Ranked #1
Spine 288: F for Fake
Spine 288: F for Fake
Before we started our journey of Lost in Criterion I owned two Criterion films: The Third Man and F for Fake. They also ... Read more
6 Apr 2018
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1hr 9mins
Ranked #2
Spine 316: Ran
Spine 316: Ran
The Criterion Collection sure loves Shakespeare. Turns out so does Kurosawa, though sometimes by accident? Throne of Blo... Read more
19 Oct 2018
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1hr 16mins
Ranked #3
Spine 143: That Obscure Object of Desire
Spine 143: That Obscure Object of Desire
What happens when a man is so singularly obsessed with possessing a woman that he doesn't even pay attention to who she ... Read more
28 Aug 2015
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55mins
Ranked #4
Spine 140: 8 1/2
Spine 140: 8 1/2
Federico Fellini's 1963 navel-gazing comedy-drama 8 1/2 -- named for how many films he'd reckoned he'd made at the time ... Read more
7 Aug 2015
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58mins
Ranked #5
Spine 233: Stray Dog
Spine 233: Stray Dog
Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura are two of the greatest actors of the 20th century. It happens that they also frequen... Read more
14 Apr 2017
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1hr 7mins
Ranked #6
Spine 349: Kicking and Screaming
Spine 349: Kicking and Screaming
We last heard from Noah Baumbach as the cowriter of Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. One of our many g... Read more
25 May 2019
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1hr 15mins
Ranked #7
Spine 324: La bête humaine
Spine 324: La bête humaine
Jean Gabin really likes trains. Jean Renoir also really likes trains. They wanted to make a train movie, and any train m... Read more
14 Dec 2018
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1hr
Ranked #8
Spine 339: Yi Yi
Spine 339: Yi Yi
We spend a lot of time this week talking about Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love, and on the one hand I feel a bit bad... Read more
22 Mar 2019
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1hr 25mins
Ranked #9
Spine 277: My Own Private Idaho
Spine 277: My Own Private Idaho
Gus Van Sant originally started writing the film that would become My Own Private Idaho in the 70s, and wrote the other ... Read more
26 Jan 2018
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1hr 9mins
Ranked #10
Spine 154: The Horse's Mouth
Spine 154: The Horse's Mouth
Alec Guinness first tried to read Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth during World War II, but couldn't bear its stream-of-co... Read more
13 Nov 2015
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59mins
Ranked #11
Spine 335: Elevator to the Gallows
Spine 335: Elevator to the Gallows
After our run of later period, more biographical Louis Malle films a few weeks ago we swing back with his first feature ... Read more
22 Feb 2019
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1hr 10mins
Ranked #12
Spine 230: 3 Women
Spine 230: 3 Women
Robert Altman has had a long and varied career and Pat and I have only been familiar with his commercial highlights: M.A... Read more
24 Mar 2017
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53mins
Ranked #13
Spine 147: In the Mood for Love
Spine 147: In the Mood for Love
Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love. Such a beautiful and poetic film. Released in 2000, a scant three years after the B... Read more
26 Sep 2015
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1hr 1min
Ranked #14
Spine 278: L'Eclisse
Spine 278: L'Eclisse
A little over three years ago Lost in Criterion watched the first film in a trilogy of sorts by Michelangelo Antonioni. ... Read more
2 Feb 2018
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1hr 6mins
Ranked #15
Spine 297: au hasard Balthazar
Spine 297: au hasard Balthazar
We get to watch a movie about a donkey! But the donkey doesn't talk. It's not animated. It's depressing. I'd call au has... Read more
8 Jun 2018
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1hr 10mins
Ranked #16
Spine 347: Six Moral Tales: Claire's Knee
Spine 347: Six Moral Tales: Claire's Knee
This outing I think Eric Rohmer may have been trying to make a parody of Lolita by introducing a woman with a predilecti... Read more
10 May 2019
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1hr 8mins
Ranked #17
Spine 247: Slacker
Spine 247: Slacker
Richard Linklater's Slacker kicked off the American indie scene of the 90's for better or worse (Kevin Smith cites the f... Read more
14 Jul 2017
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57mins