And we’re back with our first podcast in quite some time! Just as the NFL draft happens each Spring, a far more important draft also happens this time each year, where we pick what movies we’ll be reviewing for Criterion Month. Like every year, it’s an odd exercise in talking about movies we haven’t seen yet while there isn’t much competition as to whether one of us will steal each other’s pick. Still, the boys find plenty of arty movies to look forward to seeing in a summer that should actually see the return of theater moviegoing and possibly a newfound appreciation for this medium that we already know and love.
Author | Day | July | Movie | Director | Country | Year |
John | Thursday | 1 | The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog | Alfred Hitchcock | UK | 1927 |
Colin | Friday | 2 | The Docks of New York | Josef von Sternberg | USA | 1928 |
John | Saturday | 3 | Dos monjes | Juan Bustillo Oro | Mexico | 1934 |
Colin | Sunday | 4 | Things to Come | William Cameron Menzies | UK | 1936 |
Colin | Monday | 5 | Dance, Girl, Dance | Dorothy Arzner | USA | 1940 |
John | Tuesday | 6 | Stray Dog | Akira Kurosawa | Japan | 1949 |
Sean | Wednesday | 7 | Godzilla | Ishiro Honda | Japan | 1954 |
John | Thursday | 8 | La strada | Federico Fellini | Italy | 1954 |
Colin | Friday | 9 | Journey to Italy | Roberto Rossellini | Italy | 1954 |
John | Saturday | 10 | The Housemaid | Kim Ki-young | South Korea | 1960 |
Sean | Sunday | 11 | Cléo from 5 to 7 | Agnès Varda | France | 1962 |
Colin | Monday | 12 | The Leopard | Luchino Visconti | Italy | 1963 |
Sean | Tuesday | 13 | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | Jacques Demy | France | 1964 |
Sean | Wednesday | 14 | Le cercle rouge | Jean-Pierre Melville | France | 1970 |
Colin | Thursday | 15 | The Emigrants | Jan Troell | Sweden | 1971 |
Sean | Friday | 16 | Fist of Fury | Lo Wei | Hong Kong | 1972 |
Colin | Saturday | 17 | Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance | Toshiya Fujita | Japan | 1974 |
John | Sunday | 18 | The Last Wave | Peter Weir | Australia | 1977 |
Sean | Monday | 19 | The Long Good Friday | John Mackenzie | UK | 1979 |
Sean | Tuesday | 20 | The Big Chill | Lawrence Kasdan | USA | 1983 |
John | Wednesday | 21 | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | 1988 |
Colin | Thursday | 22 | To Sleep with Anger | Charles Burnett | USA | 1990 |
Sean | Friday | 23 | Paris is Burning | Jennie Livingston | USA | 1990 |
John | Saturday | 24 | Crash | David Cronenberg | Canada | 1996 |
Sean | Sunday | 25 | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Jim Jarmusch | USA | 1999 |
Colin | Monday | 26 | Beau travail | Claire Denis | France | 1999 |
John | Tuesday | 27 | The Piano Teacher | Michael Haneke | France | 2001 |
Sean | Wednesday | 28 | The New World | Terrence Malick | USA | 2005 |
Colin | Thursday | 29 | Old Joy | Kelly Reichardt | USA | 2006 |
John | Friday | 30 | Certain Women | Kelly Reichardt | USA | 2016 |