Chosen by Collective member Matt Sedillo, The Exterminating Angel is written and directed by Luis Buñuel. The Exterminating Angel follows the surrealist misadventures of a dinner party that the guests find themselves unable to leave. Is this film best understood as a comedy, a survival film,  a 2-hour long episode of The Twilight Zone, or something else, altogether? Matt states it's the perfect quarantine movie. Who, or what, is the exterminating angel? Are the dinner guests sympathetic characters, or the shallow rich? What do the sheep and the bear represent? Fear not, for in the hour of greatest depression, The Criterion Collective is here to help you escape!

The Criterion Collective

Join poets and film lovers, Jeanne Marie Spicuzza (Night Rain), Matt Sedillo (Mowing Leaves of Grass), and David A. Romero (My Name Is Romero) as they meet each week, to form The Criterion Collective, discussing some of their favorite classic/foreign/art films. These are the films they connect with most deeply, the films that move and inspire them. They hope to inspire a new generation of cinephiles and cinéastes!  

The Criterion Collective is a special production by the dA Center for the Arts in Pomona, CA. https://www.dacenter.org/

Intro and outro music, "Exploring the Inferno," by Myuu. https://www.thedarkpiano.com/