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A journey in time through the films of the Criterion Collection.
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The podcast version of Fat Dude Digs Flicks, a dude on social media who is dedicated to reviewing movies and spreading his love for all things cinema. This channel features Let’s Taco ‘Bout, an interview based podcast where Andy, The Fat Dude, chats with a guest about their life and a movie that has had a major impact it. It also features The Criterion Break, where cohosts Blake Ginithan, Derrick Veurink, and I pay tribute to the glory that is the Criterion Collection. You can follow all thi ...
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A closer look at titles and directors from the Criterion Collection
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A current rundown of the world of Criterion with a round table of guests. We talk about new and upcoming releases, what's happening on FilmStruck, and other related topics related to the Criterion Collection.
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Main episodes of the Criterion Cast podcast
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Two friends band together on an epic quest to make their way through the entire Criterion Collection
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Podcaster Bil Antoniou of BGM: Bad Gay Movies Bitchy Gay Men goes through his Criterions and talks about the movies and the memories they inspire, along the way chatting with a few friends. This podcast is not affiliated with the Criterion Collection and no copyright infringement is intended.
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The Adam Glass and John Patrick Owatari-Dorgan attempt the sisyphean task of watching every movie in the ever-growing Criterion Collection. Want to support us? We’ll love you for it: www.Patreon.com/LostInCriterion
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A look into the Criterion Collection, one spine number at a time. Each episode Darin looks at a movie from the Criterion Collection and shares what he thought.
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A podcast for fans of the Criterion Collection.
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Elsie + Emma are sisters and co-founders of the top DIY blog — A Beautiful Mess. They have written over seven thousand blog posts, so it seemed like a good time to start a podcast! The sisters have a lot to say on everything from home and DIY to family life and business. Visit abeautifulmess.com/podcast for show notes.
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The Film Basement returns to talk movies old and new. We will review new films, highlight home video releases and look back at the classics.
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Brave film explorer comrades Joey Reinisch and Chris McCaleb journey to far the reaches of cinema. In each mission, they will analyze, report and criticize a film from THE CRITERION COLLECTION, hopefully maintaining their sanity in the presence of extreme motion picture brilliance...or something.
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Hosts Claude Redgraves and Bradford T. Woolf invite you to a friendly pub, The Hell Razor Handle Bar, to discuss horror movies, and related topics over a glass or two. No matter where the topic takes them, the listener is always warned by the ever prescient waitress Cassandra when a spoiler is coming up.
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Pop quiz, hotshot! Has there ever been a movie better than Speed? We’re watching the entire canon of classic world cinema on a quest to discover a film that tops the Keanu Reeves masterpiece Speed.
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Get your horror movie fix with filmmaker and horror junkie Matt Lolich, as he reviews and deep dives into horror movies and other spooky topics!
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Summer Bonus: A Beautiful Mess Criterion Collection
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This episode is such a fun one for us- we’re going through and making our own A Beautiful Mess Criterion Collection. Movies bring us so much joy and we love highlighting them here. This also gives us a chance to talk about some movies we love that don’t fall into the “comfort rewatch” for one reason or another. We’ve honestly been looking forward t…
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Charlie Kaufman's screenwriting and Spike Jonze's directorial debuts, Being John Malkovich is a delightfully weird story of identity. Lotte (Cameron Diaz)'s storyline is particularly compelling, with Lotte experiencing gender euphoria as Malkovich, whereas our other main characters want to use Malkovich for patriarchal power, through fame or immort…
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The Criterion Break - Episode 48 - Punch-Drunk Love
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Send us a Text Message. The Criterion Break is back! On this week’s show, the guys from the back row chat about some recent watches, including a theatrical viewing of the new 4K remaster of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. Next, they briefly discuss the upcoming CC40 box set and what their thoughts are on this being Criterion’s big November box set.…
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Mario Monicelli's The Organizer's title, like De Sica's Bicycle Thieves 15 years before it, had its title senselessly singularized for English release. The original title I compagni means "The Comrades" and is a bit more indicative of the ensemble organizing that is going on here. The story of a late 19th century textile mill strike, The Organizer …
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188. Let's Taco 'Bout Batman (1989) featuring Billy Yost
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Send us a Text Message. We’re wrapping up the summer blockbuster miniseries with a Fat Dude foundational film. Billy Yost, musical genius and one of the founding members of the Chicago-based rock band, The Kickback, joins the show this week. We chat about creative success, satisfaction, and disappointment, as well as finding musical influences than…
