Best Lost In Criterion Podcasts (2025)

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Spine 664: The Life of Oharu 1:46:38

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We are very happy to finally get another Kenji Mizoguchi film with The Life of Oharu (1952), a film that kicked off a postwar boon for the famed Japanese director. This melancholy tale shows us the dangers of patriarchy and social hierarchy, like how it can lead to Mifune getting cameo'd to death.By Lost in Criterion

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ONE HOT TAKE: HIGHEST 2 LOWEST w/ Travis Woods 23:25

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This is our new NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE. Synopsis: When a titan music mogul is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma. Travis Woods (Host of INCREMENT VICE) Travis Woods is a Contributing Editor at Bright Wall/Dark Room, as well as a writer for The New Beverly Cinema and Cinephilia & Beyond. H…

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GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC: “Christiane F” with Katie Walsh 59:04

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When film critic and podcaster Katie Walsh finally saw the 1981 German sensation “Christiane F” in its 4K restoration reissue this week, she needed to talk about it — and we’re lucky enough that she joined us to do just that. It was also Mike and Jason’s first watch, so listen in as we pick our collective jaws up off the floor over this tough, unse…

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Spine 663: Shoah Additional Materials 2:10:17

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In addition to Shoah (1985), the Criterion release contains three of the five additional films Claude Lanzmann has made from the footage he shot for his landmark documentary. A Visitor from the Living (1997) is an interview with Maurice Rossel in which Lanzmann swings hard at Rossel's report for the Red Cross on conditions in the "potemkin ghetto" …

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Spine 663: Shoah Era 2 1:51:50

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The second half of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah (1985) focuses on explicit details of how the Nazi's machinery of mass murder worked, on the industrialization and logistics of the business end of it. Lanzmann also focuses on just how incomprehensible the scale of violence was, how no one who had not seen it with their own eyes could believe that humans …

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GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC: “Strangers on a Train” with Stephen Rebello 1:09:43

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Nobody but nobody chronicles the making of classic movies as thoroughly and compellingly as Stephen Rebello, author of “Dolls! Dolls! Dolls!,” “A City Full of Hawks,” and the granddaddy of them all, “Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho.” He joins us to discuss his latest book “Criss Cross,” and the movie it’s about: Alfred Hitchcock’s “Strang…

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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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CRITERION SESSIONS: CAIRO STATION w/ William Boyle 28:28

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Hang onto your slipcases, because Blake Howard and author William "Bill" Boyle discuss the impact of the neorealist melodrama fusion of CAIRO STATION on us watching and on Bill's latest novel, SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET. Cairo Station Youssef Chahine established his international reputation with this masterpiece, which, though initially a commerci…

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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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IMPRINT COMPANION: HUD w/Roxana Hadadi 15:00

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Hang onto your slipcases because Blake Howard (One Heat Minute Productions) teams up with the legendary Roxana Hadadi to unbox, unpack and unveil the upcoming IMPRINT FILMS physical media release of HUD. In this episode, we discuss: Hud (1963) – Imprint Collection #432 Support: JOIN THE ONE HEAT MINUTE PATREON FOR AS LITTLE AS $1 A MONTH Follow the…

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WENT UP THE HILL w/ Writer-Director Samuel Van Grinsven 27:20

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To celebrate the Australian release of WENT UP THE HILL, I talk with director Samuel Van Grinsven about 9 months of living with his second feature, what it taught him about the importance of casting for directing, and so much more. Synopsis: Abandoned as a child, Jack travels to remote New Zealand to attend the funeral of his estranged mother Eliza…

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THE TOXIC AVENGER w/ Director Macon Blair 32:19

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To celebrate the Australian release of THE TOXIC AVENGER, I talk with director Macon Blair about the winding path to release, his excellent cast and recapturing that "7th grade making movies with your friends" feeling. Synopsis: When a downtrodden janitor, Winston Gooze, is exposed to a catastrophic toxic accident, he’s transformed into a new kind …

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GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC: “2001: A Space Odyssey” with Matt Zoller Seitz 1:24:12

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The bestselling author, Pulitzer finalist, and independent bookseller Matt Zoller Seitz takes a break from his very busy schedule to discuss a movie that not many people talk about, right? I mean, when was the last time you heard anyone talk about Stanley Kubrick’s “2001”? Matt also shares some writing tips and talks to us about MZS.press, the onli…

