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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.
David Blakeslee
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Masaki Kobayashi Against the System
This newest addition to the Eclipse line is a perfect demonstration of the unique purpose it serves in giving well-deserved attention to important but lesser known films by one of Japan's greatest directors.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Nagisa Oshima’s PLEASURES OF THE FLESH
Oshima's declaration of artistic independence follows a young man's descent into erotic obsession and madness. Some "pleasure"!
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Raffaello Matarazzo’s NOBODY’S CHILDREN and THE WHITE ANGEL
As hard as these runaway melodramas may be to take at face value, their heart is in the right place as they seek to lift our weary spirits to a higher plane.
A Journey Through The Eclipse Series: Akira Kurosawa’s The Most Beautiful
Though uncomfortable and even chilling at times, Kurosawa's second film, a wartime propaganda piece, shows evidence of a young master director in the making.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Koreyoshi Kurahara’s I Hate But Love
Yujiro Ishihara and Ruriko Asaoka weave music, madness and simmering repressed eroticism into an eye-popping NikkatsuColor road epic of 1962 Japan.
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.
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.
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.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Norman Mailer’s Wild 90
A literary icon's initial foray into late 60s radical underground cinema.
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Louis Malle’s …And the Pursuit of Happiness
Malle's final documentary looks at the experience of immigrants to the USA in the mid-1980s.