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
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 DielmanSlant magazine interview Article on Akerman Wilson’s Letterboxd reviewStephen Gillespie’s Letterboxd reviewAngelica Jade Bastien on LonglegsMake coffee at our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.comTimestamps:00:00:00 Intro00:03:03 General reactions00:13:26 The S&S list00:16:24 Akerman's career00:23:45 Plot summary and structure00:29:20 Cinematography and spatial representation00:32:14 Depictions of women and melodrama00:34:35 How Akerman directs Seyrig00:37:53 Everything is "real"00:39:10 Time00:42:14 Patterning00:46:40 What triggers the breakdown00:50:16 Relationship between mother/son00:57:18 Rituals00:59:24 The movie exists as many things01:00:25 It's place as #1 film01:04:10 Akerman's conviction and vision01:07:43 Scene dissections01:13:04 Exterior scenes01:16:47 Existential crisis01:19:12 In conversation with cinema and larger culture01:21:56 Ending01:30:36 Outro
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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.comTimestamps:00:00 Intro03:33 General reactions10:05 Saving graces of the film14:10 Narrative22:33 The Mandrax of it all24:53 Supporting characters27:36 Flashbacks and musical biopics30:50 We pitch Maria Callas biopics33:01 Pablo Larrain power ranking38:18 Outro
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104. Hong Sang-soo: Woman on the Beach
Deep Cut partners with Asian Film Archive which is presenting Twin Tales: Éric Rohmer and Hong Sang-soo, a special programme featuring six pairings of films by French New Wave director Éric Rohmer and prolific Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo. Buy tickets here!We’ve teased this for YEARS! And it’s finally here. The DC Trio break the ice by introducing notorious Korean director Hong Sang-soo to the canon by talking about a 2006 deep cut, Woman on the Beach. We talk about the pairing with Rohmer’s The Green Ray (our ep. 24), discuss why this feels odd in Hong’s filmography, and debate on what shape this movie looks like. Join us for a lively first foray into the work of Hong Sang-soo.Links:Film at Lincoln Center: Hong Sangsoo on Woman on the BeachThe New Yorker: Hong Interview with Dennis Lim Hong Sang-soo Notarized: Woman on the Beach by Ryan SwenGet drunk on soju at our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.comTimestamps:00:00:00 Intro00:02:13 Twin Tales: Hong x Rohmer00:05:00 Our journeys with Hong00:15:34 Hong Sang-soo Overview00:24:02 Woman on the Beach Summary and Reactions00:31:40 Notarized Hong00:34:03 Whose story is this?00:41:31 Men vs Women00:43:09 Some scenes00:45:06 Characterizations00:47:28 Comparison with The Green Ray, and others00:54:38 Cinematography00:57:21 Diagrams01:00:54 Restaurant scene01:02:32 Triangulation01:05:58 The Ending01:10:36 Outro
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.
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