David and Robert are joined by Ryan Gallagher in a conversation about last year's Eclipse Series releases.
David Blakeslee
David Blakeslee
The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 7 – The Actuality Dramas of Allan King [Part 2]
This episode covers two films released by Allan King toward the end of his career: Dying at Grace and Memory, For Max, Claire, Ida and Company.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Allan King’s Dying At Grace
A harrowing but profoundly compassionate documentary of life and death in a hospital cancer ward.
The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 6 – The Actuality Dramas of Allan King [Part 1]
David and Robert are joined by Josh Brunsting to discuss the films of Canada's master of cinema verite.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Allan King’s Come On Children
King and his film crew go up the country with a hand-picked clique of groovy kids in the winter of 1972.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Leslie Arliss’ The Wicked Lady
Margaret Lockwood's delectably devilish performance made her the biggest box office draw in postwar England.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Arthur Crabtree’s Madonna of the Seven Moons
1940s British movie star Phyllis Calvert seizes her chance to break out of her "golden girl" stereotype in this pulpy psycho-sexual melodrama from 1945.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Leslie Arliss’ The Man in Grey
James Mason's breakout performance kicked off a wave of lurid sensational melodramas in WWII Britain.
The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 5 – Maidstone and Other Films by Norman Mailer
David and Robert discuss three experiments in radical low-budget cinema, written and directed by prize-winning author Norman Mailer.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Norman Mailer’s Maidstone
Mailer's 1968 summer holiday in the Hamptons leads him, his bohemian hippie tribe and us viewers on a trip that winds up deep in his dungeon.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Norman Mailer’s Beyond the Law
Mailer and friends take us out for a date with on- and off-duty with members of a Manhattan vice squad.
The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 4 – The First Films of Samuel Fuller
David and Robert are joined by guest West Anthony to discuss Sam Fuller's earliest adventures behind the camera.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Norman Mailer’s Wild 90
A literary icon's initial foray into late 60s radical underground cinema.
David Reviews Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy [Criterion Blu-Ray Review]
He also attempts to explain how the film manages to avoid crashing with a thud in spite of its inherent cognitive dissonance.
David Reviews Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich [Criterion Blu-Ray Review]
If you own the old DVD and wonder if it's worth upgrading to Criterion, here you go.