Criterion Cast: Master Audio Feed

Excellent podcast filled with news, rumors, and insight into the Criterion Collection, as well as in depth conversation about specific titles, directors, and genres. Really has begun to feel indispensable as a Criterion collector, but also as a general film enthusiast as they often go beyond and talk about tangents off of Criterion including related films, artists, and boutique labels. Great stuff. Highly recommended. Tho if I had one critical comment, there have been some occasions when a guest or the gang tries for humor, generally a cheap laugh, and it falls flat from self congratulation or trying too hard. But frankly it's a minor quibble and a common thing in a lot of podcasts these days.

I have become a true film buff and Criterion Collection fanatic in the last five years. Therefore I listen when I can to a number of film and cinema podcasts and I would say 80 to 90% of them are done by people who get together informally and do it on a lark. One has to wade through endless minutes of inside jokes and unfunny banter in so many of them. It makes one never want to listen to a Podcast again. Then you turn to Criterion Cast with Ryan Gallagher and Scott and the rest of the crew and it is bliss. Smart, well meaning, full of love of film and great detail regarding the Collection. The family of podcasts on CC are it for Cinema. Criterion Collected is also good but too rarely done. This is the one!

The Criterion Cast is a joy to listen to, plain and simple. The various offshoots of the main show offer a plethora of diverse listening options ("Off the Shelf," for instance, looks at home video in general), and the variety of opinions expressed rarely veers into self-serving snobbery. Highly recommended!

I love knowing that they're other people out there who love geek out about the same movies I enjoy! Cult, foreign, classic, and anything else the Criterion Collection has to offer these guys cover it, the range of films they discuss, and the unpretentious fun they have doing it make this podcast great!

I'm a huge film buff, and I tried to give this a chance. I've listened to maybe twenty different podcasts by them. I don't want to hurt feelings, but here's my problem: most of the discussion revolves around one person mentioning a film, and four people mentioning they have yet to see that film. They spend too much time talking about their podcast format, explaining themselves, talking about their discounts and deals, as opposed to what I want to hear: a discussion about cinema. I know that it's exciting to get a great deal, but what's the point in telling us about what you received, if you're not going to watch them, and form a discussion? I'm looking for exploration and recommendations. If you tighten these up, let me know and I'll subscribe again.