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.
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This week on the podcast, we peep through the keyhole into the unabashedly salacious cinema of sexploitation queen Doris Wishman. Listen guilt-free wherever you get your podcasts.
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Ferocious, captivating, rebellious, and impossible to forget, Meiko Kaji is an enduring icon of Japanese exploitation cinema. As Japan Society kicks off a retrospective of her work, we dive into her world of tattooed yakuza and knife-fighting prisoners.
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The cover of the first issue of Outskirts, featuring a still from Boris Barnet’s final feature, WHISTLE STOP (1963).
With the Boris Barnet retrospective now on @ Metrograph, @outskirtsmag.bsky.social has opted to make its first issue, featuring a Barnet dossier, freely available as a PDF — outskirtsmag.com/shop
Kids pause at a railroad crossing in Hiroshi Shimizu’s CHILDREN OF THE BEEHIVE (1948).
Hiroshi Shimizu @outskirtsmag.bsky.social, John Akomfrah @ Brooklyn Rail, Robert Vas @prospectmagazine.co.uk, Jonathan Rosenbaum @chicagoreader.com, new @cineastemagazine.bsky.social …
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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.
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. youtu.be/0F8-hVWb0VM?...
Inspired by @japansociety.org and @movingimagenyc.bsky.social's extraordinary Hiroshi Shimizu retrospective in 2024, "Pricked by Poetry" is a deep dive into the master's vast, varied, and in some cases newly available body of work across a mammoth 8,000 word text.
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In its latest episode, @outskirtsmag.bsky.social’s Podcast explores the work of one of the most striking figures in the history of horror cinema, Zé do Caixão, who, to me, also represents a very interesting case of pre-digital multimedia practice. Listen to it here: youtu.be/xVjPgDuh6qc?...
This week on the podcast, we discuss the very embodiment of evil: proud atheist, the biggest enemy of believers, the Brazilian master of the macabre – the one and only Zé do Caixão, also known as Coffin Joe!
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We returned to our roots this week on the podcast, discussing the founding father of Outskirts Film Magazine: the extraordinary Boris Barnet.
Our guest was Hannah Yang, curator of Doc Film Chicago's ongoing retrospective of the miraculous Soviet filmmaker.
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Since her death in 2021, many films by Joan Micklin Silver have been reclaimed, reappraised, or rediscovered as the miraculous improvisatorial gems of human comedy, as well as classic depictions of Jewish-American life, that they are.
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This week on the podcast, we discuss the work of Joan Micklin Silver, best remembered as the writer-director behind ‘Hester Street’ (1975), ‘Chilly Scenes of Winter’ (1979), and ‘Crossing Delancey’ (1988).
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This week we're tackling the Italian Godfather of Gore, weaving our way through more than a dozen films from his prolific career. Available wherever you get your podcasts.
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For Episode #2 of the Outskirts Film Podcast, we invited the whole editorial team on to discuss favourite films seen in 2025 - everything from discoveries out of the past to new films at festivals and in cinemas. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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Episodes hosted by Alonso Aguilar, Christopher Small, and Öykü Sofuoğlu (@feridemercury.com) and will feature regular appearances by the whole Outskirts team - Diego Cepeda (@untrenoculto.bsky.social), Raymond Shik, and Nathan Letoré (@nlltr.bsky.social) - as well as other guests.
We're delighted to announce the launch of the Outskirts Film Podcast, a bi-monthly podcast about cult movies, experimental film, popular cinema, and everything in between and at the peripheries.
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Originally published in Outskirts Nº3 in July 2025. The print issue can be ordered at our online shop: outskirtsmag.com/shop
Mounting a heroic and lonely defence of the much-maligned Hollywood filmmaker Henry Koster, Lukas Foerster (@dirtylaundri.bsky.social) dives deep into the man's massive filmography with wit, sophistication, and a Kosterian sense of mischievous fun.
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This text touches on... brazilian/french/spanish film blogs, The Dissolve for a sec, with input from @critikat.bsky.social editors, and some extended thoughts on
@filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy and @outskirtsmag.bsky.social - it's a lot. Anyway, moving on.
We're delighted to be collaborating with Pontón Magazine on this sneak preview from our third issue: co-editor Christopher Small writes about the fascinating case of the pornographic and exploitation filmmaker Roberta Findlay.
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We're honoured to be featured in the Criterion Daily
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You can pre-order the third issue of Outskirts - available in June 2025 - at outskirtsmag.com/shop
💥 A lovely afternoon and conversation with @josearroyo.bsky.social and @feryumi.bsky.social on @outskirtsmag.bsky.social
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The cover of Outskirts Film Magazine Nº3 features an image from Vittorio De Seta’s I DIMENTICATI (1959)
In various fonts, Outskirts offers “a taster of what’s inside”: a dossier on Vittorio De Seta, an interview with Francis Ford Coppola, and articles on the Vietnamese Film Institute, Mexican and Japanese wrestling cinema, Shimizu Hiroshi, and Lucía Seles
It’s been a little over a year and a half since the last issue appeared, and I was beginning to wonder ...
But Outskirts Film Magazine Nº3 is now available for pre-order — outskirtsmag.com
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This one took us a little longer to produce, but we believe it was very much worth the wait and can't wait for you to discover it.
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We are delighted to announce that Outskirts Film Magazine Nº3 is now available for pre-order. Featuring a dossier on Vittorio De Seta filled with interviews, new translations, and texts on De Seta's films from the Lost World shorts to Letters from Sahara.