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In 2013 two guys whose favorite movie is (was?) Hudson Hawk decided to watch every movie in the Criterion Collection in Spine order. And why not make it a podcast?
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A Milestone, and perhaps a manifesto | Lost in Criterion
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The Organizer is the final film released by the Criterion Collection before we first started recording Lost in Criterion in April 2012, and with that milestone I wrote a short reflection on what the podcast has become, available free at our patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/milest...
We kick off 3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman with Stromboli (1950) a film that was incredible controversial in its time not for its content but for its director and star's personal lives.
Spine 673: Stromboli | Lost in Criterion
This week we start 3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman, a boxset containing three of the five films Rossellini and Bergman made together over the course of their 7 year relationship....
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November 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We kick off 3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman with Stromboli (1950) a film that was incredible controversial in its time not for its content but for its director and star's personal lives.
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50 years ago today, this photo of the Chicago press conference for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was taken.
In the background you can see Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert — in the clothes they wore in the Siskel & Ebert pilot, which was also shot that same day.
In the background you can see Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert — in the clothes they wore in the Siskel & Ebert pilot, which was also shot that same day.
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
50 years ago today, this photo of the Chicago press conference for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was taken.
In the background you can see Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert — in the clothes they wore in the Siskel & Ebert pilot, which was also shot that same day.
In the background you can see Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert — in the clothes they wore in the Siskel & Ebert pilot, which was also shot that same day.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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RIP Todd Snider
One time I was working the coffee bar at a hotel and looking up tickets for Todd's show that night and wondering if I could afford it when Todd came in for coffee and by the time we stopped talking he'd given me 3 CDs, a signed notebook, and 3 tickets to the show.
One time I was working the coffee bar at a hotel and looking up tickets for Todd's show that night and wondering if I could afford it when Todd came in for coffee and by the time we stopped talking he'd given me 3 CDs, a signed notebook, and 3 tickets to the show.
Mission Accomplished (Because You Gotta Have Faith)
YouTube video by Todd Snider - Topic
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November 17, 2025 at 6:58 AM
RIP Todd Snider
One time I was working the coffee bar at a hotel and looking up tickets for Todd's show that night and wondering if I could afford it when Todd came in for coffee and by the time we stopped talking he'd given me 3 CDs, a signed notebook, and 3 tickets to the show.
One time I was working the coffee bar at a hotel and looking up tickets for Todd's show that night and wondering if I could afford it when Todd came in for coffee and by the time we stopped talking he'd given me 3 CDs, a signed notebook, and 3 tickets to the show.
This week we're talking Eduaord Molinaro's La Cage aux Folles (1978) which is a funny movie, but we're more interested in one of the disc's bonus features, a brief history of drag and gender-nonconformity from Laurence Senelick.
Spine 671: La Cage aux Folles | Lost in Criterion
Sometimes Criterion shows us a single film from a director we'd never seen before and leaves us wanting for the rest of our project, so often actually that we call them "one and dones". But then somet...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This week we're talking Eduaord Molinaro's La Cage aux Folles (1978) which is a funny movie, but we're more interested in one of the disc's bonus features, a brief history of drag and gender-nonconformity from Laurence Senelick.
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Maybe Lyonne can use her AI company to recast herself into the main role after the Dinklage season premieres.
‘POKER FACE’ has been cancelled by Peacock after 2 seasons.
However, Rian Johnson is pitching a new version of the series with Peter Dinklage taking over as detective Charlie Cale
(Source: Deadline)
However, Rian Johnson is pitching a new version of the series with Peter Dinklage taking over as detective Charlie Cale
(Source: Deadline)
November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Maybe Lyonne can use her AI company to recast herself into the main role after the Dinklage season premieres.
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A lot of good to be said about this film, but also the ceasefire scene is my favorite Christmas movie.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBzW...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A lot of good to be said about this film, but also the ceasefire scene is my favorite Christmas movie.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBzW...
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I think there are portions of this episode where we forget that The Great Dictator came out in 1940. Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be (1942) is not the earliest anti-Nazi comedy, but dang if it's not equally the best. Remember that fascists are absurd, and deserve to be mocked at every turn.
Spine 670: To Be or Not to Be | Lost in Criterion
A problem talking about the films of Ernst Lubitsch is that it's very hard not to just start listing the good gags, and To Be or Not to Be (1942) is full of great gags. It's also full of suspense - a ...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I think there are portions of this episode where we forget that The Great Dictator came out in 1940. Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be (1942) is not the earliest anti-Nazi comedy, but dang if it's not equally the best. Remember that fascists are absurd, and deserve to be mocked at every turn.
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‘It takes a lot of energy to be an asshole’
Steven Soderbergh knows the score.
Interview by @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
www.vulture.com/2017/11/stev...
Steven Soderbergh knows the score.
Interview by @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
www.vulture.com/2017/11/stev...
November 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
‘It takes a lot of energy to be an asshole’
Steven Soderbergh knows the score.
Interview by @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
www.vulture.com/2017/11/stev...
Steven Soderbergh knows the score.
Interview by @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
www.vulture.com/2017/11/stev...
