Criterion Reflections

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 of this second season of the podcast features conversations with a variety of guests offering insights on movies that originally premiered in 1970 and were destined to eventually bear the Criterion imprint. In this episode, David is joined by Josh Hornbeck to discuss Long Live the Bride and Groom, directed by Luis Garcia Berlanga, currently available on the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck.

Episode Links:

Luis Garcia Berlanga

Criterion

Berlanga Film Museum

Senses of Cinema

TSPDT

Wikipedia

Long Live the Bride and Groom: Resources

Berlanga Film Museum

FilmStruck

100 Years of European Cinema: Entertainment or Ideology? (Google Books)

FilmIn (Spanish site, translated to English)

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THE SCANDALOUS ADVENTURES OF BURAIKAN

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THE CONFESSION

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Criterion Reflections blog (1922 – 1967)

Criterion Reflections columns on CriterionCast (1968)

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Josh Hornbeck [ Twitter / Website / Letterboxd / SIFF Journal Day 1]

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 of this second season of the podcast features conversations with a variety of guests offering insights on movies that originally premiered in 1970 and were destined to eventually bear the Criterion imprint. In this episode, David is joined by Arik Devens and Robert Taylor to discuss The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan, directed by Masahiro Shinoda and starring Tatsuya Nakadai, currently available on the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck.

Episode Links:

Masahiro Shinoda

Criterion

Film Comment

Indie Wire

Reviews

DVD Beaver

Google Books (excerpt from “Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema”)

Iken-eiga (French)

Japanese Culture Reflections

Molodezhnaja (German)

SamuraiDVD.com

PREVIOUSLY:

MULTIPLE MANIACS

UP NEXT:

LONG LIVE THE BRIDE AND GROOM

MORE!

Criterion Reflections blog (1922 – 1967)

Criterion Reflections columns on CriterionCast (1968)

The Eclipse Viewer

A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

CONTACT US:

David Blakeslee [ Twitter / Website  / Facebook ]

Arik Devens [ Twitter / Cinema Gadfly / A History of Jazz ]

Robert Taylor [ Website ]

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 of this second season of the podcast features conversations with a variety of guests offering insights on movies that originally premiered in 1970 and were destined to eventually bear the Criterion imprint. In this episode, David is joined by Keith Enright and William Remmers to discuss Multiple Maniacs, directed by John Waters, starring Divine and other members of the Dreamlanders performance troupe.

Episode Links:

John Waters

Criterion

Dreamland News

Mental Floss

The Guardian (2017 interview about the Multiple Maniacs re-issue)

Divine

Divine Official

Dreamland News

Reviews

Alfred Eaker

Big Gay Picture Show

Cinepassion

CutPrintFilm

DMovies

Electric  Shadows

House of Self Indulgence

Jerry Saravia

New York Times

The Arts Desk

PREVIOUSLY:

GODS OF THE PLAGUE

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THE SCANDALOUS ADVENTURES OF BURAIKAN

MORE!

Criterion Reflections blog (1922 – 1967)

Criterion Reflections columns on CriterionCast (1968)

The Eclipse Viewer

A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

CONTACT US:

David Blakeslee [ Twitter / Website  / Facebook ]

Keith Enright  [ Twitter / Website ]

William Remmers [ Twitter / Instagram / Letterboxd ]

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 of this second season of the podcast features conversations with a variety of guests offering insights on movies that originally premiered in 1970 and were destined to eventually bear the Criterion imprint. In this episode, David is joined by Jason Beamish and Josh Hornbeck to discuss Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Gods of the Plague, starring  Hanna Schygulla, Margarethe von Trotta, Harry Baer and Gunther Kaufmann.

Episode Links:

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Criterion

Fassbinder Foundation

Film Directors Site

Rotten Tomatoes

TSPDT

Reviews

A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

The Eclipse Viewer: Early Fassbinder [Part 2]

Jim’s Reviews

New York Times (1977)

FilmGrab (stills slideshow)

Slant

Swimming to Casablanca

The Same Cinema Every Night

Three Movie Buffs

Vague Visages

 

PREVIOUSLY:

TRISTANA

UP NEXT:

MULTIPLE MANIACS

MORE!

Criterion Reflections blog (1922 – 1967)

Criterion Reflections columns on CriterionCast (1968)

The Eclipse Viewer

A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

CONTACT US:

David Blakeslee [ Twitter / Website  / Facebook ]

Jason Beamish  [ Twitter / Website ]

Josh Hornbeck [ Twitter / Website / Letterboxd ]

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 of this second season of the podcast features conversations with a variety of guests offering insights on movies that originally premiered in 1970 and were destined to eventually bear the Criterion imprint. In this episode, David is joined by Lauren LoGiudice and William Remmers to discuss Luis Buñuel’s Tristana, starring Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey and Franco Nero.

