Lost in Criterion

Donovan's back to talk about Kurosawa's Yojimbo with us. It's a fun conversation as always.

Die Harder! Special guests! Good times!

Gilliam's 1985 version of 1984 is a bit fatalistic, but stilll fun.

And the Ship Sails On is a tribute to film's srtificiality and an 80-year late critique of European culture pre-WWI.

We're joined again by Stephen Goldmeier for Fellini's 1957 delight: Lost in Cabiria

Black Orpheus is Marcel Camus' ode to Greek myth with a bossa nova beat. It's also a beautiful film.

Stephen Goldmeier joins Lost in Criterion once more to discuss Erik Skjoldbjærg's 1997 debut Insomnia and the problems with subtitles in multi-lingual works.

Stephen Goldmeier joins us once again to discuss the b-side to King Kong, 1932's The Most Dangerous Game

Abbas Kiarostami's Tate of Cherry (1997) is probably one of the more famour films to come out of Iran. That doesn't mean Pat or Adam had ever heard of it.

You can tell this films a fantasy because it opens with people excited to watch ballet.

Peter Brook's 1963 adaptation of the classic novel about a bunch of boys lost on an island who slowly kill each other because that's how humanity works, ok?

John Lurie's hilariously surreal fishing show from 1992 has gotten two Criterion releases over the years. Lost in Criterion doesn't know why, but they're glad it did.

Lean is a Britissh treasure. So is Dickens. Put them together and you get a pretty great film.

Mothers should pay more attention to their children, whether to keep them from an insane child murder or to stop them from watching Salo. Where were you, mom? C'mon.

Lost in Criterion heads back to Australia, this time for a Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir 1975) where schoolgirls disappear and an inordinate amount of people die.