Deep Cut: A Film Podcast

Writer, film curator, and leading Hong Sang-soo scholar Dennis Lim brings a personal favorite from Hong’s oeuvre–– 2022’s The Novelist’s Film–– to Deep Cut. As the DC trio and their esteemed guest enjoy the luxuriate in Hong’s complex, joyous depiction of collaborating artists-in-exile, Dennis shares his background with Hong, this film’s shape, and the model Hong sets for young, independent filmmakers.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:08 Introducing guest
03:47 Lim's background with Hong
11:15 DC trio's current thoughts on Hong
15:41 Why the Novelist's Film / general reactions
26:13 Hong's regular actors
28:04 Formal discussion
38:33 Shapes
41:16 Lee Hye-young
46:25 Ha song-guk
47:06 Waste, exile, potential
50:19 Hong's business, life, and art model (good for young filmmakers)
55:53 Outro

Sorry Baby, but it’s One Battle After Another, as we clash and debate our favorite films of 2025! We’re covering obligatory mentions of the biggest films of the year and picking up our Weapons to dunk on some that we’re Regretting You watched. 
Which of these films will we look back on with strong Sentimental Value, 28 Years Later? Which are winners, which are Sinners? 
I’m afraid you’re going to have to Wake Up Dead Man from your Dreams (Sex Love), some might even call that a Resurrection, because you’ve got No Other Choice but to listen and find out.
Links
Wilson Reviews: News from Home, Eat Drink Man Woman
Ben Reviews: Avatar: Fire and Ash, What Does That Nature Say to You 
Eli’s Sinners Review
Ben’s Kinetoscope Piece: The Spirits in the Medium
List: Full List of films discussed on Letterboxd
List: Deep Cut’s Top 12 of 2025
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:58 General 2025 thoughts
00:12:08 Non-2025 gems
00:16:22 2025 on Deep Cut
00:20:16 Eli's fave Letterboxd reviews from Wilson and Ben
00:21:46 Obligatory Mentions
00:22:06 Marty Supreme dir. Josh Safdie
00:24:08 The Secret Agent dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
00:25:44 Frankenstein dir. Guillermo del Toro
00:28:38 Sentimental Value dir. Joachim Trier
00:30:59 Hamnet dir. Chloé Zhao
00:38:36 Hamnet spoiler
00:40:27 If I Had Legs I'd Kick You dir. Mary Bronstein
00:42:27 Bugonia dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
00:44:13 Kpop Demon Hunters dir. Maggie Kang & Chris Appelhans
00:46:55 Train Dreams dir. Clint Bentley
00:48:49 Avatar: Fire and Ash dir. James Cameron
00:54:30 Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning dir. Christopher McQuarrie
00:56:48 Eddington dir. Ari Aster
00:57:14 Wicked For Good dir. Jon M. Chu
00:58:16 No Other Choice dir. Park Chan-wook
00:59:48 Magellan and Phantosmia dir. Lav Diaz
01:01:54 The Phoenician Scheme dir. Wes Anderson
01:05:34 Weapons dir. Zach Cregger
01:12:28 Materialists dir. Celine Song
01:13:40 Materialists Spoiler
01:18:02 Regretting You dir. Josh Boone
01:19:38 Sirat dir. Oliver Laxe
01:22:27 Sirat Spoiler
01:25:41 Sirat Spoiler 2
01:26:19 Deep Cut Upkeep Overview
01:28:40 Viet and Nam dir. Trương Minh Quý
01:28:40 Honorable Mentions
01:29:14 Blue Moon dir. Richard Linklater
01:30:25 Boys Go to Jupiter dir. Julian Glander
01:31:04 Baby dir. Marcelo Caetano
01:31:33 Nouvelle Vague dir. Richard Linklater
01:32:48 Black Bag dir. Steven Soderbergh
01:34:36 Cactus Pears dir. Rohan Kanawade
01:35:35 Seaside Serendipity dir. Satoko Yokohama
01:36:33 Sorry Baby dir. Eva Victor
01:37:58 Misericordia dir. Alain Guiraudie
01:39:06 Silent Friend dir. Ildikó Enyedi
01:41:20 Caught by the Tides dir. Jia Zhangke
01:42:48 Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk dir. Sepideh Farsi
01:44:51 My Sunshine dir. Hiroshi Okuyama
01:46:56 Superman dir. James Gunn
01:48:52 100 METERS dir. Kenji Iwaisawa
01:53:31 Reflection in a Dead Diamond dir. Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani
01:54:28 Afternoons of Solitude dir. Albert Serra
01:57:05 The Wedding Banquet dir. Andrew Ahn
01:57:19 Top 5
01:57:30 One Battle After Another dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
02:05:57 Resurrection dir. Bi Gan
02:07:51 Peter Hujar's Day dir. Ira Sachs
02:12:19 Christmas Eve in Miller's Point dir. Tyler Taormina
02:17:10 I'm Still Here dir. Walter Salles
02:19:14 28 Years Later dir. Danny Boyle
02:21:06 Dreams (Sex Love) dir. Dag Johan Haugerud
02:25:37 Resurrection dir. Bi Gan
02:26:29 Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery dir. Rian Johnson
02:28:07 It Was Just an Accident dir. Jafar Panahi
02:32:05 Cloud dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
02:33:32 Left-Handed Girl dir. Tsou Shih-Ching 
02:37:29 One Battle After Another dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
02:40:04 Sinners dir. Ryan Coogler
02:45:41 Outro

