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Adrian Martin joins to talk about his plans regarding the upcoming "Fritz Lang: Inside the Machine" Online Class coming up in September. He talks about what to expect from this class, and what types of great films students will discover. He also touches on some exciting topics and directors that he wants to cover later, which include Ersnt Lubitsch, Chantal Akerman, Brian DePalma, François Truffaut and so many more.

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Matthew joins to talk about his upcoming classes, starting with Film Theory and then Genre Theory. Stick around for the teaser about Weimar Republic films. Please register for his classes and follow him online at the links below.


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Intro to Film Theory - Details and Registration
Intro to Genre Theory - Details and Registration
Matthew's Guide Page
Histories of the Present - Matthew's Substack
The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast
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Louis Hill joins to recap the CineJourneys A24 Journey that he had in April. Louis is an original Founding Member and a Kickstarter backer. He's excited about the book and he went a little extra with this journey, spending the month watching the weekly films and also seeking out others.

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The A24 Journey
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Louis' A24 Ranked List



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Tiffany Vazquez joins to talk about Barry Jenkins, who is arguably the most impactful individual who has worked with A24. Moonlight famously won the Best Picture Academy Award, and he's been putting out great work ever since. We briefly touch on If Beale Street Could Talk, The Underground Railroad, Mufasa, and we get into his influence as a Producer. People might be surprised by how many films that he has produced and distributed with A24. He's a monumental talent and he's not done.

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Tiffany Vazquez Channel at CineJourneys
From Shakespeare to Street Fighter: The Range of Raúl Juliá
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Christian Gutierrez joins Aaron for the first time. He has a podcast called Reel Latinos, and is an expert in Latino cinema. He has tastes for world cinema and classic Hollywood. We talked about the July 2025 Criterion announcements, and we went through the TCM Film Festival schedule to look at conflicts and which films for him to prioritize at the 2025 fest.


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Ali Khamseh joins Aaron from Tehran, Iran. It was the first time podcasting with someone anywhere close to that region, and it was a delight! Ali talked about his projects, the state of cinema in Iran, many of the Iranian masters like Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi, and how some filmmakers have become internationally known while pacifying the government. Ali likes a lot more than Iranian cinema and we had a good time looking through the Criterion titles too.



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David Blakeslee joins Aaron. Jill is absent for the near future, and while she can't be replaced, David is a terrific co-host. We start by talking about Killers of the Flower Moon and some viral news that Criterion had allegedly approached Apple to put out a release, and Apple refused. We dig into the source and have some questions. While we are not expecting an imminent release, we think this is irresponsible reporting, but the sentiments that made it go viral are in the right place. We also talk about yet another rich month of Criterion announcements after they unveiled their June 2025 slate.

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eightslicesofpie's post on the Blu-Ray forums.
The follow up post after the story went viral

120 Days of Pasolini
David Blakeslee's Guide Profile on CineJourneys
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Alex Mell-Taylor from Alex Has Opinions joins to talk about A24 and representation. We talk about some of the recent examples of positive representation and compare it with some not so great examples. We also talk about how someone who is not part of a particular group benefits from seeing what their life is like when representative actually reflects that experience, and how great it feels for people to see characters and stories that they can identify with on screen.

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Chris Haskell from They Live by Film and Punk Vacation joins to talk about Miramax. Covering a film company is not easy, and it's saying a lot to credit A24 as being solely responsible for a modern new wave movement. There were many independent movements throughout film history, and the independent film was truly embraced in the 1990s. Miramax was a groundbreaking independent film distributor and A24 benefited from their success. We had to preface this episode that Harvey Weinstein is a terrible person and nothing that we say positive about Miramax reflects our feelings about his character.

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The A24 New Wave Kickstarter
Punk Vacation Podcast
They Live by Film Podcast
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Jill and Aaron talk about Flow, which appears to be the first Janus Contemporary that will get a Criterion spine release. We then talk about the May 2025 Announcements, and the new trend of increasing the number of new titles with upgrades. We speculate whether this has to do with the Steven Rales and Indian Paintbrush acquisition.

