Crit Club Podcast
1) High and Low (1963)
The Crit Club has decided to take an extended summer vacation to Japan. This week weâre watching 1963âs High and Low from director Akira Kurosawa. Itâs a procedural thriller slash morality play about ...Show More
2) Seven Weeks (2014)
Back to Japan we go as the Crit Club watches the 2014 family drama from director Nobuhiko Obayashi Seven Weeks. This epic-length movie seeks to lay out everything from generational lessons in one fami...Show More
3) Liquid Sky (1982)
This week, the Crit Club is on quite the drug-filled, electroclash journey as we watch the 1982 nihilistic sci fi overdose called Liquid Sky. What would it be like if orgasms attracted aliens? How wou...Show More
4) Young Soul Rebels (1991)
Happy Pride, everyone! So much love to you all. In celebration, this week the Crit Club has watched 1991âs Young Soul Rebels, a movie that explores various queer and counter cultures in late-70s Engla...Show More
5) La Haine (1995)
This week, Crit Club returns to our home away from home: France. We watched the 1995 crime drama La Haine, which follows three young men from the Parisian slums in the day after an explosive riot that...Show More
6) School Daze (1988)
This week, Crit Club gets a remarkable education from Spike Leeâs 1988 joint School Daze. In the vein of, and making light of, such rollicking college films as Animal House, et. al., School Daze follo...Show More
7) The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (1992)
If a Yakuza has ever threatened you into free lasagna, then this weekâs Crit Club is up your alley. We watched the 1992 dark comedy The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (aka Minbo) from director Juzo ...Show More
8) Certain Women (2016)
This week the Crit Club is slowing things down a little with Kelly Reichardtâs 2016 movie Certain Women. This film tells three moderately overlapping stories of women in various stages of life going t...Show More
9) Come and See (1985)
Never one to shy away from masochism, this week the Crit Club is watching the 1985 Soviet anti-war movie Come and See. This film, directed and co-written by Elem Klimov, follows a young boy as he is s...Show More
10) The Mother and the Whore (1973)
Surprise, surprise, the Crit Club is watching a French movie this week. The 1973 post-new wave drama The Mother and the Whore follows a young man named Alexandre as he talks, meets women, talks to the...Show More