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May 26
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101. HKIFF49 Dispatch (Youth Trilogy, Ph...

Wilson, Ben, and Eli
About this episode

Wilson comes on the podcast to talk about all the films he saw at the 49th edition of the Hong Kong International Film Festival. Come listen to us talk about the newest films from around the world, including Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy, Lav Diaz’s Phantosmia, Andrea Arnold’s Bird, and many more. 

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Intro

00:03:17 Festival as a whole

00:08:44 Baby

00:10:25 Youth Trilogy

00:15:47 Bel Ami

00:17:50 Drug War

00:20:09 Bird

00:21:54 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

00:24:46 Man’s Castle

00:27:58 Việt and Nam 

00:31:24 Yalla Parkour

00:36:09 Harvest

00:38:55 Never Too Late

00:40:04 Fire of Wind

00:42:15 To Kill a Mongolian Horse

00:44:10 Santosh

00:45:41 I’m Still Here

00:49:21 Bona

00:53:08 Dreams (Sex Love)

00:56:40 Misericordia

00:58:38 The Botanist

01:00:17 Seeds 

01:02:05 Blue Sun Palace 

01:04:58 On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

01:06:22 Separated 

01:09:04 Phantosmia 

01:13:15 Outro

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