Criterion Now

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Jill and Aaron talk about Flow, which appears to be the first Janus Contemporary that will get a Criterion spine release. We then talk about the May 2025 Announcements, and the new trend of increasing the number of new titles with upgrades. We speculate whether this has to do with the Steven Rales and Indian Paintbrush acquisition. 

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• Video of this Episode
   
• ‘Flow’ Will Join the Criterion Collection Later This Year with 4K Special Edition
   
• Kickstarter Campaign for The A24 New Wave
   

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Jill and Aaron are back after a little bit of an unintentional break. We talk about Aaron's upcoming new book. We pay tribute to the loss of one of our favorite filmmakers, David Lynch. Finally we talk about the April 2025 Announcements, which include seven titles, with two from Sean Baker. We have a brief digression about Gerard Depardieu's airplane behavior.
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• Video of this Episode
       
• Criterion Now - Episode 154 Video
       
• Criterion Now - Episode 155 Video
       
• Kickstarter Campaign for The A24 New Wave
       

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Ryan Verrill joins the podcast to announce that we are joining Someone's Favorite Productions network. We also get into the November 2024 announcements on the heels of having already reacted (somewhat critically) to the CC40 boxset. We are pleased with this month, and we show a different side of Mifune to show our gratitude.Links:

• Criterion Now - Episode 152 - Video
• Someone's Favorite Productions links
• Disc-Connected Links
• Criterion Collection - Coming Soon

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Imogen Sara Smith joins for our special episode 150, which we recorded without interruptions. We talk about a number of subjects including the thrill and rarity of seeing a repertory nitrate screening. She talks about her craft process, and how she approaches writing about film. We talk about modern French film and specifically how Celine Sciamma has pushed the boundaries of telling a visual story. We talk about the 2024 October Criterion announcements, including the Val Lewton set which features an Imogen interview. Finally, Imogen weighs in our Jill and Aaron’s choices for the upcoming #Noirvember Blogathon. Thanks Imogen for helping us celebrate this milestone episode!

Links:

• Criterion Now - Episode 150 - Video
• Film Noir Foundation
• Maine Media - Imogen Sara Smith
• Criterion Collection - Imogen Sara Smith - Rohmer's Tales of the Four Seasons

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Jill and Aaron return the Criterion Now podcast with a long overdue episode. We get into the ownership situation with Criterion Collection and Indian Paintbrush, and what we expect from it. We also look at the recent and upcoming releases, and what we are looking forward to seeing as new or for the first time.

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• Criterion September 2024 Reaction with Josh Hornbeck
• CineJourneys – Join Our Inclusive Online Community
• Cinema Ritrovato

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We are pleased to have Dave Eves back on the show. We talk best of 2022, February and March announcements, and the Sight & Sound list.

Now that we're back, we had some catching up to do. This week Drew Morton joined to go back through all of the months that we missed during hiatus -- August 2022 through January 2023.

Filmmaker Sean Baker and his co-director for Take Out and frequent collaborator Shih-Ching Tsou join to discuss Take Out, Criterion, and other topics.

Jill and Aaron are now officially back from hiatus and ready to resume the show. This is us getting warmed up.

Jill and Aaron get into June announcements, a lot of David Lynch news, and speculate about François Truffaut.

Marcus Pinn joins as we discuss June announcements and a lot more.

Drew Morton joins again, and we have a lot to talk about. Come for the Criterions, stay for his Jimmy Stewart impressions.

Grady Hendrix and Chris Poggiali, authors of These Fists Break Bricks join to talk about all things martial arts.

Celeste de la Cabra joins to discuss the April announcements and more possibly coming to Criterion.

Jill and Aaron spend New Year's Eve reflecting on the year of 2021

Brad McDermott joins to talk the March 2022 Announcements and a lot of other Criterion news.

Jill and Aaron welcome writer and frequent Criterion contributor Farran Smith Nehme to the show.

Jill and Aaron welcome crime fiction writer, Craig Terlson, to the show to discuss #Noirvember.

Jill and Aaron dig into a lot in this episode. We begin with the January 2022 announcements and go from there.

Drew Morton joins Jill and Aaron to dive into horror titles in the collection.