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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? Hosts: @theadamglass.bsky.social @jpatrickdorgan.bsky.social http://www.lostincriterion.com
![Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.
A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v5vphilwcf6nunioeyrpxw6g/bafkreibeadpx66jtqlttglhgbgkew6g65haxqngz5yt6p3ybwyi5zney54)
he's saying the quiet part loud here, ai allows white filmmakers to control racial and ethnic minorities in an attempt to make them appear complicit in their own racist slander. paul schrader likes ai because it allows him to have a black actor that he owns.
The Playlist@theplaylist.bsky.social · 3d agoPaul Schrader Says He Turned To AI Because “No Black Actors Wanted To Play In A Movie Where There Are No Good Black People”
Sadly the kind of AI which took potential jobs away from artists. Boo Danny Boyle, boo. deadline.com/2026/09/dann...
Danny Boyle Confirms Use Of AI In New Movie 'Ink'
"There's about 30 seconds of it in our movie," the Oscar winner said about using AI to bring the Kray twins and Margaret Thatcher to life on screen.
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We finally get another Carl Th. Dreyer film, the earliest of his work we've ever seen, and Pat gets real hung up on the fact that Criterion calls it a "deft comedy of gentle revenge". Let's talk Master of the House (1925).
Spine 706: Master of the House | Lost in Criterion
We are thrilled to finally have another film from our (second?) favorite Danish director. Master of the House (1925) is the earliest Carl Th. Dreyer we've seen and the last the Criterion has to offer ...
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I'm sure Bluesky hacked off most of that headline on mobile, so:
lincoln carpenter@lincolnhello.bsky.social · last wk."'Where'd EA go? It's been purchased. So we didn't have a wall there,' Adams said. 'Could have had a wall. Didn't have a wall. Many such cases.'"
For our August 2026 patreon bonus we watched Seijun Suzuki's Pistol Opera a 2001 sequel to his 1967 film Branded to Kill that contains somewhat fewer instances of someone being sexual aroused by the smell of rice than the original but is still very good. Just $1 gets you access:
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The bells are ringing despite the church's disapproval this week as we dig into Lars von Trier's "psychological romance" in 1970s Scotland: Breaking the Waves (1996).
Spine 705: Breaking the Waves | Lost in Criterion
We are thrilled to finally have another film from our (second?) favorite Danish director. Breaking the Waves (1996) is the first film Lars von Trier made after establishing the Dogme 95 framework, but...
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Riot in Cell Block 11 is a prison reform message picture, so of course we spend half our conversation talking about the failed history of prison reform as an enterprise. Abolition now. Abolition always.
Spine 704: Riot in Cell Block 11 | Lost in Criterion
The back story on Don Siegel's fantastic Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954) is pretty crazy, and I promise we do eventually talk about it this week. But this is a message picture about prison reform, so we ...
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Shoutout to the Brewers sound team for having the Curb theme on the ready here. You can barely hear it over the crowd lol
Casey Drottar@caseydrottar.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Brewers are up 22-0 over Seattle, and one of those runs came because Julio Rodríguez caught the second out and threw it into the stands thinking it was the third.
We can't be held responsible for this week's episode. Wait, wrong The Freshman. This week we're talking another classic Harold Lloyd comedy and not mentioning The Verve Pipe song ever again.
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We get Harold Lloyd's classic silent college movie The Freshman and a handful of shorts on this week's episode. Sam Taylor and Fred Newmeyer direct the feature, among the most popular silent comedies ...
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Fun @lostincriterion.bsky.social fact: Park Lanes is named for the bowling alley in Mansfield, Ohio, which is where @jpatrickdorgan.bsky.social and I lived when we first met.
Decided that if I'm going to watch Kevin Jerome Everson's Park Lanes today I need to treat it like a real job, so I set an alarm for 8 am and am somehow still clocking in 10 minutes late.
Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty is an exploration of art and partying. It's performance all the way down, guiding us through each circle.
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Paolo Sorrentino's 2013 film The Great Beauty is in line with many an Italian film we've seen, a story of a middle aged man having an existential crisis. Like many a Fellini film, this crisis is also ...
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Nobody does infidelity like Satyajit Ray. letterboxd.com/zombimanos/f...
A ★★★★½ review of Charulata (1964)
Nobody does infidelity like Satyajit Ray.
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Our July Patreon Bonus episode celebrated the life of Sam Neill with a look at John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness (1994) and Cinema of Unease (1995), a BFI documentary presented and co-directed by Neill, a biographical history of New Zealand film. Just $1 gets you access:
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In which, for a few minutes at least, Ingmar Bergman channels his inner Hollis Frampton, and then transitions into one of the most influential narratives in the history of film: Persona (1966). www.lostincriterion.com/e/spine-701-...
Spine 701: Persona | Lost in Criterion
Given the rate of Bergman releases in the Criterion Collection it surprised us to realize that we haven't seen a film from the man in nearly two years. And what a surprising Bergman to come back to. P...
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Spine 700 brings us Wes Anderson's most Wes Anderson-y Fantastic Mr. Fox in which apparently every single item inside Roald Dahl's house is recreated in precious miniature form.
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Spine 700, can you believe it? We've been doing this for a long time. Criterion rewards our dedication with an overly full release of Wes Anderson's adaptation of Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)...
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PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.
Criterion finally shows us an Errol Morris documentary and Pat says it was the one Errol Morris documentary he was least interested in. It's A Brief History of Time (1991)!
Spine 699: A Brief History of Time | Lost in Criterion
Every documentary the Criterion Collection shows us leads to a discussion on what documentaries are, what they can do, and what their relationship to truth can and should be. Inevitably as well the su...
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[Oliver Stone] I despise his movies. If you care about movie art, there are certain people whom it’s legitimate to despise. JFK and NIXON are historically so dubious and yet accepted by audiences as accurate. All you can do as a critic is point out the distortions. (1998)
In which we speculate that Criterion is trying to help Stephen Soderberg justify his decision to give up making movies. This week we're talking King of the Hill (1993) and the supplementally included The Underneath (1995). www.lostincriterion.com/e/spine-698-...
Spine 698: King of the HillI | Lost in Criterion
Stephen Soderberg's third movie is the marquee release this week, King of the Hill (1993), an adaptation of A.E. Hotchner's memoir of being poor in Depression-era St. Louis. Also slid in here is Soder...
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In which we get absolutely rationally angry at the supplemental material for Roman Polanski's Tess (1979), an adaptation of English novelist Thomas Hardy's novel that Polanski "bravely" decided to make in France.
Spine 697: Tess | Lost in Criterion
Oh boy, another Roman Polanski film. Tess (1979) is Polanski's adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1890's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles. The film is well acted and well shot and we'd love to just talk abou...
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I also watched the second place winner, Obayashi's Labyrinth of Cinema (2019), as well and boydog are both these movies insane and wonderful. Obayashi's film is now among my favorite anti-war films.
Lost in Criterion@lostincriterion.bsky.social · 2mo agoInspired by Terence Davies' The Long Day Closes we decided to look at other love letters to the impact watching movies can have, and our supporters voted for Maggie Gyllenhaal's bombastic The Bride! (2026). Thanks to everyone who voted! Just $1 gets you access to over 100 non-Criterion bonus eps:
Inspired by Terence Davies' The Long Day Closes we decided to look at other love letters to the impact watching movies can have, and our supporters voted for Maggie Gyllenhaal's bombastic The Bride! (2026). Thanks to everyone who voted! Just $1 gets you access to over 100 non-Criterion bonus eps:
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