Lost in Criterion

06/01/2023

Lost in Criterion is 10 years old! To celebrate, our Patreon supporters voted on one of the first 100 Criterion Spines for us to revisit! It's a redemption episode, because those first 100 episodes of the podcast are not great.
The winner of the vote was our first exposure to Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966's Andrei Rublev. We were not prepared for this movie when we recorded the original episode in 2012. I think we do a little bit better of a job this time around!
Thanks to everyone who has supported us and listened over the years! And particular thanks to the patreon supporters who voted!

Lost in Criterion is 10 years old! Does that make us the longest running Criterion podcast? Who cares. We started this podcast as an excuse to talk after Pat moved to Japan. While Pat and I were far from cinephiles, we enjoyed the conversations we'd have leaving the cinema after a movie, and wanted....

06/01/2023

Hey, Lost in Criterion fans on Facebook. Obviously this page hasn't update in awhile, and it looks like most of the old links are dead, but we're still going! 10 years strong!
I'm not on facebook much anymore. The links are broke because we migrated the podcast to a new host. You can still find our weekly episodes at www.lostincriterion.com and wherever you get your podcasts!

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

05/04/2022

29/01/2022

This month's Patreon Bonus Episode is my new favorite movie.
The entire weight of the US Government and Hollywood couldn't keep Salt of the Earth from being made, but nearly kept us from seeing it. $1 gets you access to bonus episodes at www.patreon.com/LostInCriterion

06/01/2022

Hey, Lost in Criterion fans!
January 2023 will mark our 10th anniversary of this long match through the Criterion Collection. To celebrate we hope to revisit a film from the earlier posts of the Collection that we may have a different opinion on now. We're letting our Patreon supporters make suggestions of what movie it should be, so if you want to be part of that process join up for as little as $1/month!
We're announcing this a year in advance to give plenty of time for supporters to make suggestions of what movie it should be and to vote if need be. Whatever wins, the episode will be released to everyone next January.
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24/12/2021

Now that I've woken up from my long winter's nap please enjoy this year's Lost in Criterion holiday special! Friends Ben and Stephen join us to talk about the Renny Harlin-directed, Shane Black-penned The Long Kiss Goodnight.

For this year's Holiday Special we come to the saint of "movies that incidentally take place at Christmas" Shane Black. Black wrote The Long Kiss Goodnight before taking a long break from screenwriting. Renny Harlin directs, and he's no stranger to holiday-adjacent action fare having also

17/12/2021

Read theory, or at least make a friend who does.
This week Lost in Criterion takes another look at Jean-Luc Godard's fledgling Marxism with 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her.
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In 1967 Jean-Luc Godard was like any modern young Marxist: blaming all of life’s ills on consumerism, blaming consumerism on America, yelling at his old friends for being bourgeoisie, getting into public debates with people who know his side better than he does, dating teenagers…but those young ...

12/11/2021

This week's episode is one of my favorite conversations we've had, not just because we get to talk about a great movie, but also because we get to talk about the class politics surrounding the waiter in a great movie.

We've seen a lot of great Louis Malle films in the Collection, and now we get one more. A very long conversation about art or something, and while it is itself quite good, we're very interested in the peripherals film about class.

05/11/2021

Lost in Criterion is on trial for murder. "We have an alibi! We were at the cinema watching Last Year at Marienbad."
"Well, simple enough to prove," says the judge, "Tell the court what the movie is about."
We are going to prison forever.

Alain Resnais's Last Year at Marienbad is an obviously influential movie that's nearly impossible to describe. Adam thinks it's a ghost story. Pat thinks it's an examination of the epistemological crisis. Both or neither are probably true. Truth is a game, and the game is rigged against you.

22/10/2021

This week we're encountering our first David Fincher movie and I can't think of a David Fincher movie I would rather not watch.

It's our first David Fincher film in the Collection and what a choice. A tour du force of special effects that do not hold up, Benjamin Button updates and elongates the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story into whatever this is.

