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A podcast about cult movies, experimental film, popular cinema, and everything in between. Hosted by Alonso Aguilar, Christopher Small, and Öykü Sofuoğlu and featuring regular appearances by the whole Outskirts team as well as other guests.
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- 6 days ago1h 9m
#014 - Poetry of Depravity: A Deep Dive into Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Wet lovers, sex hunters, tattooed flowers, feline nights… This week on the podcast, we're tackling Nikkatsu's Roman Porno line—the cinematic desire machine launched by one of Japan's oldest and most prestigious studios, which produced more than 800 softcore erotic films in the 1970s and 1980s. Operating under a set of rules that both constrained and contributed to artistic freedom, Roman Porno allowed many young and ambitious filmmakers, screenwriters, and cinematographers to develop their cr...
- 2 weeks ago55 min
#013 - Jocelyne Saab’s Cinema of Ruins and Resistance
On the podcast this week, we're talking about Jocelyne Saab, a pivotal figure in the history of Lebanese cinema, whose pioneering work shifted between television reportage, documentary, ripped-from-the headlines popular cinema, photography, and gallery work across a career shaped by Beirut and the Lebanese Civil War. Her early films captured this upheaval, the Palestinian liberation struggle, and other crucial regional political happenings of the time with rare immediacy, while her later work...
- May 14, 20261h 9m
#012 - Atıf Yılmaz: The Great Journeyman of Turkish Cinema
This week, Outskirts Film Podcast ventures into the catalogue of one of Turkey’s most prolific filmmakers, Atıf Yılmaz. A journeyman filmmaker to the bone, Yılmaz made more than a hundred films, ranging from melodramas and historical epics to musicals and psychological character studies. Through a selection of films that exemplify different periods and trends within his five-decade-long career, we only scratch the surface of his convoluted filmography, with numerous other films remaining to b...
- Apr 30, 20261h 11m
#011 - Edward Yang's Confucian Confusions
One of the undeniable masters of 1980s and 1990s cinema, Taiwanese filmmaker Edward Yang has only grown in stature since premiering Yi Yi at Cannes in 2000 and his untimely death in 2007. This week on the Outskirts Film Podcast, we revisit Yang’s seven films—drifting through Taipei’s glass office towers and bustling streets, tracing lives caught between intimacy and urban alienation—and set out in search of our own path through these dazzling formal labyrinths. Follow us on Instagram / Lett...
- Apr 16, 20261h 28m
#010 - Santo and Outskirts vs. The Evil Cinema Canon
This week on the Outskirts Film Podcast, we slip on the silver mask and enter the gloriously low-budget universe of El Santo, eternal protector of Mexican cinema and unquestionably the greatest luchador-film star of all time. Spooky castles, mad scientists, mind-controlled zombies, sexy vampire women, and bravura international art heists: a whole, wide world of Santo - folk poet of lucha libre - awaits you. Follow us on Instagram / Letterboxd / Twitter / Bluesky / Facebook Buy the magazine at...
- Apr 2, 20261h 29m
#009 - The Indecent Desires of Doris Wishman
This week on the podcast, Outskirts team peeps through the keyhole into the unabashedly salacious cinema of sexploitation queen Doris Wishman. A late-bloomer as a filmmaker, Wishman first became famous with her nudie-cuties in the early sixties. Parallel to the shifting morals in American entertainment industry, her cinema got rougher, tougher and politically dubious than ever. As Doris herself probably watches us Wishmaniacs with utter disinterest and disbelief from above, in dildo heaven, w...
- Mar 19, 202659 min
#008 - Meiko Kaji and the Age of Delinquents and Assassins
Ferocious, captivating, rebellious, and impossible to forget, Meiko Kaji is an enduring icon of Japanese exploitation cinema. This week on the Outskirts Film Podcast, we dive headfirst into her world of tattooed yakuza and knife-fighting prisoners, discuss her classic songs and struggle to describe icy stares that make blood cold. From girl gang boss to vengeful assassin, Kaji defined the enigmatic heroine of 1970s Japanese cinema and starred in a half dozen of the era’s most exemplary films....
- Mar 5, 20261h 20m
#007 - The Many Seasons of Hiroshi Shimizu (feat. David Phelps)
This week on the podcast, the Outskirts team explores the still-underappreciated Japanese master Hiroshi Shimizu’s versatile body of work—ranging from lyrical tapestries of the countryside to neo-realist postwar films. Joined by David Phelps, who penned a comprehensive essay on the filmmaker in Issue 3, and our co-editor Nathan Letoré, we journey through Shimizu’s filmography just as Arigatō-san roams the Izu Peninsula—with a joyful sense of discovery in each encounter. Follow us on Instagra...
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A podcast about cult movies, experimental film, popular cinema, and everything in between. Hosted by Alonso Aguilar, Christopher Small, and Öykü Sofuoğlu and featuring regular appearances by the whole Outskirts team as well as other guests.
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