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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 podcast for fans of the Criterion Collection.
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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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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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Just The Discs is a podcast about Blu-rays. Each episode, Brian Saur (of The Pure Cinema Podcast) will go through a stack of discs from various distributors and talk about them.
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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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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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Episode 376 - Imprint Films February 2024 Bundle
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On this episode, Brian goes back to take a look at the varied Imprint films bundle from February this year. This week's episode is also brought to you by the fine folks at DiabolikDVD - a great place to buy your discs from! https://www.diabolikdvd.com/ Just the Discs Now has a YouTube Channel! Check it out here and subscribe! https://www.youtube.co…
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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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On this week's episode, Brian talks about some fun recent Cartoon releases from Warner Archive as well as some older Warner Archive Cartoon show dvd releases he'd love to see get the Blu-ray treatment. This week's episode is also brought to you by the fine folks at DiabolikDVD - a great place to buy your discs from! https://www.diabolikdvd.com/ Jus…
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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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On this episode, Brian talks about some recent 4K and steelbook acquisitions. This week's episode is also brought to you by the fine folks at DiabolikDVD - a great place to buy your discs from! https://www.diabolikdvd.com/ Just the Discs Now has a YouTube Channel! Check it out here and subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCffVK8TcUyjCpr0F9Sp…
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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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Episode 373 - Kino Noir 18, TARGET, COLT 45 and COCKTAIL HOUR
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On this grab bag of an episode, Brian looks at the Kino Noir set Vol. 18, the Matt Dillon/Gene Hackman 80s thriller TARGET, the 60s western TV Show COLT 45 and the Pre-code movie COCKTAIL HOUR. This week's episode is also brought to you by the fine folks at DiabolikDVD - a great place to buy your discs from! https://www.diabolikdvd.com/ Just the Di…
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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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Episode 372 - Huge Diabolik DVD Blu-ray and 4K Haul!
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On this episode, Brian goes through a huge haul from the wonderful DiabolikDVD. This week's episode is also brought to you by the fine folks at DiabolikDVD - a great place to buy your discs from! https://www.diabolikdvd.com/ Just the Discs Now has a YouTube Channel! Check it out here and subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCffVK8TcUyjCpr0F9…
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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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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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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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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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Episode 371 - FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS on Criterion 4K
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In this episode, Brian talks about the new Criterion 4K UHD edition of Terry Gilliams film FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS. He also compares it to the Arrow 4K from last year as well. This week's episode is also brought to you by the fine folks at DiabolikDVD - a great place to buy your discs from! https://www.diabolikdvd.com/ Just the Discs Now has…
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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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Episode 370 - Kubrick's FEAR AND DESIRE on 4K + Kino Re-issues
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On this episode, Brian talks about Stanley Kubrick's debut feature FEAR AND DESIRE and its recent Kino 4K as well as some Kino Blu-ray re-issues. This week's episode is also brought to you by the fine folks at DiabolikDVD - a great place to buy your discs from! https://www.diabolikdvd.com/ Just the Discs Now has a YouTube Channel! Check it out here…
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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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181. Let's Taco 'Bout Friday featuring Zo Richardson
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Send us a Text Message. 💨🪴 FRIDAY HIGHDAY!!! 🪴💨 “I know you don’t smoke weed, but I’m gonna get you high today. Because it’s Friday, you ain’t got no job, and you ain’t got shit to do!” This week, Let’s Taco ‘Bout puff puff gives a new episode for your brain. Zo Richardson of Back Look Cinema joins the show this week to chat with the Fat Dude about…
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Episode 369 - PEEPING TOM Returns to the Criterion Collection on 4K
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In this episode, Brian discusses the triumphant return of Michael Powell's once controversial/ now masterpiece PEEPING TOM to the Criterion collection in 4K UHD. This week's episode is also brought to you by the fine folks at DiabolikDVD - a great place to buy your discs from! https://www.diabolikdvd.com/ Just the Discs Now has a YouTube Channel! C…
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Louis Malle reunites with the stars of My Dinner with Andre, Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn, for a production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in a an abandoned theater just off Time Square. Not just a delightful production of Uncle Vanya, but also a look at theater for the sake of theater, squatting and otherwise unmoored from financial obligations.…
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180. Let’s Taco ‘Bout Mad Max: Fury Road and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga featuring Matt Heller
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Send us a Text Message. On this week’s episode, we’re changing things up a little! The Fat Dude has spent the week in Omaha and he has some things to Taco ‘Bout. Joining him in his out of town movie adventure is his brother, Matt Heller. The two discuss their feelings about an advance screening of In A Violent Nature. Then, they travel to the deser…
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