Explore every episode of the podcast Outskirts Film Podcast
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| #001 - Walerian Borowczyk Gone Wild | 08 Dec 2025 | 00:50:50 | |
For the first episode of the Outskirts Film Podcast weâre 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 | |||
| #002 - The Best Films We Saw in 2025 | 24 Dec 2025 | 01:00:39 | |
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:
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| #003 - Lucio Fulci: Zombies, Bad Vibes & Beyond | 08 Jan 2026 | 01:20:42 | |
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. Follow us on Instagram / Letterboxd / Twitter / Bluesky / Facebook | |||
| #004 - Pocketful of Miracles: The Films of Joan Micklin Silver | 22 Jan 2026 | 01:04:58 | |
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 | |||
| #005 - Boris Barnet at the Outskirts (feat. Hannah Yang) | 05 Feb 2026 | 01:11:22 | |
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.
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| #006 - The Hallucinations and Bloody Exorcisms of ZĂ© do CaixĂŁo | 19 Feb 2026 | 01:04:21 | |
The Outskirts Film Podcast will take your soul at midnight â that is, if you donât 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 â the one and only ZĂ© do CaixĂŁo, also known as Coffin Joe!
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| #007 - The Many Seasons of Hiroshi Shimizu (feat. David Phelps) | 05 Mar 2026 | 01:20:11 | |
This week on the podcast, the Outskirts team explores the still-underappreciated Japanese master Hiroshi Shimizuâs versatile body of workâranging 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 LetorĂ©, we journey through Shimizuâs filmography just as ArigatĆ-san roams the Izu Peninsulaâwith a joyful sense of discovery in each encounter.
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| #008 - Meiko Kaji and the Age of Delinquents and Assassins | 19 Mar 2026 | 00:59:09 | |
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 eraâs most exemplary films. As Japan Society kicks off a full-blown retrospective of her work on March 27, weâre celebrating Meiko Kajiâs powerful screen presence. Follow us on Instagram / Letterboxd / Twitter / Bluesky / Facebook | |||
| #009 - The Indecent Desires of Doris Wishman | 02 Apr 2026 | 01:29:09 | |
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, we enjoy talking about her masterpieces with pleasure and no guilt whatsoever. Follow us on Instagram / Letterboxd / Twitter / Bluesky / Facebook | |||
| #010 - Santo and Outskirts vs. The Evil Cinema Canon | 16 Apr 2026 | 01:28:02 | |
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 | |||
| #011 - Edward Yang's Confucian Confusions | 30 Apr 2026 | 01:11:10 | |
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 Yangâs seven filmsâdrifting through Taipeiâs glass office towers and bustling streets, tracing lives caught between intimacy and urban alienationâand set out in search of our own path through these dazzling formal labyrinths. Follow us on Instagram / Letterboxd / Twitter / Bluesky / Facebook | |||
| #012 - Atıf Yılmaz: The Great Journeyman of Turkish Cinema | 14 May 2026 | 01:09:28 | |
This week, Outskirts Film Podcast ventures into the catalogue of one of Turkeyâs 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 be discovered. Follow us on Instagram / Letterboxd / Twitter / Bluesky / Facebook | |||
| #013 - Jocelyne Saabâs Cinema of Ruins and Resistance | 28 May 2026 | 00:55:17 | |
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 grappled, often imperfectly, with the question of how images can bear witness to and carry traces of living history.
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| #014 - Poetry of Depravity: A Deep Dive into Nikkatsu Roman Porno | 11 Jun 2026 | 01:09:38 | |
Wet lovers, sex hunters, tattooed flowers, feline nights⊠This week on the podcast, we're tackling Nikkatsu's Roman Porno lineâthe 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 craft.
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