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 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 William Remmers, Josh Hornbeck, Jason Beamish and Aaron West to discuss a selection of short films released in 1969. Titles include: Carroll Ballard’s Rodeo and The Perils of Priscilla; Paul Bartel’s Naughty Nurse; Les Blank’s The Sun’s Gonna Shine; Octavio Cortázar’s For the First Time; Hollis Frampton’s Carrots and Peas and Lemon; and Clu Gulager’s A Day with the Boys.

Episode Time Markers

Introduction: 0:00:00 – 0:04:51

The Sun’s Gonna Shine: 0:04:52 – 0:17:58

For the First Time: 0:17:59 – 0:28:54

The Perils of Priscilla & Rodeo: 0:28:55 – 0:56:53

Naughty Nurse: 0:56:54 – 1:13:04

A Day with the Boys: 1:13:05 – 1:24:49

Carrots and Peas & Lemon: 1:24:50 – 1:58:44

The Sun’s Gonna Shine

Guest: Jason Beamish

LesBlank.com (official)

Vimeo

For the First Time

Guest: Jason Beamish

FilmStruck

YouTube

The Perils of Priscilla

Guests: Jason Beamish and Josh Hornbeck

Vimeo

YouTube

Rodeo

Guests: Jason Beamish and Josh Hornbeck

Criterion – Interview with Carroll Ballard

FilmStruck

Naughty Nurse

Guest: Aaron West

YouTube (Color)

YouTube (Black and White)

A Day With The Boys

Guest: Aaron West

FilmStruck

YouTube

Carrots and Peas

Guest: William Remmers

FilmStruck

YouTube

Lemon

Guest: William Remmers

YouTube

FilmStruck

YouTube (seven second version)

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A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

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Criterion Reflections logo designed by Brandon Blakeslee

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

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 William Remmers, Bryan Fernandez, Josh Hornbeck, and Douglas McCambridge to discuss three titles from the Autumn of 1969: Ken Loach’s Kes, Ishiro Honda’s All Monsters Attack, and Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Color of Pomegranates.

Episode Time Markers

Introduction: 0:00:00 – 0:04:22

Kes: 0:04:23 – 1:00:51

All Monsters Attack: 1:00:52 – 1:35:42

Burn: 1:35:43 – 2:25:21

Kes (11/15/69)

Guests: Bryan Fernandez and William Remmers

Criterion

Cinehouse

Cinema’s Fringes

Combustible Celluloid

Common Sense Media

Criterion Confessions

Derek Winnert

Gone With the Twins

Ozu’s World

Roger Ebert

Strictly Film School

Studies in Cinema

Thrill Me Softly

Urban Cinefile

All Monsters Attack (12/20/69)

Guest: Josh Hornbeck

FilmStruck

Wikizilla

A Critical History and Filmography of Toho’s Godzilla Series (book by David Kalat)

Toho Champion Festival

And You Thought It Was… Safe?

Boba Fett 1138

Derek Winnert

Horror Cult Films

Japan Hero

Mother! oh god mother Blog! Blog!

Passport Cinema

The Spinning Image

Burn! (12/21/69)

Guest: Doug McCambridge

Criterion

New York Times

A Potpourri of Vestiges

A Regrettable Moment of Sincerity

Brooklyn Rail

Combustible Celluloid

IndieWire

TCM

Through the Shattered Lens

More!

Criterion Reflections blog (1922 – 1967)

Criterion Reflections columns on CriterionCast (1968)

The Eclipse Viewer

A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

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Criterion Reflections logo designed by Brandon Blakeslee

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

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, Lauren LoGiudice, Robert Taylor and Trevor Berrett to discuss three titles from the Autumn of 1969: Allan King’s A Married Couple,  Michael Ritchie’s Downhill Racer, and Ingmar Bergman’s  The Passion of Anna.

Episode Time Markers

Introduction: 0:00:00 – 0:06:36

A Married Couple: 0:06:37- 1:08:07

Downhill Racer: 1:08:08 – 1:56:05

The Passion of Anna: 1:56:06 – 2:44:36

A Married Couple (11/6/69)

Guests: Jordan Essoe and Lauren LoGiudice

Criterion

FilmStruck

Allan King Films (official)

YouTube/TVO (interview with Antoinette from 2009)

A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

The Eclipse Viewer

New York Times

Flow Journal

From the Projection Room

Pacific Cinematheque

JSTOR

The Canadian Encyclopedia

Downhill Racer (11/6/69)

