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Dead Duck Film Club Podcast is a twice-monthly, deep-dive into great foreign cinema,from arthouse to cult and genre. Hosted by the team behind Nottingham’s Dead Duck Film Club, we dissect international films to figure out what makes them brilliant, broken, or unforgettable.
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"Ghost in the Shell" And Why The Matrix Owes It Everything
Ghost in the Shell (1995), directed by Mamoru Oshii and based on Masamune Shirow's manga, was released simultaneously in Japan, the UK, and the US, unusual for anime at the time.A quiet theatrical…
"Funny Games" And the Violence You Asked For
Funny Games (1997), directed by Michael Haneke, is an Austrian home invasion film that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Comparisons made to Speak No Evil (original Danish) and The Coffee…
"Audition" And The Loneliness Epidemic Made Flesh
Audition (1999), directed by Takashi Miike, is a Japanese horror film based on Ryu Murakami's 1997 novel of the same name. Released the same year as Ring, it holds 81% from critics and 80% from…
"A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night" The First Iranian Vampire Western
This week Seb and Mark are in Bad City, talking about Ana Lily Amirpour's 2014 debut A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. The Iranian vampire western. They dig into what makes this film so unlike…
"Akira" And How It Changed An Entire Industry
Akira (1988), directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, Japan. Based on Otomo's six-volume manga series. One of the most widely referenced animated films of all time, credited with opening the Western market to…
"The Stranger" And The Game We Call Life
Seb and Mark dig into The Stranger (2026), François Ozon's new adaptation of Albert Camus' L'Étranger (1942), a book long considered unadaptable, which Visconti already tried to film in 1967.…
Infernal Affairs and Exit 8: Two Films About Being Too Stuck to Make a Decision
Two films, two very different ways of being trapped, and two answers to what good adaptation actually looks like.Infernal Affairs (2002, Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, Hong Kong) holds 94% on Rotten…
Jermaine Edwards On Shooting My Father's Shadow
Jermaine Edwards is the cinematographer behind My Father's Shadow (2025), directed by Akinola Davis Jr , the first Nigerian film ever selected for Cannes, where it received a Caméra d'Or special…
My Father's Shadow Will Wreck You (In A Good Way)
My Father's Shadow (2025) is a Nigerian drama written and directed by brothers Akinola Davis Jr. and Wales Davis. It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in Un Certain Regard as the first Nigerian…
The Raid Is Peak Cinema with Derry Shillitto, Plus David Hindson on Shooting Black Goat for £10k
Séb and Derry Shilitto go deep on Gareth Evans' The Raid: the $1M Indonesian action masterpiece that launched pencak silat onto the global stage and started with a Welsh filmmaker falling in love…
The Ugly Stepsister and Why Women Are Reinventing Horror Right Now with Emily from TNHC
Sébastien is joined by Emily, co-founder and editorial director of the Nottingham Horror Collective, for a deep dive into The Ugly Stepsister (2024): the Norwegian body horror reimagining of…
Oscars Death Race Special: Watching Everything & Our Favourites
This week we’re talking Oscars.From the chaos of the Oscar Death Race to how the Academy has changed over the last decade, we dig into what the awards actually mean now, how international cinema is…
Save the Green Planet and Bugonia: The Same Story 20 Years Apart
Two films. Same idea. Very different outcomes.We compare Save the Green Planet and Bugonia: tone, themes, performances, and why they hit so differently depending on when you watch them.Spoilers.…
No Other Choice Is a Job You’d Kill For
Séb and Mark dive into Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, unpacking its dark humour, themes of masculinity, wealth, desperation, and societal pressure. They explore the film’s performances, visual…
The Handmaiden Is The Most Erotic Thriller of the Decade.
We dive into Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden, a seductive, twist-filled thriller about power, deception, and desire.We unpack its shocking turns, shifting perspectives, and why it feels like one of…
S1E4 Adrien Morot on Extreme Prosthetics, Martyrs & Cult Horror
Oscar-winning makeup artist Adrien Morot reveals how the shocking, hyper-real wounds of Martyrs were created, from foam-latex prosthetics to the infamous flayed-body finale.
S1E3 Jean-Christophe Bouzy on Editing Julia Ducournau’s Vision
The editor behind Titane and all of Julia Ducournau’s films joins Dead Duck to break down brutal cuts, emotional rhythm, and how a Palme d’Or winner was shaped in the edit suite.
S1E2 Edward Ashton on Mickey7, Mickey 17 & Writing Sci-Fi That Survives Hollywood
The author of Mickey7 joins Dead Duck to tell the wild story of how his unpublished sci-fi novel became Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17 , plus the science, characters and creative heart behind the book.
S1E1 Yang Jin-mo on Parasite, Mickey 17 & the Art of Editing
The legendary editor behind Parasite, Snowpiercer and Okja joins Dead Duck to break down Bong Joon-ho’s editing process, the iconic Peach montage, and how great films are really cut.
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