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Independent print magazine and podcast about cinema of the past and present.

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Outskirts Film Magazine @outskirtsmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As the month of October kicks off, Outskirts Film Podcast starts its mini-#shocktober focus by delving into Jean Rollin's lyrical and eerie universe, populated by sexy, melancholic vampires and other beautiful creatures from the world of the undead.
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Outskirts Film Magazine @outskirtsmag.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Lusty wolves, sadistic squirrels, neurotic pigs… This week on the Outskirts Film Podcast, we're diving into the gleefully deranged world of Tex Avery. If it was Disney who built the church of animation, it was Avery who spent his whole career slinging eggs at it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4Ia...
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Outskirts Film Magazine @outskirtsmag.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Listen to our deep dive episode digging into the work of the notorious but artistically accomplished X-rated filmmaker Gerard Damiano wherever you get your podcasts or at outskirtsmag.com 🎙️
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Outskirts Film Magazine @outskirtsmag.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Outskirts Film Podcast is back for its second season. First up: we're tackling the work of Gerard Damiano, the Navy veteran and former hairdresser who built one of hardcore cinema's most ambitious and challenging bodies of work. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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Outskirts Film Magazine @outskirtsmag.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Wet lovers, sex hunters, tattooed flowers, feline nights… This week on the podcast, we’re tackling Nikkatsu’s Roman Porno line—the cinematic desire machine launched by one of Japan’s oldest and most prestigious studios. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/0...
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Outskirts Film Magazine @outskirtsmag.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Jocelyne Saab was a pivotal figure in the history of Lebanese cinema, whose pioneering work shifted between reportage, documentary, and popular cinema across a career shaped by Beirut and the Lebanese Civil War. We discuss her films this week on the podcast: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/0...
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Outskirts Film Magazine @outskirtsmag.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/0...
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#010 - Santo and Outskirts vs. The Evil Cinema Canon
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Outskirts Film Magazine @outskirtsmag.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cKi...
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#009 - The Indecent Desires of Doris Wishman | Outskirts Film Podcast
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Outskirts Film Magazine @outskirtsmag.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0Au...
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#008 - Meiko Kaji and the Age of Delinquents and Assassins
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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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
The cover of the first issue of Outskirts, featuring a still from Boris Barnet’s final feature, WHISTLE STOP (1963).
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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Hiroshi Shimizu @outskirtsmag.bsky.social, John Akomfrah @ Brooklyn Rail, Robert Vas @prospectmagazine.co.uk, Jonathan Rosenbaum @chicagoreader.com, new @cineastemagazine.bsky.social … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
Kids pause at a railroad crossing in Hiroshi Shimizu’s CHILDREN OF THE BEEHIVE (1948).
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Outskirts Film Magazine @outskirtsmag.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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?...
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#007 - The Many Seasons of Hiroshi Shimizu (feat. David Phelps)
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Outskirts Film Magazine @outskirtsmag.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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. outskirtsmag.com/pricked-by-p...
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Pricked By Poetry: On Hiroshi Shimizu — Outskirts Film Magazine
Pricked by Poetry: The Films of Hiroshi Shimizu In this mammoth appraisal of the films of Hiroshi Shimizu, David Phelps digs into films from across his vast body...
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Öykü Sofuoğlu @feridemercury.com · 26/02/2026
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?...
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#006 - The Hallucinations and Bloody Exorcisms of Zé do Caixão
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Outskirts Film Magazine @outskirtsmag.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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! youtube.com/watch?si=y-KfyUdwKl0Si4ar&v=xVjPgDuh6qc&feature=youtu.be
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Outskirts Film Magazine @outskirtsmag.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrYF...
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#005 - A Soviet Miracle: Boris Barnet at the Outskirts (feat. Hannah Yang)
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Outskirts Film Magazine @outskirtsmag.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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). youtu.be/w2CDVuM4YDk
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#004 - Pocketful of Miracles: The Films of Joan Micklin Silver
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Outskirts Film Magazine @outskirtsmag.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
LUCIO FULCI: ZOMBIES, BAD VIBES & BEYOND | Outskirts Film Podcast 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. youtu.be/twD4M7Vjt68?...
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#003 - Lucio Fulci: Zombies, Bad Vibes & Beyond
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Outskirts Film Magazine @outskirtsmag.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
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. youtu.be/q3nFydzg2qM?...
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#2 - The Best Films We Saw in 2025
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Outskirts Film Magazine @outskirtsmag.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
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. Rate, subscribe & follow us wherever you get your podcasts. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Outskirts Film Magazine @outskirtsmag.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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. letterboxd.com/outskirtsmag...
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Those Who Meddle: In Defence of Henry Koster | Outskirts Online
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Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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.
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Outskirts Film Magazine @outskirtsmag.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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. ponton-mag.sk/anyone-but-h...
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Anyone But Her Husband: Roberta Findlay Revisited – Pontón
Between 1966 and 1989, Roberta Findlay directed, wrote, produced, shot, edited, and occasionally acted in countless exploitation, horror, and pornographic films, often under pseudonyms or in productio...
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Outskirts Film Magazine @outskirtsmag.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
We're honoured to be featured in the Criterion Daily (@criterion.bsky.social) April books wrap-up alongside such illustrious company! www.criterion.com/current/post... You can pre-order the third issue of Outskirts - available in June 2025 - at outskirtsmag.com/shop
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Diego Cepeda @untrenoculto.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
💥 A lovely afternoon and conversation with @josearroyo.bsky.social and @feryumi.bsky.social on @outskirtsmag.bsky.social
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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
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 A bit more on what’s inside — www.instagram.com/p/DIYs5nEK5h...
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
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Outskirts Film Magazine @outskirtsmag.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
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.
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