It’s that time of year again, when we take a break from the many blockbusters crowding our theaters and take a look back at cinema’s past and all of its various artistic triumphs and oddities. This year, Sean tries to power through some of his Criterion box sets, John picks some Tarantino favs as well as horror-adjacent curiosities, and I just try to remember what old movies I’ve seen before. This is always one of the more fun podcasts we do each year, and this one is no exception. We’ll see you in Criterion Month!
Author | Day | July | Spine | Title | Director | Country | Year | Running Time |
Colin | Saturday | 1 | 1099 | High Sierra | Raoul Walsh | United States | 1941 | 100 |
John | Sunday | 2 | 292 | Unfaithfully Yours | Preston Sturges | United States | 1948 | 105 |
Colin | Monday | 3 | 664 | The Life of Oharu | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan | 1952 | 136 |
Colin | Tuesday | 4 | 126 | Ordet | Carl Th. Dreyer | Denmark | 1955 | 125 |
Colin | Wednesday | 5 | 1120 | The Girl Can’t Help It | Frank Tashlin | United States | 1956 | 97 |
Colin | Thursday | 6 | 573 | The Music Room | Satyajit Ray | India | 1958 | 99 |
John | Friday | 7 | 321 | The Virgin Spring | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden | 1960 | 90 |
Colin | Saturday | 8 | 637 | Purple Noon | René Clément | France | 1960 | 117 |
John | Sunday | 9 | 459 | The Exterminating Angel | Luis Buñuel | Mexico | 1962 | 93 |
Sean | Monday | 10 | 1000 | Mothra vs. Godzilla | Ishiro Honda | Japan | 1964 | 89 |
John | Tuesday | 11 | 1023 | The Cremator | Juraj Herz | Czechoslovakia | 1969 | 100 |
Colin | Wednesday | 12 | 1107 | The Learning Tree | Gordon Parks | United States | 1969 | 107 |
John | Thursday | 13 | 10 | Walkabout | Nicolas Roeg | United Kingdom | 1971 | 100 |
Sean | Friday | 14 | 1036 | The Way of the Dragon | Bruce Lee | Hong Kong | 1972 | 99 |
Colin | Saturday | 15 | 685 | Touki bouki | Djibril Diop Mambéty | Senegal | 1973 | 89 |
John | Sunday | 16 | 1036 | Enter the Dragon | Robert Clouse | Hong Kong | 1973 | 99 |
Colin | Monday | 17 | 1055 | Girlfriends | Claudia Weill | United States | 1978 | 88 |
Sean | Tuesday | 18 | 60 | Autumn Sonata | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden | 1978 | 93 |
Sean | Wednesday | 19 | 163 | Hopscotch | Ronald Neame | United States | 1980 | 105 |
John | Thursday | 20 | 625 | Eating Raoul | Paul Bartel | United States | 1982 | 83 |
John | Friday | 21 | 316 | Ran | Akira Kurosawa | Japan | 1985 | 160 |
Colin | Saturday | 22 | 307 | Naked | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom | 1993 | 131 |
Sean | Sunday | 23 | 807 | Barcelona | Whit Stillman | United States | 1994 | 101 |
Sean | Monday | 24 | Fallen Angels | Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong | 1995 | 99 | |
John | Tuesday | 25 | 1155 | Cure | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan | 1997 | 111 |
Sean | Wednesday | 26 | The Gleaners and I | Agnès Varda | France | 2000 | 82 | |
Sean | Thursday | 27 | 1159 | Infernal Affairs | Andrew Lau Wei-Keung and Alan Mak | Hong Kong | 2002 | 101 |
Sean | Friday | 28 | 1073 | Memories of Murder | Bong Joon Ho | South Korea | 2003 | 131 |
John | Saturday | 29 | 1156 | La Llorona | Jayro Bustamante | Guatemala | 2019 | 96 |
Sean | Sunday | 30 | 1192 | Moonage Daydream | Brett Morgen | United States | 2022 | 134 |