(01:13:26) Education

(01:18:54) Individual vs societal responsibility

(01:23:09) Gang violence

(01:30:41) Blocking

(01:34:56) The film studio

(01:42:39) The Little Park Boys

(01:48:07) Favorite moments

(01:52:14) “Perfect” films

(01:55:11) Scale

(01:58:10) Yang series wrap-up

Mar 18, 202502:07:57
094. Edward Yang: That Day, On The Beach (featuring Natalie Ng)

094. Edward Yang: That Day, On The Beach (featuring Natalie Ng)

We’re thrilled to be joined by Natalie Ng, a huge Edward Yang fan and friend of the podcast, to dive into Yang’s feature debut, That Day, On The Beach! Natalie, who works at the Asian Film Archive, tells us about AFA’s recent Edward Yang retrospective (complete with a physical exhibition) and shares her deep love for Yang’s work.

Together, we explore the film’s place in Yang’s filmography, its inventive narrative structure, and how it set the stage for his later masterpieces. Natalie highlights the agency of female characters in the film, while Ben argues that De-wei should have been hotter. Wilson leads us in discussing Christopher Doyle’s first feature work as a cinematographer and the stylistic choices of the film, and we very importantly discuss Sylvia Chang’s iconic perm, and whether girlbossing is an ideal ending for Yang’s female characters.

Links:

That Day, On Our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro

(11:17) General Reactions

(25:18) Natalie’s personal reaction to the film

(29:47) Melodrama and female agency

(34:35) Edward Yang’s “Women without men” + Digression into other Yang films

(41:49) Ending of That Day

(45:47) Qing-qing and Jia-sen’s roles in the story

(50:52) Jia-li’s love interests

(54:40) Tone and filmic style

(01:02:55) Other films That Day relates to

(01:07:15) Babies

(01:10:32) The Perm and costumes

(01:15:04) Yang’s early fascination with women’s stories

(01:21:36) Wrap-up

Mar 05, 202501:26:57
093. Edward Yang: Mahjong
Feb 19, 202556:51
092. Edward Yang: A Confucian Confusion
Feb 02, 202501:09:39
091. Nick Park & Steve Box: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Jan 19, 202553:05
090. The People's Joker: Interview with Director Vera Drew
Jan 09, 202532:38
089. Nick Park: Wallace & Gromit - Original Shorts
Jan 07, 202501:05:39
088. Ethan Coen: Drive-away Dolls
Dec 21, 202435:53
087. SGIFF35 Dispatch (feat. No Other Land, An Unfinished Film, By The Stream, Viet and Nam, and MORE!)

087. SGIFF35 Dispatch (feat. No Other Land, An Unfinished Film, By The Stream, Viet and Nam, and MORE!)

Ben recently attended the 35th Singapore International Film Festival and watched a whole lot of films, and made a few new friends along the way. Listen in on his thoughts about the films, the festival programme’s overarching themes, and how beauty is a trap!!

This episode is generally spoiler-free, spoilers are marked with timestamps below!

