Best Criterion Collection Podcasts (2025)

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Raiding The Closet - The Criterion Collection 1:21:23

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Elwood and Stephen are raiding the collections of their favourite boutique labels and revealing their top five picks as they kick things off with the iconic Criterion Collection. Opening / Closing Theme - "Little Dreams" - The Kidd Electric

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Spine 663: Shoah Era 1 1:52:57

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Claude Lanzmann was hired to make a 120 minute documentary about the Holocaust and turn it in within about 18 months. He did not do this. Instead, acknowledging the truth of the matter, that one could not begin to grasp the inhuman enormity of the Nazi's decimation of the Jewish people of Europe, Lanzmann spent the next decade interviewing survivor…

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The Criterion Break - Episode 51 - Rififi and Thief 2:19:03

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Send us a text The Break is back!!! The Criterion Break returns this week to continue the Summer Swindle! In the penultimate episode of The Fat Dude’s summer miniseries, James from 20th and 21st Movies joins Andy and Derrick to chat about where his love for all things movies comes from, and what opened his eyes to the greatness that is the Criterio…

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Spine 662: Safety Last! 2:03:19

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With Safety Last! (1923, dir. by Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor) the Criterion Collection brings us a fantastic introduction to Harold Lloyd only a few years after we introduced him to ourselves watching Grandma's Boy (1922) for a Patreon bonus episode. Safety Last! is a more fun movie than Grandma's Boy, not least of all because there's no Confedera…

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213. Let's Taco 'Bout The Usual Suspects featuring Brad Redick 1:31:21

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Send us a text This week on the podcast, the Summer Swindle continues! The Fat Dude is joined by one of the co-hosts of the Human Dads podcast, longtime friend, Brad Redick. The two engage in a conversation filled with tangents, though the notion of heist movies dominates the conversation. This week’s featured movie is the neo-noir twisty suspense …

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A.C. Film Club #146 - Whisper of the Heart 1:13:09

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Stephen and Elwood look at one of the more overlooked titles in the Studio Ghibli catalogue as they review "Whisper of the Heart" a coming of age romantic drama and the only film to be directed by Yoshifumi Kondō. Review: 00:34:22 --- Opening Theme - Coffee Date Beat Provided By https://freebeats.io Produced By White Hot --- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy us a coffee …

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Spine 661: Marketa Lazarová 1:58:03

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František Vláčil's historical epic Marketa Lazarová (1967) is another example of what happens when an insane artist is at the right place at the right time to be given carte blanche: a breathtaking film stuffed to the brim with beautiful images that seems like it was an absolute nightmare to work on. Fortunately, we didn't have to help make the mov…

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212. Let's Taco 'Bout Ocean's Eleven featuring Sarah Lahue 1:23:14

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Send us a text On this week’s episode, the Summer Swindle continues! New York based theatre artist, Sarah Lahue, returns to the show. We chat for a bit about Sarah’s new found appreciation of the New York Mets before diving into this week’s featured movie, Steven Soderbergh’s star-studded sizzler, Ocean’s Eleven. Sarah can be found across social me…

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Episode 134 - PART 2 - "I wanna see some more weird, messed-up freaks." [F1: THE MOVIE, JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH] 42:03

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In the second part of the blockbuster 134th episode of The Extra Buttery Podcast, Robert and Jason begin with the very formulaic but still thrilling F1: THE MOVIE (1:20) before the meat (hehe) of the episode with JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH (12:49), exploring how truly lame and uninteresting the famed dinosaur franchise has become. Original theme music…

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Spine 660: Things to Come 1:59:48

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A few months ago we were surprised to learn that HG Wells, the famed 19th century science fiction writer, survived long enough to comment on film adaptations of his work. This is a silly thing for us to be surprised by, because the man was only 66 when Island of Lost Souls, the movie that he commented on, came out. Just a few years later Alexander …

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Episode 134 - PART 1 - "There's no such thing as work-life balance when you're Superman." 1:12:34

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In the first part of the blockbuster 134th episode of The Extra Buttery Podcast, Robert and Jason discuss the latest SUPERMAN (4:44) from James Gunn, the hard left turn it takes from the previous iterations, and how Krypto the Superdog takes over. The superhero conversation continues with the newest entry in the exhaustive MCU with THE FANTASTIC FO…

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211. Let's Taco 'Bout Inside Man featuring Betsy and Trent of Never Seen It Podcast 1:26:52

