As we find ourselves in the midst of Avengers: Endgame and the NFL Draft – two celebrations of grown men pummeling each other – we thought we’d class things up a bit. On this podcast, we offer our very own draft pertaining to the films each of us will review during the Criterion Month of July. Much like past years, John sticks to a theme, Sean tries to see some of The Greatest Movies of All Time™, and Colin just befuddles everyone with movies no one’s heard of. Be sure to check back in July when we get this Criterion train a-rollin’!
Author | Day | July | Movie | Director | Country | Year |
Colin | Monday | 1 | Pandora’s Box | GW Pabst | Germany | 1929 |
Colin | Tuesday | 2 | My Man Godfrey | Gregory La Cava | USA | 1936 |
Sean | Wednesday | 3 | Brief Encounter | David Lean | UK | 1945 |
Colin | Thursday | 4 | Rome, Open City | Roberto Rossellini | Italy | 1945 |
Sean | Friday | 5 | Apu Trilogy: Aparajito | Satyajit Ray | India | 1956 |
John | Saturday | 6 | And God Created Woman | Roger Vadim | France | 1956 |
Sean | Sunday | 7 | Hiroshima Mon Amour | Alain Resnais | France | 1959 |
John | Monday | 8 | Shadows | John Cassavetes | USA | 1959 |
Colin | Tuesday | 9 | Floating Weeds | Yasujiro Ozu | Japan | 1959 |
John | Wednesday | 10 | Ivan’s Childhood | Andrei Tarkovsky | USSR | 1962 |
Sean | Thursday | 11 | Charade | Stanley Donen | USA | 1963 |
Colin | Friday | 12 | Le Bonheur | Agnes Varda | France | 1965 |
John | Saturday | 13 | Night of the Living Dead | George A. Romero | USA | 1968 |
Colin | Sunday | 14 | Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles | Chantal Akerman | Belgium | 1975 |
Sean | Monday | 15 | Grey Gardens | David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Muffie Meyer, Ellen Hovde |
USA | 1976 |
John | Tuesday | 16 | Smithereens | Susan Seidelman | USA | 1982 |
Colin | Wednesday | 17 | El Norte | Gregory Nava | Guatemala | 1983 |
Sean | Thursday | 18 | Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | Paul Schrader | USA | 1985 |
Colin | Friday | 19 | Withnail and I | Bruce Robinson | UK | 1987 |
John | Saturday | 20 | House of Games | David Mamet | USA | 1987 |
Sean | Sunday | 21 | The Killer | John Woo | Hong Kong | 1989 |
John | Monday | 22 | sex, lies, and videotape | Steven Soderbergh | USA | 1989 |
Sean | Tuesday | 23 | Metropolitan | Whit Stillman | USA | 1990 |
Colin | Wednesday | 24 | An Angel at My Table | Jane Campion | New Zealand | 1990 |
John | Thursday | 25 | Slacker | Richard Linklater | USA | 1991 |
John | Friday | 26 | Shallow Grave | Danny Boyle | UK | 1994 |
John | Saturday | 27 | Kicking and Screaming | Noah Baumbach | USA | 1995 |
Sean | Sunday | 28 | The Virgin Suicides | Sofia Coppola | USA | 1999 |
Colin | Monday | 29 | Monsoon Wedding | Mira Nair | India | 2001 |
Sean | Tuesday | 30 | Tiny Furniture | Lena Dunham | USA | 2010 |
Sean | Wednesday | 31 | Come and See | Elem Klimov | USSR | 1985 |