Links

Timestamps

  • (00:00:00) Intro
  • (00:05:14) Small Hours of the Night Directed by Daniel Hui
  • (00:15:40) No Other Land Directed by Basel Adra & Hamdan Ballal & Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor
  • (00:21:14) Stars in Broad Daylight directed by Ossama Mohammed
  • (00:25:45) An Unfinished Film directed by Lou Ye
  • (00:30:32) Jafar Panahi Conversation 
  • (00:34:36) Crimson Gold Directed by Jafar Panahi
  • (00:35:37) The Circle Directed by Jafar Panahi
  • (00:36:46) The Circle Spoiler
  • (00:38:10) Spoiler End
  • (00:39:13) Viet and Nam Directed by Truong Minh Quy; + small discussion on co-productions
  • (00:47:52) All Shall Be Well Directed by Ray Yeung
  • (00:50:20) All Shall Be Well Spoiler
  • (00:50:55) Spoiler End
  • (00:53:40) Happyend Directed by Neo Sora
  • (00:58:25) By The Stream Directed by Hong Sang-soo;+ Wilson’s love of Hong
  • (01:05:08) Vive l’amour Directed by Tsai Ming-liang
  • (01:09:27) Stranger Eyes Directed by Yeo Siew Hua
  • (01:13:54) Time to Be Strong Directed by Namkoong Sun
  • (01:17:32) Ben’s Festival Highlights 
  • (01:18:48) Don’t Cry Butterfly Directed by Linh Duong
  • (01:21:19) Universal Language Directed by Matthew Rankin
  • (01:24:28) La Cocina Directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios
  • (01:25:20) Don’t You Let Me Go Directed by Leticia Gorge & Ana Guevara
  • (01:26:40) The Shrouds Directed by David Cronenberg; Our NYFF62 Dispatch episode where Eli watched it
  • (01:27:40) Familiar Touch Directed by Sarah Friedland; plus a very cool fact about the film’s production process
  • (01:30:55) April Directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili
  • (01:31:45) Brief spoiler for Kulumbegashvili’s first film, Beginning
  • (01:31:53) Spoiler end
  • (01:33:05) Closing Thoughts
Dec 13, 202401:37:23
086. Happyend: Interview with Director Neo Sora
Dec 06, 202401:10:49
085. Edward Yang: Terrorizers
Nov 30, 202450:42
084. Edward Yang: Taipei Story
Nov 17, 202401:00:30
083. Edward Yang: Yi Yi
Nov 06, 202401:26:09
Deep Cut: A Film Podcast Trailer

Deep Cut: A Film Podcast Trailer

It’s about time, after 3 and a half years we got a brand spankin’ new trailer. If you’re new to Deep Cut, welcome! If you’re a long-time fan, share this with your friends! 

Deep Cut: A Film Podcast is a director-focused film podcast featuring deep-dive discussions about international, art-house, and independent cinema. Each episode we discuss either a director's most popular film or a "Deep Cut Pick": a personal favorite chosen by one of us: Wilson Lai, Benjamin Yap, and Eli Sands.

We've covered movies from filmmakers like Hirokazu Kore-eda, Agnes Varda, Éric Rohmer, Kelly Reichardt, Wong Kar-wai, S.S. Rajamouli, Bong Joon-ho, and more! Looking for film recommendations off the beaten path? This is the pod to follow! Available wherever you get your podcasts!

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Oct 28, 202401:38
082. Luca Guadagnino: I Am Love
Oct 19, 202448:40
081. NYFF62 Dispatch (Anora, Queer, The Shrouds, Eephus)
Oct 05, 202434:13
080. All Shall Be Well: Interview with Director Ray Yeung
Sep 21, 202456:16
079. Kiyoshi Kurosawa: To The Ends of the Earth
Sep 08, 202457:05
078. Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Tokyo Sonata
Aug 24, 202459:21
077. Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Pulse
Aug 10, 202456:58
076. Kiyoshi Kurosawa: License to Live
Jul 27, 202457:53
075. Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Cure
Jul 14, 202401:15:15
074. Luca Guadagnino: Challengers
Jun 29, 202401:25:50
073. 2023 Film and TV in Review

073. 2023 Film and TV in Review

The Oscars may tell us Hollywood’s popular picks, but what about the… Deep Cut picks? Deep Cut’s 2023 in Review is ready to give the last word on yesteryear’s best in motion pictures. Tune in for debates on the year’s biggest hits and hot takes on the year’s shabbiest flops. It all culminates in Wilson, Ben, and Eli’s top three favorites of the year…

