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With the start of the Criterion Channel, Rachel Wagner and Conrado Falco thought it would be fun, once a month, to talk about a film offered there. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/criterionproject/support

The Criterion Project Rachel Wagner

    • TV & Film
    • 4.4 • 8 Ratings

With the start of the Criterion Channel, Rachel Wagner and Conrado Falco thought it would be fun, once a month, to talk about a film offered there. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/criterionproject/support

    AFI 100 Passions List

    AFI 100 Passions List

    With Rachel wrapping up her project to review every movie in the AFI 100 Years... 100 Passions list, we decided to take a look at this fun but kind of baffling list and pick out some of our favorite movies. What criterion has been used to rank these love stories? It's hard to say!



    Movies discussed in this episode:

    Beauty and the Beast

    The Bridges of Madison County

    It Happened One Night

    Make Way for Tomorrow

    A Place in the Sun

    What's Up, Doc?



    The AFI 100 years... 100 Passions list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years...100_Passions



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    • 56 min
    Raging Bull

    Raging Bull

    Conrado and Rachel talk about RAGING BULL, the dark and violent biography of boxer Jake LaMotta, played in a transformative performance by Robert De Niro. Directed by the great Martin Scorsese, it has been praised by many critics as one of the best movies ever made.





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    • 36 min
    Oscar Recommendations and Predictions!

    Oscar Recommendations and Predictions!

    In this special Oscar episode, we not only give out predictions of which movies will win awards at next Sunday's ceremony, but we also recommend a similar movie to each of the Best Picture nominees!



    Movies discussed in this episode include:

    Bamboozled

    Certified Copy

    Enchanted

    Princess Cyd

    There Will Be Blood

    Phantom Thread

    The Aviator

    In the Mood for Love

    Female Trouble

    The Act of Killing



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    • 54 min
    Defending Your Life

    Defending Your Life

    Rachel and Conrado talk about DEFENDING YOUR LIFE: written, directed and starring the great Albert Brooks. In this fantasy rom-com, a neurotic man dies and finds himself in "Judgment City", where he will have to mount a legal defense for having lived a good and worthy life. Also starring Meryl Streep, Lee Grant, and a hilarious Rip Torn as the protagonist's defense attorney.



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    • 43 min
    The Yards with Collin Brinkmann

    The Yards with Collin Brinkmann

    Conrado and Rachel are joined by Collin Brinkmann, author of Intimate Impressions: The Cinema of James Gray — the first monograph / critical biography on James Gray in English - to talk about Gray's second feature THE YARDS, a mournful crime saga starring Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix and Charlize Theron. We talk about what makes Gray special, why he's so underrated as a filmmaker, and the problem-filled history of this movie's release.



    Read Collin's Intimate Impressions: The Cinema of James Gray here: https://the1517tocinema.blogspot.com/2022/10/intimate-impressions-cinema-of-james_28.html






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    • 52 min
    Inside Llewyn Davis with Abie Sidell

    Inside Llewyn Davis with Abie Sidell

    Rachel and Conrado are joined by filmmaker Abie Sidell to talk about INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS, the Coen Brothers' anti-epic starring Oscar Isaac as a prickly folk musician trying to make it in early sixties Greenwich Village.



    Watch Abie Sidell's CRAM now on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/712946/cram



    Watch Matt Farley's LOCAL LEGENDS: https://www.amazon.com/Local-Legends-Matt-Farley/dp/B07LGG43TW



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