The film that first served to introduce Oshima to Western viewers in the late 1960s finally gets a solid Blu-ray release in 2016.
David Blakeslee
David Blakeslee
The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 38 – Raffaelo Matarazzo’s Runaway Melodramas
David and Trevor push back against the winter's chill with a discussion of these torrid tales of virtue, vice and emotional torment.
The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 37 – Dušan Makavejev Free Radical
David and Trevor discuss three early features from Yugoslavian cinema's notorious provocateur.
The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 36 – Late Ray
As we celebrate the new release of Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy, David and Trevor discuss three of the final films directed by the great Indian auteur.
The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 35 – Aki Kaurismäki’s Leningrad Cowboys
David and Trevor discover that "the world's worst rock-and-roll band" isn't really all that bad.
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.