Lost in Criterion show

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

Podcasts:

 Days of Heaven | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:19:27

Terrance Malick's quasi-Biblically-inspired story of poor farm workers and a needless con.

 Breathless | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:04:11

I swear there are Godard films we actually like.

 Mala Noche | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:14:11

Some very overt homages to The Third Man which is nice.

 Martha Graham: Dance on Film | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:19:30

A collection of pieces staring pioneering dancer Martha Graham

 The Threepenny Opera | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:17:58

The whole system is guilty.

 Robinson Crusoe on Mars | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 10:26:19

I think probably the most important thing I can share with you before going into this episode is that on the Criterion dvd is a Criterion-produced music video in which one of the films co-stars sings the plot synopsis.

 Cría Cuervos | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:28:03

An Torrent returns to play a weird little girl in a different anti-Franco film.

 The Milky Way | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:09:26

Who is this movie for?

 Night on Earth | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:16:36

Jim Jarmusch explores humanity through the connections of taxi drivers and riders and emulating the film history of various places on "earth", which is to say New York, LA, Paris, Rome, and Helsinki.

 Stranger than Paradise | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:11:48

Spine 400! Can you believe it?

 House of Games | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:02:48

The plot of David Mamet's House of Games is right up our alleys, even if Pat thinks it would be more appropriate to a USA channel original program. But there are certainly problems here.

 Les enfants terribles | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:02:46
 Ivan's Childhood | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:09:39

We've talked before about how it may be impossible to truly make an anti-war war film, but in showing the human toll on both sides of the fight Andrei Tarkovsky's entry into the seminal Soviet genre of post-WWII war films may come pretty close. 

 Ace in the Hole | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:17:31

Trust your sources, but check them, too.

 4 Short Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:07:52

3 short documentaries and the story of a teenage girl.

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