Always See Everything - A Criterion Movie Podcast

It's Gay Icon week on Always See Everything! Join closeted straight man Sean and regular straight man Anthony as we yaaasssssss along with Oscar Wilde, John Waters and his Dreamlanders, and assorted Edies of varying size in the gayest episode since the last one. Don't miss the shocking conclusion, which sees the dawn of a new iteration of the fabled and beloved " Salo line..." In...

Long live the new episode of Always See Everything. In perhaps their most true-to-form outing yet, Sean and Anthony spin their wheels on the worthwhile but unspectacular Billy Liar, wax philosophic about capitalism, religion, and DoorDash in discussing Salesman, and expose their respective souls through unrestrained, ebulliant gushing over an impossibly tightly scripted romantic drama and a gross...

We wrap up the Showa era with the dark psychedelia of Godzilla vs. Hedorah stealing the show! It doesn't help that the rest aren't that memorable. Megalon was cool. The guy and the movie. Everybody loves Jet Jaguar. Make sure to catch our final, definitive rankings to see how these movies stack up to each other and also way more boringer and worse movies like Persona and Yi Yi Intro - (00:...

Part 2 of our Showa era Godzilla series takes us on a real emotional roller coaster. The high adventure of Ebirah, Horror of the Deep and the destructive spectacle of Destroy All Monsters is offset by the...relative boringness of the Minilla-focused entries. All Monsters Attack is probably the worst thing we've watched for the show. I wish Mothra was real. Intro - (00:00:00) Invasion of Astro-...

The first installment of our three-part coverage of the Showa era Godzilla films, in celebration of Big G's 70th anniversary! Happy Birthday Kween <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3 We re-pledge our fealty to the resplendent original and dig our giant radioactive teeth into the ups and downs of the many, many sequels. Also featuring: the most knowledgeable kaiju expert that we personally...

Our scheduled programming this week covers the collaborations between director Bruce Robinson and actor Richard E Grant, but that's not the main event here. It deeply saddens me to inform you that war has changed. Anthony and Sean's lingering tensions have finally come to a head, and they have declared open war on one another through their picks. Anthony is subjected to the insipid, overth...

In a week frontloaded with surprises, Sean and Anthony tackle the (decidedly NOT a silly one) Diary of a Chambermaid and meet in the middle on Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels. Ingmar Bergman steps his pussy up for the unmatched psychodrama Persona, and Dead Man ushers us into hell with Crispin Glover as the oil-stained boatman. Let's all sing a song Card: Blue Eyes White Dragon. Th...

Anthony and permanent co-host Daisuke (who has been and will continue to be the permanent co-host for every episode) take on Eric Rohmer's Tales of Four Seasons, a quadrology of intimate human tales set against a nostalgia-infused cornucopia of seasonal aesthetics. It's basically the decalogue but there's only four and it's not Polish and it looks completely nothing like the Decalo...

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Sean debuts his most powerful impression yet in this can't-miss episode! Our viewings run the gamut from crime thrillers to comedies of manners to whatever you could describe A Master Builder as to uh oh fuck I don't really know how to summarize what Yi Yi is either. We're on island time baby Sean's Card of the Week this Week is: The long anticipated snow-covered wastes! Intro - (0...

The season 2 double feature continues with the latter half of the Dekalog. Anthony makes friends with a crab. Sean finds the blue lagoon from Blue Lagoon, but Denise Richards is long since gone. More importantly, though, we need to hear from you. Below you see two pictures of two women. https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1017498069111160872/1230301107385794580/MV5BMzVkMThmZmQtYTMzZS00M2ZiLTh...

Anthony and Sean inaugurate another season with a dectuple-header of Poland's finest in brutalist humanism: the Dekalog...But this time, we're headed to the beach! Join us for cocktails at the seaside longue as we peruse the grim grey landscapers of a crumbling post-soviet state! Ponder with us the miracle of the Polish finally learning how to not only screw in a lightbulb, but how to make...

The guard's footsteps snap the prisoner from his sleep. He shakes his head free of his dreams of Stan Lee, of John Lennon, of Frenchmen and their Mise en scène...faint, now, and fading. The guard smirks through the bars. "Get yourself up. It's time." Silent observers of every creed and station encircle the courtyard, bound together in reverence as the prisoner is escorted to the...