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Alphabetical list of all films mentioned in our 2023 in Review and their directors: A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang) A Holy Family (Elvis Lu) Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet) Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (Kelly Fremon Craig) Barbie (Greta Gerwig) Beau is Afraid (Ari Aster) Blackberry (Matthew Johnson) Blue Giant (Yuzuru Tachikawa) Close (Lukas Dhont) Closing Time (Russell Goldman) Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Radu Jude) Elegies (Ann Hui) Evil Does Not Exist (Ryusuke Hamaguchi) How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber) Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese) Knock at the Cabin (M. Night Shayamalan) Kokomo City (D. Smith) May December (Todd Haynes) Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros (Frederick Wiseman) Monster (Hirokazu Kore-eda) No Bears (Jafar Panahi) Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan) Passages (Ira Sachs) Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos) Ponniyin Selvan: II (Mani Ratnam) Return to Seoul (Davy Chou) Rye Lane (Raine Allen Miller) Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt) Skinamarink (Kyle Edward Ball) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson) Sparta (Ulrich Seidl) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Jeff Rowe) The Eight Mountains (Felix Van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch) The Taste of Things (Tran Anh Hung) The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer) They Cloned Tyrone (Juel Taylor) Tótem (Lila Aviles)

Mar 11, 202401:37:46
072. Hirokazu Kore-eda: Monster
Feb 21, 202445:27
071. Marilou Diaz-Abaya: Moral
Feb 04, 202401:04:54
070. Kelly Reichardt: Showing Up
Jan 27, 202438:60
069. Todd Haynes: May December
Jan 26, 202443:54
068. Frederick Wiseman: Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros
Nov 29, 202358:43
067. Marilou Diaz-Abaya: José Rizal
Nov 04, 202358:43
066. Mani Ratnam: Ponniyin Selvan: Part II (featuring Thanmye Lagudu)
Jun 17, 202301:06:49
065. Egoist @ HKIFF2023: Interview with Director Daishi Matsunaga
Jun 10, 202325:16
064. HKIFF 2023 Dispatch

064. HKIFF 2023 Dispatch

As Cannes wraps up in the South of France, we bring you a dispatch from another festival halfway across the world. An exhausted Wilson joined Ben and Eli in the middle of his festival marathon to dish about the movies he saw at this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival, and talk about the experience of officially covering a festival for the podcast for the first time! Includes interviews with top Hong Kong directors Soi Cheang and Ann Hui.

Check out Wilson's full HKIFF list here.

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Films/Sections Previewed: A City of Sadness (4K Restoration) - dir. Hou Hsiao Hsien Plan 75 - dir. Chie Hayakawa Juzo Itami Retrospective New Blood - dir. Soi Cheang Egoist - dir. Daishi Matsunaga Stars at Noon - dir. Claire Denis Sparta - dir. Ulrich Seidl Our Body - dir. Claire Simon Saint Omer - dir. Alice Diop A Still Small Voice - dir. Luke Lorentzen A Holy Family - dir. Elvis Lu in water - dir. Hong Sang Soo Tótem - dir. Lila Avilés Dust of Angels (4K Restoration) - dir. Hsu Hsiao-ming


May 29, 202301:02:39
063. S. S. Rajamouli: RRR
Apr 24, 202301:07:44
062. 2022 Film and TV in Review

062. 2022 Film and TV in Review

Another year has wrapped production, and the production assistants are here to clean up! Just in time for the 2023 Oscars, Ben, Wilson, and Eli mop up the mess left by superheroes and conductors, stop motion shells and Na’vi, interdimensional travelers and cannibals, mourners and partiers. By breaking down the year’s big trends–– directors fictionalizing their autobiographies, Marvel sinking slowly, rich filmmakers attempting to pillory wealth inequality–– the Deep Cut trio gets a handle on what made 2022 so weird. The boys get personal, too, talking about the movies and moments from last year that shaped who they are as moviegoers and friends. Finally, each co-host’s coveted top 3 films of the year are revealed… 

