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.

We've covered movies from Hirokazu Kore-eda, Agnes Varda, Éric Rohmer, Kelly Reichardt, Wong Kar-wai, S.S. Rajamouli, Bong Joon-ho, and many more!

 

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Deep Cut Pick

Deep Cut Pick

060. Miranda July: Me and You and Everyone We Know

We continue our journey through Miranda July's filmography with her debut feature, Me and You and Everyone We Know.

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February 21st, 2023
Deep Cut Pick Guest

050. S. S. Rajamouli: Eega (featuring Thanmye Lagudu)

How does the king of beeg cinema go small? Trick question, he don’t! Small in scope but still big on imagination, we’re (mostly) abuzz with praise for Wilson’s Deep Cut pick for Rajamouli, 2012’s Eega.

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July 31st, 2022
Deep Cut Pick

048. Abderrahmane Sissako: Waiting for Happiness & Life on Earth

Deep Cut rounds out its study of Malian/Mauritanian master director Abderrahmane Sissako with his first two fiction features: Life on Earth (1998) and Waiting for Happiness (2002).

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June 29th, 2022
Deep Cut Pick

047. Abderrahmane Sissako: Bamako

Abderrahmane Sissako sets his late father’s backyard as a courtroom for the injustices of economic neocolonialism in his 2006 drama Bamako, our second of three forays into the work of the Malian/Mauritanian master director.

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June 21st, 2022
Deep Cut Pick

043. Wong Kar-wai: 2046

Welcome to 2046: a place that you can never leave, and an era in Wong Kar-wai’s filmography that will never return.

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May 17th, 2022
Deep Cut Pick Popular Pick

042. Wong Kar-wai: In The Mood for Love

We enter the forlorn, romantic world of Wong Kai-wai’s most critically acclaimed film: In the Mood for Love (2000), starring the incomparable Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung.

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May 1st, 2022
Deep Cut Pick

041. Wong Kar-wai: Happy Together

“Let’s start over” with Eli’s Deep Cut Pick from the filmography of arthouse legend Wong Kar-wai, Happy Together (1997).

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April 23rd, 2022
Deep Cut Pick

034. The Wachowskis: Bound

On the season 2 finale of Deep Cut, the Wachowskis stage a heist to steal the DC Three's hearts with their directorial debut, Bound (1996).

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January 2nd, 2022
Deep Cut Pick

032. Todd Haynes: Far From Heaven

Come one, come all to the Sirk Du Soleil as the Deep Cut trio discusses Todd Hayne’s Far From Heaven.

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December 5th, 2021
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