We make the case for the first Park Chan-Wook film to be in the Criterion Collection!
Articles mentioned:
Sarah Waters interview in the Guardian
Jia Tolentino in The New Yorker
Park Chan-Wook speaking about Extended version and other elements of adapting the script
Music:
“The Endless Scroll” by Absolutely Free
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Jean Renoir’s colourful and, at times, funny film about the building of the Moulin Rouge is the next edition of the Randomizer.
Criterion’s listing and boxset:
Spine #241: Stage and Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir
Music:
“The Endless Scroll” by Absolutely Free
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Terrence Malick’s re-telling of the story of Pocahontas and John Smith, the extended cut. It’s a doozy.
Bonus Material:
Indian Country Today review
Imperialist Nostalgia essay
Roger Ebert’s review
World Socialist Today review
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Music:
“The Endless Scroll” by Absolutely Free
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The latest in our I Can’t Believe It’s Not Criterion, we discuss one of the Greek Weird Wave’s most significant films and its director (and co-writer) Yorgos Lanthimos.
Music:
“The Endless Scroll” by Absolutely Free
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The martial arts masterpiece is part of a Bruce Lee box set on the Criterion Collection - does it kick ass? Or does it sink in a pool of acid?
Bonus Content:
Original Hong Kong poster referenced
Music:
“The Endless Scroll” by Absolutely Free
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Our latest edition of the Randomizer: will it be magic, or will it go up in flames?
BONUS CONTENT
Original Poster
Music:
“The Endless Scroll” by Absolutely Free
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How is there no Steven Spielberg film in the Criterion Collection?
BONUS CONTENT
Lessons From The Screenplay: Using Theme To Craft Character
Michael Crichton’s Global Warming Legacy
From a 99pi episode: Welcome To Jurassic Art
Music:
“The Endless Scroll” by Absolutely Free
courtesy of Idée Fixe Records and Arts & Crafts Music Inc.
The movie that made Boomers cool again — or maybe just Motown.
We dig into the values and the problems with Lawrence Kasdan’s 1983 ensemble film about … well about many things!
Music:
“The Endless Scroll” by Absolutely Free
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We give Jim Jarmusch’s vignettes a closer look as we travel across 5 time zones on one night in 1991, and experience 5 separate taxi rides.
BONUS CONTENT
Essays:
Los Angeles
New York
Paris
Rome
Helsinki
Music:
“The Endless Scroll” by Absolutely Free
courtesy of Idée Fixe Records and Arts & Crafts Music Inc.
The next edition of our Randomizer segment, the great wheel has fallen on Spine #463:
IL GENERALE DELLA ROVERE by acclaimed Italian director Roberto Rossellini
We had a lot of fun with this one! And what's more fun than...
Italian Neorealism
Multe Salami AND
Vittorio De Sica as a wartime rascal.
...oh and it's another prison-themed movie *we promise we are not doing this on purpose*
Bonus content:
Essay: Rediscovering Roberto Rossellini
Music:
“The Endless Scroll” by Absolutely Free
courtesy of Idée Fixe Records and Arts & Crafts Music Inc.
Starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet - this Michel Gondry directed and Charlie Kaufman film is a cult fan favourite - how will it fair? Listen to the latest edition of I Can’t Believe It’s Not Criterion.
Bonus content:
How editing shapes a story (YouTube)
Music:
“The Endless Scroll” by Absolutely Free
courtesy of Idée Fixe Records and Arts & Crafts Music Inc.
Forrest Gump meets Titanic?
We watched the second David Fincher film to make it into the Criterion Collection.
Bonus Material:
Short Story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case Of Benjamin: The Visuals, Music and Costumes (YouTube)
Criterion Listing: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Music:
“The Endless Scroll” by Absolutely Free
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“You guys up for some reggae tonight?” We watched the first feature film made in Jamaica, starring reggae star Jimmy Cliff, and featuring one of the best soundtracks we’ve covered thus far.
Bonus Material:
Klive Walker’s essay: How The Harder They Come created Jamaican cinema
Ulrick Casamir’s essay: A question of audience: revisiting Perry Henzell’s The Harder They Come
Perry Henzell’s obituary from 2006
Criterion Listing: The Harder They Come
Music:
“The Endless Scroll” by Absolutely Free
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A new segment - the Randomizer. Can the Criterion Collection handle a random selection and then subsequent viewing of one of the films? For our first Randomizer episode, we got Equinox, directed by Jack Woods and Dennis Murren - the 338th film on the list.
Bonus material:
Films made by students on cell phones in Nigeria discussed in the episode - news clip about them
Music:
“The Endless Scroll” by Absolutely Free
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The cult classic with Spine number 872 starring Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson and Steve Buscemi, by Dir./Writer Terry Zwigoff and writer Daniel Clowes Bonus material:
Three Things You Never Knew About Ghost World (that we discuss in the show)
“The Endless Scroll” by Absolutely Free
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“I’d buy that for a dollar!” Criterion’s 23rd film is kind of an odd choice, and a surprise! Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop is a wonderful satire of the era it was made, but does it belong on the list?
Bonus material:
Theatrical vs Director’s Cut - the 1 minute difference
Music:
“The Endless Scroll” by Absolutely Free
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John Carpenter! How has he been forgotten by the collection? We talk about his 1982 sci-fi horror classic, The Thing, featuring great performances from Kurt Russel, Wilford Brimley and Keith David, and a wonderful score from Ennio Morricone.
Bonus material:
- New reissue of the OST from 2020
- Story of the origins of the partnership of Morricone and Carpenter
Background reading:
- On the writer of the short story “Who Goes There?” and why a literary award was renamed after the winner, Jeannette Ng, criticized him
- Cory Doctorow’s essay about why the award’s name was rightly changed and it being a good decision
Music:
“The Endless Scroll” by Absolutely Free
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We have our first guest! Our friend, comedian and fellow podcaster, Cas Knihnisky, brings us a movie only half of us had seen — Rosemary’s Baby! It’s on the list - we talk about it, and a lot of the things surrounding it like what kind of a nightmare Polanski is, and how funny Ruth Gordon is!
Bonus Material:
Cas’s podcast about Stephen King: Castle Rockettes
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Music:
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In the conclusion of our inadvertent and accidental prisons and prisoners trilogy, we talk about how Michael Bay’s 1996 adventure into Alcatraz. Nicolas Cage, Sean Connery, and Ed Harris star in this wild ride.
Bonus Material:
Every Frame A Painting - “Michael Bay - What Is Bayhem?”
Music:
“The Endless Scroll” by Absolutely Free
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In a new edition of “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Criterion” we talk about Denis Villeneuve, Hollywood, and why our favourite French Canadian director deserves some recognition.
Bonus material:
Team Deakins podcast speaking with Denis Villeneuve
Music:
“The Endless Scroll” by Absolutely Free
courtesy of Idée Fixe Records and Arts & Crafts Music Inc.
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