Criterion Reflections – Episode 5 – Summer 1969 Part 2

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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 features panel conversations and 1:1 interviews offering insights on movies that premiered in a particular season of a year in the past, which were destined to eventually bear the Criterion imprint. In this episode, David is joined by Jon Laubinger, Jordan Essoe and William Remmers to discuss four titles from the Summer of 1969: Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool, Alberto Isaac’s The Olympics in Mexico, Federico Fellini’s Fellini Satyricon, and Agnes Varda’s Lions Love (…and Lies).

Episode Time Markers

• Introduction: 0:00:00 – 0:06:31
• Medium Cool: 0:06:32 – 0:53:26
• The Olympics in Mexico: 0:53:27 – 1:28:29
• Fellini Satyricon: 1:28:30 – 2:20:24
• Lions Love (and Lies…): 2:20:25 –  3:19:15

Medium Cool (8/27/69)
Guest: Jon Laubinger

• Criterion
• Harvard Crimson (1969)
• New York Times (1969)
• Roger Ebert (1969)
• Cole Smithey
• Collingswood Patch
• Criterion Confessions
• Scopophilia
• Through the Shattered Lens

The Olympics in Mexico (8/29/69)
Guest: Jordan Essoe

• Criterion
• YouTube (full movie)
• Official IOC site
• Wikipedia

Fellini Satyricon (9/3/69)
Guest: Jordan Essoe

• Criterion
• New York Times (1970)
• The Guardian (1970)
• Blueprint
• Cagey Films
• Parallax View
• Roger Ebert
• Slant
• Project Gutenberg (public domain text of Petronius)
• LibriVox (free audiobook of Petronius)

Lions Love (…and Lies) (9/20/69)
Guest: William Remmers

• Criterion
• FilmStruck
• The Eclipse Viewer
• New York Times (1969)
• Not Coming to a Theater Near You
• Oscilloscope Laboratories
• Ozu’s World
• Rupert Pupkin Speaks
• Brandon’s Movie Memory
• Dennis Grunes
• James Rado, Gerome Ragni and “Hair”
• Viva’s account of the shooting of Andy Warhol in 1968
• Shirley Clarke’s website

More!

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

Contact Us:

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• David Blakeslee [ Twitter / Website ]
• Jon Laubinger [ Twitter / Website / Instagram ]
• Jordan Essoe [ Twitter / Website  / Instagram ]
• William Remmers [ Twitter / Instagram / Letterboxd ]

Criterion Reflections logo designed by Brandon Blakeslee

Opening theme music: “Going to the Supermarket” by The Maroons (1980)