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Mar 2025
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096. The Best Movies of 2024, According ...

Wilson, Ben, and Eli
About this episode

Do you know how much of A Real Pain it is to keep the years straight with us straddling three different global release windows? We do! 

We got Caught by the Tides and are a little late with this one but nevertheless, join our Conclave for the fifth (!) time as we huddle around the Ghostlight to talk about the films of the last year! We cover award-winning films (Anora, The Brutalist, No Other Land), notable blockbusters (Dune: Part Two, Wicked), blitz through some honorable Challengers to our top picks, and then Look Back on our personal top fives. 

You know podcast favorite Luca Guadagnino is going to feature in Wilson’s favorite films… but how Queer will it be?? 

If you’re A Different Man, you’ll have different faves, so enter our Red Rooms and tell us your favorite 2024 films on our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com

Links:

Ben’s 2024 List

Eli’s 2024 List

Wilson’s 2024 List

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) Intro

(00:03:21) 2024 in general

(00:17:06) Obligatory mentions

(00:17:28) Anora (dir. Sean Baker)

(00:22:55) Conclave (dir. Edward Berger)

(00:25:14) The Brutalist (dir. Brady Corbet)

(00:33:53) Nickel Boys (dir. Ramell Ross)

(00:36:53) Hit Man (dir. Richard Linklater)

(00:39:45) All We Imagine as Light (dir. Payal Kapadia)

(00:43:02) Flow (dir. Gints Zilbalodis) 

(00:46:14) Emilia Perez (dir. Jacques Audiard)

(00:50:29) Sing Sing (dir. Greg Kwedar)

(00:52:01) The Substance (dir. Coralie Fargeat)

(00:55:26) Wicked (dir. Jon M. Chu)

(00:59:09) Deep Cut Coverage of 2024

(00:59:20) All Shall Be Well (dir. Ray Yeung)

(01:00:19) The People's Joker (dir. Vera Drew)

(01:02:37) Happyend (dir. Neo Sora)

(01:05:13) Deep Cut Upkeeps of 2024

(01:08:55) Honorable mentions

(01:08:57) Megalopolis (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)

(01:12:43) Trap (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)

(01:14:13) An Unfinished Film (dir. Lou Ye)

(01:14:26) The Monk and the Gun (dir. Pawo Choyning Dorji)

(01:16:02) Hard Truths (dir. Mike Leigh)

(01:17:41) Not Friends (dir. Atta Hemwadee)

(01:19:08) Fly Me to the Moon (dir. Sasha Chuk)

(01:20:38) Black Box Diaries (dir. Shiori Ito)

(01:24:06) A Traveler's Needs / By the Stream (dir. Hong Sang-soo)

(01:25:56) Look Back (dir. Kiyotaka Oshiyama)

(01:27:34) The Room Next Door (dir. Pedro Almodovar)

(01:30:10) Didi (dir. Sean Wang)

(01:31:22) Last Summer (dir. Catherine Breillat)

(01:32:33) Hundreds of Beavers (dir. Mike Cheslik)

(01:33:43) The Diarrhea Brothers Save the Day (dir. Joel Haver)

(01:35:09) Rap World (dir. Conner O'Malley)

(01:37:11) Janet Planet (dir. Annie Baker)

(01:38:43) Ben’s #5

(01:41:06) SKIP ELI'S BIT!!

(01:42:19) Wilson's #5

(01:46:33) Eli's #5

(01:50:14) Ben's #4

(01:52:54) Wilson's #4

(02:00:50) Eli's #4

(02:01:47) Ben's #3

(02:03:16) Wilson's #3

(02:08:22) Eli's #3

(02:12:30) Ben and Wilson's #2

(02:23:46) Eli's #2

(02:27:19) Ben's #1

(02:31:50) Wilson's #1

(02:38:39) Eli and ???'s #1

(02:43:34) Upcoming from Deep Cut

(02:46:32) Outro

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