08/10/2021

We close out the "Pigs, Pimps, and Prostitutes" boxset of Shohei Imamura films with Intentions of Murder, a tale in which Imamura apparently wants us to laugh an abused woman because she's fat. Hilarious! This is our last Imamura film in the Collection right now, and we're not mad about that.

We close out the "Pigs, Pimps, and Prostitutes" boxset of Shohei Imamura films with Intentions of Murder, a tale in which Imamura apparently wants us to laugh an abused woman because she's fat. Hilarious! This is our last Imamura film in the Collection right now, and we're not mad about th

01/10/2021

This week we continue through the "Pigs, Pimps, and Prostitutes" boxset and continue to take issue with Imamura styling himself as an "anthropologist".

We continue through the Imamura "Pigs, Pimps, and Prostitutes" boxset and continue to take issue with Imamura calling himself an anthropologist. When we started this Criterion journey nearly a decade ago I had no idea it would lead to me ponder the question: can breastfeeding be an incestu

24/09/2021

We kick off a boxset of Shohei Imamura films called "Pigs, Pimps, and Prostitutes" this week with Pigs and Battleships (1962)

This week we kick off a boxset called "Pigs, Pimps, and Prostitutes" and ain't that something. It's three films by Shohei Imamura, the last three he made before leaving Nikkatsu for his own studio. The whole set really exemplifies Imamura's goal of making "messy films" with a sel

17/09/2021

This week we talk John Huston's adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood. While the two obviously had different views on Christianity, the weirdest change is that Huston's movie is LESS anti-cop than O'Connor's novel.

Seemingly always up to adapt a challenging text, John Huston directs this adaptation of a Flannery O'Connor novel. While Huston and O'Connor have dramatically opposite views on religion, but Huston himself has begrudgingly said that "Jesus wins" in the end of his movie. We're not so sure t

10/09/2021

We talk Stephen Frears' delightful gangster road movie The Hit today and Pat dubs the opening theme the most Eric Clapton song of all time.
So if you want to listen to one new podcast this week that talks about Eric Clapton, I dunno, go listen to this weeks MBMBaM, but if you can handle a second, we've got you.

Stephen Frears 1984 film The Hit combines a British gangster film with a road movie and honestly it's nice to just have a movie we enjoy and don't have to think too much about after the string we've been on.

09/09/2021

Jean Painlevé (1902-1989) was not the first person to make scientific documentaries for a general audience, but he was certainly very influential on nature documentarians real and otherwise from Attenborough to Zissou. Criterion serves us a collection of many, though not quite all, of his 5-30 minute films which fuse underwater and microscopic filmography with an eye toward surrealist humor and, if you can read it right, a mind toward social change.

Jean Painlevé (1902-1989) was not the first person to make scientific documentaries for a general audience, but he was certainly very influential on nature documentarians real and otherwise from Attenborough to Zissou. Criterion serves us a collection of many, though not quite all, of his 5-30 minu...

30/04/2021

Casey H. is probably the one person we know who has been a Wes Anderson fan the longest. She and her husband (and our theme song composer) Jonathan join us to talk Wes Anderson's feature length debut: Bottle Rocket.
And it's Spine 450! Which means we're halfway to the Olympics Boxset, the release of which marked the first time I came to terms with the fact that we'll be doing this project until we die. Good times!

Casey Hape is probably the person we know who has liked Wes Anderson the longest. Her husband Jonathan is also an Anderson fan (and composed our theme song). They’ve been on every Wes Anderson episode we’ve done so far, so while this one isn’t quite as full of guests as previous Anderson episo...

09/02/2021

We are very excited to announce that starting today past iterations of our Patreon bonus postcards will be available for sale from our new store. 3 months after the postcards are sent to $10 and above Patreon supporters, the art will be available at this store on postcards, greeting cards, as stickers and magnets, or, for a select few pieces, as pins. If nothing else, click through to check out 3 years worth of Pat's monthly art pieces because many of them are very good and some of them haunt me to this day.
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