Deep Cut 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: Wilson Lai, Benjamin Yap, and Eli Sands.

 

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Deep Cut Pick

100: Hirokazu Kore-eda: Still Walking

Released as an exclusive Patreon post at the end of 2024, we’re now releasing this video podcast on Kore-eda's Still Walking publicly to commemorate ONE HUNDRED EPISODES! What a milestone. See you at 1000!

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May 18th, 2025
Deep Cut Pick

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.

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August 24th, 2025
Popular Pick

107. Chantal Akerman: Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

We tackle Chantal Akerman’s Sight and Sound topping Jeanne Dielman, and begin our series on her singular career.

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August 10th, 2025
Deep Cut Upkeep

106. Pablo Larrain: Maria

After a rocky relationship between Deep Cut and Mr. Pablo Larrain, we come back to Maria: the final film in Larrain’s “important 20th century white women” trilogy (as Ben describes it).

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July 27th, 2025
Deep Cut Pick

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, with Night and Day!

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July 13th, 2025
Deep Cut Pick

104. Hong Sang-soo: Woman on the Beach

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.

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June 29th, 2025
Deep Cut Upkeep

103. Luca Guadagnino: Queer

On this episode of Deep Cut Upkeep we step into 1950s Mexico City and dive into the lush world of Luca Guadagnino’s Queer.

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June 22nd, 2025
Deep Cut Pick

102. Kelly Reichardt: Meek’s Cutoff

As voted for on our Patreon, we return to Kelly Reichardt with her 2010 Western, Meek’s Cutoff.

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June 8th, 2025
Festival Dispatches

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.

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May 26th, 2025
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