Deep Cut: A Film Podcast

Wilson, Ben, and Eli
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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! Links to our Discord and other socials here: https://deepcutpod.com

  1. 113. Steven Spielberg: A.I. Artificial Intelligence (featuring Lee Isaac Chung)

    11月2日

    113. Steven Spielberg: A.I. Artificial Intelligence (featuring Lee Isaac Chung)

    We have a very special guest this week: Lee Isaac Chung (Minari, Twisters) brings one of his favorite movies of all time, Steven Spielberg’s Artificial Intelligence, to the podcast as his Deep Cut Pick! Isaac chats about his awe and love for the film, what he’s learnt as a filmmaker from working with Spielberg on Twisters, and his own transition into blockbuster filmmaking.  We also discuss Hayley Joel Osment’s all-timer of a child performance, the film’s divisive ending, Spielberg’s masterful blocking, and the film’s worldbuilding and depictions of the future.  Find the blue fairy at our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com  Timestamps: 00:00:00 Introducing Lee Isaac Chung 00:01:50 Introduction to Steven Spielberg and our connection with his work 00:09:02 Why Isaac chose AI as his Deep Cut 00:13:46 First reactions to AI 00:18:04 Plot summary and production context 00:20:19 Kubrick 00:24:48 Minor Barry Lyndon spoiler 00:26:24 Spoiler ends 00:28:12 Love/hate and Spielberg’s touch 00:35:38 Hayley Joel Osment’s performance  00:41:53 Strategies for directing children 00:46:29 Act 2: Jude Law and Flesh Fair 00:52:03 Worldbuilding and depiction of AI 00:55:46 Ending 01:01:13 Spielberg’s blocking 01:09:24 Isaac’s experience moving into blockbuster filmmaking 01:13:46 Outro

    1 小时 19 分钟
  2. 112. Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Cloud

    10月19日

    112. Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Cloud

    “Kurosawa, you dog.” – Eli.’ “It’s like edging, in cinema.” – Wilson “What is this, looney tunes?” – Ben Kurosawa can only make the kind of movie that leaves us both perplexed, impressed and dropping memorable reactions. Listen on as we unpack the film’s critique of the next generation of hustlers and entrepreneurs, figure out what it’s trying to say through its allegory, and finally answer if anything can beat a jet2 holiday. Links: The Kinetoscope: Cinemagoing in Japan Buy our stuff at our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com  Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 04:36 Ben and Wilson's general reactions 12:14 Eli's experience watching at  Lincoln 16:31 Cloud plot summary 20:34 Compared to other Kurosawa films 25:00 Sano and the younger generation 32:41 Nihilism and cynicism 36:42 Locations and spaces 40:50 What is this movie trying to say 42:37 Takimoto 46:31 Akiko 49:04 Dorsality 51:49 Sound 52:56 Productively frustrating critique of late-stage Capitalism 56:22 Kurosawa's reversals 58:26 Odds and ends and questions

    1 小时 3 分钟
  3. 111. 63rd New York Film Festival (2025, NYFF63) Dispatch (No Other Choice, The Mastermind, A House of Dynamite, One Battle After Another, and MORE!)

    10月5日

    111. 63rd New York Film Festival (2025, NYFF63) Dispatch (No Other Choice, The Mastermind, A House of Dynamite, One Battle After Another, and MORE!)

    Eli joins the other boys hot off of his Lincoln Center press screenings to tell us the must-watches and the maybe-skip-overs of this year’s New York Film Festival. But before that, Wilson and Ben briefly get their words in for the latest Paul Thomas Anderson joint, One Battle After Another. Catch Eli talk about other NYFF titles like Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, Olivier Laxe’s Sirāt, and possible film of the year: Bi Gan’s Resurrection.  Links: Secret Goldfish - Bi Gan short film I’m walking here at our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com  Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 04:46 One Battle After Another (2025, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson) 13:32 No Other Choice (2025, dir. Park Chan-wook) 16:58 Sirāt (2025, dir. Oliver Laxe) 20:18 Queen Kelly (1932, dir. Erich von Stroheim) 25:29 Angel’s Egg (1982, dir. Mamoru Oshii) 31:27 Japanese Film Festival (in Singapore) 34:34 The Arch (1968, dir. T’ang Shushuen) 35:09 The Mastermind (2025, dir. Kelly Reichardt) 38:03 Mare’s Nest (2025, dir. Ben Rivers) 41:13 Jay Kelly (2025, dir. Noah Baumbach) 42:22 Back Home (2025, dir. Tsai Ming-liang) 44:49 Ecce Mole (2025, dir. Heinz Emigholz) 48:15 Peter Hujar’s Day (2025, dir. Ira Sachs) 50:34 What Does That Nature Say To You? (2025, dir. Hong Sang-soo) 53:10 A House of Dynamite (2025, dir. Kathryn Bigelow) 57:40 Resurrection (2025, dir. Bi Gan)

