Blindspotting: A Film Discovery Podcast

What happens when love becomes a kind of exile- and the people we cling to become the very ones we cannot escape?

In this episode of Blindspotting: A Film Discovery Podcast, hosts Scott Aigner and Jack Hanley explore Happy Together (1997), Wong Kar-wai's visually intoxicating queer romantic drama starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Leslie Cheung.

Set against the restless streets of Buenos Aires and the looming 1997 handover of Hong Kong, Happy Together transforms a turbulent relationship between two lovers into a haunting meditation on identity, displacement, loneliness, and the impossible desire to begin again.

Is Happy Together simply one of queer cinema's great love stories, or does its portrait of longing and dislocation reveal something larger about Hong Kong itself at a moment of profound historical uncertainty?

Join Scott and Jack as they explore Wong Kar-wai's singular cinematic language, the film's historical and cultural significance, and the beautiful contradictions of a romance in which being together may be the very thing keeping two people apart.

Blindspot: Happy Together (1997)
Director: Wong Kar-wai
Country: Hong Kong
Starring: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Leslie Cheung, Chang Chen
Discover: Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong cinema, queer cinema, LGBTQ+ film history, New Hong Kong Cinema, Christopher Doyle, 1997 Hong Kong handover.

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Two dear friends and Film Festival colleagues attempt to bridge the gaps of their long-distance relationship- and their own filmic educations- through a bi-weekly screening and discussion project of the gap films that have eluded their cinematic discovery.

Producer: Shay Wescott

Two dear friends and Film Festival colleagues attempt to bridge the gaps of their long-distance relationship — and their own film educations — through a bi-weekly screening and discussion project of the gap films that have eluded their cinematic discovery.

In this episode, Scott and Jack finally chase down Limite — Mário Peixoto's legendary 1931 Brazilian silent experimental film, a long-lost cinematic holy grail that spent decades languishing in obscurity while earning the devotion of cinephiles (and the admiration of Orson Welles). Through fragmented memories, breathtaking visual poetry, and the haunting image of three strangers adrift at sea, Limite feels less like a film than a dream recovered from the depths of cinema history—a great white whale of world cinema that rewards every ounce of the obsession required to find it. You DON'T want to miss this piece of film history- or the discussion about it!

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Two dear friends and Film Festival colleagues attempt to bridge the gaps of their long-distance relationship — and their own film educations — through a bi-weekly screening and discussion project of the gap films that have eluded their cinematic discovery.

In the Season 4 opener, Scott and Jack punk out to the radical, punk-feminist fury of Born in Flames — a guerrilla sci-fi agitprop fever dream that transforms post-revolutionary America into a fractured battleground of pirate radio, militant collectives, and revolutionary unrest.

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It's TIME! In their annual tradition, the Boys of Blindspotting: A Film Discovery Podcast make their final Academy Awards ballot predictions, offering their takes on who WILL, who SHOULD, and some ACTUAL BEST films and performances of the year. 

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Two dear friends and Film Festival colleagues attempt to bridge the gaps of their long-distance relationship AND their own film educations through a bi-weekly screening and discussion project of the gap films that have eluded their cinematic discovery.

On this week's call, Scott and Jack look back on ALL the amazing performances, moments, memories, and films that they encountered from Season 3 and give their annual "end of season" awards!

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Two dear friends and Film Festival colleagues attempt to bridge the gaps of their long-distance relationship — and their own film educations — through a bi-weekly screening and discussion project of the gap films that have eluded their cinematic discovery.

On this week's call, Scott and Jack confront the quiet, digital dread of Michael Haneke’s Cache (2005) — a surveillance-era domestic thriller that transforms bourgeois guilt into a slow, inexorable haunting.

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Two dear friends and Film Festival colleagues attempt to bridge the gaps of their long-distance relationship AND their own film educations through a bi-weekly screening and discussion project of the gap films that have eluded their cinematic discovery.

On this week's call, Scott and Jack are dazzled by an under-seen noir melodrama masterwork by German auteur Max Ophüls: The Reckless Moment (1949)

The Boys are joined by a very special guest LIVE in the studio- the one and only ZACH EASTMAN of The Yesteryear Ballyhoo Revue Classic Cinema Podcast!

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Two dear friends and Film Festival colleagues attempt to bridge the gaps of their long-distance relationship AND their own film educations through a bi-weekly screening and discussion project of the gap films that have eluded their cinematic discovery.

In this special Mini Edition, the Boys talk the Czech allegorical masterwork WITCHHAMMER (1970, Otakar Vávra) and recap the hits- and misses-from the 31 Days of Horror Films Challenge.

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Two dear friends and Film Festival colleagues attempt to bridge the gaps of their long-distance relationship AND their own film educations through a bi-weekly screening and discussion project of the gap films that have eluded their cinematic discovery.

On this week's call, Scott and Jack discover the slow beauty of Edward Yang's coming of age classic, A Brighter Summer Day (1991) from Taiwan. 

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Two dear friends and Film Festival colleagues attempt to bridge the gaps of their long-distance relationship AND their own film educations through a bi-weekly screening and discussion project of the gap films that have eluded their cinematic discovery.

In this special Mini Edition, the Boys announce their latest film challenge for October!

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and look for our newest endeavor on YouTube: FLICKER with Jack and Scott!