Bonus Ep - LUCILE HADŽIHALILOVIĆ
Pure Cinema Podcast
Brian Saur & Elric Kane
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
On this bonus episode Elric talks with one of his favorite contemporary filmmakers - LUCILE HADŽIHALILOVIĆ, about her vast film influences and the effect on her visionary work which is set to be released by Severin Films and Yellow Veil Pictures as THE WORLDS OF LUCILE HADŽIHALILOVIĆ, a box set bringing together the North American Discs of all 4 of her highly acclaimed films INNOCENCE, EVOLUTION, EARWIG and THE ICE TOWER.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Pure Cinema Podcast. |
| 0:11.9 | I am very excited somebody whose film 20 years ago when I first saw it has never left my mind and it continues to filter through dreams in a great way. |
| 0:20.8 | So very happy to be joined by Liseel Haji Halovic. |
| 0:26.5 | And we're going to be talking about, you know, a lot of the movies that you fell in |
| 0:32.3 | love with over your life or influenced your work, but also because there's a very exciting |
| 0:37.1 | box that coming from Yellowvale |
| 0:39.0 | films and Severin films. It is on pre-order right now, releasing June 30th in America, |
| 0:44.7 | and these are the worlds of your films, a four-disc box set with a book, a big book, |
| 0:50.9 | on Innocence, Evolution, Earwig, and the Ice Tower. So this is a very exciting |
| 0:56.1 | to get your whole body of works so far collected, including a couple shorts that I haven't even |
| 1:00.3 | seen yet. So welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you for the invitation to talk about my |
| 1:08.2 | favorite films and films that have inspired me. |
| 1:11.4 | It's very exciting to talk about what you like, what you love. |
| 1:15.7 | And it's exciting to see your films coming out as a body of work. |
| 1:18.6 | And I think that's something sometimes missing, like from the world, |
| 1:22.2 | a world we now live in with cinema called content, you know, |
| 1:24.9 | where people are filling spaces of content, but I feel like |
| 1:27.6 | it's still about a body of work. It's about a journey in between these four films, even, I see |
| 1:32.6 | worlds. You know, like my memory of senior film 20 years ago, I still can see the coffin pulling in |
| 1:39.9 | at the start. I can see the girls walking in the darkness and what I love about my favorite |
| 1:45.1 | movies. And I think we'll probably share quite a few. I imagine are movies where I don't really |
| 1:49.8 | remember everything. I don't remember all the stories. They start to fade from the mind, but I |
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