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. 131. Marina de Van: In My Skin

    6D AGO

    131. Marina de Van: In My Skin

    Not for the faint of heart, Marina de Van’s film In My Skin challenges our stomachs, hearts and minds. While Wilson squirms, Ben gets to the heart of why Eli loves sicko mode movies. Can one of the most underrated New French Extremism films secretly be deeply empathetic? Links: The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning by Maggie Nelson “The Goon Squad” by Daniel Kolitz (Harpers Magazine, 2025) Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods by Mariana Alessandri Interviews with & articles on Marina de Van: Rotterdam, 2019 Screenslate, 2022 Dread Central, 2022 The French Review, 2010 The Guardian, 2004 Pinnland Empire, 2012 Get in our skin (ew?) at our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com  Timestamps: 00:00:00 Intro 00:03:23 Introducing In My Skin 00:06:13 General reactions 00:11:29 Body fascination 00:14:37 Is it horror? 00:18:34 Eli goes sicko mode 00:26:04 Director background 00:32:12 Addiction / self-discovery 00:40:38 Characters 00:46:08 Female horror 00:49:45 Splitscreens and artmaking 00:55:12 The ending 01:00:28 g00ning 01:04:44 Dinner scene 01:12:16 Additional crew on In My Skin 01:16:31 Closing ideas

    1h 21m
  2. 130. HKIFF50 Dispatch (The Drama, Blue Heron, Silent Friend, We’re Nothing at All, and MORE!)

    APR 26

    130. HKIFF50 Dispatch (The Drama, Blue Heron, Silent Friend, We’re Nothing at All, and MORE!)

    哈囉 from Hong Kong! Wilson recaps a busy edition of the Hong Kong International Film Festival, including meeting and interviewing the one and only Tony Leung Chiu Wai for SILENT FRIEND. Wilson also chats about the seven(!) soon to come director interviews he conducted for the podcast, and some interesting classic films shown at this year’s edition of HKIFF. The trio also discuss some exciting new releases including new films from Hong Sang-soo, Carla Simon, and Anthony Chen.  Links: Tony Leung Interview The Blade Video Essay Radu Jude on Hong reel Take the MTR to our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com  Timestamps: 00:00:00: Intro 00:07:34 Meeting Tony Leung 00:14:23 Silent Friend (2025) dir. Ildiko Enyedi 00:16:27 Sleep No More (2026) dir. Edwin 00:20:04 Ah Girl (2026) dir. Ang Geck Geck 00:23:33 Memory (2025) dir. Vladlena Sandu 00:30:48 Palimpsest: The Story of a Name (2025) dir. Mary Stephen 00:36:37 Mare’s Nest (2025) dir. Ben Rivers 00:39:40 Vive L’amour (1994) dir. Tsai Ming Liang 00:43:48 Panelstory or Birth of a Community (1981) dir. Věra Chytilová  00:45:54 Ah Ying (1983) dir. Allen Fong  00:49:13 The Horse Thief (1986)dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang  00:51:03 Unknown Pleasures (2002) dir. Jia Zhangke 00:53:30 Days and Nights in the Forest (1970) dir. Satyajit Ray  00:54:55 Final Victory (1987) dir. Patrick Tam  00:59:20 We Are All Strangers (2026) dir. Anthony Chen 01:06:37 We’re Nothing at All (2026) dir. Herman Yau 01:10:40 My Father’s Shadow (2025) dir. Akinola Davies Jr. 01:11:45 The Day She Returns (2026) dir. Hong Sang Soo 01:18:20 Magellan (2025) dir. Lav Diaz 01:22:15 Romeria (2025) dir. Carla Simon 01:24:40 The Voice of Hind Rijab (2025) dir. Kaouther Ben Hania 01:27:50 Writing Life – Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students (2025) dir. Claire Simon 01:31:00 Blue Heron (2025) dir. Sophy Romvari 01:36:00 The Drama (2026) dir. Kristoffer Borgli 01:40:15 Outro

    1h 44m
  3. 129. Kelly Reichardt: The Mastermind

    APR 19

    129. Kelly Reichardt: The Mastermind

    “[Reichardt] makes you love these dicks.” – Wilson How on earth does she do that? Does she have the mind of a master? Join us as we find out how Reichardt’s idiosyncratic style in The Mastermind helps you love this one dick despite all the hairy situations he’s entangled in. We debate the film’s reception during the AMC secret screening debacle, Reichardt's constantly zagging career, and her place in the American cinema landscape amidst dwindling cultural literacy. Links: Filmstage interviewMind of a master video Master your mind at our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com  Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 05:18 General reactions 13:55 The ending 19:28 Reichardt films and public reactions 28:19 Parts we liked about the movie 32:24 Josh O’Connor  36:03 More on the public’s reaction 44:16 Alana Haim 49:51 Outro

    52 min
  4. 128. Lynne Ramsay: Die My Love

    APR 5

    128. Lynne Ramsay: Die My Love

    After an 8-year hiatus, Lynne Ramsay has returned with her latest feature, Die My Love, and we're here to keep up with the Scottish auteur! After an 8-year hiatus, Lynne Ramsay has returned with her latest feature, Die My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. On this Deep Cut Upkeep episode, we find out if it was worth the wait and consider what’s next for the Scottish auteur. Eli helps define the subgenre of “mommy horror,” Ben questions the depth of the movie’s characters, and Wilson draws comparisons to Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch and Darren Aronofsky’s Mother!. Links: Kelsey E. Henry, “Monstrous Motherhood” from The Point Don’t die, my love, at our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 03:30 General reactions 14:03 Maternal madness pictures 19:14 Linearity 22:19 Why Ramsay for this film 26:02 Comparing with Ramsay's other works 28:31 A good trailer 29:58 The ending 32:07 Mommy horror 40:34 "A crazy love story" 44:26 Last words / outro

