Aaron is joined by David Blakeslee and Arik Devens to cover just the May 2018 Criterion lineup and the latest film and Criterion news. This includes Guillermo del Toro as a Criterion fixture and his role as an auteur tastemaker, and the potential for a couple of John Waters titles. Arik is only able for the first segment, but David and Aaron dig deep for the remainder of the discussion and even touch on some recent events.
Episode Links Facebook Group – Predictions Facebook Group – Favorite May Titles Lee Unkrich Closet Video IFC buys Wildlife Guillermo del Toro to Jury Venice Film Festival Guillermo del Toro’s Guide to the Criterion Collection Episode Credits Aaron West: Twitter | Website | Letterboxd David Blakeslee: Twitter | CriterionCast Arik Devens: Twitter | Cinema Gadfly Criterion Now: Patreon | Facebook Group Criterion Cast: Facebook | Twitter
Music for the show is from Fatboy Roberts’ Geek Remixed project.
Episode Links Facebook Group – Predictions Facebook Group – Favorite May Titles Lee Unkrich Closet Video IFC buys Wildlife Guillermo del Toro to Jury Venice Film Festival Guillermo del Toro’s Guide to the Criterion Collection Episode Credits Aaron West: Twitter | Website | Letterboxd David Blakeslee: Twitter | CriterionCast Arik Devens: Twitter | Cinema Gadfly Criterion Now: Patreon | Facebook Group Criterion Cast: Facebook | Twitter
Music for the show is from Fatboy Roberts’ Geek Remixed project.
- 2/21/2018
- by Aaron West
- CriterionCast
In this episode, David Blakeslee, Arik Devens and Aaron West take a break from watching live coverage of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Peongchyang to talk about some of their favorite images from past Winter Games, as captured in the Criterion Collection’s massive release from late 2017, 100 Years of Olympic Films 1912-2012.
Spanning fifty-three movies and forty-one editions of the Olympic Games, 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012 is the culmination of a monumental, award-winning archival project encompassing dozens of new restorations by the International Olympic Committee. The documentaries collected here cast a cinematic eye on some of the most iconic moments in the history of modern sports, spotlighting athletes who embody the Olympic motto of “Faster, Higher, Stronger”: Jesse Owens shattering world records on the track in 1936 Berlin, Jean-Claude Killy dominating the Grenoble slopes in 1968, Joan Benoit breaking away to win the Games’ first women’s marathon in Los Angeles in...
Spanning fifty-three movies and forty-one editions of the Olympic Games, 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012 is the culmination of a monumental, award-winning archival project encompassing dozens of new restorations by the International Olympic Committee. The documentaries collected here cast a cinematic eye on some of the most iconic moments in the history of modern sports, spotlighting athletes who embody the Olympic motto of “Faster, Higher, Stronger”: Jesse Owens shattering world records on the track in 1936 Berlin, Jean-Claude Killy dominating the Grenoble slopes in 1968, Joan Benoit breaking away to win the Games’ first women’s marathon in Los Angeles in...
- 2/20/2018
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
In this episode, David Blakeslee, Scott Nye and Trevor Berrett discuss John Ford’s Young Mr. Lincoln, recently reissued by the Criterion Collection in a newly upgraded 4K restoration on Blu-ray and DVD.
Few American historical figures are as revered as Abraham Lincoln, and few director-star collaborations embody classic Hollywood cinema as beautifully as the one between John Ford and Henry Fonda. This film, their first together, was Ford’s equally poetic and significant follow-up to the groundbreaking western Stagecoach, and in it Fonda gives one of the finest performances of his career, as the young president-to-be, a novice lawyer struggling with an incendiary murder case. Photographed in gorgeous black and white by Ford’s frequent collaborator Bert Glennon, Young Mr. Lincoln is a compassionate and assured work and an indelible piece of Americana.
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Few American historical figures are as revered as Abraham Lincoln, and few director-star collaborations embody classic Hollywood cinema as beautifully as the one between John Ford and Henry Fonda. This film, their first together, was Ford’s equally poetic and significant follow-up to the groundbreaking western Stagecoach, and in it Fonda gives one of the finest performances of his career, as the young president-to-be, a novice lawyer struggling with an incendiary murder case. Photographed in gorgeous black and white by Ford’s frequent collaborator Bert Glennon, Young Mr. Lincoln is a compassionate and assured work and an indelible piece of Americana.
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- 2/19/2018
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
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...
Episode Time Markers Introduction: 0:00:00 – 0:04:51 The Sun’s Gonna Shine: 0:04:52 – 0:17:58 For...
- 2/8/2018
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
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...
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
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- 11/9/2017
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
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:...
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:...
- 10/29/2017
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
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