Alain Resnais' pivotal feature film debut gets a splendid and justly deserved Blu-ray upgrade - with a few caveats attached.
David Blakeslee
David Blakeslee
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.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series – Nagisa Oshima’s Violence at Noon
David collaborates with blogger and Criterion fan Aaron West in this review of Oshima's pivotal film from 1966.
The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 25 – The First Films of Akira Kurosawa
David and Trevor discuss four wartime movies that launched the career of one of cinema's most accomplished directors.
David Reviews Preston Sturges’ The Palm Beach Story [Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review]
One of Hollywood's most legendary auteurs finally gets an American Blu-ray release.
The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 24 – Kinoshita and World War II
David and Trevor discuss the newest addition to the Eclipse Series, five films that launched the career of a great, but under-appreciated, Japanese filmmaker.
The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 23 – Raymond Bernard
David and Trevor are joined by guest Mark Hurne to discuss two monumental French epics from the early 1930s.