Criterion Reflections – Episode 28 – Bob Rafelson’s Five Easy Pieces

Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:28:21 — 187.7MB)

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 Derek J. Power, Josh Hornbeck, Robert Taylor and William Remmers to discuss Five Easy Pieces, directed by Bob Rafelson.

Episode Links:

Bob Rafelson

• Criterion
• The New Yorker (1970)
• A.V. Club
• Senses of Cinema
• Wikipedia

Five Easy Pieces

• Criterion
• FilmStruck
• New York Times (1970)
• Roger Ebert (1970)
• Variety (1970)
• Battleship Pretension
• Cinephilia & Beyond
• Criterion Confessions
• DGA Quarterly
• The Dissolve
• FilmSite
• The Film Sufi
• FunRun Records
• Gone Elsewhere
• The Guardian
• Jackass Critics
• The Moviegoer
• PopMatters
• Pop Optiq
• Radiator Heaven
• Rolling Stone
• Screen Prism
• Slant
• The Stop Button

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MORE!

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

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• Robert Taylor [ Website ]
• William Remmers [ Twitter / Instagram / Letterboxd ]