Criterion Reflections – Intro to Season 5: 1973

After six years as a podcast, preceded by eight years as a blog, my long-running project Criterion Reflections once again takes a new turn to become… a short form video clip YouTube kind of thing! After I wrapped up my coverage of Criterion-connected films of 1972 in Season 4 of my podcast last year, I felt another change was in order, just to keep it fresh and make sure it stays fun. Of course I continue to enjoy making podcasts, drawing great satisfaction from digitally capturing a lively and smart conversation about film with my friends that I can share with other friends and even revisit myself somewhere down the road. But this 10 minute video offers an explanation of my reasons and a preview of some of the movies I’ll be watching in the months ahead as I investigate the best that cinema had to offer the world in 1973.

FILMS MENTIONED:

• The Age of the Medici
• Ludwig
• The Harder They Come
• Godzilla vs. Megalon
• Come On Children
• Shall We Go to Your Place or My Place or Each Go Home Alone?
• Scenes from a Marriage
• Zatoichi’s Conspiracy
• Visions of Eight
• Day for Night
• Fantastic Planet
• The Holy Mountain
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle
• A River Called Titas
• Enter the Dragon / Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend
• Touki Bouki
• F for Fake
• Dry Wood / Hot Pepper
• Mean Streets
• The Spirit of the Beehive
• Don’t Look Now
• Badlands
• World on a Wire
• Flesh for Frankenstein
• Lady Snowblood
• Amarcord

Besides the titles listed above, I plan to include quite a few others that currently stream on the Criterion Channel and maybe a few others that the Channel featured in the past. I look forward to continued exploration and hope you’re able to check in with me here from time to time to see and hear my latest progress report!

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