Outskirts Film Podcast

#016 - Hardcore Auteurism: The Films of Gerard Damiano

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

#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 fe

#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 laun

#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 rep

#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 mo

#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 untime

#010 - Santo and Outskirts vs. The Evil Cinema Canon

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 unqu

#009 - The Indecent Desires of Doris Wishman

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 filmmak

#008 - Meiko Kaji and the Age of Delinquents and Assassins

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

#007 - The Many Seasons of Hiroshi Shimizu (feat. David Phelps)

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

#006 - The Hallucinations and Bloody Exorcisms of Zé do Caixão

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 ev

#005 - Boris Barnet at the Outskirts (feat. Hannah Yang)

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. 

#004 - Pocketful of Miracles: The Films of Joan Micklin Silver

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 De

#003 - Lucio Fulci: Zombies, Bad Vibes & Beyond

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 car

#002 - The Best Films We Saw in 2025

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 t

#001 - Walerian Borowczyk Gone Wild

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