Criterion Reflections – Episode 9 – Autumn 1969 Part 3

Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:25:21 — 161.2MB)

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 William Remmers, Bryan Fernandez, Josh Hornbeck, and Douglas McCambridge to discuss three titles from the Autumn of 1969: Ken Loach’s Kes, Ishiro Honda’s All Monsters Attack, and Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Color of Pomegranates.

Episode Time Markers

• Introduction: 0:00:00 – 0:04:22
• Kes: 0:04:23 – 1:00:51
• All Monsters Attack: 1:00:52 – 1:35:42
• Burn: 1:35:43 – 2:25:21

Kes (11/15/69)
Guests: Bryan Fernandez and William Remmers

• Criterion
• Cinehouse
• Cinema’s Fringes
• Combustible Celluloid
• Common Sense Media
• Criterion Confessions
• Derek Winnert
• Gone With the Twins
• Ozu’s World
• Roger Ebert
• Strictly Film School
• Studies in Cinema
• Thrill Me Softly
• Urban Cinefile

All Monsters Attack (12/20/69)
Guest: Josh Hornbeck

• FilmStruck
• Wikizilla
• A Critical History and Filmography of Toho’s Godzilla Series (book by David Kalat)
• Toho Champion Festival
• And You Thought It Was… Safe?
• Boba Fett 1138
• Derek Winnert
• Horror Cult Films
• Japan Hero
• Mother! oh god mother Blog! Blog!
• Passport Cinema
• The Spinning Image

Burn! (12/21/69)
Guest: Doug McCambridge

• Criterion
• New York Times
• A Potpourri of Vestiges
• A Regrettable Moment of Sincerity
• Brooklyn Rail
• Combustible Celluloid
• IndieWire
• TCM
• Through the Shattered Lens

More!

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

Contact Us:

• David Blakeslee [ Twitter / Website ]
• William Remmers [ Twitter / Instagram / Letterboxd ]
• Bryan Fernandez [ Instagram / Letterboxd ]
• Josh Hornbeck [ Twitter / Website / Letterboxd ]
• Doug McCambridge [ Twitter / Website ]

Criterion Reflections logo designed by Brandon Blakeslee

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