Deep Cut: A Film Podcast

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