哈囉 from Hong Kong! Wilson recaps a busy edition of the Hong Kong International Film Festival, including meeting and interviewing the one and only Tony Leung Chiu Wai for SILENT FRIEND. Wilson also chats about the seven(!) soon to come director interviews he conducted for the podcast, and some interesting classic films shown at this year’s edition of HKIFF. The trio also discuss some exciting new releases including new films from Hong Sang-soo, Carla Simon, and Anthony Chen.

Links:

Tony Leung Interview

The Blade Video Essay

Radu Jude on Hong reel

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Timestamps:

00:00:00: Intro

00:07:34 Meeting Tony Leung

00:14:23 Silent Friend (2025) dir. Ildiko Enyedi

00:16:27 Sleep No More (2026) dir. Edwin

00:20:04 Ah Girl (2026) dir. Ang Geck Geck

00:23:33 Memory (2025) dir. Vladlena Sandu

00:30:48 Palimpsest: The Story of a Name (2025) dir. Mary Stephen

00:36:37 Mare’s Nest (2025) dir. Ben Rivers

00:39:40 Vive L’amour (1994) dir. Tsai Ming Liang

00:43:48 Panelstory or Birth of a Community (1981) dir. Věra Chytilová

00:45:54 Ah Ying (1983) dir. Allen Fong

00:49:13 The Horse Thief (1986)dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang

00:51:03 Unknown Pleasures (2002) dir. Jia Zhangke

00:53:30 Days and Nights in the Forest (1970) dir. Satyajit Ray

00:54:55 Final Victory (1987) dir. Patrick Tam

00:59:20 We Are All Strangers (2026) dir. Anthony Chen

01:06:37 We’re Nothing at All (2026) dir. Herman Yau

01:10:40 My Father’s Shadow (2025) dir. Akinola Davies Jr.

01:11:45 The Day She Returns (2026) dir. Hong Sang Soo

01:18:20 Magellan (2025) dir. Lav Diaz

01:22:15 Romeria (2025) dir. Carla Simon

01:24:40 The Voice of Hind Rijab (2025) dir. Kaouther Ben Hania

01:27:50 Writing Life – Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students (2025) dir. Claire Simon

01:31:00 Blue Heron (2025) dir. Sophy Romvari

01:36:00 The Drama (2026) dir. Kristoffer Borgli

01:40:15 Outro

“[Reichardt] makes you love these dicks.” – Wilson

How on earth does she do that? Does she have the mind of a master? Join us as we find out how Reichardt’s idiosyncratic style in The Mastermind helps you love this one dick despite all the hairy situations he’s entangled in. We debate the film’s reception during the AMC secret screening debacle, Reichardt's constantly zagging career, and her place in the American cinema landscape amidst dwindling cultural literacy.

Links:

Filmstage interviewMind of a master video

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

05:18 General reactions

13:55 The ending

19:28 Reichardt films and public reactions

28:19 Parts we liked about the movie

32:24 Josh O’Connor

36:03 More on the public’s reaction

44:16 Alana Haim

49:51 Outro

After an 8-year hiatus, Lynne Ramsay has returned with her latest feature, Die My Love, and we're here to keep up with the Scottish auteur!

After an 8-year hiatus, Lynne Ramsay has returned with her latest feature, Die My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. On this Deep Cut Upkeep episode, we find out if it was worth the wait and consider what’s next for the Scottish auteur. Eli helps define the subgenre of “mommy horror,” Ben questions the depth of the movie’s characters, and Wilson draws comparisons to Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch and Darren Aronofsky’s Mother!.

Links:

Kelsey E. Henry, “Monstrous Motherhood” from The Point

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
03:30 General reactions
14:03 Maternal madness pictures
19:14 Linearity
22:19 Why Ramsay for this film
26:02 Comparing with Ramsay's other works
28:31 A good trailer
29:58 The ending
32:07 Mommy horror
40:34 "A crazy love story"
44:26 Last words / outro