We make the case for the first Park Chan-Wook film to be in the Criterion Collection!   Articles mentioned: <a href= "https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/apr/08/sarah-waters-the-handmaiden-turns-pornography-into-a-spectacle-but-its-true-to-my-novel-" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Waters interview in the Guardian</a> <a href= "https://www.newyorker.com/culture/jia-tolentino/the-handmaiden-and-the-freedom-women-find-only-with-one-another" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jia Tolentino in The New Yorker</a> <a href= "https://slate.com/culture/2016/10/park-chan-wooks-the-handmaiden-based-on-sarah-waters-fingersmith-reviewed.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laura Miller in Slate</a> <a href= "https://collider.com/park-chan-wook-handmaiden-extended-edition-interview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Park Chan-Wook speaking about Extended version and other elements of adapting the script</a> Music: <a href="https://orcd.co/af_genevafreeport">“The Endless Scroll” by Absolutely Free</a> courtesy of Idée Fixe Records and Arts & Crafts Music Inc. Follow us online @SurprisingCrit <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/SurprisingCrit/">Instagram </a> <a href= "https://www.facebook.com/surprisingcrit">Facebook </a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SurprisingCrit">Twitter</a>

Surprisingly Criterion - the podcast where we select and talk about the films that we're surprised are a part of the Criterion Collection, and the films we can't believe are not!
The Criterion Collection brands itself as a depository of important classic and contemporary films for film aficionados. Their collection features over a 1000 movies and counting! Surely all of these can't be important, can they? What does 'important' even mean!