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:...
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:...
- 9/20/2017
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
Aaron is joined by Becky D’Anna and Martin Kessler and we discuss favorite comedies, Czech films, and Lost in America. Becky is a massive Ingmar Bergman and Albert Brooks fan, so we dig deep into Brooks with Lost in America, and a little bit into Bergman. Martin is a massive Czech film expert, so we got his perspective on some of the potential Czech films that could be coming to Criterion. We also talk about the Top 100 Comedies list from the BBC, and the usual Criterion news and FilmStruck.
Episode Notes
17:30 – Czech Filmmakers
28:00 – List of Comedy Films
32:00 – Lost in America
57:00 – Short Takes
1:03:00 – FilmStruck
Episode Links Wrong Reel 313 – Terminator 2: Judgment Day Terminator 2: A Film That Changed My Life Reddit – Czech Phantom Pages BBC Critic’s Poll: 100 Greatest Comedies of All Time Albert Brooks – A Few Routines Episode Credits Aaron West: Twitter...
Episode Notes
17:30 – Czech Filmmakers
28:00 – List of Comedy Films
32:00 – Lost in America
57:00 – Short Takes
1:03:00 – FilmStruck
Episode Links Wrong Reel 313 – Terminator 2: Judgment Day Terminator 2: A Film That Changed My Life Reddit – Czech Phantom Pages BBC Critic’s Poll: 100 Greatest Comedies of All Time Albert Brooks – A Few Routines Episode Credits Aaron West: Twitter...
- 9/4/2017
- by Aaron West
- CriterionCast
Mark and Aaron podcast live and in person for the first time ever. During Aaron’s vacation up north, he visited “Casa Hurne” up in beautiful Vermont. While we weren’t drinking beer and eating delicious food, we decided to podcast a little about the experience we’ve had with Criterion Close-Up. Aaron also talks about his journey through Canada and the film connections he made along the way.
Episode Links & Notes
0:00 – Intro & Welcome
2:10 – Aaron’s Canada Trip & Martin Kessler
7:30 – Short Takes (Eat that Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words, The Witness, Green Room)
20:00 – Dinner at The 400 Blows
22:25 – Christopher Faulkner
30:15 – Reflecting on Criterion Close-Up
Eat that Question: Frank Zappa in his Own Words The Witness Green Room Alex Winter’s Frank Zappa Project Criterion Close-Up Episodes Episode Credits Mark Hurne: Twitter | Letterboxd Aaron West: Twitter | Blog | Letterboxd Criterion Close-Up: Facebook | Twitter | Email...
Episode Links & Notes
0:00 – Intro & Welcome
2:10 – Aaron’s Canada Trip & Martin Kessler
7:30 – Short Takes (Eat that Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words, The Witness, Green Room)
20:00 – Dinner at The 400 Blows
22:25 – Christopher Faulkner
30:15 – Reflecting on Criterion Close-Up
Eat that Question: Frank Zappa in his Own Words The Witness Green Room Alex Winter’s Frank Zappa Project Criterion Close-Up Episodes Episode Credits Mark Hurne: Twitter | Letterboxd Aaron West: Twitter | Blog | Letterboxd Criterion Close-Up: Facebook | Twitter | Email...
- 8/17/2016
- by Aaron West
- CriterionCast
David’s Quick Take for the tl;dr Media Consumer:
Capricious Summer is fairly easy to watch (a slight 76 minute feature, in color), summarize (a whimsical sex comedy about three middle-aged men in a small rustic town are shaken out of their routines when they’re distracted by the arrival of an itinerant magician and his beautiful assistant) and compartmentalize (coming at the tail end of the Czech New Wave, this is Jiří Menzel’s less celebrated follow-up to the Oscar-winning Closely Watched Trains.) But just as conveniently as the film might fit within those pigeonholes, there’s a serious risk of underestimating what Menzel places before us here.