Wow. Our final four films of the season. How far we've come. I'm sure we give them the respect they deserve and don't waste time talking about Rupaul's Drag Race. I don't remember if we actually do that or not, but statistically, it is highly likely. Anyway, we're doing documentaries this week! Sean's pick centers around one of history's minor monsters, while Anthon...

This penultimate episode of ASE Season 1 sees Anthony and Sean engage in bloody battle with Jacques Tati, one of the most quirked up white boys to ever hail from the cursed kingdom of France. Marlene Dietrich's classic-style Hollywood biopic "The Scarlet Empress" is a temporary roadblock, but soon enough we're hooting and hollering through the abstract antics of Monsieur Hulot&#3...

Goddammit Tyler, that's the ONE thing I don't want anyone calling me!!!! Coup de Torchon poses a series of high-minded quandaries that Sean and Anthony may not be totally up to the task of dissecting, but Mona Lisa offsets that with enough bittersweet melodrama to get us hungry for more. Hollywood Shuffle's endearing goofiness and easy cleverness get us in a good enough mood to make it...

If "learn about a new fetish partaken in exclusively by nasty old guys" is on your to do list, then have we got the episode for you! Sean goes absolutely loco for dark theatrical masterwork Double Suicide. We welcome Stanley Kubrick to the ASE fold, though we're less than excited to sit through all three hours of his worst movie. Night and Fog is only about 40 minutes long, and the subject matter...

Anthony and cohost Sean (Naughton) get to work finishing up the filmography of Samuel Fuller, perhaps best known for being totally ignored in favor of Max Landis in The Greatest Episode of all Time! The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie ushers us in with light whimsy before our Fuller triple header, which includes cold-war intrigue, sober diagnoses of racial politics, and a full clip of classic We...

Anthony and his concave co-host Sean take on 3 quiet, personal, sensitive works of art, each fine-tuned by visionary directors to provide profound insight into the universal human experience. So it's only fitting that we inaugurate the week with some funky ass white boys straight thuggin'! Tyler did not enjoy our opinions on the latter, but that's fine. What's he gonna do about it,...

Mick Jagger of Music fame adds to the ever swelling roster of Sean's roommates and inaugurates one of our most European episodes yet! Baffled by L'avventura, given shelter by Gimme Shelter, simultaneously bored and enlightened by Jeanne Dielman, and ultimately illegally human Trafficked across the borders of country and morality, Anthony and Sean let Jesus take the wheel on this scandalous...

A storm is coming. Peely and Jonesy squad up to take on the Archers' vintage rom-com I Know Where I'm Going, the Sirkified soap opera Written on the Wind, and vent their repressed rage through the subtly demonic To Sleep With Anger and Twitter(formerly X) dot com favorite 12 Angry Men. Sean''s' Card of the Week this Week Is: Fable of the Mirror Breaker! You couldn't pay this fucking thing to stop...

We hope everyone enjoyed The Big Game! I'm sure my Chiefs won! If I'm wrong it's legal to kill me! Fiend without a Face is an old-style creature feature that doesn't impress, but Black Narcissus wastes no time in inducting Powell and Pressburger into the shortlist for our hall of fame. Something Wild rides the line between Blue Velvet and something else I can't really think of....

One of Sean's favorite films clashes with one of Anthony's favorite American political figures, with a Brian De Palma joint and a solid (if conventional) western bearing witness to this clash between two worlds... This week made me think about how much I love cinema. Just a rogues gallery of styles, techniques, genres...this, to me, is what the podcast is all about. If you have any interes...

Anthony prepares a very special surprise for us this week, giving some sorely-needed Lin Manuel Miranda style flair to a triple header of Sergei Eisenstein's most iconic work! We concur that Alexander Nevsky is propaganda done right, while Ivan the Terrible parts I and II showcase the tragic chad-to-warlock pipeline. Pygmalion finishes us off in more ways than one, but not in a nasty way. I gu...

We've got a nice eclectic mix this week on Always See Everything. We approach Fellini's Variety Lights with mixed feelings, but The Harder They Come brings up the tempo. Yasujiro Ozu puts up a solid second outing with Good Morning, and The Blob finshes us off with an extravaganza of incredible practical effects, a whip-smart script, and a perfect sense of balancing the charms of 50's s...