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  • The seventh and final director interview Wilson conducted at this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival is with the legendary Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang. Wilson asks one of his cinematic heroes about the state of filmmaking today, his methods for working with actors, and his decades-long collaboration with Lee Kang-sheng.

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    Timestamps:

    00:00 intro

    03:42 What do you hope new audiences will take from your films?

    04:43 Rebels of the Neon god

    06:20 Tsai and realism

    07:35 The Hole

    09:30 Tsai’s childhood

    11:13 Theaters, streamers, and art museums

    13:24 Video art versus narrative cinema

    16:15 Fruits and vegetables (props and crops)

    17:40 Abandoned buildings

    19:27 Pacing and directing actors

    21:22 Working with Lee Kang-sheng

    22:35 Tsai’s Deep Cut picks

  • The sixth of seven (6-7!!!) director interviews Wilson conducted at this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival is with the British, experimental director Ben Rivers, creator of the child-focused, post-apocalyptic exploration Mare’s Nest. Rivers speaks about giving child actors the freedom to be themselves onscreen, receiving Don Delillo’s blessing to stage his play The Word for Snow in the film, and the intention behind his depiction of an adultless world.

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    Timestamps:

    00:00 Intro

    02:03 Interview begins

    03:32 Origins of Mare's Nest

    06:07 Don Delillo

    09:52 Children performing adult routines

    13:14 Documentary versus fiction

    19:09 Film-within-film

    22:06 Moon walks into the past

    25:02 Location filming

    28:48 SEA filmmakers

    31:25 Outro

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  • The fifth of seven director interviews Wilson conducted at this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival is with the thoughtfully impassioned Vladlena Sandu, director of the autobiographical drama Memory. Sandu shares her influences from Tarkovsky to Pajaranov, praises her collaborators on this film, how hypnotherapy helped her make this film, and her strong anti-war convictions.

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    Timestamps:

    00:00 Intro

    02:15 Interview starts

    04:03 Making Sandu happen

    07:47 Childhood trauma through film

    10:25 Personal truth

    17:34 Motifs and repetition

    23:48 Child actors

    30:14 Production design

    35:54 Influences: Tarkovsky, Parajanov, Pasolini

    40:19 Ending of the film

  • The fourth of seven director interviews Wilson conducted at this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival is with Edwin, director of the fantasy horror Sleep No More. Edwin shares his wide range of influences from Indonesian cinema history and beyond, speaks to his film’s commentary on labor rights, shares his own Deep Cut pick, and… shares a sing-along with Wilson?!

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    Timestamps:

    00:00 Intro

    04:04 Indoneisan horror film history

    07:30 Edwin's influences

    09:00 Indonesian politics and labor

    15:38 Scary scenes

    17:57 Casting

    20:34 Special effects

    23:12 Edwin's future horror

    24:39 Edwin's Deep Cut Pick

    25:57 Sing-along

  • The third of seven director interviews Wilson conducted at this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival is with the outgoing, reflective Ang Geck Geck, director of the semi-autobiographical childhood drama Ah Girl. Wilson connects with the Singaporean director over the long road to producing Ah Girl, the research with social workers that informed the script, the parts of her own childhood and family that are in the film, and her own Deep Cut Pick.

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    Timestamps:

    00:00 Intro

    02:32 Interview begins

    07:03 Research with social workers

    10:56 Child actors

    15:09 Language

    19:55 Personal history

    26:00 Ending of the film

    27:44 Next film

    28:53 Deep Cut Pick

    30:05 Outro

  • The second of seven director interviews Wilson conducted at this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival is with the thoughtful, patient Ildikó Enyedi, director of the equally thoughtful and patient Silent Friend. Wilson connects with the Hungarian director over her pensive approach to the natural world, the special place that HKIFF holds in her experience as a filmmaker, and her admiration of star Tony Leung… whose interview with Wilson is also at the end of this episode!

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    Timestamps:

    00:00 - Intro

    03:03 - Enyedi interview

    04:16 - Working with Tony Leung

    06:15 - Enyedi's relationship with trees

    07:32 - Academia and science

    09:36 - Intercutting timelines

    12:25 - Dreams, psychedelics, ecology

    15:02 - Production process

    17:08 - Casting a tree

    19:41 - Other Enyedi films

    21:34 - Further explorations

    23:13 - Enyedi's Deep Cut

    25:48 - Tony Leung Interview

    28:13 - Outro

  • The first of 7 director interviews Wilson conducted at this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival. Mary Stephen is a legend in world cinema, having worked as an editor for Éric Rohmer and Ann Hui, and being a celebrated film director in her own right. Wilson chats with Mary about her latest film, the personal documentary PALIMPSEST: THE STORY OF A NAME — its twisty narrative structure, its relationship to memory and family, and her deep ties to the city of Hong Kong. They also dig into her remarkable career as an editor, from switching between film and digital, to her creative collaborations with Rohmer, Ann Hui, and Jessey Tsang, and what she carries from that work into her own filmmaking.

