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The Criterion Connection
By Ian & McKenzieTV & Film
The Criterion Connection episodes
- 068 - RED DESERT (1964)
We continue our double feature about isolation and discontent in an ever evolving world with Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert.
Thank you to our friends Truman Capote for the voicemail and Keegan for their email.
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Chapters(00:00:00) Intro(00:02:16) What We've Been Watching
(00:34:14) Red Desert
(00:59:15) Final thoughts
(01:04:53) Listener Messages
(01:11:11) Next week
----LinksIan on LetterboxdMcKenzie on Letterboxd & on Austin Danger Podcast The Criterion Connection on InstagramWatch the video of River Phoenix discussing My Own Private Idaho referenced here.
----Please send us your emails & voicemails to have them read/played on the show - [email protected]----THE CRITERION CONNECTION is edited & mixed by Ian.1 hr 16 min - 067 - SAFE (1995)
Are you allergic to the [21st] century?
This week we are chatting one of our mutual favorite filmmakers and the movie that put him on the map and in the Criterion Collection. We discuss Todd Haynes and his second feature that announces Julianne Moore to the world and also remains as prescient as it was in 1995, Safe.
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Chapters(00:00:00) Intro(00:04:29) What We've Been Watching
(00:23:25) Safe
(01:20:47) Final thoughts
(01:23:36) Listener Messages
(01:25:32) Next week
----LinksIan on LetterboxdMcKenzie on Letterboxd & on Austin Danger Podcast The Criterion Connection on Instagram----Please send us your emails & voicemails to have them read/played on the show - [email protected]----THE CRITERION CONNECTION is edited & mixed by Ian.1 hr 29 min - 066 - MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (1991) plus Criterion Collection Additions for Oct. 2024
FILL'ER UP!
The engine may have been idling but we are revving her back up as we head into part two of our queer road trip double feature with Gus Van Sant's impressionistic portrait of Gen-X ennui in 90s America that also kinda sorta doubles as an adaptation of the Henriad. We also discuss what's coming to the Criterion Channel in Aug 2024 as well as the new additions to the Criterion Collection coming in Oct 2024.
----Chapters(00:00:00) Intro(00:03:00) What We've Been Watching
(00:24:20) Criterion Collection announcements for Oct. 2024
(00:36:40) What's coming to the Criterion Channel in Aug. 2024
(00:42:16) My Own Private Idaho
(01:18:21) Final thoughts
(01:27:07) Next week
----LinksIan on LetterboxdMcKenzie on Letterboxd & on Austin Danger Podcast The Criterion Connection on Instagram----Please send us your emails & voicemails to have them read/played on the show - [email protected]----THE CRITERION CONNECTION is edited by McKenzie & mixed by Ian.1 hr 32 min - 065 - THELMA & LOUISE (1991) with JoshVROOM VROOM! This week we welcome back our dear friend and someone who dares say they will be seated day one for Barry Jenkins' Mufasa, Josh (he/they) of Film Explorers. Josh comes back to help us be gay and do crime with the first of a road trip double feature. We've got nothing except our love to take us to the limit as we evade the law and fly into Thelma & Louise (1991).Thank you to our friend Ron for his email! Listen to Reel Latinos!----Chapters(00:00:00) Intro(00:03:57) Josh's four favs(00:19:39) Remembering Shelley Duvall(00:24:34) Thelma & Louise(01:15:57) Final thoughts(01:26:02) Listener messages(01:24:48) Next week----LinksJosh on Letterboxd & on Film ExplorersIan on LetterboxdMcKenzie on Letterboxd & on Austin Danger Podcast The Criterion Connection on InstagramFollow our friend Guti's substack for all your classic Hollywood love - Finite Cinema Dreams. ----Referenced in the show is an article from an Olive Signature blu-ray release of The Wachowski's BOUND (1996) [Listen to our episode here] entitled "We Know How This Ends..." by Guinevere Turner. Ian tried to find this article online to no avail. If you desperately want to read it shoot us a line and we may be able to send it to you (see email below).----Please send us your emails & voicemails to have them read/played on the show - [email protected]----THE CRITERION CONNECTION is edited & mixed by Ian1 hr 37 min
- 064 - DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
There are many films that we could have paired with Bound from last week, but it only felt right to give the spot to the mother of all noir... Billy Wilder makes his return to the show with his genre defining classic, Double Indemnity (1944).