Comfortably nestled within a volume of the Eclipse Series expressly dedicated to the aforementioned Czech New Wave, Capricious Summer is at risk of being regarded as simply one of six quirky, enjoyable treats in that box. Each film has its own distinctive feel,...
Capricious Summer is fairly easy to watch (a slight 76 minute feature, in color), summarize (a whimsical sex comedy about three middle-aged men in a small rustic town are shaken out of their routines when they’re distracted by the arrival of an itinerant magician and his beautiful assistant) and compartmentalize (coming at the tail end of the Czech New Wave, this is Jiří Menzel’s less celebrated follow-up to the Oscar-winning Closely Watched Trains.) But just as conveniently as the film might fit within those pigeonholes, there’s a serious risk of underestimating what Menzel places before us here.
Comfortably nestled within a volume of the Eclipse Series expressly dedicated to the aforementioned Czech New Wave, Capricious Summer is at risk of being regarded as simply one of six quirky, enjoyable treats in that box. Each film has its own distinctive feel,...
- 5/21/2016
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
On this episode of On the Screen, Scott is joined by Aaron West, Mark Hurne, and Martin Kessler to discuss Out 1 and Arrow Video’s The Jacques Rivette Collection.
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The Jacques Rivette Collection | Arrow Films Out 1 (1971) – IMDb Out 1 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Out 1 and Its Double | Jonathan Rosenbaum Les Filles Du Feu: Rivette x 4, part one | Jonathan Rosenbaum Les Filles Du Feu: Rivette x 4, part two | Jonathan Rosenbaum Out 1 review – the 13-hour art film is a buff’s ultimate challenge | Film | The Guardian Rivette: Out 1 (Volume 1) – Reverse Shot Out 1 | II | Film Review | Slant Magazine Jacques Rivette’s Thirteen-Hour Experimental Film – The New Yorker Duelle • Senses of Cinema Rivette’s Rupture | Movie Review | Chicago Reader Duelle (Une Quarantaine) (1976) | The House Next Door | Slant Magazine Only the Cinema: Duelle (une quarantaine)
Episode Credits:
Scott Nye (Twitter / Battleship Pretension) Aaron West...
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Buy the set on Amazon:
Episode Links:
The Jacques Rivette Collection | Arrow Films Out 1 (1971) – IMDb Out 1 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Out 1 and Its Double | Jonathan Rosenbaum Les Filles Du Feu: Rivette x 4, part one | Jonathan Rosenbaum Les Filles Du Feu: Rivette x 4, part two | Jonathan Rosenbaum Out 1 review – the 13-hour art film is a buff’s ultimate challenge | Film | The Guardian Rivette: Out 1 (Volume 1) – Reverse Shot Out 1 | II | Film Review | Slant Magazine Jacques Rivette’s Thirteen-Hour Experimental Film – The New Yorker Duelle • Senses of Cinema Rivette’s Rupture | Movie Review | Chicago Reader Duelle (Une Quarantaine) (1976) | The House Next Door | Slant Magazine Only the Cinema: Duelle (une quarantaine)
Episode Credits:
Scott Nye (Twitter / Battleship Pretension) Aaron West...
- 5/12/2016
- by Scott Nye
- CriterionCast
James Cameron might not be the most prolific of the kings of big screen spectacle, but his filmography is certainly among the highest grossing of all time. Heck, as of right now, the top two highest grossing films at the domestic box office (discounting inflation) are his. “Avatar” remains firmly secure in the number one spot with $760.5M, a full $100M more than his second place “Titanic.” (Because it’s always fun to look at numbers, if you adjust for inflation, “Avatar” drops to 14th, while “Titanic” actually surges ahead of it, coming in at fifth.) A new four-minute supercut from Vimeo user Martin Kessler showcases why Cameron’s films are so successful, a collective achievement made doubly impressive by the fact that the writer-director has only eight narrative features under his belt, dating way back to “Piranha Part Two: The Spawning” in 1981 (and who could forget that?). Watching the video,...
- 8/14/2015
- by Zach Hollwedel
- The Playlist
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