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Send us a text The Summer Swindle continues! This week, Betsy and Trent of the Never Seen It podcast join the show, with Trent making his Let’s Taco ‘Bout debut. We talk about podcasting and finding viral success thanks to Tron: Legacy. We also discuss the featured heist movie of the week, Spike Lee’s slick bank robbery drama, Inside Man. Betsy and…

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Spine 659: Life is Sweet 1:48:00

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To Pat, Mike Leigh’s Life is Sweet (1990) feels a lot like a Very Special Episode of a 90s sitcom. Adam tries his best to rescue Pat from that particular abandoned refrigerator, and we arrive at the film as an interesting critique of capitalism in the era of Margaret Thatcher’s “There’s no such thing as society.” We also get five shorts from an unr…

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Spine 658: Medium Cool 2:00:11

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Haskell Wexler was hired to make a film adaptation of Jack Couffer's The Concrete Wilderness, a 1967 novel that seems a lot like an American version of Barry Hines A Kestral for a Knave which came out the next year. Like some of our other favorite films in the Criterion Collection, Wexler nearly completely rejected the brief and took his adaptation…

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210. Let's Taco 'Bout Heat featuring Derrick Veurink 1:29:43

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Send us a text The Summer Swindle continues as co-host of The Criterion Break and The Balcony, Derrick Veurink, joins the show. Before the summer miniseries continues, The Fat Dude and Derrick hash out some of their thoughts on the latest film from Ari Aster, Eddington. The two then dive into an all time classic, this week’s featured movie, Michael…

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A.C. Film Club #145 - Enter The Dragon 1:18:59

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Elwood and Stephen look at the legendary martial arts film "Enter The Dragon" as Bruce Lee plays Lee a martial artist from the Shaolin Temple hired by British intelligence to infiltrate the island of the crime lord Han under the guise of competing in his Martial Arts Tournament. We breakdown the films legacy, the stacked cast and it's skillfull ble…

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Spine 657: 3:10 to Yuma 1:46:44

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The second in our pair of Delmer Daves westerns is certainly the superior movie: taut, beautifully shot, and that theme song! Like last week's film 3:10 to Yuma (1957) stars Glenn Ford, this time playing a villain who seems to have a monopoly on violence 'round these parts being taken in by a farmer (Van Heflin) with a real sense of wanting things …

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209. Let’s Taco ‘Bout Mission: Impossible featuring Brian Skutle 1:24:51

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Send us a text Finally, the Summer Swindle returns!!! Brian Skutle returns to the show to talk about the magic of heist movies. Brian also shares some his stories of working at movie theaters throughout the horrific (but joyous) summer movie season. We then dive into our featured movie of the week, the one that kickstarted a franchise that has last…

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David Reviews Mike Nichols’s Carnal Knowledge [Criterion 4K/Blu-ray Review]

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A new release from the Criterion Collection represents yet another successful retrieval of an important film originally released by that company on the Laserdisc format they specialized in for 15 years or so before they started releasing movies on DVD. Carnal Knowledge, Mike Nichols’ 1971 follow up to Catch-22, functioned as a lightning rod for can…

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David Reviews Mike Nichols’s Carnal Knowledge [Criterion 4K/Blu-ray Review] 1:36:29

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A new release from the Criterion Collection represents yet another successful retrieval of an important film originally released by that company on the Laserdisc format they specialized in for 15 years or so before they started releasing movies on DVD. Carnal Knowledge, Mike Nichols’ 1971 follow up to Catch-22, functioned as a lightning rod for can…

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David Reviews Mike Nichols’s Carnal Knowledge [Criterion 4K/Blu-ray Review]

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A new release from the Criterion Collection represents yet another successful retrieval of an important film originally released by that company on the Laserdisc format they specialized in for 15 years or so before they started releasing movies on DVD. Carnal Knowledge, Mike Nichols’ 1971 follow up to Catch-22, functioned as a lightning rod for can…

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Spine 656: Jubal 1:29:15

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Criterion hasn't shown us a lot of classic westerns; this is only our sixth western in a broad definition, and of those only our third made before 1980 (or 1960 for that matter). I don't know if there's any conclusions to be drawn, but it seems a bit weird given how popular the genre has been throughout film history. Anyway, when we do get them, Cr…

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A.C. Film Club #144 - Gothic and Lolita Psycho 1:21:22