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Chapters
(00:00:00) Intro(00:02:38) What We've Been Watching
(00:35:40) Double Indemnity
(01:17:00) Final thoughts
(01:24:48) Next week
----LinksIan on LetterboxdMcKenzie on Letterboxd & on Austin Danger Podcast The Criterion Connection on Instagram----Please send us your emails & voicemails to have them read/played on the show - [email protected]----THE CRITERION CONNECTION is edited & mixed by Ian1 hr 31 min - 063 - BOUND (1996)
"You know what the difference is between you and me?"
US NEITHER!
It's our biggest episode ever (literally) - a defining McKenzie movie and just one of our all time favorites. We are finally discussing one of our longest awaited additions to the Criterion Collection, The Wachowski's brilliant pulp genre exercise that kicked off their career's with a bang: BOUND (1996).
Thank you to Pat for their email!
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Chapters
(00:00:00) Intro(00:03:58) What We've Been Watching
(00:28:50) Bound
(01:32:14) Final thoughts
(01:36:44) Listener Messages
(01:45:26) Next week
----LinksIan on LetterboxdMcKenzie on Letterboxd & on Austin Danger Podcast The Criterion Connection on Instagram----Please send us your emails & voicemails to have them read/played on the show - [email protected]----THE CRITERION CONNECTION is edited & mixed by Ian1 hr 48 min - 062 - THE FURIES (1950)
YIPEEEEEE KI YAY! We're about to get on off our horsies, but for now stay saddled up in as we wrap up our "Western starring Barbara Stanwyck" double feature with Anthony Mann's The Furies (1950). We also chat about what's coming to the Collection in September 2024 and the Criterion Channel in July 2024.
----Chapters(00:00:00) Intro(00:23:11) Criterion Collection Announcements (Sept 2024)
(00:36:07) Criterion Channel Additions for July 2024
(00:42:33) Forty Guns
(01:10:18) Final thoughts
(01:16:33) Next week
----LinksIan on LetterboxdMcKenzie on Letterboxd & on Austin Danger Podcast The Criterion Connection on Instagram----Please send us your emails & voicemails to have them read/played on the show - [email protected]----THE CRITERION CONNECTION is edited & mixed by Ian1 hr 21 min - 061 - FORTY GUNS (1957) with Philip MarinelloYeeeHaw! We're saddling up this week with our friend Philip Marinello (The Substance Pod) to head back into Hollywood's past once again with a pulp western starring the effervescent Babs! On this episode we're discussing our first Samuel Fuller picture: Forty Guns (1957).----Chapters(00:00:00) Intro(00:05:56) Philip's 4 Favs(00:19:28) Forty Guns(00:56:28) Final thoughts(01:11:46) Next week----LinksPhilip on Letterboxd & Listen to The Substance PodIan on LetterboxdMcKenzie on Letterboxd & on Austin Danger Podcast The Criterion Connection on Instagram----Please send us your emails & voicemails to have them read/played on the show - [email protected]----THE CRITERION CONNECTION is edited & mixed by Ian1 hr 17 min
- 060 - MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS (1985) with KevWelcoming back Kev (ADP) to the show we dive into a hallmark film of the collection, one of Kev's favorites and one of the most aesthetically significant films we have discussed thus far. If you have seen this film then you know what our connection is....... We discuss Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985).Thank you to Michael & Austin for your letters!----Chapters(00:00:00) Intro(00:03:30) Kev's 4 Favs(00:15:32) Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters(00:50:00) Final thoughts(00:55:59) Letters(01:05:40) Next week----LinksKev on LetterboxdIan on LetterboxdMcKenzie on Letterboxd & on Austin Danger Podcast The Criterion Connection on Instagram----Please send us your emails & voicemails to have them read/played on the show - [email protected]----THE CRITERION CONNECTION is edited & mixed by Ian1 hr 10 min
- 059 - HARAKIRI (1962)We return to our regular schedule with a brand new double feature: this time centered on Japanese codes of honor and why, just maybe, they are no good. This week we discuss the #1 highest rated film on Letterboxd (as of June '24) and a totemic work of the samurai genre: HARAKIRI (1962). McKenzie also continue her Billy Wilder journey.Thank you to dear friend of the show, Brandon, for his letter!----Chapters(00:00:00) Intro(00:04:00) What we've been watching(00:22:11) Harakiri(01:01:46) Final thoughts(01:24:58) Next week----LinksIan on LetterboxdMcKenzie on Letterboxd, on Austin Danger Podcast, on LynchThe Criterion Connection on InstagramPlease send us your emails & voicemails to have them read/played on the show - [email protected]----THE CRITERION CONNECTION is edited & mixed by Ian1 hr 16 min
About The Criterion Connection
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Two friends explore the Criterion Collection by connecting the iconic films to each other through the greater tapestry of cinema.
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