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In 1973 Robert M. Young made Children of the Fields, a short documentary about a family of Polo Galindo, migrant farm workers in the Southwest US including his young children living, a transient life as exploited laborers. Galindo opened Young's eyes not only to his and his family's plight, but to the struggles of an even lower rung: undocumented m…
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187. Let's Taco 'Bout The Sixth Sense featuring Casey and Sam from Screams From the Basement
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Send us a Text Message. The summer blockbuster miniseries keeps on trucking! This week, it’s a podcast team up for the ages as Casey and Sam of Screams From The Basement join the show. The two horror podcasters talk about their hectic schedule for the next few months, and chat with the Fat Dude about finding their podcasting rhythm. The gang then c…
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Written by Colin Higgins and directed by Hal Ashby, scored by Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), Harold and Maude is a wonderful piece of counter-culture from early New Hollywood, and honestly, a better ode to freedom than most of what came out of the "America Lost and Found: The BBS Story" boxset of foundational New Hollywood works we watched a few months…
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186. Let’s Taco ‘Bout Terminator 2: Judgment Day featuring Blake Ginithan
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Send us a Text Message. Ah snap! It’s… 🤖🤖 TERMINATOR 2-SDAY!!! 🤖🤖 Blake Ginithan of The Criterion Break and The Balcony rejoins the show as a part of the Summer Blockbuster miniseries. We discuss the summer blockbuster experiences of the past and what our hopes are for the future, as well as our excitement in being part of a blossoming local film c…
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Spine 607: A Hollis Frampton Odyssey Part 3
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We finish up A Hollis Frampton Odyssey this week, covering work from his Magellan cycle, a massive project Frampton was working on when he died. While previously discussed works like (nostalgia) show Frampton's ironic detachment, Magellan melds the history of film and Frampton's life story in a way that feels sentimental. These works also often see…
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185. Let's Taco 'Bout Twister and Twisters featuring Derrick Veurink
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Send us a Text Message. The summer blockbuster series keeps chugging along. This week, resident severe (movie) weather expert and reliable podcast cohost, Derrick Veurink, joins Let’s Taco ‘Bout for a double feature. Derrick and the Fat Dude start by discussing this summer’s surprises before a chat about the Jan De Bont weather thriller, Twister. T…
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Spine 607: A Hollis Frampton Odyssey Part 2
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We continue through A Hollis Frampton Odyssey and it feels a bit like being lost at sea this week. We cover 3 films from his Hapax Legomena series: (nostalgia), Poetic Justice, and Critical Mass. Each originally released in 1972, the three shorts are perhaps more conceptually interesting to us than they are in execution. Well, not Critical Mass, wh…
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Mr. Redgraves and special guest Mina Guth take a deep dive on the award winning and cult classic Japanese movie within a movie, One Cut of the Dead. As Cassandra had the night off, there will be no spoiler warnings.By Mr. Woolf and Mr. Redgraves
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This week we’re responding to a listener question (hi Share) from a listener who is expecting her first child soon. This will be a parenting episode full of little parenting stories and our tips including naming, gear, self care and you know we love a pep talk. You can support us by leaving us a couple of 5 star recipe reviews this week at abeautif…
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The Criterion Break - Episode 47 - The Criterion Films of Michael Bay (The Rock and Armageddon)
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Send us a Text Message. The Criterion Break returns, continuing the summer-long theme on the Fat Dude Digs Flicks podcast network with another round of summer blockbusters. First, the boys chat about a recent screening of Brian DePalma’s Blow Out at the State Theater in Sioux Falls. Then, the guys dive into the subject of this week’s episode, the C…
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Spine 607: A Hollis Frampton Odyssey Part 1
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Criterion once again brings us a boxset of avant-garde film, this time from American filmmaker Hollis Frampton. A Hollis Frampton Odyssey contains 20 or so shorts of varying length, adding up to 266 minutes of material that we'll be covering over the next three weeks. In this week's episode we cover what Criterion deems Frampton's "Early Films", al…
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184. Let's Taco 'Bout Jurassic Park featuring Jimmy Myers
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Send us a Text Message. The Summer Blockbuster season continues! This week, actor and genuine good dude, Jimmy Myers, joins the show. We chat about Jimmy’s love for entertaining others, his job working with people with developmental disabilities, and how he met and fell in love with his wife. We then dive into our featured movie of the week, Steven…
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Ronald Neames says that after This Happy Breed he and the rest of Cineguild were tired of making war-time films, and were pretty sure audiences were tired of propaganda. But they weren't tired of working with Noel Coward, despite the fact that with each movie in Criterion's David Lean Directs Noel Coward boxset we get new stories of Coward disagree…
