David and Trevor discover that "the world's worst rock-and-roll band" isn't really all that bad.
David Blakeslee
David Blakeslee
The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 34 – Agnès Varda in California
David and Trevor offer their personal impressions of Agnès Varda's cinematic expressions of life in the Golden State during two distinctly different cultural epochs: the late 1960s and early 1980s.
The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 33 – Three Wicked Melodramas from Gainsborough Pictures
David and Trevor indulge in the guilty pleasures to be enjoyed in this set of massively popular English women's films from the WWII era.
The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 32 – Pearls of the Czech New Wave [Part 2]
David and Trevor conclude their conversation about the set, discussing Return of the Prodigal Son, Capricious Summer and The Joke.
The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 31 – Pearls of the Czech New Wave [Part 1]
David and Trevor discuss Pearls of the Deep, Daisies and A Report on the Party and Guests in the first of a two-part series.
David Reviews Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima Mon Amour [Blu-ray Review]
Alain Resnais' pivotal feature film debut gets a splendid and justly deserved Blu-ray upgrade - with a few caveats attached.
The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 30 – Early Fassbinder [Part 2]
David and Trevor discuss the final three films in this box set: Gods of the Plague, The American Soldier and Beware of a Holy Whore.
David Reviews Bernhard Wicki’s The Bridge [Criterion Blu-ray Review]
This Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner from 1959 reintroduced German cinema to a world audience.
The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 29 – Early Fassbinder [Part 1]
David and Trevor cover Love is Colder than Death and Katzelmacher, the first two films written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
David Reviews Robert Wise’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Our submission to the 2015 White Elephant Blogathon.
The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 28 – Silent Ozu: Three Crime Dramas
David and Trevor dig into the newest Eclipse set, featuring a trio of repentant criminals seeking to mend their wicked ways.
The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 27- Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr.
Do not watch AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON until after you listen to this podcast!
The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 26 – Jean Grémillon During the Occupation
David and Trevor conclude their series of World War II era films with a conversation about a French director whose films have fallen into undeserved obscurity.
David Reviews Francois Truffaut’s The Soft Skin [Criterion Blu-ray Review]
Truffaut's meditation on marital infidelity may have rubbed some early viewers the wrong way, but it deserves to be warmly embraced by today's cinephiles.
David Reviews Jean Renoir’s A Day in the Country [Criterion Blu-ray Review]
An essential and delightfully re-watchable addition to the Renoir canon comes to home video.