Ikura Kurasurwa: 33-34, 426, 221

Getting a little too toasty this summer? Well, Always See Everything is here to cool you off with some of the Criterion Collection's iciest offerings...that was the plan, at least. We frankly overestimated the amount of snow in some of these, but they're still (mostly) pretty great! We struggle to find much to say about the proto-documentary Nanook of the North, but things pick up with the quiet majesty of Andrei Rublev, our first Tarkovsky! Following that benchmark, The Ice Storm jumpscares us with an all-star cast and a chilled injection of suburban ennui. We cap it off by returning to Kurosawa with the equal parts harrowing and life-affirming Ikiru. Featuring also Anthony’s increasingly abstract interpretations of Japanese pronunciation, a new rating system and, as always, references to memes that no one has thought about in over ten years. (00:00:00) Introduction (00:03:47) Nanook of the North (1922) dir. Robert Flaherty (00:16:38) Andrei Rublev (1966) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky (01:14:43) The Ice Storm (1997) dir. Ang Lee (01:38:39) Ikiru (1952) dir. Akira Kurosawa (02:02:44) Outro and Next Week's Picks! ⁠⁠⁠Anthony's Latest Ranking⁠⁠⁠ --------- ⁠⁠⁠Sean's Latest Ranking⁠⁠⁠ Always See Everything is an AnthonyReviews film podcast. For movie reviews and more, you can go to ⁠⁠⁠AnthonyReviews.com⁠⁠⁠ or check us out on ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠. Edited by Tyler Frazier. Original Artwork by Ana Habrych.