Episode Links:

Luis Buñuel

Criterion

BFI

Film Comment

Senses of Cinema

Catherine Deneuve / #MeToo

New York Times

The Guardian

NPR

Archival Reviews

Cleveland Press

New York Times (Vincent Canby)

Roger Ebert

Recent Reviews

Anna, Look!

Boston.com

Cole Smithey

Derek Winnert

Digital Bits

Film Freak Central

Larsen on Film

New York Times (Dave Kehr)

Ozu’s World

PopMatters

Slant

The Stop Button

This Island Rod

Thrill Me Softly

PREVIOUSLY:

INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION

UP NEXT:

GODS OF THE PLAGUE

MORE!

Criterion Reflections blog (1922 – 1967)

Criterion Reflections columns on CriterionCast (1968)

The Eclipse Viewer

A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

CONTACT US:

David Blakeslee [ Twitter / Website  / Facebook ]

Lauren LoGiudice [ Twitter / Website / Instagram ]

William Remmers [ Twitter / Instagram / Letterboxd ]

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 of this second season of the podcast features conversations with a variety of guests offering insights on movies that originally premiered in 1970 and were destined to eventually bear the Criterion imprint. In this episode, David is joined by Matthew Gasteier to discuss Elio Petri’s Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, starring Gian Maria Volonté and Florinda Bolkan.

Episode Links:

Elio Petri

Criterion

Film Reference

Wikipedia

IMDb

PORT Magazine

Harvard Film Archive

New York Times (obituary)

Reviews

New York Times (1971)

Roger Ebert (1971)

Battleship Pretension (Scott Nye)

Cagey Films

Criterion Confessions

DVD Savant

Electric Sheep

Film Corner

Harsh Texture

Movie Metropolis

Roboapocalypse

Senses of Cinema

Slant

PREVIOUSLY:

THE HONEYMOON KILLERS

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TRISTANA

MORE!

Criterion Reflections blog (1922 – 1967)

Criterion Reflections columns on CriterionCast (1968)

The Eclipse Viewer

A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

CONTACT US:

David Blakeslee [ Twitter / Website  / Facebook ]

Matthew Gasteier  [ Twitter / Letterboxd / The Complete Pod ]

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 of this second season of the podcast features conversations with a variety of guests offering insights on movies that originally premiered in 1970 and were destined to eventually bear the Criterion imprint. In this episode, David is joined by Arik Devens and Josh Hornbeck to discuss Leonard Kastle’s The Honeymoon Killers, starring Shirley Stoler and Tony Lo Bianco, based on actual events that happened in 1948-49.

Episode Links:

Leonard Kastle

Remembering Leonard Kastle

Interview with composer/writer Bruce Duffie

Shirley Stoler

All-American Medea

Tony Lo Bianco

TonyLoBianco.com

The Lonely Hearts Killers (Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck)

Wikipedia

Murderpedia

CrimeFeed

My Michigan (the killing of Delphine and Rainelle Downing)

Stacy Green

Unknown History of Misandry

Twitter thread correcting a mistaken assertion I made in the podcast

Archival Reviews

New York Times (1970)

Variety (1970)

Los Angeles Times (1992)

Behind the Filming of “The Honeymoon Killers” (New York Times, 1992)

Contemporary Reviews

365 Movie Guy

Alt Film Guide

Film Corner

Hammer to Nail

Images Film Journal

Not Coming to a Theater Near You

Ozu’s World

PopMatters

Scopophilia

PREVIOUSLY:

ZATOICHI MEETS YOJIMBO

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INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION

MORE!

Criterion Reflections blog (1922 – 1967)

Criterion Reflections columns on CriterionCast (1968)

The Eclipse Viewer

A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

CONTACT US:

David Blakeslee [ Twitter / Website ]

Arik Devens [ Twitter / Cinema Gadfly / A History of Jazz ]

Josh Hornbeck [ Twitter / Website / Letterboxd / Justice Interrupted (Japanese Internment Documentary Project ]

UP NEXT:

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

Criterion Reflections logo designed by Brandon Blakeslee

Outro Music: The Doors “You Make Me Real” from the LP Morrison Hotel, released February 1970

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 of this second season of the podcast features conversations with a variety of guests offering insights on movies that originally premiered in 1970 and were destined to eventually bear the Criterion imprint. In this episode, David is joined by Robert Taylor and Jon Laubinger to discuss Kihachi Okamoto’s Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo, starring Shintaro Katsu and Toshiro Mifune, the 20th installment in the long-running film series about a blind swordsman who wanders across the Japanese countryside of the late Edo period (mid-1830s-1840s).

