The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 8 – 2012 In Review

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This podcast focuses on Criterion’s Eclipse Series of DVDs. Hosts David Blakeslee and Robert Nishimura give an overview of each box and offer their perspectives on the unique treasures they find inside. In this episode, David and Robert are joined by Ryan Gallagher as they take a look back at the Eclipse Series releases of 2012, and peer ahead to anticipate (or just wish) what 2013 may have in store.

About the Eclipse Series:

Eclipse is a collection of lost, overshadowed or forgotten classics in simple, affordable editions. Each series is a brief cinematheque retrospective for the adventurous home viewer.

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Timeline for the podcast:

Introduction (00:00:01 – 00:05:08)

Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin (00:05:09 – 00:15:08)

Pearls of the Czech New Wave (00:15:09 – 00:27:16)

Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr. (oo:27:17 – 00:35:15)

Jean Gremillon During the Occupation (00:35:16 – 00:43:33)

Maidstone and Other Films by Norman Mailer (00:43:34 – 00:49:59)

Three Wicked Melodramas from Gainsborough Pictures (00:50:00 – 00:56:43)

When Horror Came to Shochiku (00:56:44 – 01:04:05)

Conclusion (01:04:06 – 01:35:00)

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Eclipse Series Releases by Year:

2007 – (6) Early Bergman, The Documentaries of Louis Malle, Late Ozu, Raymond Bernard, The First Films of Samuel Fuller, Carlos Saura’s Flamenco Trilogy

2008 – (7) Postwar Kurosawa, Lubitsch Musicals, The Delirious Fictions of William Klein, Silent Ozu, Larisa Shepitko, Aki Kaurismaki’s Proletariat Trilogy, Rossellini’s History Films – Renaissance and Enlightenment

2009 – (4) Travels with Hiroshi Shimizu, Alexander Korda’s Private Lives, Nikkatsu Noir, Dusan Makavejev – Free Radical

2010 – (6) Chantal Akerman in the Seventies, George Bernard Shaw on Film, Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties, Presenting Sacha Guitry, The First Films of Akira Kurosawa, The Actuality Dramas of Allan King

2011 – (6) Basil Dearden’s London Underground, Silent Naruse, Raffaello Matarazzo’s Runaway Melodramas, The Warped World of Koreyoshi Kurahara, Aki Kaurismaki’s Leningrad Cowboys, Sabu!

2012 – (7)

Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin

• David’s Review of the Set
• Gorin’s Top 10 Criterion List

Pearls of the Czech New Wave

• David’s Review of Pearls of the Deep
• David’s Review of Daisies
• David’s Review 0f A Report on the Party and Guests
• David’s Review of Return of the Prodigal Son
• David’s Review of Capricious Summer
• David’s Review of The Joke

Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr.

• David’s Review of the Set
• Downey Sr. and Paul Thomas Anderson discuss Babo 73
• RDS and PTA on No More Excuses
• RDS and PTA on Putney Swope
• RDS and PTA on Two Tons of Turqoise to Taos Tonight

Jean Gremillon During the Occupation

• David’s Review of the Set
• Review by DVD Beaver, where it won 1st place as that site’s DVD OF THE YEAR

Maidstone and Other Films by Norman Mailer

• Eclipse Viewer Episode 5
• David’s Review of Wild 90
• David’s Review of Beyond the Law
• David’s Review of Maidstone

Three Wicked Melodramas from Gainsborough Pictures

• David’s Review of The Man in Grey
• David’s Review of Madonna of the Seven Moons
• David’s Review of The Wicked Lady

When Horror Came to Shochiku

• No reviews available (yet) on CriterionCast.com

Next time on the podcast: Eclipse Series 31: Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin

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