    48 min
  5. 127. Interview with Kani Releasing: Ariel Esteban Cayer and Pearl Chan

    MAR 29

    127. Interview with Kani Releasing: Ariel Esteban Cayer and Pearl Chan

    Wilson takes a trip to Peng Chau to visit Ariel and Pearl of Kani Releasing, a North American film distribution company specializing in Asian cinema, to chat about their work, the films in their catalog and the changing film landscape for theatrical/physical media distribution. Wilson takes a trip to Peng Chau to visit Ariel and Pearl of Kani Releasing, a North American film distribution company specializing in Asian cinema, to chat about their work, the films in their catalog and the changing film landscape for theatrical/physical media distribution. The chat about select titles in the Kani library, including Deep Cut favorite Marilou Diaz Abaya’s Moral (Ep 71) and Karnal, Patrick Tam’s My Heart is That Eternal Rose, and Nao Yoshigai’s Shari.  Links: Kani Releasing Crabwalk over to our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com  Timestamps: 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:42 Introducing Kani Releasing 00:10:37 Path to Kani Releasing 00:20:01 Karnal / Moral (dir. Marilou Diaz-Abaya) 00:30:06 Archiving in the Philippines  00:33:19 Bona (dir. Lino Brocka) 00:38:17 Kisapmata (dir. Mike de Leon) 00:44:13 Changing Filipino film culture 00:50:07 Kani's geography 00:53:07 Shari (dir. Nao Yoshigai) 01:02:21 My Heart is That Eternal Rose (dir. Patrick Tam) 01:11:47 Bye Bye Love (dir. Isao Fujisawa) 01:14:16 Looking for an Angel (dir. Akihiro Suzuki) 01:15:46 Amiko / Desert of Namibia (dir. Yoko Yamanaka) 01:21:00 Batang West Side (dir. Lav Diaz) 01:22:48 What's next for Kani Releasing

    1h 27m
  6. 126. Hong Sang-soo: What Does That Nature Say To You?

    MAR 22

    126. Hong Sang-soo: What Does That Nature Say To You?

    Flowers bloom at night… it’s not scary. With our first of presumably many Deep Cut Upkeeps on prolific South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo, we explore What Does That Nature Say to You? We flesh out our theory of how Hong achieves authenticity and immediacy while eliding simple meaning, unpack the latest Hong male lead, and catch Hong’s reference to 6-7. Bow at our grandmothers’ trees at our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com  Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 05:12 General reactions 12:20 Glazing the boyfriend 14:30 Context 20:50 Dong-hwa as a Hong man 29:50 Girlfriend's family  38:58 Hong surrogacy: where is he in WDTNSTY? 44:12 Hong's image quality (or lack thereof) 51:22 Other notable scenes 57:35 Last words on Hong for now

    1h 5m
  7. 125. Hong Sang-soo: Hill of Freedom (featuring Ryan Swen)

    MAR 8

    125. Hong Sang-soo: Hill of Freedom (featuring Ryan Swen)

    Film critic and Events Chair of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Ryan Swen joins us to discuss his Hong Sang-soo Deep Cut Pick, Hill of Freedom. Swen has had a huge hand in shaping our Hong series through his ongoing criticism project, Hong Sang-soo Notarized. We all take a look at the non-chronological narrative of Hong’s meditation on misogyny, Japan and Korea, and the unsurprising consequences of drinking too much. Drop your letters at our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com  Timestamps: 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:40 Ryan Swen introduction 00:04:29 Hong Sang Soo Notarized Project 00:12:21 Hill of Freedom introduction and general reactions 00:21:29 Lost (and Found) in translation 00:27:21 Japan and Korea 00:32:53 Narrative structure 00:39:41 Mori and Misogyny  00:45:47 Hongisms 00:52:57 The ending 01:00:40 Actors 01:03:11 Outro

    1h 6m
  8. 124. Hong Sang-soo: The Novelist’s Film (featuring Dennis Lim)

    FEB 22

    124. Hong Sang-soo: The Novelist’s Film (featuring Dennis Lim)

    Writer, film curator, and leading Hong Sang-soo scholar Dennis Lim brings a personal favorite from Hong’s oeuvre–– 2022’s The Novelist’s Film–– to Deep Cut. As the DC trio and their esteemed guest enjoy the luxuriate in Hong’s complex, joyous depiction of collaborating artists-in-exile, Dennis shares his background with Hong, this film’s shape, and the model Hong sets for young, independent filmmakers. Film your novel at our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com  Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:08 Introducing guest 03:47 Lim's background with Hong 11:15 DC trio's current thoughts on Hong 15:41 Why the Novelist's Film / general reactions 26:13 Hong's regular actors 28:04 Formal discussion 38:33 Shapes 41:16 Lee Hye-young 46:25 Ha song-guk 47:06 Waste, exile, potential 50:19 Hong's business, life, and art model (good for young filmmakers) 55:53 Outro

    57 min
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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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  • Creator
    Wilson, Ben, and Eli
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    132
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Wilson, Ben, and Eli
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    Deep Cut: A Film Podcast

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