Criterion Reflections – Episode 51 – Nagisa Oshima’s The Ceremony

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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 third season of the podcast features conversations with a variety of guests offering insights on movies that originally premiered in 1971 and were destined to eventually bear the Criterion imprint. In this episode, David is joined by Trevor Berrett, Grant Douglas Bromley, and Josh Hornbeck to discuss The Ceremony, directed by Nagisa Oshima.

Episode Links:

Nagisa Oshima

• Criterion
• Wikipedia
• Film Comment
• Hammer to Nail
• Harvard Film Archive
• Japan Times
• Jonathan Rosenbaum
• Senses of Cinema
• TSPDT
• Univeristy of Tokyo Center for Philosophy (pdf booklet, including a full chapter on The Ceremony)

The Ceremony

• The Criterion Channel
• 4:3
• Also Like Life
• CineFiles Database (great collection of vintage contemporary reviews)
• Cinepassion
• Columbus Museum of Art
• Dennis Grunes
• Derek Smith
• Film Comment
• Japanese Culture Reflections
• Japan Society
• JFilm Pow-Wow
• Strictly Film School

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