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Lost in Criterion

Lost in Criterion
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Criterion Collection
Capitalism
Holocaust
Shoah
Avant-Garde Film
Violence
Charlie Chaplin
Japanese Cinema
Ingmar Bergman
Weekend
Hollis Frampton
Pierre Etaix
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Badlands
Satyajit Ray
Dardenne Brothers
Summer With Monika
Purple Noon

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/LostInCriterion

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It's becoming increasingly obvious that the World Cinema Project is Martin Scorsese's plot to smuggle openly Marxist films into the Criterion Collection, and Metin Erksan's Dry Summer (1963) continues the trend. Erksan imagines a world where one rich... more

Halfway through the World Cinema Project Vol. 1 boxset and the hits keep coming. This week it's all about the trauma of separation: familial and economic, but also in light of the Partition of India and Bangladeshi independence. Ritwik Ghatak's A Riv... more

We continue through the World Cinema Project Vol 1 boxset with a 1936 film from Mexico, though with a rather international production crew, that presages Italian neorealism probably.

Redes is among the more openly Marxist films the Criterion Collect... more

This week we start the first Martin Scorcese's World Cinema Project boxset, a growing sub-collection - currently at 5 volumes - containing films from regions under-represented from the broader Criterion Collection. Or unrepresented at all elsewise. V... more

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John Patrick Owatari-Dorgan
Host with a focus on cinephile analysis and context-rich discussions; frequently references World Cinema Project and film history.
Adam Glass
Co-host with a collaborative approach; brings banter and a broad cinema knowledge across eras and regions.

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3.4 out of 5 stars from 107 ratings
  • Great discussions of interesting movies

    I appreciate the “two friends talking about movies” vibe of this, especially when they bring their cultural knowledge and political perspectives to bear on the films. They let you know when they don’t think a movie deserves its reputation, but they also recognize and appreciate genius when they see it. They are also funny, congenial hosts, and the theme music is so damn catchy.

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    Liam in Ohio
    Canadaa year ago
  • i really wanted to like this

    but it’s just terrible. condescending, moralizing, extended periods of literally each guy saying “yeah uh huh” multiple times to each other while laughing about the film. they don’t like these films, don’t like the directors, don’t like the people who like these films. not knowing who john cazale was the last straw though. just another couple of smug guys with zero frame of reference prior to ~2015 and proud of their ignorance.

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    1
    albert cader
    United Statesa year ago
  • I'm pretty mixed on this podcast. There are some good discussions to be had and I appreciate the effort they put in to provide background context to the movies. However, for the amount I've listened to now ~25 they spend way too much time talking about what they don't like with some episodes having no positivity. If they read this I would say, negativity is not interesting to listen to.

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    4
    Burt_Macklin
    3 years ago
  • Good Show; Too Much Banter

    Guys I like the show but you are surely losing a lot of listeners with your pre-film banter. Your strength is the review and analysis. If this whole endeavor is for you then don’t change a thing. If it is for the audience (or both), then improve the banter or drastically cut it or eliminate it or use chapter indexing so we can skip right to the movie content.

    This is all intended as constructive criticism.

    I appreciate you doing criterion films.

    One podcast I think would help you as a model is... more

    Apple Podcasts
    4
    Money $teve
    United States5 years ago
  • Rambling

    Great subject matter. Unfortunately these guys can’t keep a thought together without drifting off topic. Only heard the Ikiru episode but I won’t return to this pod.

    Apple Podcasts
    1
    Tswizzle3
    United States5 years ago

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