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Movies discussed on this episode:
Aftersun (dir. Charlotte Wells)
Ambulance (dir. Michael Bay)
Armageddon Time (dir. James Gray)
Autobiography (dir. Makbul Mubarak)
Avatar the Way of Water (dir. James Cameron)
Babylon (dir. Damien Chazelle)
Banshees of Inisherin (dir. Martin McDonagh)
Bardo, False Chronicles of a Handful of Truths (dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu)
The Batman (dir. Matt Reeves)
Benediction (dir. Terrence Davies)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (dir. Ryan Coogler)
Bones and All (dir. Luca Guadagnino)
Broker (dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu) - Listen to our Kore-eda episode here.
The Cathedral (dir. Ricky D’Ambrose)
A Couple (dir. Frederick Wiseman) - Find our episode on this here, and our interview with Wiseman here!
Crimes of the Future (dir. David Cronenberg)
Decision to Leave (dir. Park Chan-wook)
Deep Water (dir. Adrian Lyne)
Everything Everywhere All At Once (dir. Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, a.k.a. The Daniels)
The Fabelmans (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Fire Island (dir. Andrew Ahn) - Find our episode on this here. Girl Picture (dir. Alli Haapasalo) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (dir. Rian Johnson) Hit the Road (dir. Panah Panahi) Il Buco (dir. Michelangelo Frammartino) Joyland (dir. Saim Sadiq) Leila’s Brothers (dir. Saeed Roustayi) Low Tide: A Newly Restored Work by Thomas Wright (dir. George Matthews) Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (dir. Dean Fleischer Camp) Memoria (dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul) The Menu (dir. Mark Mylod) No Bears (dir. Jafar Panahi) Nope (dir. Jordan Peele)
The Northman (dir. Robert Eggers) The Novelist’s Film (dir. Hong Sang-soo)
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (dir. Guillermo del Toro & Mark Gustafson)
Ponniyan Selvan Part 1 (dir. Mani Ratnam) - Find our episode on this here.
Return to Sender (dir. Russell Goldman) - Watch Russell's short here!
Return to Seoul (dir. Davy Chau)
RRR (dir. S. S. Rajamouli) - Our extended coverage on this here!
Small, Slow But Steady (dir. Sho Miyake)
Tár (dir. Todd Field)
Teenage Emotions (dir. Frédérick Da)
The Territory (dir. Alex Pritz)
To My Nineteen-Year-Old Self (dir. Mabel Cheung & William Kwok Wai-Lun)
Top Gun Maverick (dir. Joseph Kosinski)
Trenque Lauquen (dir. Laura Citarella)
Triangle of Sadness (dir. Ruben Östland)
Under the Fig Trees (dir. Erige Sehiri)
The Whale (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
When the Waves Are Gone (dir. Lav Diaz)
White Noise (dir. Noah Baumbach)
The Worst Person in the World (dir. Joachim Trier)

2022 TV Mentions:
Better Call Saul (created by Vince Gilligan & Peter Gould)
Irma Vep (created by Olivier Assayas) The Rehearsal (created by Nathan Fielder)

Mar 12, 202302:25:49
061. Miranda July: The Future
Mar 05, 202351:02
060. Miranda July: Me and You and Everyone We Know
Feb 21, 202359:29
059. Miranda July: Kajillionaire
Feb 12, 202301:13:11
058. Sundance 2023 Dispatch (featuring Russell Goldman)

058. Sundance 2023 Dispatch (featuring Russell Goldman)

Wilson, Ben, and Eli are once again joined by director and friend of the podcast Russell Goldman to talk about his experience and the best movies he saw at this year’s Sundance Film Festival! We get a chance to preview this year in independent American and international cinema, talk about the state of Sundance in its first in person year, and dig into some Letterboxd discourse. You can check out Russell’s work at: https://www.russellgoldman.com/    Films Previewed:   Birth/Rebirth - dir. Laura Moss  Bad Behaviour - dir. Alice Englert   Passages - dir. Ira Sachs  Infinity Pool - dir. Brandon Cronenberg  A Little Prayer - dir. Angus MacLachlan  Drift - dir. Anthony Chen  Fremont - dir. Babak Jalali  Shortcomings - dir. Randall Park

Did you catch any Sundance films this year? Let us know on the Discord server. Find our free Patreon, discord server, and all our links @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.deepcutpod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Check out the letterboxd video we talked about here.

