Criterion Reflections – Episode 20 – Costa-Gavras’s The Confession

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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 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 Jordan Essoe and Trevor Berrett to discuss The Confession, directed by Costa-Gavras.

Episode Links:

Costa-Gavras

• Criterion
• Wikipedia
• DW
• Huffington Post
• The Culture Trip
• The Guardian

The Confession

• Criterion
• New York Times (1970)
• Film Quarterly (1971)
• Roger Ebert (1971)
• AV Film
• Criterion Close-Up
• Criterion on the Brain
• Film Fanatic
• Films de France
• Ion Cinema
• New York Times (2015)
• Q Network
• Slant
• The Dissolve
• The Mookse and the Gripes

The Slansky Trials

• The Guardian – 2018 discovery of archival film and audio recordings from the trials
• Private Prague
• Wikipedia
• Archive.org – Complete Trial Transcript
• YIVO – Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
• Communism on Trial: The Slansky Affair and Anti-Semitism in Post-WWII Europe

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