The Criterion Project

Rachel and Conrado venture in the mountains of Mexico prospecting for what to say about The Treasure of Sierra Madre, a Hollywood classic starring Humphrey Bogart and directed by John Huston.  Follow us on itunes and leave you ratings and reviews: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-criterion-project/id1479953904 Follow us on anchor https://anchor.fm/criterionproject Follow our twitter...

The great Tim Brayton comes back to talk about Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff together in the Universal Horror classic The Black Cat!  Follow us on itunes and leave you ratings and reviews: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-criterion-project/id1479953904 Follow us on anchor https://anchor.fm/criterionproject Follow our twitter at https://twitter.com/criterionpod Find out more about Tim...

To celebrate the first time they have ever met in person, Conrado and Rachel talk about Billy Wilder's iconic movie The Apartment at Conrado's  equally iconic New York apartment! Follow us on itunes and leave you ratings and reviews: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-criterion-project/id1479953904 Follow us on anchor https://anchor.fm/criterionproject Follow our twitter at https://twi...

2009 is one of the best years for animation in recent memory, and one of the best movies of that great year is the madcap Belgian comedy A Town Called Panic, an underseen gem and the topic of this episode! Follow us on itunes and leave you ratings and reviews: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-criterion-project/id1479953904 Follow us on anchor https://anchor.fm/criterionproject Follow our...

We jump on our thunderbird and drive into the beautiful southwest to talk about both Thelma... & Louise! Follow us on itunes and leave you ratings and reviews: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-criterion-project/id1479953904 Follow us on anchor https://anchor.fm/criterionproject Follow our twitter at https://twitter.com/criterionpod Follow Conrado's blog cocohitsny.wordpress.com/ ...

Cher! Cage! Dukakis! Rachel and Conrado are hit in the eye with a big pizza pie as they discuss the beloved rom-com classic Moonstruck!   Follow us on itunes and leave you ratings and reviews: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-criterion-project/id1479953904 Follow us on anchor https://anchor.fm/criterionproject Follow our twitter at https://twitter.com/criterionpod Follow Rachel's blo...

Conrado and Rachel catch up with the directorial debut of one of the most celebrated directors of our time: It's David Lynch's Eraserhead! Follow us on itunes and leave you ratings and reviews: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-criterion-project/id1479953904 Follow us on anchor https://anchor.fm/criterionproject Follow our twitter at https://twitter.com/criterionpod Listen to Conrado's new...

Rachel and Conrado are joined by Kevin Falk to talk about a French new wave classic, and one of the greatest musicals of all time! Follow us on itunes and leave you ratings and reviews: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-criterion-project/id1479953904 Follow us on anchor https://anchor.fm/criterionproject Follow our twitter at https://twitter.com/criterionpod Follow Rachel's blog at rachels...

Conrado and Rachel go back to the animation world, this time for the late Satoshi Kon's final movie: Paprika!  Follow us on itunes and leave you ratings and reviews: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-criterion-project/id1479953904 Follow us on anchor https://anchor.fm/criterionproject Follow our twitter at https://twitter.com/criterionpod Listen to Conrado's new podcast Foreign Invade...

It's time for a classic musical! Directed by the great Vicente Minelli for the legendary Arthur Freed unit at MGM! Starring Judy Holiday in her last screen performance alongside Dean Martin! And we are joined by our friend Katie Carter! What more could you ask for?!  Follow us on itunes and leave you ratings and reviews: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-criterion-project/id1479953904...

The Dardenne brothers might not be a household name in America, but they are some of the most celebrated directors in the world. We talk about the socially relevant Belgian classic about a teenage girl desperately trying to find a job: Rosetta! Follow us on itunes and leave you ratings and reviews: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-criterion-project/id1479953904 Follow us on anchor https:/...

We escape to Rome and ride our vespas with Gregory Peck and a young Audrey Hepburn to talk Roman Holiday. What's more, we are joined by Topher Payne, screenwriter of Rome in Love, the first Criterion Project guest to have actually written a remake (sort of) of the movie we're talking about!  Follow us on itunes and leave you ratings and reviews: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-crite...

