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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The Tales of Hoffmann
Kurosawa accidentally adapts King Lear, and when someone points it out, he leans in.
Truffaut responds to the Frenchness of his debut by making an "American" movie, and it's very silly and tragic and violent. Just like America!
Check out LostInCriterion.com for a better Marxist interpretation of this film than the one in this episode.
"Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, kill, kill, kill."
It’s cold war superhero spies that are also ninjas. And it’s a period piece.
Sometimes the alternative title is so much better.
Oh, hey, political corruption disguised as cultural mores.
Ugetsu is quite possibly the greatest film ever made.
Godard wants you to take teens seriously, but can't take women seriously. It's a bit of a problem.
Mike Leigh's brilliant but often hard to watch post-Thatcher update of Boudu. Now with more explicit rape.
Le Samourai is a French gangster movie that doesn't quite understand samurai films, but it's still brilliant.
No values is better than bougie values.
This film may be more about how Howard Hughes really is an alien.
Our first Roeg film since Walkabout does nothing to further endear us.