Guests: Jordan Essoe and Robert Taylor

Criterion

Criterion Close-Up Episode 47

New York Times

Roger Ebert

Time

AV Club

Cinema Retro

Criterion Confessions

The Film Corner

MTV

Pop Dose

Pop Matters

Slant

Vogue

The Passion of Anna (11/10/69)

Guests: Trevor Berrett and Jordan Essoe

FilmStruck

IngmarBergman.se (official)

New York Times

Alt Film Guide

Apocalypse Later

Combustible Celluloid

Cultjer

Ekphrasis

Not Coming to a Theater Near You

Ozu’s World

Sonic Cinema

TCM

The Cinematika

This Recording

Tony McKibben

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A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

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Criterion Reflections logo designed by Brandon Blakeslee

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

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 Jon Laubinger, Matt Gasteier,  and William Remmers to discuss four titles from the Autumn of 1969: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Katzelmacher, Eric Rohmer’s My Night at Maud’s, Barbet Schroeder’s More and Sergei Paradjanov’s The Color of Pomegranates.

Episode Time Markers

Introduction: 0:00:00 – 0:06:48

Katzelmacher: 0:06:49 – 0:55:04

My Night at Maud’s: 0:55:05 – 1:43:18

More: 1:43:19 – 2:23:10

The Color of Pomegranates: 2:23:11 – 3:03:57

Katzelmacher (10/8/69)

Guest: Jon Laubinger

Criterion

FilmStruck

A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

The Eclipse Viewer

Combustible Celluloid

Der Filmsnob

Films de France

Jim’s Reviews

Jonathon Rosenbaum

New York Times

My Night at Maud’s (10/12/69)

Guest: Matt Gasteier

Criterion

FilmStruck

Criterion Cast Episode 168

New York Times

Roger Ebert

Pacific Film Archive

Films de France

Lisa Thatcher

Long Pauses

Strictly Film School

The Guardian

Classic Art Films

World Cinema Review

More (10/21/69)

Guest: William Remmers

FilmStruck

Barbet-Schroeder.com

Formidable Mag

Ibiza Holiday Secrets

New Wave Film

New York Times

Off Screen

Roger Ebert

TCM

Ultimate Classic Rock

The Color of Pomegranates (10/31/69)

Guest: William Remmers

FilmStruck

Parajanov.com (Official site)

The World is a Window: Making “The Color of P0megranates”

The Color of Pomegranates (Juno Reactor soundtrack)

Cinematheque (University of Wisconsin)

The Film Sufi

The Guardian

Melt

New York Times

Senses of Cinema

More!

Criterion Reflections blog (1922 – 1967)

Criterion Reflections columns on CriterionCast (1968)

The Eclipse Viewer

A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

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Criterion Reflections logo designed by Brandon Blakeslee

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

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, William Remmers and Cole Roulain to discuss two titles from the Summer of 1969: Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army of Shadows and Marcel Ophuls’s The Sorrow and the Pity.

Episode Time Markers

Introduction: 0:00:00 – 0:04:39

Army of Shadows: 0:04:40 – 1:34:29

The Sorrow and the Pity: 1:34:30 – 2:49:34

 Army of Shadows (9/12/69)

Guests: Jordan Essoe and William Remmers

Criterion

Crushed by Inertia

DVD Savant

Film Sufi

Los Angeles Times

New York Times

Not Coming to a Theater Near You

Reverse Shot

Roger Ebert

Rolling Stone

Ruthless Reviews

The Sorrow and the Pity (9/18/69)

Guest: Cole Roulain

 

FilmStruck – Part 1 / Part 2

Blueprint

Electric Sheep

Empire

Harvard Crimson

New York Times (1972)

New York Times (2000)

Roger Ebert

World Socialist Web Site

More!

Criterion Reflections blog (1922 – 1967)

Criterion Reflections columns on CriterionCast (1968)

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Criterion Reflections logo designed by Brandon Blakeslee

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

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 Jon Laubinger, Jordan Essoe and William Remmers to discuss four titles from the Summer of 1969: Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool, Alberto Isaac’s The Olympics in Mexico, Federico Fellini’s Fellini Satyricon, and Agnes Varda’s Lions Love (…and Lies).

