David collaborates with blogger and Criterion fan Aaron West in this review of Oshima's pivotal film from 1966.
A Journey Through The Eclipse Series
Follow along with David Blakeslee as he continues his weekly trek, bringing into the spotlight one film from Criterion’s Eclipse Series.
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A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Satyajit Ray’s The Stranger
David concludes his exploration of the Late Ray box set from Eclipse.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Satyajit Ray’s An Enemy of the People
David continues his exploration of the new Late Ray Eclipse Series set.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Satyajit Ray’s The Home and the World
David begins his exploration of the new Late Ray set from Eclipse.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Koreyoshi Kurahara’s Black Sun
Part 2 of a New Year's Weekend double feature covering the Eclipse Series films of 1964.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Takumi Furukawa’s Cruel Gun Story
Part 1 of a New Year's Weekend double feature covering the Eclipse Series films of 1964.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Beware of a Holy Whore
Concluding my coverage of the Early Fassbinder Eclipse box.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Love is Colder than Death
It's like Band of Outsiders, if you drain off the cute and replace it with a double shot of cranky.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Gods of the Plague
Fassbinder's third feature film is a moody, acerbic and strangely luminous reworking of noir archetypes.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Kazui Nihonmatsu’s The X From Outer Space
Every bit as cheesy and adorable as any old-school kaiju fan could ask for.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Katzelmacher
My second review of films from the new Early Fassbinder Eclipse release.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The American Soldier
Beginning my coverage of the Early Fassbinder Eclipse box.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Akira Kurosawa’s The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail
Kurosawa's first samurai saga is perhaps the least known of all his films, but also among the most accessible and entertaining.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Hiroshi Shimizu’s Japanese Girls at the Harbor
This modest and overlooked silent film from 1933 exposed significant cultural rifts that would reverberate through Japan for the next several decades.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Kenji Mizoguchi’s Women of the Night
Mizoguchi's penultimate film of the 1940s captures postwar Japan at a fragile tipping point, setting the stage for his triumphs of the 1950s such as The Life of Oharu - coming soon to the Criterion Collection.