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‘Flow’ Will Join the Criterion Collection Later This Year with 4K Special Edition
Kickstarter Campaign for The A24 New Wave


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Imogen Sara Smith joins to talk about her plans regarding the upcoming Powell & Pressburger Online Class she is teaching. She also touches on some exciting topics she wants to cover later, and what types of film topics she finds interesting.

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Matters of Life and Death: The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger - Details and Registration
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Imogen's Writing at Criterion





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Becky D'Anna joins to talk about Alex Garland, and specifically the films that have been released by A24 -- Ex Machina, Men, and Civil War. We talk about the sense of dread that he creates and how he's such an excellent writer. Becky compares his work to Ingmar Bergman. He uses sound and photography to accomplish this, and there are parallels to Hour of the Wolf, Shame, and others.

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Zach Bryant from They Live By Film joins to talk about Osgood Perkins, who has one film with A24 -- The Blackcoat's Daughter. He has since achieved acclaim thanks to Longlegs and has an upcoming film called The Monkey that looks to be yet another breakthrough in his career. We get into his other films, and also Bryan Bertino's The Monster, which Perkins produced.

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Derek Smith talks about his film experience and the Online Classes he plans to teach, beginning with Japanese New Wave and eventually David Lynch.

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Japanese New Wave 1965 – 1970s – Details and Registration
Japanese New Wave 1956 – 1964 – Details and Registration
Derek Smith's Guide Page
Slant Magazine - Derek Smith
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Jill and Aaron are back after a little bit of an unintentional break. We talk about Aaron's upcoming new book. We pay tribute to the loss of one of our favorite filmmakers, David Lynch. Finally we talk about the April 2025 Announcements, which include seven titles, with two from Sean Baker. We have a brief digression about Gerard Depardieu's airplane behavior.

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Criterion Now - Episode 154 Video
Criterion Now - Episode 155 Video
Kickstarter Campaign for The A24 New Wave


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Aaron is writing an A24 book with Jill Blake editing. There is a Kickstarter campaign that is in progress right now, and this is the second episode of the accompanying podcast. Jill and Aaron talk about David Lynch first and foremost, as he is omnipresent with any conversation about modern cinema. We then get into the book and how we are approaching this topic, and where this could lead.

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Aaron is writing an A24 book. There is a Kickstarter campaign that is in progress right now, and this is the first episode of the accompanying podcast. This episode will appear in all podcast player apps soon, and is always available here on the website and on our YouTube channel. We are very excited about the book and looking forward to your support!

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We visited with Daniela Taplin Lundberg, the owner of Stay Gold Productions and host of the Hollywood Gold Podcast. She has produced films such as Harriet, Honey Boy, Beasts of No Nation, The Kids Are All Right, Under the Silver Lake, Nanny, and several more. Her podcast is focused on showcasing producers with stories of the blood, sweat and tears that go into making Hollywood Gold. After the discussion with Daniela, Jill Blake discusses her trip to Los Angeles where she caught the Robbie Robertson Tribute show, which could become a Scorsese documentary, and also seeing Joni Mitchell at the Hollywood Bowl.

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Stay Gold Features
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Celeste de la Cabra is a horror expert, at least in Aaron's opinion. They spent some time going through Aaron's Top 100 Horror Films of the 21st century. Celeste had not looked at the list beforehand, and it turned out she had seen 63 of the films. She had some great takes, as expected.

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Aaron's Top Horror Films of the 21st Century
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Derek Smith joins Aaron to talk about the Slant list for best horror films of the 21st century. Derek writes for Slant and is going to be a guide for CineJourneys, so he had some great insights. Of course we quibbled about some of the results, but that's kind of the point with lists.

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Slant Magazine - The 100 Best Horror Movies of the 21st Century
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