Outskirts Film Podcast

Lusty wolves, sadistic squirrels, neurotic pigs… This week on the podcast, we're diving into the gleefully deranged universe of Tex Avery. If it was Disney who built the church of animation, it was Avery who spent his whole career slinging eggs at it. As a creative force, Tex Avery didn't care about character, didn't care about plot, didn't even really care about the rules of cinematic continuity. He cared about one thing and one thing only: landing the laff. We trace the evolution of this legendary cartoon-maker from his formative years at Warner Brothers to his golden years at MGM, cataloguing his career-long (mis)treatment of bodies and plot premises as disposable and fungible. With this episode, we try to map the contours of Tex Avery's rich and strange cinematic universe. Follow us on Instagram / Letterboxd / Twitter / Bluesky / Facebook Buy the magazine at our online shop .

As we kick off our second season, we're tackling the bizarre and beguiling career of the filmmaker who built one of hardcore cinema's most serious and ambitious bodies of work. A Navy veteran and Queens hairdresser turned director, Gerard Damiano is regrettably best remembered today for the adult film that became a controversial cultural touchstone of the 1970s, Deep Throat (1972). But across the so-called "porno chic" boom of that decade and into the '80s, Damiano produced a run of loungey, varied, formally daring films that we talk through in this episode: Devil in Miss Jones (1973), Memories Within Miss Aggie (1974), The Story of Joanna (1975), and Let My Puppets Come (1976), as well as his own... loose "adaptation" of Homer's The Odyssey ... 1977's Odyssey: The Ultimate Trip . These films and others feature a recurring troupe of performers — Harry Reems, Georgina Spelvin, Jamie Gillis, Annie Sprinkle — and when seen together suggest the serious-minded aspirations of this remarkable X-rated artist. In this first episode of the second season, we trace the throughlines of the man’s quixotic oeuvre, still sadly little explored, despite the best efforts of scholars and restorers, outside that one famous, challenging title. Follow us on Instagram / Letterboxd / Twitter / Bluesky / Facebook Buy the magazine at our online shop .

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, exploitation, and resistance that still isn’t nearly as widely seen in the West as it should be. We also have a live segment of the podcast coming to you directly from Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, where a new restoration of Brocka's early masterpiece Weighed But Found Wanting is premiering in a dazzling new restoration. Follow us on Instagram / Letterboxd / Twitter / Bluesky / Facebook Buy the magazine at our online shop .

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 craft. Follow us on Instagram / Letterboxd / Twitter / Bluesky / Facebook Buy the magazine at our online shop .

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. Follow us on Instagram / Letterboxd / Twitter / Bluesky / Facebook Buy the magazine at our online shop .

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 be discovered. Follow us on Instagram / Letterboxd / Twitter / Bluesky / Facebook Buy the magazine at our online shop .

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 / Letterboxd / Twitter / Bluesky / Facebook Buy the magazine at our online shop .

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 our online shop .

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 Buy the magazine at our online shop .

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. As Japan Society kicks off a full-blown retrospective of her work on March 27, we’re celebrating Meiko Kaji’s powerful screen presence. Follow us on Instagram / Letterboxd / Twitter / Bluesky / Facebook Buy the magazine at our online shop .

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 Instagram / Letterboxd / Twitter / Bluesky / Facebook Buy the magazine at our online shop .

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 / Bluesky / Facebook Buy the magazine at our online shop .

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. Follow us on Instagram / Letterboxd / Twitter / Bluesky / Facebook Buy the magazine at our online shop .

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. Follow us on Instagram / Letterboxd / Twitter / Bluesky / Facebook Buy the magazine at our online shop .

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 Bacchanale 1970 Beauty Knows No Pain 1972 Deathstalker 2025 dedonde son loscantantes 2025 Diary of a School Teacher 1973 Dry Leaf 2025 Good Valley Stories 2025 La Fiesta Electoral 1992 La limace et l’escargot 2024 Maître Galip 1964 Miracle Mile 1988 Mother and Daughter, or the Night Is Never Complete 2023 The Night Is Fading Away 2025 Remake 2025 So Small 2025 Some Interviews on Personal Matters 1978 Two Acres of Land 1953 Under the Flag of the Rising Sun 1972

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 .