Criterion Reflections – Episode 23 – Nagisa Oshima’s The Man Who Left His Will on Film

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:33:52 — 114.0MB)

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 Josh Hornbeck and Grant Douglas Bromley to discuss Nagisa Oshima’s The Man Who Left His Will on Film, currently available on the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck.

Episode Links:

Nagisa Oshima

• Criterion
• Wikipedia
• Film Comment
• Harvard Film Archive
• Japan Times
• Jonathan Rosenbaum
• Senses of Cinema
• TSPDT

Reviews

• DVDClassik
• Film Society of Lincoln Center
• Mubi
• Next Projection
• Village Voice
• Windows on Worlds

Original Trailer:

The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970) [Trailer] from Art Theatre Guild on Vimeo.

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