Always See Everything - A Criterion Movie Podcast

4/20 is basically April Fool's anyway. You're a damn fool if you smoke that CRAP! Anthony and Sean finally devote a full episode to powerscaling, which is technically a form of literary analysis and therefore technically an academic exercise. Join us as we analyze these characters in EXACTLY the way their artists intended them! One day Goku will be in a Criterion movie and we can really ge...

The world of Christmas is vast and diverse. It can happen to anyone, anywhere, at any time. Even a mouse can have Christmas. It can happen in March. Who cares? You got other stuff to worry about, Connor. The dark and forbidden corners of the earth are exhumed through the grimy mysticism of Onibaba and the Gothic mystery of Le Corbeau. Crossing Delancey offsets them with the confection-sweet simpli...

Listener beware...you're in for a chill... ^pretty good^ From the resplendent Scottish highlands, to the depths of a horny French basement, to the dark aftermath of a Guatemala torn apart by tyranny, our purview is stretched wide-open this week to all the cinema of the world! Our purview is STUFFED with these mature adult dramas exploring the kalediscopic expressions of human pain-the bombast...

Giulietta Masina died four years before I was born but she is the only one who understands my pain. She is an angel of the gentlest character and an artist beyond peer. She should be in every movie at least twice. We need to do Clone High to bring her back so she can be a 15 second cameo in a Safdie move. Diary of a Country Priest is like petting a feeble old cat for the last time. Cameraperson is...

On this year's special Christmas episode Anthony, Sean, and Tyler watch the classic(?) holiday special based on a song people don't really like that much. Does Santa secretly keep all your deceased relatives at the North Pole? What was in that vile of random junk anyway? What are the geopolitical issues facing Whoville?

It's not even embarrassing that we switched to three movies a week instead of four. Giving up ground is a sign of strength actually. We have you right where we want you. Look, Rosemary's Baby I get, you can't miss that one. And I (Sean) actually liked Knife in the Water! But we can't keep letting Roman get in here! We don't want to have to address it!! Thankfully Le Cercle Roug...

There's Criterion in them there Collection... Another Bergman bonanza for the boys as we happily gulp down another spoonful of slow-cooked resentment and self doubt. Winter Light lets us get a little Christian, once again seeing Anthony test his faith against the smug musings of Sean, a level 9 Reddit atheist. Charlie Chaplin is back to show that you can be goofy on film, an idea that even tod...

Eric Clapton joins us to discuss his song Lola, but we quickly realize that we were mixing up Lola and Layla and also that we watched a movie called Lola that had nothing to with anything he's ever done. He called us names. The hits keep coming from Rainer Werner Fassbinder as he sends another fastball over the plate. Hope you like learning about the sociopolitical environment of post-war Germ...

Anton Chekhov stealthily plants his famous gun at the beginning of each segment of this podcast. Can you find them all??? It would be a huge help. Seriously, thanks for this. Let me know when you find them, this has been really ruining my life. Rainer Werner Fassbender doesn't let up with unbelievable heat firing from all chambers. What we learn from him is that some German filmmakers actually...

Tragedy, forbidden love, twisted masculinity, and old-fashioned down-and-dirty deep south detective drama dovetail delectably in this unskippable episode of Always See Everything. The rest have been pretty disposable but this one you're REALLY not gonna want to miss. Jane Campion has to chill with these good ass movies...she could do us a favor and miss even once...but no such luck...The real...

You wanna win this game, you gotta play by the rules...the rules of Schizopolis... Awesome episode description so good you want to smile like Wario. Brief recap of the films' premises and reference to our history with their respective filmmakers. Nasty reference to something Anthony doesn't like when i talk about. Thirteen minute long land acknowlegement. Talk about trading card game. Down...

You ain't ready for this one. I would challenge ANYONE to watch these 4 movies and not smile. We got it all; anger, artistry, love, music, hope, despair, loss, passion...there's nothing I can say to capture it. These films speak for themselves. Listen to this episode in the bathroom at your homie's wedding. this episode gets two big booms! BOOM...BOOM Intro - (00:00:00) Hiroshima mon a...

