David introduces his new podcasting project in a short teaser episode aimed at piquing your interest.
Criterion Reflections
David Blakeslee
Criterion Reflections – Mr. Freedom – ES 9
David takes his third critical swing at William Klein's heavy-handed comic satire, sadly as relevant as ever in the Age of Trump.
Criterion Reflections – Short Films of 1968
David concludes his blogging coverage of 1968 with several short reviews of short movies.
Criterion Reflections – Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) – #360
David tumbles over the cliff in his review of a film about the filming of a film being filmed.
Criterion Reflections – Samaritan Zatoichi (1968) – #679
David reviews the last Zatoichi film of the 1960s and the last one of the series to be released by the Daiei Film studio.
Criterion Reflections – Monterey Pop (1968) – #168
David comes back down from the love-in, with a few flowers still stuck in his hair.
Criterion Reflections – If…. (1968) – #391
David keeps his head while all about him are losing theirs.... and blaming it on him.
Criterion Reflections – Faces (1968) – #252
David opens a new year of blogging with this aptly timed display of drunken discord and debauchery.
Criterion Reflections – Shame (1968) – FS
Ingmar Bergman's bleak anecdote of life during wartime carries a timely message for residents of divided societies in 2016.
Criterion Reflections – Spirits of the Dead (1968) – FS
David reviews an anthology film based on the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, fresh from the FilmStruck archives.
Criterion Reflections – Genocide (1968) – ES 37
David breaks out the bug spray - the insects are taking over!
Criterion Reflections – The Living Skeleton (1968) – ES 37
David embarks on another voyage aboard the haunted freighter "Dragon King" in this acid-drenched excursion into terror.
Criterion Reflections – Beyond the Law (1968) – ES 35
David endures a dutiful rewatch of Norman Mailer's turgid cop drama, so that you don't have to.
Criterion Reflections – L’enfance nue (1968) – #534
This unvarnished meditation on the life of a foster child in France was Maurice Pialat's first feature film.