Criterion Reflections is David Blakeslee’s ongoing project to watch all of the films included in the Criterion Collection in chronological order of their original release. Each episode features panel conversations and 1:1 interviews offering insights on movies that premiered in a particular season of a year in the past, which were destined to eventually bear the Criterion imprint. In this episode, David is joined by Jordan Essoe and Trevor Berrett to discuss five titles from the Summer of 1969: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Love is Colder than Death, Vojtech Jasný’s All My Good Countrymen, Robert Downey Sr.’s Putney Swope, Louis Malle’s Phantom India and Nagisa Oshima’s Boy.

Episode Time Markers

Introduction: 0:00:00 – 0:08:34

Love is Colder than Death: 0:08:35 – 0:35:19

All My Good Countrymen: 0:35:20 – 1:20:23

Putney Swope: 1:20:24 – 1:42:35

Phantom India: 1:42:36 –  1:55:27

Boy: 1:55:28 – 2:44:27

Love is Colder Than Death (6/26/69)

Guest: Trevor Berrett (from “The Eclipse Viewer”, 2015)

Criterion

FilmStruck

A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

The Eclipse Viewer

Only the Cinema

Cinepassion

Ozu’s World

All My Good Countrymen (7/4/69)

Guest: Jordan Essoe

FilmStruck

Video introduction by director Vojtěch Jasný

Czech Film Foundation

New York Times

Cinevue

j.b. spins

Mondo Digital

Ozu’s World

PopMatters

Putney Swope (7/10/69)

Guest: Trevor Berrett (from “The Eclipse Viewer”,  2015)

Criterion

A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

The Eclipse Viewer

Robert Downey Sr. and Paul Thomas Anderson in conversation (video)

Vice

Cinepassion

Film Guinea Pig

Film Monthly

Hammer to Nail

Ozu’s World

Clayholio Watches Movies

Phantom India (7/25/69)

Guests: Trevor Berrett and Keith Enright (from “The Eclipse Viewer”, 2016)

Criterion

FilmStruck

The Eclipse Viewer

BESTqUEST

The Film Sufi

Notes of a Film Fanatic

Robert Christgau

Search India

Boy (7/26/69)

Guest: Trevor Berrett

FilmStruck

CinePassion

Kathie Smith

Martin Teller

Next Projection

Ozu’s World

Senses of Cinema

Slant

Strictly Film School

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Criterion Reflections logo designed by Brandon Blakeslee

Opening theme music: “Going to the Supermarket” by The Maroons (1980)