Outskirts Film Podcast

#015 - Lino Brocka in the Claws of Melodrama

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 [https://www.instagram.com/outskirtsfilmmag/] / Letterboxd [https://letterboxd.com/outskirtsmag/] / Twitter [https://x.com/OutskirtsMag] / Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/outskirtsmag.bsky.social] / Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/OutskirtsMag] Buy the magazine at our online shop [https://outskirtsmag.com/Shop].

#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 craft. Follow us on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/outskirtsfilmmag/] / Letterboxd [https://letterboxd.com/outskirtsmag/] / Twitter [https://x.com/OutskirtsMag] / Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/outskirtsmag.bsky.social] / Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/OutskirtsMag] Buy the magazine at our online shop [https://outskirtsmag.com/Shop].

#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 grappled, often imperfectly, with the question of how images can bear witness to and carry traces of living history. Follow us on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/outskirtsfilmmag/] / Letterboxd [https://letterboxd.com/outskirtsmag/] / Twitter [https://x.com/OutskirtsMag] / Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/outskirtsmag.bsky.social] / Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/OutskirtsMag] Buy the magazine at our online shop [https://outskirtsmag.com/Shop].

#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 be discovered. Follow us on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/outskirtsfilmmag/] / Letterboxd [https://letterboxd.com/outskirtsmag/] / Twitter [https://x.com/OutskirtsMag] / Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/outskirtsmag.bsky.social] / Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/OutskirtsMag] Buy the magazine at our online shop [https://outskirtsmag.com/Shop].

#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 [https://www.instagram.com/outskirtsfilmmag/] / Letterboxd [https://letterboxd.com/outskirtsmag/] / Twitter [https://x.com/OutskirtsMag] / Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/outskirtsmag.bsky.social] / Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/OutskirtsMag] Buy the magazine at our online shop [https://outskirtsmag.com/Shop].