    Links:

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    Timestamps:

    00:00 Introduction

    03:08 Mary presenting her film to Hong Kong audiences

    05:03 Palimpsest's twisty narrative

    07:04 How being an editor influenced her filmmaking

    08:25 Narration and narrative in the film

    10:27 Unused archive footage

    12:27 Mary's relationship with her family

    15:11 Mary’s relationship with Hong Kong

    17:33 Editing: Switching from film to digital

    19:20 Working with Eric Rohmer

    30:13 Collaborations with Ann Hui and Jessey Tsang

    35:41 Working with collaborators as a director herself

    38:43 Closing

  • Let’s, uh, frickin LOOK BACK at Marina De Van’s 2009 psychological thriller / body horror flick, Don’t Look Back. Sophie Marceau turns into Monica Bellucci; meanwhile, Eli tries to piece together the puzzle of De Van’s obscure career, Wilson notices the special effects, and Ben makes comparisons to soap operas.

    Links:

    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

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    Timestamps:

    00:00 Intro

    02:39 Introducing Don't Look Back

    05:21 General reactions

    15:17 Context

    17:55 Comparing with In My Skin

    21:59 What the heck is happening in this movie

    28:06 Performances

    31:34 De Van career arc

    33:52 De Van's filmmaking

    38:51 Wrapping up De Van... for now?

    42:20 Outro

  • 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

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    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

  • 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

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    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

  • “[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

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    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

  • 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

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    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

  • 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

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    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

  • 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.

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    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

  • 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.

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    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

  • 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.

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    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

  • Sorry Baby, but it’s One Battle After Another, as we clash and debate our favorite films of 2025! We’re covering obligatory mentions of the biggest films of the year and picking up our Weapons to dunk on some that we’re Regretting You watched.

    Which of these films will we look back on with strong Sentimental Value, 28 Years Later? Which are winners, which are Sinners?

    I’m afraid you’re going to have to Wake Up Dead Man from your Dreams (Sex Love), some might even call that a Resurrection, because you’ve got No Other Choice but to listen and find out.

    Links

    Wilson's Reviews: News from Home, Eat Drink Man Woman

    Ben's Reviews: Avatar: Fire and Ash, What Does That Nature Say to You

    Eli’s Sinners Review

    Ben’s Kinetoscope Piece: The Spirits in the Medium

    List: Full List of films discussed on Letterboxd

    List: Deep Cut’s Top 12 of 2025

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    Timestamps:

    00:00:00 Intro

    00:02:58 General 2025 thoughts

    00:12:08 Non-2025 gems

    00:16:22 2025 on Deep Cut

    00:20:16 Eli's fave Letterboxd reviews from Wilson and Ben

    00:21:46 Obligatory Mentions

    00:22:06 Marty Supreme dir. Josh Safdie

    00:24:08 The Secret Agent dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho

    00:25:44 Frankenstein dir. Guillermo del Toro

    00:28:38 Sentimental Value dir. Joachim Trier

    00:30:59 Hamnet dir. Chloé Zhao

    00:38:36 Hamnet spoiler

    00:40:27 If I Had Legs I'd Kick You dir. Mary Bronstein

    00:42:27 Bugonia dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

    00:44:13 Kpop Demon Hunters dir. Maggie Kang & Chris Appelhans

    00:46:55 Train Dreams dir. Clint Bentley

    00:48:49 Avatar: Fire and Ash dir. James Cameron

    00:54:30 Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning dir. Christopher McQuarrie

    00:56:48 Eddington dir. Ari Aster

    00:57:14 Wicked For Good dir. Jon M. Chu

    00:58:16 No Other Choice dir. Park Chan-wook

    00:59:48 Magellan and Phantosmia dir. Lav Diaz

    01:01:54 The Phoenician Scheme dir. Wes Anderson

    01:05:34 Weapons dir. Zach Cregger

    01:12:28 Materialists dir. Celine Song

    01:13:40 Materialists Spoiler

    01:18:02 Regretting You dir. Josh Boone

    01:19:38 Sirat dir. Oliver Laxe

    01:22:27 Sirat Spoiler

    01:25:41 Sirat Spoiler 2

    01:26:19 Deep Cut Upkeep Overview

    01:28:35 Honorable Mentions

    01:28:40 Viet and Nam dir. Truong Minh Quy

    01:29:14 Blue Moon dir. Richard Linklater

    01:30:25 Boys Go to Jupiter dir. Julian Glander

    01:31:04 Baby dir. Marcelo Caetano

    01:31:33 Nouvelle Vague dir. Richard Linklater

    01:32:48 Black Bag dir. Steven Soderbergh

    01:34:36 Cactus Pears dir. Rohan Kanawade

    01:35:35 Seaside Serendipity dir. Satoko Yokohama

    01:36:33 Sorry Baby dir. Eva Victor

    01:37:58 Misericordia dir. Alain Guiraudie

    01:39:06 Silent Friend dir. Ildikó Enyedi

    01:41:20 Caught by the Tides dir. Jia Zhangke

    01:42:48 Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk dir. Sepideh Farsi

