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This is the podcast dedicated to The Criterion Collection. Ryan Gallagher, James McCormick, Travis George and Moises Chiullan are joined by James Marsh to discuss Criterion Collection news & rumors and new releases. They also discuss Criterion #536 Terrence Malick’s 1998 film, The Thin Red Line.
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Show Notes:
News Discussed:
Grandmasters Trailer
Lost Hitchcock Film Discovered In New Zealand
This Week On Criterion’s Hulu Channel
New Criterion releases for August
All the discussion about kung-fu movies at the top of the show made me think of some of my favorite domestic independent producers of kung-fu movies. Small production companies such as Lazy Brown Productions who have had a Kung-fu/Noir feature in development hell for some time now:
http://youtu.be/ijmli9y3tsY
This short reminds me in particular of Jean-Pierre Melville’s “Le Samouraï” only with martial artists instead of hit-men:
http://youtu.be/HYW8dh6QVGI
The Stunt People who have a new feature coming out next year that looks promising:
http://youtu.be/tGPlsv6nZ-4
And John Allen Sores whose work features Guillermo del Toro regular Doug Jones:
http://youtu.be/T1A48Bls9PA