Criterion Reflections – Episode 4 – Summer 1969 Part 1

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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

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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• Jordan Essoe [ Twitter / Website ]
• Trevor Berrett [ Twitter / Website ]
• Keith Enright [ Twitter / Website ]

Criterion Reflections logo designed by Brandon Blakeslee

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