Surprisingly Criterion

Starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet - this Michel Gondry directed and Charlie Kaufman film is a cult fan favourite - how will it fair? Listen to the latest edition of I Can't Believe It's Not Criterion.

Bonus content: How editing shapes a story (YouTube)

Music: "The Endless Scroll" by Absolutely Free courtesy of Idée Fixe Records and Arts & Crafts Music Inc.

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Forrest Gump meets Titanic? We watched the second David Fincher film to make it into the Criterion Collection.

Bonus Material:

Short Story by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Curious Case Of Benjamin: The Visuals, Music and Costumes (YouTube)

Criterion Listing: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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"You guys up for some reggae tonight?" We watched the first feature film made in Jamaica, starring reggae star Jimmy Cliff, and featuring one of the best soundtracks we've covered thus far.

Bonus Material: Klive Walker's essay: How The Harder They Come created Jamaican cinema

Ulrick Casamir's essay: A question of audience: revisiting Perry Henzell's The Harder They Come

Perry Henzell's obituary from 2006

Criterion Listing: The Harder They Come

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A new segment - the Randomizer. Can the Criterion Collection handle a random selection and then subsequent viewing of one of the films? For our first Randomizer episode, we got Equinox, directed by Jack Woods and Dennis Murren - the 338th film on the list.

Bonus material: Films made by students on cell phones in Nigeria discussed in the episode - news clip about them

Criterion listing for Equinox

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The cult classic with Spine number 872 starring Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson and Steve Buscemi, by Dir./Writer Terry Zwigoff and writer Daniel Clowes Bonus material: Three Things You Never Knew About Ghost World (that we discuss in the show)

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"I'd buy that for a dollar!" Criterion's 23rd film is kind of an odd choice, and a surprise! Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop is a wonderful satire of the era it was made, but does it belong on the list?

Bonus material: Theatrical vs Director's Cut - the 1 minute difference

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John Carpenter! How has he been forgotten by the collection? We talk about his 1982 sci-fi horror classic, The Thing, featuring great performances from Kurt Russel, Wilford Brimley and Keith David, and a wonderful score from Ennio Morricone.

Bonus material: - New reissue of the OST from 2020 - Story of the origins of the partnership of Morricone and Carpenter

Background reading: - On the writer of the short story "Who Goes There?" and why a literary award was renamed after the winner, Jeannette Ng, criticized him

- Cory Doctorow's essay about why the award's name was rightly changed and it being a good decision

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We have our first guest! Our friend, comedian and fellow podcaster, Cas Knihnisky, brings us a movie only half of us had seen — Rosemary's Baby! It's on the list - we talk about it, and a lot of the things surrounding it like what kind of a nightmare Polanski is, and how funny Ruth Gordon is!

Bonus Material: Cas's podcast about Stephen King: Castle Rockettes Follow them on the Internet Follow Cas online

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In the conclusion of our inadvertent and accidental prisons and prisoners trilogy, we talk about how Michael Bay's 1996 adventure into Alcatraz. Nicolas Cage, Sean Connery, and Ed Harris star in this wild ride.

Bonus Material: Every Frame A Painting - "Michael Bay - What Is Bayhem?"

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In a new edition of "I Can't Believe It's Not Criterion" we talk about Denis Villeneuve, Hollywood, and why our favourite French Canadian director deserves some recognition.

Bonus material: Team Deakins podcast speaking with Denis Villeneuve

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