Criterion Cast: Main Episodes

Aaron West's upcoming book covers the rise of A24 from its first releases in 2012 up to the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020.

David Blakeslee, Aaron West, and Brad McDermott got together to keep our annual "favorites of the year" podcast tradition going for Year 16!

David Blakeslee hosts director/screenwriter Matthew Gentile in a conversation about six films from Argentina's golden age of cinema, currently featured on the Criterion Channel.

Our 15th annual survey of Criterion's new releases, featuring David Blakeslee, Josh Hornbeck, Brad McDermott, and Aaron West.

This year's panel (David, Jordan, Josh, Brad, and Aaron) resumes our annual tradition of sharing their favorite 2023 releases from the Criterion Collection.

David Blakeslee, Jordan Essoe, Josh Hornbeck and Aaron West talk about their top picks among the films published by the Criterion Collection over the past year.

The full CriterionCast crew assembles for our 12th annual year-end conversation about our favorite Criterion Collection offerings in 2021.

Scott is joined by David, Aaron, Trevor, and Jordan to discuss their Criterion Collection releases from 2020.

On episode 211 of CriterionCast, Jordan Essoe is joined by Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, and Arik Devens to discuss Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker's 1993 documentary The War Room.

On episode 210 of CriterionCast, Jordan Essoe is joined by Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, and Arik Devens to discuss Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1961 film L'eclisse.

On episode 209 of CriterionCast, Jordan Essoe is joined by Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, and Arik Devens to discuss Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1961 film La notte.

On episode 208 of CriterionCast, Jordan Essoe is joined by Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, and Arik Devens to discuss Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960 film L'avventura.

This time on the podcast, Jordan Essoe, Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, and Arik Devens discuss Roberto Rossellini's Germany Year Zero.

This time on the podcast, Jordan Essoe, Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, and Arik Devens discuss Roberto Rossellini's Paisan.

This time on the podcast, Jordan Essoe, Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, and Arik Devens discuss Roberto Rossellini's Rome Open City.

Ryan is joined by David and Aaron to chat about the Wacky New Year's Drawing for 2020.

Ryan is joined by David, Scott, Trevor, and Jordan to discuss their Criterion Collection releases from 2019.

Trevor, Scott and David convene to sift through the motives and malice driving this compelling, Oscar-winning adaptation of Henry James's Washington Square.

Ryan is joined by Arik, David, Scott, and Josh to discuss the podcast’s ten-year anniversary, as well as a few Criterion-related topics.

The trilogy concludes with the surreal, the inexplicably, and the haunting.

Bergman's faith trilogy continues with the relentless Winter Light

David Blakeslee interviews director and film critic Kent Jones about his new film Diane, starring Mary Kay Place.

The boys of summer return to Bergman's most wintery period.

Ryan and David chat about the Wacky New Year's Drawing for 2019.

Ryan is joined by David, Arik, and Jordan to discuss their Criterion Collection releases from 2018.

For this episode of The CriterionCast, Scott, David, and Trevor join to discuss Ingmar Bergman's Persona.

Trevor, David and Scott share their deep love of this magical film, so stop what you're doing and watch (or at least listen to) what happens.

David, Aaron and Arik go for the gold as they slalom and curl their way through Criterion's epic box set.

David, Scott and Trevor sift right from wrong, by jing, as they discuss this classic slice of Americana from 1939.

David Blakeslee and Aaron West sift through the clues embedded in the annual New Year's info dump from the Criterion Collection.

The team celebrates their favorite releases from The Criterion Collection in 2017.

Scott, David, and Trevor talk production models, genre, and drug trips in Hellman's landmark low-budget westerns.

For this episode of The CriterionCast, Trevor is joined by David and Scott to talk about Jack Clayton's The Innocents, adapted from Henry James's classic ghost story The Turn of the Screw.

David, Scott, Trevor, and Matt discuss the last film directed by Yasujiro Ozu.

In this episode, Trevor Berrett and Scott Nye venture into the mysteries of the Zone, discussing Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film Stalker.

David is joined by Catherine Stebbins to discuss what they learned in their encounter with the original Valley Girls.

In this episode, Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, and Trevor Berrett discuss Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film Blow-Up.

David and Trevor take a swing at this seminal Tracy/Hepburn comedy, and try not to waffle in their opinions on the film's implicit messages about gender roles.

In this episode, Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee discuss Peter Weir's 1975 film Picnic at Hanging Rock.

The crew talks about the past year in Criterion, including their favorite three Criterion releases of 2016.

David, Aaron, Arik and Mark get all speculative as they share their Criterion-related hopes and dreams for the year ahead.

Ryan and Arik chat about Lang's 1933 film.

Ryan is joined by West Anthony to discuss Franju's 1960 horror film.

Scott, David, and Ryan discuss heartache, sacrifice, gender roles, and performance in Mizoguchi's 1939 masterpiece.

Scott, David, Trevor, and Arik discuss sex, seasons, witty retorts, dueling, and moral investigation in Bergman's 1955 classic.

Scott, David, Trevor, and Arik discuss the eroticism, restless youth, realist and stylistic traits in Bergman's landmark film.

Scott, David, Trevor, and Arik discuss the artistic seeds, sensuality, playfulness, performances, autobiography, and tragedy in Bergman's 1951 film.

Scott, David, Ryan, and James discuss the thrills, chills, and discomfort of Bay's landmark blockbuster, and whether it belongs in the Collection.

Scott, David, and James discuss the politics, filmmaking, the legacy of war, and, of course, sex in the landmark dual film.

Scott and David discuss faith, simplicity, nature, joy, and realism in Rossellini's don't-call-it-a-biopic.