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The Adam Glass and John Patrick Owatari-Dorgan attempt the sisyphean task of watching every movie in the ever-growing Criterion Collection. Want to support us? We’ll love you for it: www.Patreon.com/L... more
FAQs about Lost in Criterion:How many episodes does Lost in Criterion have?The podcast currently has 1,172 episodes available.
February 22, 2020Spine 389: W.R.: Mysteries of the OrganismWe get a pair of films from Serbian director Dušan Makavejev this and next week and they are nearly impossible to describe. This week we have a combination documentary on pseudo-scientific research of psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. shorts documentaries on artists who use sexuality in their work, and a narrative portion about the struggles between Sovietism and a more libertine version of communism....more1h 4minPlay
February 21, 2020WR: Mysteries of the OrganismSexuality and communism go together like two things that don't necessarily need to go together, but let's not kill anyone over it, ok?...more0minPlay
February 15, 2020Spine 388: The Two of UsClaude Berri’s The Two of Us is steeped in Berri’s own experience during the occupation of France during World War 2. It’s a story that reminds us that someone can have deeply held racist beliefs and still seem nice, especially if they don’t realize their new friend belongs to the group they hate, it’s a jokey inter-generational buddy film about the banal absurdity of prejudice with the looming threat of the Holocaust in the background. It’s among the clear inspirations for Jojo Rabbit, so feel free to imagine the backlash if it came out today....more1h 17minPlay
February 14, 2020The Two of UsMake the world such a better place that your kids love it, but you're frankly scared by it....more1h 19minPlay
February 08, 2020Spine 387: La Jetée and Sans SoleilWe get a series of films from French multimedia artist Chris Marker this week of varying genius. First up is the absolutely brilliant and clearly influential sci-fi short La Jetée from 1962. Our other major conversation is on the significantly more controversial to Pat and me Sans Soleil, a sort of travelogue essay from 1983. We also briefly discuss his 1981 short documentary on found sculpture in the California mudflats with 1981’s Junkopia and (much more briefly) his venture into cd-rom interactive gaming with Immemory (1998). It’s also a weird one when Criterion decides that the one release they’re putting out from a director will contain a survey of his entire decades-long career....more1h 38minPlay
February 07, 2020La Jetée and Sans SoleilThe world needs fewer essays from white men on the nature of memory....more1h 38minPlay
February 01, 2020Spine 386: Sansho the BailiffThis week Donovan Hill joins us once more, discussing boat law, America’s indifference to international law, the hilarious/frightening nostalgia within the book Hagekure (and WW2 era views of same), pretty much every adaptation of the 47 Ronin we can think of, and, oh yeah, Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1954 film Sansho the Bailiff. It’s a jam-packed episode (read: long), as episodes with Donovan tend to be....more1h 45minPlay
January 31, 2020Sansho the BailiffSlavery, in any form, is bad even when we are doing it and we think we are the good guys.Looking at you, US prison system....more1h 45minPlay
January 25, 2020Spine 385: Army of ShadowsJean-Pierre Melville draws on his personal experience as a member of the French Resistance to tell the heroic story of a bunch of ineffectual French Resistance fighters, whose only prize for avoiding death is the chance to avoid death once again....more1h 11minPlay
January 24, 2020Army of ShadowsYour only prize for surviving is the continued chance of surviving....more1h 11minPlay
FAQs about Lost in Criterion:How many episodes does Lost in Criterion have?The podcast currently has 1,172 episodes available.