    01:44:51 My Sunshine dir. Hiroshi Okuyama

    01:46:56 Superman dir. James Gunn

    01:48:52 100 METERS dir. Kenji Iwaisawa

    01:53:31 Reflection in a Dead Diamond dir. Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani

    01:54:28 Afternoons of Solitude dir. Albert Serra

    01:57:05 The Wedding Banquet dir. Andrew Ahn

    01:57:19 Top 5

    01:57:30 One Battle After Another dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

    02:05:57 Resurrection dir. Bi Gan

    02:07:51 Peter Hujar's Day dir. Ira Sachs

    02:12:19 Christmas Eve in Miller's Point dir. Tyler Taormina

    02:17:10 I'm Still Here dir. Walter Salles

    02:19:14 28 Years Later dir. Danny Boyle

    02:21:06 Dreams (Sex Love) dir. Dag Johan Haugerud

    02:25:37 Resurrection dir. Bi Gan

    02:26:29 Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery dir. Rian Johnson

    02:28:07 It Was Just an Accident dir. Jafar Panahi

    02:32:05 Cloud dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa

    02:33:32 Left-Handed Girl dir. Tsou Shih-Ching

    02:37:29 One Battle After Another dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

    02:40:04 Sinners dir. Ryan Coogler

    02:45:41 Outro

  • In this episode, we get into Ben’s favorite Hong film of all time, Yourself and Yours. If On The Beach At Night Alone is Hong’s first reflection on the scandalized reception to the reveal of his relationship with Kim Min-hee, Ben shares the theory that Yourself and Yours is secretly the one about its beginning.

    In our discussion, we try to pin down Minjung’s slippery personas, pick apart the film’s dream sequences, define the qualities of Hong’s surrealist and yet mundane approach, and ask, what does it take to be a Hong film that believes in love?

    Links:

    Yourself and Yours segmentation

    Inexplicable doppelganger list

    Hong Sang-soo Notarized: Yourself and Yours

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    Timestamps:

    00:00 Intro

    02:00 Film Intro

    04:05 General reactions

    09:12 AFA Post screening discussion

    11:45 Film context

    15:20 Structure / segmentation

    20:28 Doppelgangers and dreams

    26:06 Perception of Mnjung

    31:09 The ending

    33:47 Context in Hong’s career

    36:25 Ben’s favorite scene

    40:15 Parallel characters and Hong-isms

    46:00 Reflection on discussion

    53:45 Outro

  • What do Inception, Tim Robinson, Luis Buñuel, Woody Allen, and Chantal Akerman have in common? They all get compared to Hong Sang-soo’s On the Beach at Night Alone in this episode of Deep Cut! Listen on as we unpack the movie that’s loosely about Hong’s and Kim Min-hee’s career-changing relationship, digest more awkward dinner scenes, and discuss the merits of going to the beach in the winter.

    Links:

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    Timestamps:

    00:00 Intro

    02:31 General reactions

    08:00 Context / Hong+Kim relationship

    14:32 SG public opinion survey

    18:04 Hong Sang-soo's 'Inception'

    20:08 Hong Sang-soo / Tim Robinson

    21:43 Hong / Buñuel

    25:45 Hong not planning era

    27:17 Ryan Swen Notarized and dinner scene

    33:16 What to do with this movie?

    38:13 Hong's Chantal Akerman

    41:10 Hong as Woody Allen 😬

    43:35 Shape of this film

    46:43 Outro

  • Is traveling through Europe too expensive? Then hop aboard a train with the Deep Cut trio and Chantal Akerman for another sensitive, lightly autobiographical story of a surrogate character experiencing ennui and/or despair. Along the road trip, there’s sex, ‘70s outfits, and… windows. Ultimately, we struggle to decide: how well can we know Akerman through her work (or, for that matter, anyone)?

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    Timestamps:

    00:00 Intro

    03:46 Summary

    04:27 General reactions

    11:33 Jeanne Dielman vs The Meetings of Anna

    16:39 Mom and Akerman herself

    22:37 Plot sequence and Akerman’s subjectivity

    30:32 Other Akerman films

    34:20 Akerman and loneliness

    37:39 Ending

    40:12 Sex

    43:29 Singing