Lost in Criterion

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Lost in Criterion episodes

October 24, 2014 Gimme Shelter
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.
1 hr 1 min
October 24, 2014 Spine 99: Gimme Shelter
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.
1 hr 1 min
October 17, 2014 L'Avventura
Someday I may understand what Michelangelo Antonioni was saying in 1960's L'Avventura. That day is not today.
46 min
October 17, 2014 Spine 98: L'Avventura
Someday I may understand what Michelangelo Antonioni was saying in 1960's L'Avventura. That day is not today.
46 min
October 10, 2014 Do the Right Thing
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.
57 min
October 10, 2014 Spine 97: Do the Right Thing
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. Let's work on that.
57 min
October 03, 2014 Written on the Wind
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.
55 min
October 03, 2014 Spine 96: Written on the Wind
Douglas Sirk and Rock Hudson are back this week and this time they're teaming up with Unsolved Mysteries' Robert Stack and the late Lauren Bacall for a weird tale of sexual issues and surrogate sons. 1956's Written on the Wind is, once again, a big studio melodrama that Sirk tries to indue with some sort of deeper satire, though with varying results this time around.
55 min
September 26, 2014 All That Heaven Allows
Douglas Sirk made melodramas that critiques didn't like until decades later. Surprisingly, the praise may be well deserved.
53 min
September 26, 2014 Spine 95: All That Heaven Allows
Douglas Sirk made big studio melodramas that audiences ate up and critics hated. Until decades later when filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino and Rainer Werner Fassbinder decided he was awesome and now everyone's on board. All That Heaven Allows is a 1955 venture starring Jane Wyman as a rich widow who falls in love with her Thoreau-obsessed gardner, Rock Hudson. It's a beautiful film; Sirk and cinematographer Russell Metty craft perfect frames that tell the story better than the actual plot.
54 min

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