Lost in Criterion

Mifune! Kurosawa! Together for one last time!

If everyone where just open and honest with one another there would be no film.

White people love Wes Anderson, so a few white people join us to talk about his films.

Would you like to be happy? Never think about history as it relates to current events. Makes life so much easier.

Kon Icihikawa' documentary of the 1964 Olympics is brilliant, hilarious, agonizing, and very human. No wonder the Japanese Olympic Committee hated it?

Alec Guinness adapts and stars in probably his funniest film, Ronald Neame's The Horse's Mouth.

Barbet Schroeder "directs" Uganda's Idi Amin in what the dictator hopes will be his "Triumph of the Will". Hilarity and death ensue.

From the guy who would later bring you Pineapple Express comes a much more depressing, much more amazing film.

Go home, The War on Drugs. You're drunk.

That might explain why I don't like it.

If you're going to write a female version of your philandering self, maybe don't get your wife to play her?

Grigori Chukhrai's Ballad of a Soldier explores love in all its chastest forms.

Tragically beautiful. Deeply poetic. Wong Kar-Wei's In the Mood for Love...just wow.

Kalatozov's The Cranes are Flying takes a critical look at what World War II did to the average person's psyche. Well, a lot more critical than anything released west of the Iron Curtain.

Milos Forman claimed he didn't mean for The Fireman's Ball to be a condemnation of the Czech government. Maybe it was just a happy accident?