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!.

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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

Wilson takes a trip to Peng Chau to visit Ariel and Pearl of Kani Releasing, a North American film distribution company specializing in Asian cinema, to chat about their work, the films in their catalog and the changing film landscape for theatrical/physical media distribution.

Wilson takes a trip to Peng Chau to visit Ariel and Pearl of Kani Releasing, a North American film distribution company specializing in Asian cinema, to chat about their work, the films in their catalog and the changing film landscape for theatrical/physical media distribution. The chat about select titles in the Kani library, including Deep Cut favorite Marilou Diaz Abaya’s Moral (Ep 71) and Karnal, Patrick Tam’s My Heart is That Eternal Rose, and Nao Yoshigai’s Shari.

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Kani Releasing

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Flowers bloom at night… it’s not scary. With our first of presumably many Deep Cut Upkeeps on prolific South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo, we explore What Does That Nature Say to You? We flesh out our theory of how Hong achieves authenticity and immediacy while eliding simple meaning, unpack the latest Hong male lead, and catch Hong’s reference to 6-7.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

05:12 General reactions

12:20 Glazing the boyfriend

14:30 Context

20:50 Dong-hwa as a Hong man

29:50 Girlfriend's family

38:58 Hong surrogacy: where is he in WDTNSTY?

44:12 Hong's image quality (or lack thereof)

51:22 Other notable scenes

57:35 Last words on Hong for now