Josh Brolin’s Adventures in Moviegoing
13 Episodes
In a career studded with acclaimed collaborations with auteurs like the Coen brothers, Denis Villeneuve, and Gus Van Sant, Josh Brolin has brought a rugged grit and grounded authenticity to his committed portrayals of complex, conflicted antiheroes. In this edition of Adventures in Moviegoing, Brolin sits down with Criterion president Peter Becker to discuss his life’s journey through cinema, from the formative impact of THE WARRIORS and APOCALYPSE NOW to why DOG DAY AFTERNOON is the movie he never gets tired of to his love for “imperfect” films. The films he has chosen to present include John Cassavetes’s A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE, Christopher Nolan’s FOLLOWING, and Michael Haneke’s THE PIANO TEACHER, works that center troubling, complicated characters whose stories reflect the discomfiting ambiguities of the human condition.
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23:11Episode 1John Brolin in Conversation
Episode 1
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04:42Episode 2Josh Brolin on DOG DAY AFTERNOON
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2:04:40Episode 3Dog Day Afternoon
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Directed by Sidney Lumet • 1975 • United States
Starring Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles DurningOn a sweltering August day, novice criminals Sonny (Al Pacino) and Sal (John Cazale) attempt to rob a Brooklyn bank in order to pay for Sonny’s lover’s gender confirmation surgery—a situation that qu...
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02:42Episode 4Josh Brolin on IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
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1:45:20Episode 5It Happened One Night
Episode 5
Directed by Frank Capra • 1934 • United States
Starring Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter ConnollyOpposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight from Frank Capra, about a spoiled runaway socialite (Claudette Colbert) and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter (Clark...
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03:40Episode 6Josh Brolin on PARIS, TEXAS
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2:26:51Episode 7Paris, Texas
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Directed by Wim Wenders • 1984 • France, West Germany
Starring Harry Dean Stanton, Dean Stockwell, Nastassja KinskiNew German Cinema pioneer Wim Wenders (WINGS OF DESIRE) brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in PARIS, TEXAS, a profoundly moving character study written by ...
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03:48Episode 8Josh Brolin on THE PIANO TEACHER
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2:11:01Episode 9The Piano Teacher
Episode 9
Directed by Michael Haneke • 2001 • France
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Benoît MagimelIn this riveting study of the dynamics of control, Academy Award–winning director Michael Haneke takes on Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek’s controversial 1983 novel about perverse female sexuality and the world ...
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03:56Episode 10Josh Brolin on A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
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2:27:02Episode 11A Woman Under the Influence
Episode 11
Directed by John Cassavetes • 1974 • United States
Starring Gena Rowlands, Peter FalkThis uncompromising portrait of domestic turmoil details the emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and her family’s struggle to save her from herself. Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk give unforgettably harro...
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03:47Episode 12Josh Brolin on FOLLOWING
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Following
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Directed by Christopher Nolan • 1999 • United Kingdom
Starring Jeremy Theobald, Alex HawBefore he became a sensation with the twisty revenge story MEMENTO, Christopher Nolan fashioned this low-budget, 16 mm black-and-white neonoir with comparable precision and cunning. Providing irrefutable evi...