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The second film in the David Lean Directs Noel Coward boxset, This Happy Breed is the story of a British Middle Class TM family between the wars. Acting as a sort of "remember when" for British of a certain class, it's also an examination of the rigid structure and code of ethics of this particular pocket of social class which while not the Upper C…
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183. Let's Taco 'Bout Independence Day featuring Ty and Rachael Hudson
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to Earth! The Summer Blockbuster miniseries continues! This week, we line up around the block with Ty and Rachael Hudson, hosts of the Summers Off podcast, and longtime friends with the Fat Dude. We throw any semblance of an outline out the window as we catch up on life, with Ty discussing his path towards seeking hi…
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This "story of a ship" kicks off the David Lean Directs Noel Coward boxset. Lean was an in-demand film editor (and had previously done some uncredited co-direction), and Noel Coward wanted to make a war propaganda film based on his friend Lord Mountbatten's naval exploits. Thus we get In Which We Serve (1942), a biography of the crew of a doomed de…
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182. Let's Taco 'Bout Jaws featuring Parker Magnuson
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Send us a Text Message. This week, Let’s Taco ‘Bout OFFICIALLY kicks off the Summer Blockbuster Miniseries! An event a year (plus) in the making, what better time than now to talk about the great blockbusters of old, when people across the country would go to the movie theater to take in a motion picture EVENT! This week, we kick things off with Pa…
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 148 – The Game of Clones
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This special episode of the podcast steps away from the usual coverage of films with a Criterion connection to discuss The Game of Clones: Bruceploitation Collection Vol. 1, a recently released box set from Severin Films. The set includes the 2023 documentary Enter the Clones of Bruce, plus 12 (or 14) more martial arts films originally released bet…
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This special episode of the podcast steps away from the usual coverage of films with a Criterion connection to discuss The Game of Clones: Bruceploitation Collection Vol. 1, a recently released box set from Severin Films. The set includes the 2023 documentary Enter the Clones of Bruce, plus 12 (or 14) more martial arts films originally released bet…
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This special episode of the podcast steps away from the usual coverage of films with a Criterion connection to discuss The Game of Clones: Bruceploitation Collection Vol. 1, a recently released box set from Severin Films. The set includes the 2023 documentary Enter the Clones of Bruce, plus 12 (or 14) more martial arts films originally released bet…
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Every time we watch a documentary, we end up talking a lot about the nature of documentary. With Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker's The War Room (1993), much of that end of the conversation is focused on how Direct Cinema is not a journalistic endeavor, and how the material covered - Bill Clinton's 1992 US Presidential campaign - could have used a…
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Tonight, Mr. Woolf and Mr. Redgraves go international, looking at horror films from outside the United States, looking at some excellent examples of films from around the globe, and examining how tropes can be completely reinvented by looking at them through a new cultural lens.By Mr. Woolf and Mr. Redgraves
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The Balcony - Episode Five: Die Hard With a Vengeance
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Send us a Text Message. The Balcony is, once again, open! On this week’s show, we discuss several movies we have been watching, including a chat on one of 2024’s best films (so far), Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow. We then dive into our featured chat on the highest grossing film of 1995, Die Hard With A Vengeance. We talk about our history wit…
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This week Elsie is excited to share all about her new art era. If you didn’t know she started the baby steps toward a professional art career this year and she is so excited to share more details with you today! This is something Elsie has dreamed of and has been working toward in one way or another since childhood. One of the themes we LOVE to go …
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Mikhail Kalatozov makes some beautiful films, particularly in his work with Sergey Urusevsky, who may just be our favorite cinematographer. Many, many years ago (Spine 146!) we watched their film The Cranes are Flying (1957), and images from that film still grace my dreams. Many, many years from now (Spine 1214!) we will watch I am Cuba (1964), the…
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The Criterion Break - Episode 46 - Two Musicals from Jacques Demy (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort)
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Send us a Text Message. This week, The Break is back! On this episode of The Criterion Break, we briefly chat about two recent Criterion titles that played the State Theatre in Sioux Falls, Fantastic Planet and My Own Private Idaho. We then dive into this week’s feature as we take a look at two musicals from the mind of French filmmaker, Jacques De…
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Otto Preminger's ripped-from-the-headlines courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder (1959) stars a delightful mix of young and old Hollywood, is a big middle finger to the Production Code, and is an ode to manipulating the US legal system. And if that weren't enough, we've got a soundtrack by Duke Ellington and titles by Saul Bass.…
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