Criterion Reflections – Episode 32 – Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le cercle rouge

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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 William Remmers and Trevor Berrett to discuss Le cercle rouge, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville.

Episode Links:

Jean-Pierre Melville

• Criterion
• FilmStruck
• Jean-Pierre Melville Foundation
• And So It Begins…
• BFI
• Cinephilia & Beyond
• Film School Rejects
• The Guardian
• IndieWire
• The New Yorker
• Senses of Cinema
• TSPDT
• The Village Voice

Le cercle rouge

• Criterion
• FilmStruck
• Cats on Film
• Criterion Confessions
• Film Sufi
• Off Screen
• PopMatters
• Senses of Cinema (2008)
• Senses of Cinema (2010)
• The Unstitute
• Wonders in the Dark

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VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS

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CIAO, FEDERICO!

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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