    1 小时 7 分钟
  4. 110. T'ang Shushuen: The Arch (featuring Lisa Dombrowski)

    9月21日

    110. T'ang Shushuen: The Arch (featuring Lisa Dombrowski)

    We are very excited to welcome Prof. Lisa Dombrowski to our podcast! She is a Professor of Film Studies and East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University. She’s the author of the books: The Films of Samuel Fuller: If You Die, I’ll Kill You! (2008), the editor of Kazan Revisited (2011), and co-editor of ReFocus: The Later Works and Legacy of Robert Altman (2022). (Ben worked on that last one!)  We took Lisa’s fantastic film classes and she’s a big reason this podcast exists, and why we talk about movies the way we do. (You can read more about the podcast’s origin story on Patreon!) Together, we preview a newly restored film showing at the upcoming New York Film Festival and M+ Restored programmes, T’ang Shushuen’s The Arch, which Lisa teaches in her classes. Lisa shares with us the film’s unconventional transnational production context, and we have an in-depth discussion about the film’s groundbreaking use of film form to portray female subjectivity. Eli highlights the film’s use of deep staging, Wilson compares the film with Ann Hui’s A Simple Life (2011), and Ben explains what he means by an “oyako-don” pantheon. Links: Read more about and get tickets for the M+ Restored programme Screening in NYC for NYFF at Film at Lincoln Center Obey your ancestors at our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com  Timestamps: 00:01:36 Introducing Prof. Lisa Dombrowski 00:06:48 M+ Restored 00:09:39 Context on director Tang Shu-shuen and The Arch 00:11:16 Lisa's relationship with The Arch 00:17:16 General reactions 00:23:30 Adaptation and subjectivity 00:26:06 Subtitles 00:28:06 Female gaze and melodramatic situation 00:30:28 The opening setup 00:33:28 Cinematography context 00:40:28 Love triangle and deep staging 00:43:34 Plum scene 00:52:37 Source material 00:55:28 Cultural context and societal norms 01:00:04 River scene and Mid-Autumn Festival 01:03:39 A Simple Life (2011) sidebar, subjective realism 01:07:25 Confucianism and social conditioning 01:10:29 Loom scene 01:13:04 Editing for meaning 01:16:32 The arch, the ending, the takeaway 01:24:57 Fractured images and liminal spaces 01:30:15 Lisa Lu and casting 01:31:32 The film's reception 01:33:56 Tang's approach 01:39:03 Cultural identity, transnational cinema, aesthetic expectations 01:43:32 Tang's career post The Arch 01:46:05 Outro

    1 小时 50 分钟
  5. 109. Luca Guadagnino: Call Me By Your Name (featuring Alex Heeney)

    9月7日

    109. Luca Guadagnino: Call Me By Your Name (featuring Alex Heeney)

    We are joined by special guest Alex Heeney, the founder and editor in chief of Seventh Row, to dive into Luca Guadagnino's 2017 coming-of-age masterpiece, Call Me By Your Name. They talk about their deep personal connections to the film, with Alex recounting her experience at the world premiere at Sundance and Wilson sharing his obsessive journey preparing for the New York Film Festival premiere of the film. Eli discusses the film's sensual direction, and Ben explains why he thinks this is Guadagnino’s most mature work.  Links: Find more of Alex on Seventh Row. They are hosting a summit celebrating queer and trans stories called Living Out Loud. Check it out here. Mina Le: why does hollywood love an age gap romance? Ben’s CMBYN meme video Women around the fountain video Call us by your name at our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com  Timestamps: 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:14 Introducing Alex Heeney 00:04:14 Our histories with CMBYN 00:23:40 Masculinity 00:27:18 Narrative structure 00:32:04 The statue scene 00:38:09 The peach scene 00:43:48 Mr. Perlman's speech 00:50:47 The age gap and power dynamics 00:56:48 The emotional reality of the ending 01:03:00 Cinematography and direction 01:08:44 The role of the parents and the book's context 01:17:34 Specific Scenes 01:28:44 The use of music 01:33:06 Walter Fasano's editing 01:38:40 The film's legacy 01:42:00 Outro