Conrado and Rachel tackle a very celebrated, very intense, and rather triggering classic. A Woman Under the Influence is the most famous movie by director John Cassavetes, a pioneer of independent American cinema and features relentless performances by Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk.  Follow us on itunes and leave you ratings and reviews: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-criterion-proj...

It's the hundreth anniverary of the birth of director Satyajit Ray, so we invited Indian cinema enthusiast Jimmy Cage to talk about the master's debut masterpiece: Pather Panchali.  Please consider taking a look at this document to learn more about and help in the relief efforts for the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in India: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1ppS3GfJ4UT9BxFl9bIWEI7H4...

Season three begins with a momentous occasion! The wonderful Esther Ko joins us to witness the match of the century: Rachel Wagner will finally face off Jean-Luc Godard!  Follow us on itunes and leave you ratings and reviews: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-criterion-project/id1479953904 Follow us on anchor https://anchor.fm/criterionproject Follow our twitter at https://twitter.com...

In a very special Apirl's Fools episode of The Criterion Project, we are joined by Louie G, host of the Robots vs. Dinosaurs podcast, to talk about a true hidden gem and one of Conrado's favorite movies: it's Don't Let the Riverbeast Get You! Follow us on itunes and leave you ratings and reviews:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-criterion-project/id1479953904 Follow us on anchor&nbs...

We close the second season of The Criterion Project by talking once more about our favorite genre. The Lady Eve is not just another screwball comedy, it's one of the best ones!  Follow us on itunes and leave you ratings and reviews: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-criterion-project/id1479953904 Follow us on anchor https://anchor.fm/criterionproject Follow our twitter at https://twit...

We're closing our second season of the show with a bang: It's the directorial debut of comedy legend Elaine May! In A New Leaf, Walter Matthau plays a selfish millionaire who runs out of money, and sets out to woo and marry an heiress (played by May herself), with the intensions of murdering her. And in order to talk about this dark comedy classic, we are joined by the wonderful Kyle Turner! Follo...

Kirikou and the Sorceress, directed by Michel Ocelot, is one of the most successful and influential animated movies in the history of France. It was so successful upon its initial release that the French referred to the animation boom that followed as the "Ocelot Effect." We are joined by international animation specialist Cameron Ward to talk about this classic.  Follow us on itunes and leav...

Rachel and Conrado are joined by Professor and film critic Nick Davis to talk about one of the most unique and fascinating movies of the nineties. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is the collaboration of director Jim Jarmusch, actor Forest Whitaker, and Wu-Tang Clan member The RZA and the results are as eclectic and energetic as you would expect from such a trio!  Follow us on itunes and lea...

Conrado is here with a special message about his brand new podcast: Foreign Invader! It's a show about the pop culture that is corrupting American life. Every episode we take a piece of culture that originated in not the United States of America and talk about its impact on our country and our lives. Listen now: https://anchor.fm/conrado-falco-iii

Rachel and Conrado are joined by film critic Murtada Elfadl, host of the prestigious 'Sundays with Cate' podcast to talk about Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and wild leopards in one of the craziest screwball comedies of them all: It's 'Bringing Up Baby'!  Follow us on itunes and leave you ratings and reviews: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-criterion-project/id1479953904 Follow us...

Rachel and Conrado take on Mira Nair's 'Monsoon Wedding,' a sprawling romantic comedy where Bollywood meets American indie cinema.  Follow us on itunes and leave you ratings and reviews: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-criterion-project/id1479953904 Follow us on anchor https://anchor.fm/criterionproject Follow our twitter at https://twitter.com/criterionpod Follow Conrado's blog coc...

You know the Criterion Project had to talk about Terrence Malick at some point! Once a reclusive director who took decades between projects, Malick has become incredibly prolific - and divisive - in recent years. But Conrado and Rachel go back to 1978 to talk about one of his early movies: Days of Heaven, a gorgeous melodrama set in the Texas prairie.  Please  follow us on itunes and lea...

We are joined by writer-director Abie Sidell to talk about the greatest movie of all time! That's right, we're talking about that timeless classic CITIZEN KANE. Of course that's not enough of a challenge for us, so we also talk about David Fincher's new movie MANK (a behind-the-scenes look at the production of KANE). We also have a very spirited discussion about Christopher Nolan's TENET of all th...