Feb 10, 202331:16
057. Interview with Frederick Wiseman
Jan 21, 202345:45
056. Frederick Wiseman: A Couple
Dec 16, 202252:14
055. Deep Cut 2022 Summer Movie Roundup
Dec 04, 202201:39:21
054. Eli's Summer 2022 Film Diary

054. Eli's Summer 2022 Film Diary

Welcome to Eli's summer film watching audio diary!  Over the summer of 2022 each of us recorded little audio snippets reviewing every film that we watched, and these are Eli's! You can listen to our combined discussion of our summer movie watching in our roundup episode. We recommend you start there!  

Wanna tell us about the films you're watching? Come join our free Patreon, discord server, and all our links @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.deepcutpod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

(2:50) - Hamlet (2018, dir. Rhodri Huw, Robert Icke)
(6:47) - Kairo (Pulse) (2001, dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
(9:50) Videodrome (1983, dir. David Cronenberg)
(11:21) - Memoria (2021, dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
(13:23) - Crimes of the Future (2022, dir. David Cronenberg)
(15:11) - O-Bi, O-Ba, The End of Civilization (1985, dir. Piotr Szulkin)
(20:27) - Lost Highway (1997, dir. David Lynch)
(23:05) - Mad God (2021, dir. Phil Tippett)
(27:20) - Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022, dir. Dean Fleischer-Camp)
(29:41) - The Poseidon Adventure (1972, dir. Ronald Neame)
(30:21) - Court (2014, dir. Chaitanya Tamhane)
(32:17) - Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005, dir. Park Chan-wook)
(35:38) - The Fly (1986, dir. David Cronenberg)
(37:21) - Resurrection (2022, dir. Andrew Semans)
(38:55) - Ishtar (1987, dir. Elaine May)

Dec 04, 202240:60
053. Ben's Summer 2022 Film Diary

053. Ben's Summer 2022 Film Diary

Welcome to Ben's summer film watching audio diary!

Over the summer of 2022 each of us recorded little audio snippets reviewing every film that we watched, and these are Ben's! You can listen to our combined discussion of our summer movie watching in our roundup episode. We recommend you start there!

Wanna tell us about the films you're watching? Come join our free Patreon, discord server, and all our links @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.deepcutpod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Timestamps:

(01:33) Donkey Skin
(03:20) What's Up Doc?
(06:04) Sanjuro
(07:59) The Long Day Closes
(10:11) The Northman
(13:22) Top Gun, Top Gun: Maverick
(18:02) The Virgin Suicides
(20:15) Vikram
(23:31) We Are Lady Parts
(26:44) Band of Outsiders
(28:18) Cure
(30:54) Last Days of Disco
(33:11) The Wonders
(36:32) Repulsion
(37:49) Jurassic World: Dominion
(40:04) Collateral
(42:31) The Marquise of O...
(45:32) The Beautiful Troublemaker
(49:16) Eat Drink Man Woman
(50:27) Manhunter
(52:30) Heat
(54:03) Poetry
(56:40) Basic Instinct
(58:53) Broker
(1:01:42) Pulse
(1:02:51) Thor: Love and Thunder
(1:04:37) Decision to Leave
(1:06:07) RRR
(1:06:34) Dual
(1:07:28) The Innocents
(1:08:30) Picnic at Hanging Rock
(1:09:48) Irma Vep (2022 TV series)
(1:12:53) Happening
(1:16:12) Tokyo Sonata
(1:17:55) Red Rocket
(1:20:32) Nope
(1:22:50) Prey

Dec 04, 202201:25:44