What's the most pretentious Criterion Closet episode?
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 1:16:20 PM
No.213699460
>>213699637
Ethan Hawke. He just makes shit up. He grabbed Picnic at Hanging Rock and said itβs one of those movies people copy all the time which is not fucking true
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 1:35:07 PM
No.213699719
>>213700162
I've never seen that shit. Please tell me I'm not missing anything.
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 1:42:21 PM
No.213699809
>comments disabled on matthew brodericks one
This is one of the most pretentious videos I've seen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05XfGmH2zG4
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 1:59:51 PM
No.213700044
>>213699822
>Edward Yang would rise from the grave and kill me if I didn't get it on blu-ray.
You win. This guy made my butthole clench from the fucking cringe.
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 2:02:44 PM
No.213700084
>>213699427 (OP)
His picks weren't even pretentious, Barry Lyndon and Punch Drunk Love are popular movies
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 2:04:39 PM
No.213700110
>>213699822
The cringe is already unbearable 15 seconds in
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 2:08:32 PM
No.213700148
>>213702537
>>213699427 (OP)
Why do you faggots watch this shit? Stop plugging this shitty show. Konbini VidΓ©oclub dles the same but ten times better. It's longer and actors and directors can actually go into depth about why they picked certain movies.
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 2:09:15 PM
No.213700162
>>213699719
Try to imagine being so out of things to watch that you watch a show about people who make movies telling you what you should watch like it's some exclusive things only it's still broadcast to an exclusive audience, and they try to one-up each other so the general audience thinks their taste is the most artsy, but they're also limited to picking from the criterion collection which one would assume is pre-selected for a reason, and you could just pick from directly if you were truly so out of things to watch. I've never seen the show but that's my impression of it from these posts.
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 2:13:06 PM
No.213700224
>>213700453
I don't get it, are you only allowed to pick films that Criterion have previously deemed worthy, or can you just pick whatever? What the fuck even is Criterion?
Gives off a Premium Water vibe.
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 2:17:19 PM
No.213700277
>>213699427 (OP)
I can tell which one is the best: Michael Cera's 1st appearance. He did another one recently that's also good but the 1st is much better bc it balances his unpretentious, deadpan demeanor with some original choices. The guy who was filming even says "that was great" or something in the end
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 2:20:12 PM
No.213700315
>Criterion released its first Walt Disney Pictures title, Andrew Stanton's WALL-E, in 2022. This was not the result of an ongoing deal between Disney and Criterion, but rather licensed as a one-off, with Stanton approaching Criterion and "wanting to be part of the club".
LMAOing @this shit, it's literally no different from the Hollywood Walk of Shame.
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 2:27:48 PM
No.213700409
>>213700518
>>213702357
>Anora, 2024
>Armageddon, 1998
>Before Trilogy, 1995-2013
>Blue is the Warmest Color, 2013
>Bowling for Columbine, 2002
>Boyhood, 2014
>The Breakfast Club, 1985
>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, 2008
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 2:30:45 PM
No.213700453
>>213700224
They remaster stuff they think is important working with the director to ensure it's "as they would want it seen" supposedly, and bundle/shoot new extra bonus content, then sell you a 4k Blu-ray or whatever for twice as much because of their "directors" repackaged the thing. And sometimes they restore footage.
It's a cool project but probably aimed trust funders
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 2:39:01 PM
No.213700597
>Do The Right Thing, 1989
>The Game, 1997
>Inside Llewyn Davis, 2013
>The Irishman, 2019
>Malcolm X, 1992
>Marriage Story, 2019
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 2:42:57 PM
No.213700662
1 - The Hole (1998) β Tsai Ming-liang
2 - Clean, Shaven (1993) β Lodge Kerrigan
3 - Made in Britain (1982) β Alan Clarke
4 - Miami Vice (2006) β Michael Mann
5 - The Bird People in China (1998) β Takashi Miike
6 - Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) β BΓ©la Tarr
7 - A Snake of June (2002) β Shinβya Tsukamoto
8 - Katalin Varga (2009) β Peter Strickland
9 - Mother and Son (1997) β Alexandr Sokurov
10 - On the Silver Globe (1988) β Andrzej Ε»uΕawski
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 2:51:59 PM
No.213700820
>Parasite, 2019
>Punch-Drunk Love, 2002
>The Rock, 1996
>The Tree of Life, 2011
>Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, 1992
>Uncut Gems, 2019
>The Virgin Suicides, 1999
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 2:58:07 PM
No.213700928
>Oh, God! (1977)
>Star Trek II : The Voyage Home (1982)
>An Unexpected Journey (2012)
>The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
>The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 3:03:57 PM
No.213701020
>>213699822
I made it to 2:30 before I had to stop. Him wearing the criterion face diaper just sent me over the edge.
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 3:55:11 PM
No.213701870
>>213699822
I can be a bit pretentious and farthuffy myself, which is why the brazen, brainless consoomerism confuses me. Kino is free.
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 4:28:18 PM
No.213702537
>>213702787
>>213700148
>It's longer and actors and directors can actually go into depth about why they picked certain movies.
Yeah, except they don't pick them, the producers pick them beforehand and it's always the most obvious choices everyone has heard everything about.
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 4:39:02 PM
No.213702787
>>213702537
Not from everyone. There are some guests with great picks and a ton of movies you've never heard of. But yeah, a lot of them go for the obvious ones. The producers pick some of them, not all. It's entirely dependent on the guest if it's a great episode or a shit episode, granted.
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 5:34:52 PM
No.213704000
>>213699427 (OP)
I didnt watch any cause I dont fucking care anout "muh celebrities". Fucking retards.
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 5:57:53 PM
No.213704472
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 6:03:43 PM
No.213704587
Robocop is a Criterion release.
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 6:12:03 PM
No.213704786
Became pretentious soon as they moved it out of an actual closet. It used to be this cool quirk the prestigious film company had and they pimped out the idea into a literal bangbus clone