    1 小时 46 分钟
  6. 108. Chantal Akerman: News from Home & No Home Movie

    8月24日

    108. Chantal Akerman: News from Home & No Home Movie

    We continue our series on Akerman with a double-bill of personal documentaries about her mother, and of home. News from Home immediately follows her seminal Jeanne Dielman, and No Home Movie is the final film of Akerman’s filmography. In this episode, we thread the throughline across Akerman’s career in comparing both films, see the influence of structural and slow cinema, and marvel at her capacity for personal artmaking. Links: Celine Sciamma on Chantal Akerman I Don’t Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman (No Home Movie BTS footage) Go home to our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com  Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 05:32 Plot summaries and Reactions 17:15 2015 critical reactions to No Home Movie 21:00 Structural films and emotional responses 27:07 Power of the cut 33:41 Akerman and her mother 40:33 Comparing Akerman with Varda 44:36 Private artmaking 48:33 Akerman's career arc 52:13 Preview for next eps

    55 分钟
  7. 107. Chantal Akerman: Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

    8月11日

    107. Chantal Akerman: Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

    It’s about time. We tackle Chantal Akerman’s Sight and Sound topping Jeanne Dielman, and begin our series on her singular career. Ben introduces Akerman’s career, spotlighting her fierce conviction and crystalline vision, Eli loops in a melodramatic reading, and Wilson zeroes in on an ending that explosively caps off a 3.5h opus. And if you’re struggling with how to approach this film, as entertainment or as art, just remember: it’s about time. Links: Behinds the scenes of Jeanne Dielman Slant magazine interview  Article on Akerman  Wilson’s Letterboxd review Stephen Gillespie’s Letterboxd review Angelica Jade Bastien on Longlegs Make coffee at our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com Timestamps: 00:00:00 Intro 00:03:03 General reactions 00:13:26 The S&S list 00:16:24 Akerman's career 00:23:45 Plot summary and structure 00:29:20 Cinematography and spatial representation 00:32:14 Depictions of women and melodrama 00:34:35 How Akerman directs Seyrig 00:37:53 Everything is "real" 00:39:10 Time 00:42:14 Patterning 00:46:40 What triggers the breakdown 00:50:16 Relationship between mother/son 00:57:18 Rituals 00:59:24 The movie exists as many things 01:00:25 It's place as #1 film 01:04:10 Akerman's conviction and vision 01:07:43 Scene dissections 01:13:04 Exterior scenes 01:16:47 Existential crisis 01:19:12 In conversation with cinema and larger culture 01:21:56 Ending 01:30:36 Outro

    1 小时 32 分钟
  8. 106. Pablo Larrain: Maria

    7月27日

    106. Pablo Larrain: Maria

    After a rocky relationship between Deep Cut and Mr. Pablo Larrain, we come back to the final film in Larrain’s “important 20th century white women” trilogy (as Ben describes it). Will Larrain redeem himself with a portrait of the final days of Maria Callas’ life? Or will he and Stephen Knight sh*t the bed again? Wilson praises Angelina Jolie’s comeback performance, Ben praises how pretty the film is, and Eli praises the prop glasses, but is all that enough to get the film over the line? Listen to find out.  Links: Thomas Flight: Do Musical Biopics Have a Fatal Flaw? Sing our praises at our free patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 03:33 General reactions 10:05 Saving graces of the film 14:10 Narrative 22:33 The Mandrax of it all 24:53 Supporting characters 27:36 Flashbacks and musical biopics 30:50 We pitch Maria Callas biopics 33:01 Pablo Larrain power ranking 38:18 Outro

    40 分钟
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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! Links to our Discord and other socials here: https://deepcutpod.com

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  • 创作者
    Wilson, Ben, and Eli
  • 活跃年份
    2020年 - 2025年
  • 单集
    114
  • 分级
    儿童不宜
  • 版权
    © Wilson, Ben, and Eli
  • 节目网站
    Deep Cut: A Film Podcast

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