Episode Links:

Kihachi Okamoto

Midnight Eye

Shintaro Katsu

Cagey Films

Toshiro Mifune

Senses of Cinema

Ayako Wakao

Wonders in the Dark

Reviews

New York Times (1971)

Blood Brothers

Eternality Tan

Film Fanatic

Lard Biscuit

Passport Cinema

The Spinning Image

Things That Don’t Suck

This Island Rod

PREVIOUSLY:

BAAL

UP NEXT:

THE HONEYMOON KILLERS

MORE!

Criterion Reflections blog (1922 – 1967)

Criterion Reflections columns on CriterionCast (1968)

The Eclipse Viewer

A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

CONTACT US:

David Blakeslee [ Twitter / Website ]

Jonathon Laubinger [ Twitter / Website ]

Robert Taylor [ Website ]

Outro Music: Badfinger “Come and Get It” from the LP Magic Christian Music, released January 1970

 

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 of this second season of the podcast features conversations with a variety of guests offering insights on movies that originally premiered in 1970 and were destined to eventually bear the Criterion imprint. In this episode, David is joined by William Remmers to discuss Volker Schlöndorff’s Baal, starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Margarethe von Trotta, based on a 1919 stage play written by Bertolt Brecht.

Episode Links:

Volker Schlöndorff

VolkerSchloendorff.com (official)

Criterion

Deutsche Welle

European Graduate School

Society of Audiovisual Authors

Wikipedia

Bertolt Brecht

Criterion

Encyclopedia Brittanica

Holocaust Encyclopedia

Poetry Foundation

Spartacus Educational

Theatre Database

Wikipedia

Reviews

Film Blerg

Film Gazette (German)

Hard Sensations (German)

MUBI

Splatting Image (German)

Sydney Morning Herald

Opening scene of Baal, featuring the vocal styling of Rainer Werner Fassbinder:

David Bowie’s performance as Baal, as directed by Alan Clarke:

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ZATOICHI MEETS YOJIMBO

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Criterion Reflections blog (1922 – 1967)

Criterion Reflections columns on CriterionCast (1968)

The Eclipse Viewer

A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

CONTACT US:

David Blakeslee [ Twitter / Website  / Facebook ]

William Remmers [ Twitter / Instagram / Letterboxd ]

Up Next:

Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

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 in the second season of the podcast will feature conversations with a variety of guests offering insights on movies that originally premiered in 1970 and were destined to eventually bear the Criterion imprint. In this short teaser episode, David drops a few names and looks ahead to an amazing variety of films as he prepares to explore the unforgettable, confrontational cinema of the 1970s!

Here’s the lineup, with release dates according to IMDb and links to more information about the films. This list is subject to change if Criterion adds more 1970 titles over the next few months:

Baal (1/7/70)

Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1/15/70)

The Honeymoon Killers (2/4/70)

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (2/12/70)

Tristana (3/29/70)

Gods of the Plague (4/4/70)

Multiple Maniacs (4/10/70)

The Scandalous Adventure of Buraikan (4/18/70)

Long Live the Bride and Groom (4/20/70)

The Confession (4/29/70)

The Shadow Within (6/6/70)

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (6/17/70)

The Man Who Left His Will on Film (6/27/70)

A Test of Violence (6/30/70)

Crimes of the Future (6/30/70)

Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (8/12/70)

Bed and Board (9/1/70)

Five Easy Pieces (9/11/70)

The American Soldier (10/9/70)

Equinox (10/15/70)

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (10/16/70)

Le Cercle Rouge (10/20/70)

Dodes’Ka-Den (10/31/70)

Ciao, Federico! (10/31/70)

Bombay Talkie (11/18/70)

Gimme Shelter (12/6/70)

Claire’s Knee (12/11/70)

Donkey Skin (12/20/70)

The Ear*

Maidstone*

The Grandmother*

The Machine of Eden*

Zorns Lemma*

* No release date currently available on IMDb

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Criterion Reflections blog (1922 – 1967)

Criterion Reflections columns on CriterionCast (1968)

Criterion Reflections podcast archive

The Eclipse Viewer

A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

CONTACT US:

If you are interested in joining me as a guest on an upcoming episode, don’t be shy! I am willing to connect with you on Skype and listen to your pitch. Contact me via social media and let me know about you – that’s how most of my guests first got involved!

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Criterion Reflections logo designed by Brandon Blakeslee