Criterion Reflections – Episode 40 – Norman Mailer’s Maidstone

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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 to discuss Maidstone, directed by Norman Mailer.

Episode Links:

Norman Mailer

• Criterion
• Wikipedia
• The Eclipse Viewer
• The New Yorker
• New York Sun
• Norman Mailer.us  (Medium)
• Norman Mailer: Film vs. Plays
• Slant
• The Cinema of Norman Mailer (book of critical essays)

Maidstone

• Criterion
• Wikipedia
• A Journey Through the Eclipse Series
• Boxing.com
• Criterion Confessions
• Dangerous Minds
• Films by the Year
• Leo Braudy
• New York Times (1971)
• New York Times (2007)
• Rip Torn’s Perspective (interview from 1971)
• Shock Cinema
• Talkhouse
• Through the Shattered Lens

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1970 RANDOM WRAP-UP

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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