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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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IMPRINT COMPANION: NEW YORK, NEW YORK w/ Bilge Ebiri 26:56

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Hang onto your slipcases because Blake Howard (One Heat Minute Productions) teams up with the legendary Bilge Ebiri to unbox, unpack and unveil the upcoming IMPRINT FILMS physical media release of NEW YORK, NEW YORK (for which he authored a new essay). In this episode, we discuss: New York, New York (1977) – Imprint Collection #420 Support: JOIN TH…

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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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GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC: “Body Double” with Megan Abbott 58:37

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Edgar award-winning, New York Times-bestselling crime novelist and confirmed cinephile Megan Abbott joins us to chat about her latest hit, “El Dorado Drive,” and her long history with one of Brian De Palma’s most controversial (and metatextual) movies. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-content Adv…

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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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CRITERION SESSIONS: BRAZIL w/ Nadine Whitney 49:13

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Hang onto your slipcases, because Blake Howard and the prolific and wise critic Nadine Whitney discuss the timeless quality of Terry Gilliam's BRAZIL, now in 4k. Brazil In the dystopian masterpiece Brazil, Jonathan Pryce plays a daydreaming everyman who finds himself caught in the soul-crushing gears of a nightmarish bureaucracy. This cautionary ta…

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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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NEVER GET BUSTED! w/co-director David Anthony Ngo 27:01

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To celebrate the Australian premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival of NEVER GET BUSTED!, the utterly compelling documentary about narco-officer turned activist Barry Cooper, I talked with co-director David Anthony Ngo about this true American original, who subjects either "love, hate or have never met." Synopsis: Written and directed…

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CRITERION SESSIONS: THE WIZ w/ Candice Frederick 59:21

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Hang onto your slipcases, because Blake Howard and award-winning culture reporter and critic Candice Frederick ruminate on THE WIZ and how Sidney Lumet, Joel Schumacher, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Richard Pryor and Quincy Jones make it more than significant. The Wiz L. Frank Baum’s timeless story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz gets a funky reimaginin…

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TOO MUCH MOVIE: AMERICAN PSYCHO 1:01:30

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FOR THE LATEST EPISODE OF THIS 90S CELEBRATION PODCAST, WE (HOSTS CHRIS CANDY, ROB BELUSHI, AND BLAKE HOWARD) GO TO THE BOOKEND OF THE DECADE, AMERICAN PSYCHO. Thank you so much for the ongoing support! Join our Patreon for as little as $1 a month for exclusive weekly podcasts + access to the OHM discord here. One Heat Minute Productions WEBSITE: o…

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SHE RIDES SHOTGUN w/author and co-screenwriter Jordan Harper 25:50

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To celebrate the release of SHE RIDES SHOTGUN, a new crime thriller, I talked with the author and co-screenwriter Jordan Harper about the joy of watching his work remixed by director Nick Rowland, co-screenwriters Ben Collins & Luke Piotrowski and stars Taron Egerton and Ana Sophia Heger. Synopsis: In the gritty, explosive action-thriller She Rides…

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GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC: “The Firemen’s Ball” with Liam Billingham 1:03:23

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The co-host of two of our favorite movie pods, “Die Hard on a Blank” and “48 Hours of Buddy Movies,” joins us to discuss Miloš Forman’s final Czech picture, the sharp-as-a-shiv social satire “The Firemen’s Ball.” Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.co…

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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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IMPRINT COMPANION: IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT 4K w/ Travis Woods 37:06

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Hang onto your slipcases because Blake Howard (One Heat Minute Productions) teams up with the legendary Travis Woods to unbox, unpack and unveil the upcoming IMPRINT FILMS physical media release of IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (for which he authored a new essay). In this episode, we discuss: In The Heat Of The Night (1967) – 4K UHD + Blu-ray Limited Ed…

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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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THE TOXIC AVENGER w/ Director Macon Blair 32:19

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Spine 661: Marketa Lazarová 1:58:03

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IMPRINT COMPANION: NEW YORK, NEW YORK w/ Bilge Ebiri 26:56

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Spine 660: Things to Come 1:59:48

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Spine 659: Life is Sweet 1:48:00

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CRITERION SESSIONS: BRAZIL w/ Nadine Whitney 49:13

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NEVER GET BUSTED! w/co-director David Anthony Ngo 27:01

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CRITERION SESSIONS: THE WIZ w/ Candice Frederick 59:21

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