Lost in Criterion

The "death" of an "era" with Gimme Shelter, the Maysles and Zwerin's account of the Stones' '69 US tour that ended in the only way it could.

Someday I may understand what Michelangelo Antonioni was saying in 1960's L'Avventura. That day is not today.

Watching Spike Lee's 1989 film about the racial tensions of a New York neighborhood seems timely. It always seems timely. I'd like for it to not seem timely.

We're back on Douglas Sirk this week as he takes his favorite actor Rock Hudson to Texas for the story of a Texas oil family who are terrible.

Douglas Sirk made melodramas that critiques didn't like until decades later. Surprisingly, the praise may be well deserved.

What's with romantic movies that treat their female characters like garbage?

The Archers explore british imperialism in feverish technicolor.

Arthur Crabtree's 1958 gorefest is the story of what happens when you mix telepathy and atomic energy.

Steve McQueen's first starring role is this wonderfully campy 1958 indie horror film from Irvin Yeaworth

Kwaidan, or "ghost stories", isn't so much a horror movie as a folk tale anthology. But it's great.

Brian De Palma tries to ape Hitchcock in Sisters and misses the mark.

These week we're combining two films to talk about Ivan the Terrible parts I and II together.

And and Pat don't really get into Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Essenstein, 1938) a movie known for it's epic battle sequences.

Pat and Adam watch Pygmalion and get distracted complaining about how people who actually agree with Henry Higgins still exist and shouldn't.

Tasujiro Ozu's 1959 comedy Good Morning is pretty different from the other Japanese films we've watched so far.