Buckle up Deep Cut fans! This week we have a special preview episode as Wilson got to sit down with director Ray Yeung to preview his new Berlinale premiering film All Shall Be Well, which is opening at Film Forum on September 20.

Ray discusses his jump from law to filmmaking, and returning to his native Hong Kong to make films about the lives of older gay and lesbian characters in Hong Kong. We dive in deep as we talk about Ray’s two features set in Hong Kong; Suk Suk and All Shall Be Well as well as talking about Ray’s own film influences.

Films/Directors Mentioned:

• Woody Allen
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1998)
• The Wedding Banquet (1993)
• Rouge (1987)
• The Way We Are (2008)
• Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)

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In this final Kiyoshi Kurosawa episode, Wilson brings to the table one of the latest films from the Japanese auteur; the Uzbekistan set To the Ends of the Earth. Ben draws parallels between this film and the work of Kelly Reichardt, and gives us an education on the importance of Atsuko Maeda and idol group AKB48. Eli zeroes in on Kurosawa’s commentary on the camera in this film, as we go behind the scenes of a Japanese travelogue crew abroad. Wilson continues his trend of vibing out with a film as he recounts how this rewatch deeply affected how he felt after losing his wallet.

Links:

• Natalie’s Letterboxd review of the film (thank you for following me back)

• Shaun Neo’s My Endless Numbered Days

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In this episode, we’re laughing and crying to the sweet melodies of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 2008 film Tokyo Sonata, and its social commentary on the Japanese nuclear family in the midst of a financial crisis.

We explore the film’s construction of a patriarchal nuclear family, discuss Kyoko Koizumi’s unique role as the mother of the family (taking care of all her boys), and go long on her wild narrative journey in the film’s second half with a surprising supporting actor… Eli finds parallels in Kurosawa’s choices with classic films like King Vidor’s The Crowd and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Wilson highlights Kurosawa’s selective cinematographic change-ups, and Ben shares some behind the scenes discoveries of the film’s making.

Links:

• Behind the scenes DVD feature

• NYFF Q&A with Kiyoshi Kurosawa

• Interview with Kiyoshi Kurosawa and actors Teruyuki Kagawa and Kyoko Koizumi

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Unlock the forbidden recording room with Wilson, Ben and Eli as the trio unpack Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 2001 ghost film Pulse. Eli explains his love for his deep cut pick of a film that breaks its own rules and complicates its horror elements. Wilson zeroes in on his love for Kurosawa’s use of space and production design to bring on a feeling of despair for viewers. Ben heralds Kurosawa as a prophet of how computer usage makes us feel in our current era.

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In the first of our deep cut picks for our Kiyoshi Kurosawa series, Ben introduces the others to Kurosawa’s License to Live (1998) because he really needed to talk to somebody after a stunning ending. Eli digs into the film’s comedic sensibilities, finding similarities with fellow Japanese director Takeshi Kitano, while Wilson finds himself “so sad” contending with Kurosawa’s trend of nihilism across his body of work. By the end of the episode we ask ourselves: what does it mean to have lived “enough”?

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Links:

• Ben’s Letterboxd review of License to Live
• Kurosawa Interview about his double feature choices at the 2014 Entrevues Belfort Int’l Film Festival

Game. Set. Match. The boys tackle the hottest movie of the season and kick off a Luca Guadagnino series with our review of his latest film CHALLENGERS. This episode (recorded pre BRAT) sees Eli comparing Guadagnino to the iconic Charli XCX, Wilson explaining how all roads that lead to Challengers also lead to his own life, and Ben saying he wants to play tennis because “I love my bro and his wife”.

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Links:

• Luca Guadagnino on Indiewire’s Filmmaker Toolkit Podcast
• Justin Kuritzkes on the No Challenges Remaining Podcast
• Merissa Lombardo on the Art Hyphen Podcast
• Ben’s BIG FACE Letterboxd List
• Eli's essay on Suspiria

The Oscars may tell us Hollywood’s popular picks, but what about the… Deep Cut picks? Deep Cut’s 2023 in Review is ready to give the last word on yesteryear’s best in motion pictures. Tune in for debates on the year’s biggest hits and hot takes on the year’s shabbiest flops. It all culminates in Wilson, Ben, and Eli’s top three favorites of the year…

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Alphabetical list of all films mentioned in our 2023 in Review and their directors: A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang) A Holy Family (Elvis Lu) Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet) Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (Kelly Fremon Craig) Barbie (Greta Gerwig) Beau is Afraid (Ari Aster) Blackberry (Matthew Johnson) Blue Giant (Yuzuru Tachikawa) Close (Lukas Dhont) Closing Time (Russell Goldman) Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Radu Jude) Elegies (Ann Hui) Evil Does Not Exist (Ryusuke Hamaguchi) How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber) Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese) Knock at the Cabin (M. Night Shayamalan) Kokomo City (D. Smith) May December (Todd Haynes) Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros (Frederick Wiseman) Monster (Hirokazu Kore-eda) No Bears (Jafar Panahi) Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan) Passages (Ira Sachs) Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos) Ponniyin Selvan: II (Mani Ratnam) Return to Seoul (Davy Chou) Rye Lane (Raine Allen Miller) Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt) Skinamarink (Kyle Edward Ball) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson) Sparta (Ulrich Seidl) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Jeff Rowe) The Eight Mountains (Felix Van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch) The Taste of Things (Tran Anh Hung) The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer) They Cloned Tyrone (Juel Taylor) Tótem (Lila Aviles)