Episode Time Markers

Introduction: 0:00:00 – 0:06:31

Medium Cool: 0:06:32 – 0:53:26

The Olympics in Mexico: 0:53:27 – 1:28:29

Fellini Satyricon: 1:28:30 – 2:20:24

Lions Love (and Lies…): 2:20:25 –  3:19:15

Medium Cool (8/27/69)

Guest: Jon Laubinger

Criterion

Harvard Crimson (1969)

New York Times (1969)

Roger Ebert (1969)

Cole Smithey

Collingswood Patch

Criterion Confessions

Scopophilia

Through the Shattered Lens

The Olympics in Mexico (8/29/69)

Guest: Jordan Essoe

Criterion

YouTube (full movie)

Official IOC site

Wikipedia

Fellini Satyricon (9/3/69)

Guest: Jordan Essoe

Criterion

New York Times (1970)

The Guardian (1970)

Blueprint

Cagey Films

Parallax View

Roger Ebert

Slant

Project Gutenberg (public domain text of Petronius)

LibriVox (free audiobook of Petronius)

Lions Love (…and Lies) (9/20/69)

Guest: William Remmers

Criterion

FilmStruck

The Eclipse Viewer

New York Times (1969)

Not Coming to a Theater Near You

Oscilloscope Laboratories

Ozu’s World

Rupert Pupkin Speaks

Brandon’s Movie Memory

Dennis Grunes

James Rado, Gerome Ragni and “Hair”

Viva’s account of the shooting of Andy Warhol in 1968

Shirley Clarke’s website

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Criterion Reflections logo designed by Brandon Blakeslee

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

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)

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, Trevor Berrett, Keith Enright, John Laubinger, and Robert Taylor to discuss five titles from the Spring of 1969: Ingmar Bergman’s The Rite, Louis Malle’s Calcutta, Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider, Masahiro Shinoda’s Double Suicide and John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy.

Episode Time Markers:

Introduction: 0:00:00 – 0:11:00

The Rite: 0:11:01 – 0:45:20

Calcutta: 0:45:21 – 1:02:12

Easy Rider: 1:02:13 – 2:00:17

Double Suicide: 2:00:18 –  2:33:06

Midnight Cowboy: 2:33:07 – 3:12:02

The Rite (3/25/69)

Guest: Jordan Essoe

FilmStruck

IngmarBergman.se

Acting Out Politics

Breaking Down Bergman

Can’t Stop the Movies

Derek Winnert

Films de France

Calcutta (4/16/69)

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

Criterion

A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 50 – The Documentaries of Louis Malle [Part 2]

Dharma Documentaries

Jamuura

The Film Sufi

TCM

Easy Rider (5/8/69)

Guests: Jordan Essoe and Jon Laubinger

Criterion

AMC FilmSite

Cinepassion

Digital Fix

New York Times

Ozu’s World

Roger Ebert

Variety

Double Suicide (5/24/69)

Guest: Trevor Berrett

Criterion

The Criterion Contraption

Combustible Celluloid

J-Film Pow-Wow

Japanese Culture Reflections

Mondo Digital

Midnight Cowboy (5/25/69)

Guest: Robert Taylor

Criterion LaserDisc

Opening and Final Scene Excerpt from Criterion LaserDisc commentary track

History of the Academy Awards

AMC FilmSite

New York Magazine

New York Times

Roger Ebert

Variety

Washington Post

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Criterion Reflections blog (1922 – 1967)

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Criterion Reflections logo designed by Brandon Blakeslee

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

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 Martin Kessler, Jordan Essoe, Doug McCambridge, Jason Beamish and Trevor Berrett to discuss six titles from the Winter of 1969: Jaromil Jires’s The Joke, Juraj Herz’s The Cremator, Wim Winders’s Silver City Revisited, Fellini: A Director’s Notebook, Luis Bunuel’s The Milky Way and Pierre Etaix’s Le Grand Amour.

Episode Time Markers:

Introduction: 0:00:00 – 0:09:47

The Joke: 0:09:48 – 0:36:30

Silver City Revisited: 0:36:31 – 0:54:30

The Cremator: 0:54:31 – 1:17:57

Fellini: A Director’s Notebook: 1:17:58 –  1:40:40

The Milky Way: 1:40:41 – 2:10:45

Le Grand Amour: 2:10:46 – 2:41:11

The Joke (2/28/69)

Guest: Martin Kessler

This is the third time I’ve formally reviewed The Joke, and I’ve watched it a couple other times besides that. The film continues to impress me as my familiarity with it deepens, to the point that I consider it the most widely accessible, substantive and impacting title of the six included in the excellent Pearls of the Czech New Wave Eclipse Series set. (Though of course, Daisies is still the most wildly delightful, and practically unforgettable.)

