Outskirts Film Podcast

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 / FacebookBuy 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 / FacebookBuy 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 / FacebookBuy 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 / FacebookBuy 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 / FacebookBuy 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 / FacebookBuy 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 / FacebookBuy 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 / FacebookBuy 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 / FacebookBuy 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 / FacebookBuy the magazine at our online shop.Films discussed in this episode:28 Years Later 2025After Dreaming 2025Bacchanale 1970Beauty Knows No Pain 1972Deathstalker 2025dedonde son loscantantes 2025Diary of a School Teacher 1973Dry Leaf 2025Good Valley Stories 2025La Fiesta Electoral 1992La limace et l’escargot 2024Maître Galip 1964Miracle Mile 1988Mother and Daughter, or the Night Is Never Complete 2023The Night Is Fading Away 2025Remake 2025So Small 2025Some Interviews on Personal Matters 1978Two Acres of Land 1953Under 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 / FacebookBuy the magazine at our online shop.