Outskirts Film Podcast

For our season one finale, we dive into the blazing world of Filipino master Lino Brocka, a filmmaker whose furious, hothouse melodramas and searing social issue films feel every bit as lively and vital today as ever. From his unlikely path through poverty, missionary work, and theatre to a fiercely prolific film career under the Marcos regime, Brocka forged a politically charged cinema of desire,...

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

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 - a...

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 pr...

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 enigmati...

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 r...

The Outskirts Film Podcast will take your soul at midnight – that is, if you don’t listen to our new episode. This week we'll be discussing the very embodiment of evil: proud atheist, the biggest enemy of believers, the Brazilian master of the macabre in pursuit of the perfect bloodline – the one and only Zé do Caixão , also known as Coffin Joe! Follow us on Instagram / Letterboxd / Twitter /...

This week on the podcast we're talking about the founding father of Outskirts Film Magazine, a miraculous figure of Soviet cinema, the extraordinary Boris Barnet .  Alongside Hannah Yang, who curated the retrospective Boris Barnet: A Cinema Despite Life that's ongoing at Doc Films , we discuss a selection of his films, spanning from his early silent works to his late-career masterpieces....

We discuss the work of Joan Micklin Silver, best remembered as the pioneering writer-director behind Hester Street (1975), Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979), and Crossing Delancey (1988). Follow us on Instagram / Letterboxd / Twitter / Bluesky / Facebook Buy the magazine at our online shop .

This week on the podcast we're tackling the Italian Godfather of Gore, Lucio Fulci (1927-1996), weaving our way through more than a dozen films from his prolific career. We delve into classics like The Beyond (1981), Zombi 2 (1979), and City of the Living Dead (1980) to lesser known genre titles from the many nooks and crannies of a filmography that spans over four decades and 50 films. Follo...

For our second episode, we invited the entire Outskirts editorial team on the podcast to discuss some of our favourite films of the year, from discoveries from the past to new films circulating at festivals and in cinemas. Follow us on Instagram / Letterboxd / Twitter / Bluesky / Facebook Buy the magazine at our online shop . Films discussed in this episode: 28 Years Later 2025 After Dreaming 2025...

For the first episode of the Outskirts Film Podcast we’re tackling a beguiling artist who straddles the worlds of pornography and arthouse cinema, Polish-French filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk. Follow us on Instagram / Letterboxd / Twitter / Bluesky / Facebook Buy the magazine at our online shop .