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Happy Halloween! Just posted is this month's Patreon Bonus, where we look at the Jim Henson and Nicholas Roeg 1990 adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Witches and wonder why it wasn't better. $1 gets you access at www.patreon.com/lostincriterion
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Two guys who love Hudson Hawk talk about better movies
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October 31, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Happy Halloween! Just posted is this month's Patreon Bonus, where we look at the Jim Henson and Nicholas Roeg 1990 adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Witches and wonder why it wasn't better. $1 gets you access at www.patreon.com/lostincriterion
Our second in back to back Satyajit Ray films, Charulata (1964) is among the most visually stunning films we've seen, so viscerally (and visually) capturing longing.
Spine 669: Charulata | Lost in Criterion
Satyajit Ray's Charulata (1964) is a masterpiece. We haven't seen a film that so exquisitely captures longing since Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood for Love (2000) 500 Spines ago. In ten more years I suspe...
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October 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Our second in back to back Satyajit Ray films, Charulata (1964) is among the most visually stunning films we've seen, so viscerally (and visually) capturing longing.
The Criterion Collection is finally showing us two (or three) more Satyajit Ray films! This week we talk about the beautiful The Big City (1963), and as a bonus get to see the more cynical but equally lyrical The Coward (1965).
Spine 668: The Big City | Lost in Criterion
We absolutely fell in love with the films of Satyajit Ray when we first watched The Music Room a few years ago, and we are so happy that Criterion is finally showing us more of his work. The Big City ...
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October 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The Criterion Collection is finally showing us two (or three) more Satyajit Ray films! This week we talk about the beautiful The Big City (1963), and as a bonus get to see the more cynical but equally lyrical The Coward (1965).
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I don’t know if there’s a more perfect illustration of the utter fucking nonsense that creative pollution by AI will produce than this choice to illustrate the power of Paramount’s new “localization” and “customization” technology by face-swapping Brad Pitt into the lead role of GET OUT
October 23, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I don’t know if there’s a more perfect illustration of the utter fucking nonsense that creative pollution by AI will produce than this choice to illustrate the power of Paramount’s new “localization” and “customization” technology by face-swapping Brad Pitt into the lead role of GET OUT
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Bought the Olympic's boxset during the flash sale, which we will not begin to cover until June 2029 because I still believe in the future.
October 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Bought the Olympic's boxset during the flash sale, which we will not begin to cover until June 2029 because I still believe in the future.
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Saw an armored car for a company called LOOMIS today and maybe it's just the time of year, but that's not a name that inspires security to me.
October 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Saw an armored car for a company called LOOMIS today and maybe it's just the time of year, but that's not a name that inspires security to me.
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tremendously admire his work and the way he talks abt an exploratory creative process BUT it is very sad to me how little that sort of thinking & working is possible. like u need to have an enormously successful career in a medium that isn't yet perfectly industrialized in order to get to this point
"How Hayao Miyazaki Creates" (from Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron documentary)
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October 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
tremendously admire his work and the way he talks abt an exploratory creative process BUT it is very sad to me how little that sort of thinking & working is possible. like u need to have an enormously successful career in a medium that isn't yet perfectly industrialized in order to get to this point
We face off with the existential dread of a midlife crisis with John Frankenheimer's Seconds (1966), a movie where money and technology can make you hotter (and can provide you with artwork to claim you made) but can't make you like yourself.
Spine 667: Seconds | Lost in Criterion
We get our first John Frankenheimer feature in the Collection with Seconds (1966), though we covered his version of Dr. Moreau on a Patreon episode recently and also he directed The Comedians teleplay...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
We face off with the existential dread of a midlife crisis with John Frankenheimer's Seconds (1966), a movie where money and technology can make you hotter (and can provide you with artwork to claim you made) but can't make you like yourself.
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Goddamn @theamynicholson.bsky.social COOKED with this FRANKENSTEIN review. Bow down to one of the greats. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
October 17, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Goddamn @theamynicholson.bsky.social COOKED with this FRANKENSTEIN review. Bow down to one of the greats. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
October 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
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RIP to Drew Struzen, the greatest to ever do it. 🙌
October 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
RIP to Drew Struzen, the greatest to ever do it. 🙌
Start off Indigenous People's Day right with this fantastic film!
Now playing (07:55 AM PST):
"Powwow Highway" (1989)
By Jonathan Wacks
Runtime: 91 min.
"Powwow Highway" (1989)
By Jonathan Wacks
Runtime: 91 min.
October 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Start off Indigenous People's Day right with this fantastic film!
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Gigli = better than AI
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October 12, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Gigli = better than AI
The cheeky Criterion Collection put out @realgdt.bsky.social's The Devil's Backbone as Spine #666. This week we talk about the film, del Toro's twin driving forces of anti-fascism and neat special effects, and how war is bad for kids (and adults), a lesson human society apparently cannot remember.
Spine 666: The Devil's Backbone | Lost in Criterion
Sometimes the Criterion Collection goes and does a silly thing, like releasing Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone as Spine 666. How spooky! One of the great Mexican director's films about how f...
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October 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The cheeky Criterion Collection put out @realgdt.bsky.social's The Devil's Backbone as Spine #666. This week we talk about the film, del Toro's twin driving forces of anti-fascism and neat special effects, and how war is bad for kids (and adults), a lesson human society apparently cannot remember.