The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 41 – Carlos Saura’s Flamenco Trilogy

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This podcast focuses on Criterion’s Eclipse Series of DVDs. Hosts David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett give an overview of each box and offer their perspectives on the unique treasures they find inside. In this episode, David and Trevor discuss Eclipse Series 6: Carlos Saura’s Flamenco Trilogy.

About the films:

One of Spanish cinema’s great auteurs, Carlos Saura brought international audiences closer to the art of his country’s dance than any other filmmaker, before or since. In his Flamenco Trilogy—Blood Wedding, Carmen, and El amor brujo—Saura merged his passion for music with his exploration of national identity. All starring and choreographed by legendary dancer Antonio Gades, the films feature thrilling physicality and electrifying cinematography and editing—colorful paeans to bodies in motion as well as to cinema itself.

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Episode Links

Carlos Saura

• Criterion Explore page
• Saura articles on CriterionCast.com
• Film Comment
• The Guardian
• Enforex
• Indiewire

Box Set Reviews

• Cinema Gadfly
• Criterion Confessions
• Cinevue
• Strange Horizons
• BFI Film Forever (review of the British Film Institute release of The Flamenco Trilogy)

Blood Wedding

• David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series review
• New York Times (1981)
• I Have My Intentionalities

Carmen

• David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series review
• New York Times (1983)
• Twitch
• I Have My Intentionalities
• M/C Journal

El amor brujo

• David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series review
• New York Times (1986)
• Los Angeles Times (1986)
• Bulletin of Spanish Studies (downloadable .pdf)
• I Have My Intentionalities

Next time on the podcast: Eclipse Series 19: Chantal Akerman in the Seventies

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