Criterion

The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 32 – Pearls of the Czech New Wave

David’s review from A Journey through the Eclipse Series review

New York Times review (1969)

Eastern European Film review

Film Walrus

Kinetoscope Film Journal

Silver City Revisited (3/7/69)

Guest: Jordan Essoe

No poster for this one, since it was a student film that never had its own commercial release. One bit of trivia that Jordan and I discussed off the air but didn’t mention in the recording is that Silver City Revisited as it exists on the Wim Wenders Road Trilogy set is a reconstruction. It was originally just titled Silver City, and that version is presumably lost.  As it turns out, there’s no way that this film could be dated to March 7, 1969, the date provided by Wenders himself, since the Rolling Stones clip that Wenders used features Mick Taylor on guitar, who didn’t join the band until June of that year, after they fired Brian Jones.

Criterion

Wim Wenders Stiftung

The Rolling Stones “Gimme Shelter” from Top of the Pops, 1969

The Cremator (3/9/69)

Guest: Martin Kessler

This film was available for a few years or so when Criterion had their deal with Hulu. So far, it hasn’t made it over to FilmStruck, which is a real shame. I hope the delay is due to just some kind of procedural hoop that needs to be jumped through. It’s every bit as creepy and disturbing as it is humorously macabre and brilliantly constructed, delivering shocks and astonished nervous laughter on the first viewing, while provoking a lot of troublesome meditations on how easily corruptible humans can be when their grandiose delusions are flattered by self-gratifying myths of personal or racial superiority.

Criterion

Distant Voices

Film Pulse

Mondo 70

Senses of Cinema

Fellini: A Director’s Notebook (3/15/69)

Guests: Trevor Berrett and Jordan Essoe

A revealing exercise in self-deprecation and self-disclosure by Federico Fellini, this made for TV hour long pseudo-documentary fits snugly within that late 60s subgenre of smug indulgence that basically assumes that if we throw enough flamboyant oddball bits together for an hour or so, we’ll come up with something special – or at least suitable enough to keep the fans entertained (cf. The Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour.) Still, it’s Fellini, so worth checki…

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 four titles from the Winter of 1969: Marco Ferreri’s Dillinger is Dead, Nagisa Oshima’s Diary of a Shinjuku Thief, Agnes Varda’s Black Panthers, and Costa-Gavras’s Z.

Episode Time Markers:

Introduction: 0:00 – 07:27

Dillinger is Dead: 07:28 – 01:06:05

Black Panthers: 01:06:06 – 01:17:36

Diary of a Shinjuku Thief: 01:17:37 – 01:37:25

Z: 01:37:26 – 02:20:20

Dillinger is Dead (1/23/69)

Guest: Jordan Essoe

Just as was the case with Michel Piccoli’s character in this film, David came across a fascinating, obscure but extremely dangerous artifact while rummaging through his shelves one evening. Criterion DVD #506 is capable of doing some real damage if it fell into the wrong hands! Fortunately, Jordan showed up in time to talk David into setting the weapon down and slowly walking away before anyone got hurt. Thankfully, we all lived to talk about it another day.

Criterion

Marco Ferreri

Boston Globe

Cinema Gonzo

Combustible Celluloid

Extreme Longshot

Los Angeles Times

New York Times

Q Network

Slant

Village Voice

“Futurism” (Wikipedia)

Black Panthers (1/26/69)

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

This is a recycled clip from Episode 34 of The Eclipse Viewer podcast, when David and Trevor discussed Agnes Varda’s made-for-TV (but pre-emptively censored) short documentary capturing the rise of politically confrontational Black Consciousness in the urban communities of Oakland, California.

Criterion

FilmStruck

Agnès Varda

History of the Black Panther Party

The Eclipse Viewer on Agnès Varda in California

Senses of Cinema

Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (2/15/69)

Guest: Trevor Berrett

David and Trevor pick up their ongoing conversation about the late 60s work of Nagisa Oshima (see links below if you want to track along with us.) In this instance, we were left feeling a bit disappointed and underwhelmed, even though we both acknowledge that even mediocre Oshima always offers a dazzling variety of scenes and moments to digest. This course just left us feeling a bit queasy.

Filmstruck

Nagisa Oshima

The Eclipse Viewer on Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties [Part 1] and [Part 2]

David’s Review of Death By Hanging

Criterion Cast Chronicles (including discussion of Death By Hanging)

New York Times

World Cinema Review

Z (2/26/69)

Guests: Trevor Berrett and Jordan Essoe

David, Trevor and Jordan wrap up the first episode of this podcast with a lively discussion of Costa-Gavras’s masterpiece of conspiracy-driven suspense. We had a lot of fun along the way as we watched a cruel oppressive militaristic regime squash the noble aspirations of an oppressed populace. What’s wrong with us?!?!?

Criterion

FilmStruck

Costa-Gavras

The Plaka

New York Times

Roger Ebert

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Criterion Reflections columns on CriterionCast (1968)

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A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

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