Outskirts Film Podcast

This week on the podcast, Outskirts team peeps through the keyhole into the unabashedly salacious cinema of sexploitation queen Doris Wishman. A late-bloomer as a filmmaker, Wishman first became famous with her nudie-cuties in the early sixties. Parallel to the shifting morals in American entertainment industry, her cinema got rougher, tougher and politically dubious than ever. As Doris herself probably watches us Wishmaniacs with utter disinterest and disbelief from above, in dildo heaven, we enjoy talking about her masterpieces with pleasure and no guilt whatsoever.
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Ferocious, captivating, rebellious, and impossible to forget, Meiko Kaji is an enduring icon of Japanese exploitation cinema. This week on the Outskirts Film Podcast, we dive headfirst into her world of tattooed yakuza and knife-fighting prisoners, discuss her classic songs and struggle to describe icy stares that make blood cold. From girl gang boss to vengeful assassin, Kaji defined the enigmatic heroine of 1970s Japanese cinema and starred in a half dozen of the era’s most exemplary films. As Japan Society kicks off a full-blown retrospective of her work on March 27, we’re celebrating Meiko Kaji’s powerful screen presence.
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This week on the podcast, the Outskirts team explores the still-underappreciated Japanese master Hiroshi Shimizu’s versatile body of work—ranging from lyrical tapestries of the countryside to neo-realist postwar films. Joined by David Phelps, who penned a comprehensive essay on the filmmaker in Issue 3, and our co-editor Nathan Letoré, we journey through Shimizu’s filmography just as Arigatō-san roams the Izu Peninsula—with a joyful sense of discovery in each encounter.

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The Outskirts Film Podcast will take your soul at midnight – that is, if you don’t listen to our new episode. This week we'll be discussing the very embodiment of evil: proud atheist, the biggest enemy of believers, the Brazilian master of the macabre in pursuit of the perfect bloodline – the one and only Zé do Caixão, also known as Coffin Joe!

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This week on the podcast we're talking about the founding father of Outskirts Film Magazine, a miraculous figure of Soviet cinema, the extraordinary Boris Barnet. 
Alongside Hannah Yang, who curated the retrospective Boris Barnet: A Cinema Despite Life that's ongoing at Doc Films, we discuss a selection of his films, spanning from his early silent works to his late-career masterpieces.

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