Criterion Reflections – Episode 31 – Jaromil Jireš’s Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

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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 Trevor Berrett, Arik Devens, and Jordan Essoe to discuss Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, directed by Jaromil Jireš.

Episode Links:

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

• Criterion
• FilmStruck
• Tumblr
• TV Tropes
• Wikipedia
• Jaromil Jires – The Guardian (obituary)
• Ester Krumbachova – Searching for Ester (documentary review) KinoKultura
• New York Times (1974)
• New York Times (2015)
• CriterionCast – On The Hulu Channel (Scott Nye)
• The Mookse and the Gripes (Trevor Berrett)
• Cinema Gadfly (Arik Devens)
• Electric Sheep
• Film Freedonia
• At the Mansion of Madness
• Nerdist
• Only the Cinema
• Scaruffi – stills gallery 
• Senses of Cinema
• Trailers from Hell
• Wonders in the Dark
• The Valerie Project

Reviews of VAHWOW written by women

• The Dissolve
• Horror.com
• HTML Giant
• New York Review of Books
• Talk Film Society

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