Criterion Reflections – Episode 13 – Leonard Kastle’s THE HONEYMOON KILLERS

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:02:13 — 71.9MB)

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 second season of the podcast features conversations with a variety of guests offering insights on movies that originally premiered in 1970 and were destined to eventually bear the Criterion imprint. In this episode, David is joined by Arik Devens and Josh Hornbeck to discuss Leonard Kastle’s The Honeymoon Killers, starring Shirley Stoler and Tony Lo Bianco, based on actual events that happened in 1948-49.

Episode Links:

Leonard Kastle

• Remembering Leonard Kastle
• Interview with composer/writer Bruce Duffie

Shirley Stoler

• All-American Medea

Tony Lo Bianco

• TonyLoBianco.com

The Lonely Hearts Killers (Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck)

• Wikipedia
• Murderpedia
• CrimeFeed
• My Michigan (the killing of Delphine and Rainelle Downing)
• Stacy Green
• Unknown History of Misandry
• Twitter thread correcting a mistaken assertion I made in the podcast

Archival Reviews

• New York Times (1970)
• Variety (1970)
• Los Angeles Times (1992)
• Behind the Filming of “The Honeymoon Killers” (New York Times, 1992)

Contemporary Reviews

• 365 Movie Guy
• Alt Film Guide
• Film Corner
• Hammer to Nail
• Images Film Journal
• Not Coming to a Theater Near You
• Ozu’s World
• PopMatters
• Scopophilia

PREVIOUSLY:

ZATOICHI MEETS YOJIMBO

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INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION

MORE!

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

CONTACT US:

• David Blakeslee [ Twitter / Website ]
• Arik Devens [ Twitter / Cinema Gadfly / A History of Jazz ]
• Josh Hornbeck [ Twitter / Website / Letterboxd / Justice Interrupted (Japanese Internment Documentary Project ]

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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

Criterion Reflections logo designed by Brandon Blakeslee

Outro Music: The Doors “You Make Me Real” from the LP Morrison Hotel, released February 1970