Deep Cut: A Film Podcast

• 112. Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Cloud

  “Kurosawa, you dog.” – Eli.’“It’s like edging, in cinema.” – Wilson“What is this, looney tunes?” – BenKurosawa 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 JapanBuy our stuff at our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com Timestamps:00:00 Intro04:36 Ben and Wilson's general reactions12:14 Eli's experience watching at  Lincoln16:31 Cloud plot summary20:34 Compared to other Kurosawa films25:00 Sano and the younger generation32:41 Nihilism and cynicism36:42 Locations and spaces40:50 What is this movie trying to say42:37 Takimoto46:31 Akiko49:04 Dorsality51:49 Sound52:56 Productively frustrating critique of late-stage Capitalism56:22 Kurosawa's reversals58:26 Odds and ends and questions

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• 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 filmI’m walking here at our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com Timestamps:00:00 Intro04:46 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)

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• 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 programmeScreening in NYC for NYFF at Film at Lincoln CenterObey your ancestors at our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com Timestamps:00:01:36 Introducing Prof. Lisa Dombrowski00:06:48 M+ Restored00:09:39 Context on director Tang Shu-shuen and The Arch00:11:16 Lisa's relationship with The Arch00:17:16 General reactions00:23:30 Adaptation and subjectivity00:26:06 Subtitles00:28:06 Female gaze and melodramatic situation00:30:28 The opening setup00:33:28 Cinematography context00:40:28 Love triangle and deep staging00:43:34 Plum scene00:52:37 Source material00:55:28 Cultural context and societal norms01:00:04 River scene and Mid-Autumn Festival01:03:39 A Simple Life (2011) sidebar, subjective realism01:07:25 Confucianism and social conditioning01:10:29 Loom scene01:13:04 Editing for meaning01:16:32 The arch, the ending, the takeaway01:24:57 Fractured images and liminal spaces01:30:15 Lisa Lu and casting01:31:32 The film's reception01:33:56 Tang's approach01:39:03 Cultural identity, transnational cinema, aesthetic expectations01:43:32 Tang's career post The Arch01:46:05 Outro

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• 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 videoWomen around the fountain videoCall us by your name at our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com Timestamps:00:00:00 Intro00:01:14 Introducing Alex Heeney00:04:00 Our histories with CMBYN00:21:50 Masculinity and Romance00:26:03 Narrative structure00:32:05 Performances00:37:39 Scenes and blocking00:41:00 The statue scene00:47:44 The parents00:51:20 The peach scene01:00:30 Age gap discourse01:10:42 Homophobia and queerness01:13:05 Cinematography and Marzia01:31:00 Editing01:35:36 The Sufjan element01:39:15 Outro

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• 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 AkermanI 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 Intro05:32 Plot summaries and Reactions17:15 2015 critical reactions to No Home Movie21:00 Structural films and emotional responses27:07 Power of the cut33:41 Akerman and her mother40:33 Comparing Akerman with Varda44:36 Private artmaking48:33 Akerman's career arc52:13 Preview for next eps

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