Criterion Reflections – Episode 75 – Dušan Makavejev’s WR: Mysteries of the Organism

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Criterion Reflections is David Blakeslee’s ongoing project to watch all of the films included in the Criterion Collection in chronological order of their original release. Each episode of this third season of the podcast features conversations with a variety of guests offering insights on movies that originally premiered in 1971 and were destined to eventually bear the Criterion imprint. In this episode, David is joined by Brad McDermott and Derek J. Power to discuss WR: Mysteries of the Organism, directed by Dušan Makavejev.

Episode Links:

Dušan Makavejev

• The Criterion Collection
• The Criterion Channel
• Wikipedia
• The Eclipse Viewer (podcast from 2015)
• Film Museum retrospective summary
• American Film Society
• The Balkanist
• Bright Lights Film Journal
• British Film Institute
• Film Comment (1975)
• Harvard Crimson (1977)
• The Hindu
• Images Journal
• The Nation
• New York Times
• Senses of Cinema
• Roger Ebert (Interview)

Wilhelm Reich

• Wilhelm Reich Infant Trust
• American College of Orgonomy
• Orgone Biophysical Research Lab
• Wikipedia
• New York Times (1971)
• Biblioteca Pleyades
• Down East
• Gaia
• The Guardian
• Vice
• Wired

Yugoslav Black Wave

• Wikipedia
• Calvert Journal
• Emerging Europe
• Mubi
• Taste of Cinema
• Surfing the Black: Yugoslav Black Wave Cinema and It’s Transgressive Moments (book-length pdf)

Tuli Kupferberg/The Fugs

• TheFugs.com (official)
• Wikipedia

WR: Mysteries of the Organism

• The Criterion Collection
• The Criterion Channel
• Wikipedia
• Roger Ebert (1972)
• Roger Ebert (2007)
• Criterion Confessions
• Digitally Obsessed
• DVD Savant
• Girls, Guns and Ghouls
• The Guardian
• Ogg’s Movie Thoughts
• PopMatters
• The Stranger

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• Criterion Reflections blog (1922 – 1967)
• Criterion Reflections columns on CriterionCast (1968)
• The Eclipse Viewer
• A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

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