The Criterinot Podcast
The Criterinot Podcast is a lighthearted podcast about films that are not in The Criterion Collection. Host Graydon Sheppard is joined in each episode by a filmmaker, actor, producer, comedian, etc., to get into the mainstream movies they love that don't get enough cred.
Episodes
35 episodes
Requiem for a Dream with Matt Hannam
In the Season Two finale I am joined by superstar editor Matt Hannam (Babygirl, The Iron Claw, Swiss Army Man, The OA) to talk about the ultra-depressing and incredibly innovative Requiem for a Dream. Did Miranda July get "pooping back and fort...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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58:56
Marie Antoinette with Magali Simard
"Dear God, guide us and protect us. We are too young to reign." On this week's episode I'm joined by a French-Canadian queen to talk about THE French queen and the injustices that both she and director Sofia Coppola have suffered. Magali Simard...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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1:20:20
Crossroads with Jacki Calleiro
This motion picture is a grim foreshadowing of Britney's real life. It's uncanny how many things in the story wound up playing out in Brit Brit's IRL timeline. Producer and Southern belle Jacki Calleiro gets into this Shonda Rimes/Tamra Davis s...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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59:42
Good Will Hunting with Carlo Guillermo Proto
It's the movie that dares to ask "Fellas, is it gay to hug?"Filmmaker and hunk Carlo Guillermo Proto (El Huaso, Resurrecting Hassan) joins me to talk about the shockingly f-slurless Good Will Hunting. Directed by queer auteur Gus Van Sa...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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1:10:48
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle with Jamie Travis
Yellowjackets director and producer Jamie Travis joins me to talk about the 1992 "lady thriller" The Hand That Rocks the Cradle. Annabella Sciorra, Rebecca De Mornay, Ernie Hudson, Matt McCoy, and Julianne Moore star in this wild, upsetting, an...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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1:13:38
The First Wives Club with Katie Silberman
Writer Katie Silberman (Don't Worry Darling, Booksmart, Set It Up) is a master of storytelling and a MAJOR fan of The First Wives Club. This 1996 adaptation of the Olivia Goldsmith novel stars absolutely everyone, but mostly Goldie Hawn, Diane ...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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1:22:26
Mask with Darren Stein
Darren Stein - writer and director of Jawbreaker, Sparkler, and Put the Camera on Me - joins me to talk about Peter Bogdanovich's 1985 tearjerker Mask*. Cher, Eric Stoltz, Laura Dern, and Sam Elliott star in the biopic about Rocky Dennis, a tee...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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1:06:10
Brokeback Mountain with Matt Kenchington
"It's a good old-fashioned fag-drag." Filmmaker Matt Kenchington, noted heterosexual and one of my nearest and dearest friends, joins me in this episode to talk about gay shit. Get out your hanky.
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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1:00:55
The Holiday with Jennifer Shin
The Holiday is a delightfully boring movie. At Criterinot, we're fans not critics, but we do shit-talk this movie quite a bit and still come out the other end loving it. Other topics this episode include Jerry Seinfeld's bee fetish, why moms lo...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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1:06:03
Romancing the Stone with Jordan Canning
Writer/director Jordan Canning (Schitt's Creek, Fraggle Rock, Baroness von Sketch, We Were Wolves) joins me this week to talk about Robert Zemeckis and Diane Thomas's 1984 adventure comedy Romancing the Stone. Kathleen Turner stars as the roman...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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1:14:12
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion with Tranna Wintour
Look out Tucson, here we come! The inimitable comedian and elusive chantuese Tranna Wintour is here to talk about 1997’s Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, written by Robin Schiff and directed by David Mirkin. We go deep on this 90s classi...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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1:17:07
Adventures in Babysitting with Naomi Fry
New Yorker staff writer and prolific Twitter user Naomi Fry is here to talk about Adventures in Babysitting, Elvis crapping to death, Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place, Matthew Modine, and why young people looked so old in the 80s.
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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1:04:36
To Die For with Bayne Gibby
To Die For (1995) is not just this week’s movie, it’s how I’d describe my guest. The wonderful Bayne Gibby (The Comeback, Enlightened, Ladybird) is on the podcast this week to gush with me about Nicole Kidman in Gus Van Sant’s "black comedy-dra...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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1:27:15
White Chicks with Hubert Davis
White Chicks is a fever dream of a movie and I'm a huge fan. My guest, Oscar and Emmy-nominated director Hubert Davis is also a fan. Directed, written, and produced by Keenen Ivory Wayans, this perfect movie stars the incredible Shawn and Marlo...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:23:58
Strangers in Good Company with John Early
Strangers in Good Company is my favourite Canadian film (full disclosure, I haven't seen the unauthorized Céline Dion biopic yet...so, that could change). I'm joined by actor, comedian, and fellow Stranger-head John Early (Search Party, I...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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1:11:39
Misery with Craig Johnson
Director and writer Craig Johnson (The Skeleton Twins, Special, Gossip Girl) joins me to talk about Kathy Bates's introduction to the wider world in Rob Reiner and William Goldman's adaptation of Stephen King's Misery (1990).
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:06:08
Se7en with Lara Marie Schoenhals
Don't watch this movie.The unmatchable Lara Marie Schoenhals joins me to talk about this huge bummer of a movie that we both love and hate. David Fincher. Gwyneth Paltrow. Morgan Freeman. Brad Pitt. Kevin Spacey.
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:12:22
Beetlejuice with Liza Dye
Beetlejuice is a magic trick of a movie and nobody knows that better than my guest, comedian and writer Liza Dye.
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:16:42
The Craft with David Wilson
Hail to the Guardians of the Watchtowers of the Notties! It's October so I guess it's time to catch up with "The Bitches of Eastwick." Grammy nominated music video and short film director David Wilson (Lady Gaga, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, M8...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:08:08
Cruel Intentions with Nancy Jo Sales
It was the ass that launched a thousand gays. Nancy Jo Sales (journalist, writer of The Bling Ring, director of Swiped on HBO) joins me to talk about Roger Kumble's interpretation of Dangerous Liaisons. We get into the good and the bad, the unp...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:32:44
TRAILER: Criterinot Season 2
Criterinot is the podcast where I, Graydon Sheppard, am joined by a guest to talk about a movie that we love that is NOT in The Criterion Collection. Season 2 will premiere on Thursday, September 30th 2021.
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:33
The Joy Luck Club with Aleysa Young
Aleysa "Best Quality Crab" Young, director of Baroness von Sketch Show, Workin' Moms, Cavendish, and the upcoming New Eden joins me to talk about the tearjerker that is The Joy Luck Club. 1993's Chinese-American answer to Steel Magnolias is hea...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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54:29
Alvin and the Chipmunks with Martha Kelly
In a Criterinot first I let my guest, the wonderful Martha Kelly, choose a movie I'd never seen before. This week we talked about 2007’s Alvin and the Chipmunks. The original, NOT the squeakquel. We get into David Cross’s feelings about being i...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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1:06:10
The Devil Wears Prada with Brian Jordan Alvarez
Gird your loins. Quintuple-threat Brian Jordan Alvarez (Will & Grace, Special, Get Shorty, The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo) sits down with me to talk about my favorite "sick day" movie, The Devil Wears Prada.
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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55:34
Postcards from the Edge with Kiwi Smith
Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith, the co-writer of The House Bunny, Legally Blonde, 10 Things I Hate About You, and much more LOVES Postcards from the Edge, and you should too. After She-Devil and Death Becomes Her, Meryl Streep makes her thir...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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1:07:57
