Deep Cut: A Film Podcast

• 105. Hong Sang-soo: Night and Day (featuring Alexander Lee)

  We are joined by Asian Film Archive programmer Alexander Lee for our second installment in our Hong Sang-soo series! Alex talks to the guys about pairing Hong Sang-soo deep cuts with Eric Rohmer classics, and specifically the pairing of Night and Day with Love in the Afternoon. Eli chats about the narrative motifs that are on display in this film, Wilson tries to unlock the secret of Hong’s use of zooms, and Ben contends with the slimy protagonist of this film. Singaporean listeners to Deep Cut you can catch Night and Day on July 13th at the Oldham Theatre. Buy tickets here!Links:Hong Sang-soo Notarized: Night and DayGet drunk on soju at our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.comTimestamps:00:00:00 Intro00:01:17 Alex introduces Twin Tales00:06:45 Film Context00:10:21 General Reactions00:20:58 Hong’s big stylistic choices00:23:22 Narrative Motifs00:28:30 Yoo-Jung00:31:55 Sung-nam00:33:14 Odd patterns00:37:22 Night and Day vs. Love in the Afternoon00:40:41 Tech and sex of the 00s00:42:42 The male mess of Hong00:45:52 Dream sequences00:50:54 The look of the film00:56:18 Being married?00:59:16 Hong notarized01:00:40 Opening of the film and Hill of Freedom01:02:43 Music01:04:30 More on zooms01:05:35 Paris01:07:52 Other small odd things01:09:24 Preview of Twin Tales01:13:11 Outro

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• 103. Luca Guadagnino: Queer

  I want to podcast with you. Without speaking. On this episode of Deep Cut Upkeep we step into 1950s Mexico City and dive into the lush world of Luca Guadagnino’s Queer. Wilson expands more on his love for the film and why it topped his 2024 film list. Eli talks about the narrative constraints of this (bio)pic about William S. Burroughs. Ben draws links between Queer and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Together, we talk about performance, Guadagnino’s eye for style, debate that Ayahuasca sequence, and end the episode with a quick round of Luca Guadagnino power rankings. Links:Natalie’s letterboxd review of QueerNYFF panel of Queer Take a TRIP to our free patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.comTimestamps:00:00 Intro02:50 General reactions08:26 Spoiler warning09:31 Production context12:50 Narrative structure16:30 Craig's performance as Lee19:12 Blocking and eyelines21:03 First meeting between Lee and Allerton25:09 Act 227:35 Yagé29:28 The relationship36:40 Comparison with In The Mood for Love40:32 The trip47:15 The ending50:55 Comparison to other Guadagnino58:33 Outro

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• 102. Kelly Reichardt: Meek’s Cutoff

  As voted for on our Patreon, we return to Kelly Reichardt with her 2010 Western, Meek’s Cutoff. Ben argues that no discussion of the American Western is complete without Reichardt’s film, Wilson highlights the film’s fraught production that miraculously led to its poetic ending, and Eli frames the film within the larger context of America’s problematic Manifest Destiny. We get serious, analytical and near-academic with Reichardt’s masterwork… all the way until you hear us try on our best impressions of Bruce Greenwood’s Stephen Meek as Wallace from Wallace and Gromit. (?????)Get lost at our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.comLinks:Kelly Reichardt on WTF with Marc MaronSundance interviewLast of the BuffaloAmerican ProgressTimestamps:00:00:00 Intro00:04:42 Plot Summary00:05:54 General reactions00:09:22 Eli loves the ending00:13:24 The film as a Western00:15:53 Production context00:18:20 How she got that ending00:22:10 The Western is distinctly American00:24:20 American mythology00:28:21 As "feminist" Western00:30:59 Stephen Meek00:33:15 Not your typical Western00:37:39 Chaos and destruction00:39:41 Actors00:40:36 Mishandling of Reichardt's releases00:45:25 Cinematography00:50:47 Why 4:300:56:33 What's in store for Reichardt01:00:02 Outro

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• 101. HKIFF49 Dispatch (Youth Trilogy, Phantosmia, I'm Still Here, Dreams (Sex Love), and MORE!)

  Wilson comes on the podcast to talk about all the films he saw at the 49th edition of the Hong Kong International Film Festival. Come listen to us talk about the newest films from around the world, including Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy, Lav Diaz’s Phantosmia, Andrea Arnold’s Bird, and many more. Join our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.comTimestamps:00:00:00 Intro00:03:17 Festival as a whole00:08:44 Baby00:10:25 Youth Trilogy00:15:47 Bel Ami00:17:50 Drug War00:20:09 Bird00:21:54 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre00:24:46 Man’s Castle00:27:58 Việt and Nam 00:31:24 Yalla Parkour00:36:09 Harvest00:38:55 Never Too Late00:40:04 Fire of Wind00:42:15 To Kill a Mongolian Horse00:44:10 Santosh00:45:41 I’m Still Here00:49:21 Bona00:53:08 Dreams (Sex Love)00:56:40 Misericordia00:58:38 The Botanist01:00:17 Seeds 01:02:05 Blue Sun Palace 01:04:58 On Becoming a Guinea Fowl01:06:22 Separated 01:09:04 Phantosmia 01:13:15 Outro

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• 100. Hirokazu Kore-eda: Still Walking

  Released as an exclusive Patreon post at the end of 2024, we’re now releasing this video podcast to publicly to commemorate ONE HUNDRED EPISODES! What a milestone. See you at 1000!  The summer of 2024 saw Ben, Wilson, and Eli all together in the same place for the first time in six years! To mark the momentous reunion, we recorded a special video episode. It's time to go all the way back to the start by revisiting the work of the podcast's first director, Hirokazu Kore-eda, with 2008's Still Walking. Learn about our history together, hear our musings on the complications of family, and watch as Wilson gets six pounds of blueberries.LinksBen’s video essay on Still WalkingWe’re still walking over at our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.comTimestamps00:00:00 Intro00:05:50 Plot summary00:07:25 General thoughts00:14:10 Gifting interlude00:24:53 Still Walking continued00:27:43 Story and characters00:37:01 Deliberate cinematography, use of space00:42:36 Food00:47:43 Non-judgmental filmmaking00:50:23 Melodrama?00:52:22 Yoshio scene00:54:15 Atsushi01:01:06 Blue Light Yokohama01:04:35 Tokyo Sonata comparisons01:06:10 Stealthy emotional narratives01:12:02 What does Kore-eda not show us?01:16:58 Best food, best outfit01:19:57 Closing thoughts01:25:29 Longest outro ever

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