This year has been a journey of discovery for me with African cinema. Our Patreon listeners may remember that one of my resolutions this year was to become better acquainted with African films. To that end,

Mark Hurne and Trevor Berrett join Aaron again to continue where they left off at episode 100. Additionally we get into some news items including Martin Scorsese, John Sayles, and potentially An Unmarried Woman from the newsletter clue.

To close out our 6-part miniseries covering the individual episodes of the Dekalog, Matt and Travis welcome Daisuke Beppu, who hosts a wonderful YouTube channel covering the Criterion Collection and other film and home media topics.

Doug belts out some Wilson Philips, Jamie sings a song about a heater that she made up and Doug’s head nearly explodes when Jamie calls Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles a ‘good movie’. Oh, and they come down on different sides of Some Kind of Wonderful…and...

Alicia invites Monica Salazar over to her house t…

Stephanie Crawford is back with Brian to talk 70s paranoia films, Alan Pakula and more as they discuss recent Criterion Collection Blu-ray of 1971’s KLUTE – starring Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland. Both Steph and Brian also offer a recommendation for...

Hosts Jill Blake and Wade Sheeler finish off their discussion of titles that can charm any friend or family member to try a good classic movie. Like last episode, Jill and Wade ditch the usual suspects and instead pick great films that are undeniably l...

Mark Hurne and Trevor Berrett join Aaron to celebrate our 100th episode. In this discussion, we first reminisce about the origins not just of Criterion Now, but of Mark and Aaron’s podcasting exploits including Criterion Close-Up and CriterionCast.

Alicia chats with cinematographer Natasha Braier …

It is November already and it’s time for some “New Arrivals” with faithful monthly co-host Rob Galluzzo joining Brian to run through some stacks of discs from Arrow Video, Vestron, Warner Archive, Twilight Time, Kino Lorber, Scream Factory,