Lost in Criterion
Summary: The Adam Glass and John Patrick Owatari-Dorgan, attempt the sisyphean task of watching every movie in the ever-growing Criterion Collection and talk about them. Want to support us? We'll love you for it: www.Patreon.com/LostInCriterion
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"Only a goddamn lunatic would write a thing like this and then claim it was true."
Godard's Band of Outsiders is an immensely influential film about a woman who has zero agency in her own life.
The moral of The Archers' The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp leaves us wanting. The rest of the film is quite alright.
Julien Duvivier's early noir is a film so nice America remade it twice in under a decade.
We give Jean-Luc Godard another shot and it really pans out for the best, considering Contempt (1963) is one of the greatest movies I've ever seen.
We explore the Lubitsch touch with Trouble in Paradise (1932).
The concert that introduced Shankar and the Who to the US, reintroduced Hendrix to the US, introduced Otis Redding to white America, and introduced Janis Joplin to the world.
It's just so much fun watching Roberto Benigni do anything.
Man Bites Dog bites direct cinema in the butt.
When the author just won't die.
Pat is not wrong in describing Ronald Neames' Hopscotch, in which Walter Matthau burns down the CIA for offending him.
We're all trapped, so why not take a balloon to the moon?
Perhaps a better technical exercise than plotted film, certainly amore complicated one, but in any case Clair's first sound film is brilliant.
Watching Rene Clair play with sound film is so delightful.
It's time for our yearly non-Criterion Christmas movie! It's Kiss Kiss Bang Bang!
