Dec 24, 2020
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It’s time for Criteria’s Christmas episode—time to watch the classic tale of a man who, through divine intervention, overcomes regret, jealousy and despair to realize how precious and magical is the life he already has. James and Thomas discuss Catholic...
Dec 10, 2020
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Almost one hundred years ago, the great German director Fritz Lang offered us a beautiful yet nightmarish vision of a world strangely similar to our present. Society is unimaginably prosperous yet produces mass misery. There is a sense of an end coming for Babel.
Amidst...
Dec 1, 2020
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Krzysztof
Kieślowski's DEKALOG (1988) is a
series of 10 short films inspired by the Ten Commandments. With
this episode we discuss the fourth film in the series, which deals
with the fourth commandment: "Honor thy father and mother."
In this fraught
installment,...
Nov 21, 2020
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James and Thomas
discuss an animated classic, Walt Disney's Fantasia
(1940), with Oscar-nominated animator and director Timothy Reckart
("Head Over Heels", The Star). Included in the
conversation are some remarks touching upon Fantasia 2000
(1999). Both films are...
Oct 29, 2020
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In a special Halloween
episode, James and Thomas discuss the function of horror movies and
the need for a conscientious and duly serious approach when dealing
with the occult in a work of fiction. Then they discuss the only
horror film on the Vatican film...