Lost in Criterion

We kick off 3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman with Stromboli (1950) a film that was incredible controversial in its time not for its content but for its director and star's personal lives.

50 years ago today, this photo of the Chicago press conference for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was taken.

In the background you can see Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert — in the clothes they wore in the Siskel & Ebert pilot, which was also shot that same day.

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YouTube video by Todd Snider - Topic Mission Accomplished (Because You Gotta Have Faith)

RIP Todd Snider
One time I was working the coffee bar at a hotel and looking up tickets for Todd's show that night and wondering if I could afford it when Todd came in for coffee and by the time we stopped talking he'd given me 3 CDs, a signed notebook, and 3 tickets to the show.

This week we're talking Eduaord Molinaro's La Cage aux Folles (1978) which is a funny movie, but we're more interested in one of the disc's bonus features, a brief history of drag and gender-nonconformity from Laurence Senelick.

Maybe Lyonne can use her AI company to recast herself into the main role after the Dinklage season premieres.

A lot of good to be said about this film, but also the ceasefire scene is my favorite Christmas movie.
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I think there are portions of this episode where we forget that The Great Dictator came out in 1940. Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be (1942) is not the earliest anti-Nazi comedy, but dang if it's not equally the best. Remember that fascists are absurd, and deserve to be mocked at every turn.

‘It takes a lot of energy to be an asshole’
Steven Soderbergh knows the score.
Interview by @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
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Get more from Lost in Criterion on Patreon Two guys who love Hudson Hawk talk about better movies

Happy Halloween! Just posted is this month's Patreon Bonus, where we look at the Jim Henson and Nicholas Roeg 1990 adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Witches and wonder why it wasn't better. $1 gets you access at www.patreon.com/lostincriterion

Our second in back to back Satyajit Ray films, Charulata (1964) is among the most visually stunning films we've seen, so viscerally (and visually) capturing longing.

The Criterion Collection is finally showing us two (or three) more Satyajit Ray films! This week we talk about the beautiful The Big City (1963), and as a bonus get to see the more cynical but equally lyrical The Coward (1965).

I don’t know if there’s a more perfect illustration of the utter fucking nonsense that creative pollution by AI will produce than this choice to illustrate the power of Paramount’s new “localization” and “customization” technology by face-swapping Brad Pitt into the lead role of GET OUT

Bought the Olympic's boxset during the flash sale, which we will not begin to cover until June 2029 because I still believe in the future.

Dr. Samuel Loomis aims a gun at the escaped mental patient he keeps losing on Halloween.

Saw an armored car for a company called LOOMIS today and maybe it's just the time of year, but that's not a name that inspires security to me.

tremendously admire his work and the way he talks abt an exploratory creative process BUT it is very sad to me how little that sort of thinking & working is possible. like u need to have an enormously successful career in a medium that isn't yet perfectly industrialized in order to get to this point

We face off with the existential dread of a midlife crisis with John Frankenheimer's Seconds (1966), a movie where money and technology can make you hotter (and can provide you with artwork to claim you made) but can't make you like yourself.

Goddamn @theamynicholson.bsky.social COOKED with this FRANKENSTEIN review. Bow down to one of the greats. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD ***************** Investigation of: LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN ON JUNE 18, 2023 * * * * * * Accident No.: *********** * * * * * * Interview of: Co-designer/Pilot Deepsea Challenger DCA23FM036 via Microsoft Teams Friday, July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF 10 BY LCDR 11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible 12 operations? 13 A. Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic. When I 14 set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did 15 was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible 16 program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named 17| Professor I. I did that through a mutual friend 18 of ours, a guy named , who is one of the preeminent underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a 20 submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the 21 Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was 22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

RIP to Drew Struzen, the greatest to ever do it. 🙌

Start off Indigenous People's Day right with this fantastic film!

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Gigli = better than AI

The cheeky Criterion Collection put out @realgdt.bsky.social's The Devil's Backbone as Spine #666. This week we talk about the film, del Toro's twin driving forces of anti-fascism and neat special effects, and how war is bad for kids (and adults), a lesson human society apparently cannot remember.

I know I'm not the best at it, but in 12 years of a weekly podcast I'm still not near spending $400,000 on it.

Big Nightmare on Madonna Street

Five Nights at Maud's

It's food, glorious food, on this week's episode as we talk Gabriel Axel's delicious ode to art, Babette's Feast (1987).

Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.