Lost in Criterion

Film whose pop music soundtrack is just as good as the film, and both are great? Why is Zach Braff so bad at this?

We've seen Olivier's nationalistic take on Shakespeare in Henry V, now we get to watch him channel German expressionism in Hamlet.

Variety lights is a bittersweet romantic drama and the directorial debut of LoC favorite Federico Fellini.

Adam is convinced no one can understand The Element of Crime. And yet Pat loves it.

We watch a collection of six shot films from W.C. Fields this week.

There's only one truly good scene in The Bank Dick, but fortunately it's almost the entire last act.

This week we're watching Roger Vadim direct his then wife Brigitte Bardot in the festival of slut-shaming and misogyny that is And God Created Woman.

David Lean's adaptation of a Noel Coward play hits it right.

Chasing Amy is the story of a man who falls in love with a lesbian and is a terrible person. It doesn't hold up to time, but maybe it was still important at some point.

Pat and I actually understand Agnes Varda this week.

Cleo from 5 to 7

An early musical comedy from a French great (who once believed that sound would ruin film).

Ingmar Bergman's 1975 adaptation of the classic Mozart comedic opera is, as Pat repeatedly says in these week's episode, "wonderful!"

The Last Temptation of Christ brought protests from conservative Christian groups around the world before any of them had even seen it.

Testament of Orpheus is the crowning jewel in Cocteau's trilogy of artistic non-statement.