The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 20 – A Conversation with Michael Koresky

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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 interview Michael Koresky, author of a book on Terence Davies for the University of Illinois Press, as well as the staff writer at the Criterion Collection and a cofounder and editor of the online film magazine Reverse Shot. His writing has also appeared in Film Comment, Cinema Scope, Moving Image Source, Sight & Sound, and the Village Voice.

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Episode Links:

• The Eclipse Series in the Criterion Collection
• Reverse Shot
• Museum of the Moving Image
• Terence Davies book website (University of Illinois Press)

Films and Sets Mentioned in this Episode:

• Equinox
• Monsters and Madmen (David’s reviews at Criterion Reflections: The Haunted Strangler / Corridors of Blood / The Atomic Submarine / First Man into Space)
• Eclipse Series 37: When Horror Came to Shochiku (David’s review of The X from Outer Space)
• Eclipse Series 41: Kinoshita and World War II
• Eclipse Series 29: Leningrad Cowboys (David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series review)
• Satyajit Ray’s The Stranger (David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series review)
• Eclipse Series 24: The Actuality Dramas of Allan King (The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 6 and Episode 7)
• Eclipse Series 32: Pearls of the Czech New Wave (David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series reviews: Pearls of the Deep / Daisies / A Report on the Party and Guests / Return of the Prodigal Son / Capricious Summer / The Joke )
• Eclipse Series 23: First Films of Akira Kurosawa (David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series reviews: Sanshiro Sugata / Sanshiro Sugata Part 2 / The Most Beautiful / The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail)
• Eclipse Series 38: Masaki Kobayashi Against the System (The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 15)
• Eclipse Series 15: Travels with Hiroshi Shimizu (The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 18)
• Eclipse Series 10: Silent Ozu – Three Family Comedies (The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 1)
• Eclipse Series 13: Kenji Mizoguchi’s Fallen Women (David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series reviews: Osaka Elegy / Sisters of the Gion / Women of the Night / Street of Shame)
• Eclipse Series 7:Postwar Kurosawa (David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series reviews: No Regrets for Our Youth / One Wonderful Sunday / Scandal / The Idiot / I Live in Fear)
• Eclipse Series 1: Early Bergman (The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 13 and Episode 14)
• Eclipse Series 11: Larisa Shepitko (The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 3)
• Eclipse Series 19: Chantal Akerman in the 1970s (David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series reviews: New York Films / je tu il elle / Les rendez-vous d’Anna)
• Eclipse Series 8: Lubitsch Musicals (The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 12)
• Eclipse Series 35: Maidstone and Other Films by Norman Mailer (The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 5)
• Eclipse Series 9: The Delirious Fictions of William Klein (The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 10)
• Eclipse Series 26: Silent Naruse (The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 2)
• Eclipse Series 14: Rossellini’s History Films – Renaissance and Enlightenment (The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 19)
• Eclipse Series 12: Aki Kaurismaki’s Proletariat Trilogy (The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 11)
• Eclipse Series 20: George Bernard Shaw on Film (David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series reviews: Major Barbara / Caesar and Cleopatra / Androcles and the Lion)
• Eclipse Series 16: Alexander Korda’s Private Lives (David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series reviews: The Private Life of Henry VIII / The Rise of Catherine the Great / The Private Life of Don Juan / Rembrandt)
• Eclipse Series 33: Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr. (David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series review)

Contact us:

• Email: theeclipseviewer (at) gmail.com
• David Blakeslee ( Twitter / Website / Facebook )
• Trevor Berrett ( Twitter / Website / Facebook )
• Michael Koresky ( Twitter / Website / Facebook )

Next time on the podcast: Eclipse Series 37: When Horror Came to Shochiku