In this episode, we get into Ben’s favorite Hong film of all time, Yourself and Yours. If On The Beach At Night Alone is Hong’s first reflection on the scandalized reception to the reveal of his relationship with Kim Min-hee, Ben shares the theory that Yourself and Yours is secretly the one about its beginning. 
In our discussion, we try to pin down Minjung’s slippery personas, pick apart the film’s dream sequences, define the qualities of Hong’s surrealist and yet mundane approach, and ask, what does it take to be a Hong film that believes in love?
Links:
Yourself and Yours segmentation
Inexplicable doppelganger list
Hong Sang-soo Notarized: Yourself and Yours
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:00 Film Intro
04:05 General reactions
09:12 AFA Post screening discussion 
11:45 Film context
15:20 Structure / segmentation
20:28 Doppelgangers and dreams
26:06 Perception of Mnjung
31:09 The ending
33:47 Context in Hong’s career
36:25 Ben’s favorite scene
40:15 Parallel characters and Hong-isms
46:00 Reflection on discussion
53:45 Outro

What do Inception, Tim Robinson, Luis Buñuel, Woody Allen, and Chantal Akerman have in common? They all get compared to Hong Sang-soo’s On the Beach at Night Alone in this episode of Deep Cut! Listen on as we unpack the movie that’s loosely about Hong’s and Kim Min-hee’s career-changing relationship, digest more awkward dinner scenes, and discuss the merits of going to the beach in the winter.
Links:
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:31 General reactions
08:00 Context / Hong+Kim relationship
14:32 SG public opinion survey
18:04 Hong Sang-soo's 'Inception'
20:08 Hong Sang-soo / Tim Robinson
21:43 Hong / Buñuel
25:45 Hong not planning era
27:17 Ryan Swen Notarized and dinner scene
33:16 What to do with this movie?
38:13 Hong's Chantal Akerman
41:10 Hong as Woody Allen 😬 
43:35 Shape of this film
46:43 Outro

Is traveling through Europe too expensive? Then hop aboard a train with the Deep Cut trio and Chantal Akerman for another sensitive, lightly autobiographical story of a surrogate character experiencing ennui and/or despair. Along the road trip, there’s sex, ‘70s outfits, and… windows. Ultimately, we struggle to decide: how well can we know Akerman through her work (or, for that matter, anyone)?
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
03:46 Summary
04:27 General reactions
11:33 Jeanne Dielman vs The Meetings of Anna
16:39 Mom and Akerman herself
22:37 Plot sequence and Akerman’s subjectivity
30:32 Other Akerman films
34:20 Akerman and loneliness
37:39 Ending
40:12 Sex
43:29 Singing