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Stephen and Elwood take a recommendation from Dustin (@thatkaijukidd) and look at the Splatterpunk revenge-o-matic Gothic and Lolita Psycho as seeking revenge on the assassins who killed her mother and injured her father Yuki (Rina Akiyama) turns herself into a weapon of vengeance in this highly unique viewing experience. Review: 00:40:02 --- Openi…

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Spine 655: Pierre Etaix Part 3 2:01:56

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Our third and final week in the Pierre Etaix boxset brings us the final two movies Etaix directed. The narrative film Le grand amour (1969) is perhaps the most entertaining (and self-aware) director-going-through-a-divorce movie we've ever seen. The documentary Land of Milk and Honey (1971) belongs to our favorite genre of documentary: director hir…

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Criterion Reflections – Episode 156 – Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes From a Marriage

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https://criterioncast.com/wp-content/uploads/1751/28/Criterion-Reflections-Episode-156-Scenes-From-a-Marriage.mp3 Criterion Reflections is David Blakeslee’s ongoing project to watch all of the films included in the Criterion Collection in chronological order of their original release. Each episode of Season 5: 1973 features a discussion about films…

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Criterion Reflections – Episode 156 – Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes From a Marriage

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https://criterioncast.com/wp-content/uploads/1751/28/Criterion-Reflections-Episode-156-Scenes-From-a-Marriage.mp3 Criterion Reflections is David Blakeslee’s ongoing project to watch all of the films included in the Criterion Collection in chronological order of their original release. Each episode of Season 5: 1973 features a discussion about films…

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Criterion Reflections – Episode 156 – Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes From a Marriage

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https://criterioncast.com/wp-content/uploads/1751/28/Criterion-Reflections-Episode-156-Scenes-From-a-Marriage.mp3 Criterion Reflections is David Blakeslee’s ongoing project to watch all of the films included in the Criterion Collection in chronological order of their original release. Each episode of Season 5: 1973 features a discussion about films…

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Spine 655: Pierre Etaix Part 2 1:53:48

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We continue through the Pierre Etaix boxset with two more features and a short. Yo-Yo (1965) is even more of an overt homage to the history of film comedy than anything we've seen from Etaix so far. As Long As You've Got You're Health (1966) is a series of shorts aimed at different aspects of modern French society, not least of the rising car cultu…

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Episode 133 - "Ethan Hunt is not a horny individual!" [M:I - The Final Reckoning, Materialists, Ballerina] 1:13:38

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In the 133rd episode of the Extra Buttery Podcast, Robert surprises Jason with news about a sequel to ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, which will NOT be directed by Quentin Tarantino, and the potential return of the fantastic MINDHUNTERS. We start with MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING (or is it Dead Reckoning Part 2?) (8:43) and why the seri…

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Spine 655: Pierre Etaix Part 1 1:40:11

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This week we kick off a boxset of the 1961-71 works of French clown, comedian, and filmmaker (and illustrator and gag writer for Jacques Tati). The collection contains four narrative features and three shorts all co-written (and occasionally co-directed) by Jean-Claude Carrière, who may just be the most represented screenwriter in the Criterion Col…

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WCFC #23 - Three Colours: Red 37:28

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Elwood and Stephen look at the final film in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colours trilogy in which model Valentine (Irène Jacob) meets a retired judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who lives in her neighborhood after she runs over his dog with the pair soon discovering they share an unusual bond

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208. Let's Taco 'Bout Point Break featuring Parker Magnuson 1:19:31

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Send us a text After an inconsistent hiatus, Let’s Taco ‘Bout returns. Why not bring it back with a Summer Miniseries? This year, we’re looking at a bunch of the best heist or espionage movies for The Summer Swindle! To kick things off, Parker Magnuson returns to the show to discuss Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 banger, Point Break. We taco ‘bout Patrick …

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Spine 654: Repo Man 1:54:06

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In 1984 Alex Cox burst onto the scene with Repo Man, a hilarious critique of America's (then unique?) system of credit-capitalism, embodied in the industry of repossessing past-due cars. In a world where it is now possible to not only buy a hamburger today and pay for it next month, but to do so through multiple layers of corporate exploitation tha…

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The Criterion Break - Episode 50 - Videodrome 1:30:12

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Send us a text The Criterion Break returns! This week, the ‘Terion Trio discuss some of their recent watches before chatting about Criterion’s big reveals for their September releases, including a massive Wes Anderson boxset. They then dive into a chat about David Cronenberg and the featured movie of the week, Videodrome. Blake can be found on Inst…