Our most "normal" episode yet sees Sean get political, Anthony reading Norm of the North Fandom articles while Sean gets political, and some light discussion of the relevant films. Anxiety surrounding the intersection of labor, political economy and personal life is the bread and butter of Ermanno Olmi, occasionally called "the Italian Jacques Tati." But this is an AMERICAN sty...

TU BI TUBI Our Wellesian foray comes to a close with this thunderous final installment! F is for Fake is the strongest contender yet for Kane's crown...can a nonfiction film do the impossible and top our lists for the season??? Featuring Jeff Spicoli of Harvard University to discuss his role as Sean Penn in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Intro - (00:00:00) Coup de grâce - (00:04:28) Quai des Or...

Another heater this week as we nestle metaphorically in the hypothetical rolls of Orson Welles' big belly in heaven. I'm writing this the day Brian Wilson died, and I heard that he's playing Orson's titties like bongo drums to make beautiful music for Jesus while he sleeps. Almost makes you forget about the genocide in Gaza, eh? This season was incomplete without a Kurosawa, so we...

Just noticing I misspelled Antoine Doinel's last name in the previous description. We really are set apart from the beasts by our capacity to learn, don't you think? A mistake is the most human thing of all, precisely because we can recognize it as such. Speaking of mistakes, Love on the Run concludes the 400 Blows-iverse with the correct message: there is nothing in life so beautiful that...

Our quest to Unseat Citizen Kane as "the best one" surges onward! Francois Truffaut, illustrious director of The 400 Blows, steps up to the plate with two Legacy Sequels featuring that film's protagonist...but now, Antoine Donel is grown, and he's going to make the society that has imprisoned him feel every one of those 400 blows. He accomplishes this task through casual sex. Thi...

Anthony and Sean, The Gods of Cinema, return. And this season is all business. No more sandy beaches. No more Margaritas. No more mysterious tattoos of LatinX ""cuties."" We begin with our seminal review of Citizen Kane, and from now on every film we watch this season will have to measure up to it. Like Anubis weighing sinners' hearts against a feather, so shall we compare...

The Emperor Of Podcast Award Shows crawls from his tomb once again to mercilessly dictate the winners and losers of this season of Always See Everything. Witness in horror as The Trentie casts his dark glare over David Lynch, Wim Wenders, David Cronenberg, David Dekalog and many others as they quake in terror beneath the weight of his dark judgement. Anthony and Sean are mere pawns in his game, ca...

Intro - (00:00:00) I Am Curious Yellow & Blue - (00:04:05) It Happened One Night & Heaven Can Wait - (01:08:56) Judex - (01:19:50) Rankings - (01:35:51)

The soul-wrenching conclusion to our two-part barn-burner on late great experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage. We manage to perfectly and flawlessly interpret the symbolic and aesthetic intention behind each and every one of his films. We get a Ouija board and the man himself confirms it, we were dead on every time. It's almost too easy for us, honestly. Intro - (00:00:00) By Brakhage: An Antho...

Anthony and Sean are buried in an avalanche of experimental silent short films, with only one managing to crawl out. Who will survive in this game of Brakhage? Certainly not Stan Brakhage! He is long dead. Intro - (00:00:00) By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume One - (00:06:08)

Intro - (00:00:00) Rosemary's Baby - (00:03:19) Che - (00:44:36) Female Trouble - (01:12:52) Rankings - (01:39:38)

Intro - (00:00:00) My Life As a Dog - (00:04:14) The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum - (00:21:06) The Others - (00:45:48) Black Moon - (01:08:46) Rankings - (01:38:00)

Intro - (00:00:00) The Killers - (00:02:44) The Killing - (00:26:25) Kill! - (00:43:07) Rankings - (01:01:28)