Criterion Reflections – Episode 25 – Věra Chytilová’s Fruit of Paradise

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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 to discuss Fruit of Paradise, directed by Věra Chytilová, which was available on the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck at the time of this episode’s publication.

Episode Links:

Věra Chytilová

• Criterion
• Wikipedia
• Bio – State University of New York, Buffalo
• BFI – Vera Chytilova for Beginners
• The Guardian – Interview from 2000
• Film Comment – In Memoriam

Fruit of Paradise

• FilmStruck
• At the Mansion of Madness
• Australian Film Review
• Central Europe Review
• CineOutsider
• CineVue
• Doormouse, Etc.
• Electric Sheep
• Film Walrus
• Mondo Digital
• PopMatters
• The Arts Desk

Additional Links

• Daisies – A Journey Through the Eclipse Series
• Daisies – Criterion Reflections
• Daisies – The Eclipse Viewer
• The Loss of Sexual Innocence (dir. Mike Figgis) – Trailer
• “Train” Exhibit at SFMOMA
• Robert F. Kennedy’s Funeral Train – Photography by Paul Fusco

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

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