Best Avventura Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 215 – Criterion Collection Favorites of 2023

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In our annual episode focusing on The Criterion Collection’s releases from the past year – and there’s a lot to celebrate – we’ve assembled a panel of CriterionCast regulars to share our favorite releases of 2023. David Blakeslee from Criterion Reflections hosts this discussion, which also includes Aaron West (CineJourneys), Josh Hornbeck (Criterio…

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Episode 214 – Criterion Collection Favorites of 2022

1+ y ago

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In our annual episode focusing on The Criterion Collection’s releases from the past year – and there’s a lot to celebrate – we’ve assembled a panel of CriterionCast regulars to share our favorite releases of 2022. David Blakeslee from Criterion Reflections hosts this discussion, which also includes Aaron West (Criterion Now), Josh Hornbeck (Criteri…

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Episode 213 – Criterion Collection Favorites of 2021

2+ y ago

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In our annual episode focusing on The Criterion Collection’s releases from the past year – and there’s a lot to celebrate – we’ve assembled the entire podcasting crew from CriterionCast to share our favorite releases of 2021. David Blakeslee from Criterion Reflections hosts this discussion, which also includes Trevor Berrett (Inside the Box), Aaron…

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Episode 212 – Criterion Collection Favorites of 2020

3+ y ago

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To celebrate The Criterion Collection’s 2020 releases – and there’s a lot to celebrate – Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, Trevor Berrett, Aaron West, and Jordan Essoe gather to talk about the past year in Criterion, including their favorite three Criterion releases of 2020. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS or in iTunes Episode Notes Aaron’s List Favorit…

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Episode 211 – Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker’s The War Room

4y ago

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On episode 211 of CriterionCast, Jordan Essoe is joined by Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, and Arik Devens to discuss Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker’s 1993 film The War Room. The 1992 presidential election was a triumph not only for Bill Clinton but also for the new breed of strategists who guided him to the White House—and changed the face of poli…

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Episode 210 – Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’eclisse

4y ago

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On episode 210 of CriterionCast, Jordan Essoe is joined by Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, and Arik Devens to discuss Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1961 film L’eclisse. Using the architecture of Rome as a backdrop for the doomed affair, Antonioni achieves the apotheosis of his style in this return to the theme that preoccupied him the most: the difficulty o…

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Episode 209 – Michelangelo Antonioni’s La notte

4y ago

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On episode 209 of CriterionCast, Jordan Essoe is joined by Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, and Arik Devens to discuss Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1961 film La notte. Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau star as a novelist and his frustrated wife, who, over the course of one night, confront their alienation from each other and the achingly empty bourgeoi…

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Episode 208 – Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’avventura

4y ago

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On episode 208 of CriterionCast, Jordan Essoe is joined by Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, and Arik Devens to discuss Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960 film L’avventura. Michelangelo Antonioni invented a new film grammar with this masterwork. An iconic piece of challenging 1960s cinema and a gripping narrative on its own terms, L’avventura concerns the eni…

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Episode 207 – Roberto Rossellini’s Germany Year Zero

4+ y ago

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This time on the podcast, Jordan Essoe, Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, and Arik Devens discuss Roberto Rossellini’s Germany Year Zero. The concluding chapter of Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy is the most devastating, a portrait of an obliterated Berlin, seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS or in iTunes EPI…

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Episode 206 – Roberto Rossellini’s Paisan

4+ y ago

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This time on the podcast, Jordan Essoe, Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, and Arik Devens discuss Roberto Rossellini’s Paisan. With its documentary-like visuals and intermingled cast of actors and nonprofessionals, Italians and their American liberators, this look at the struggles of different cultures to communicate and of people to live their everyday …

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Episode 205 – Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City

4+ y ago

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This time on the podcast, Jordan Essoe, Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, and Arik Devens discuss Roberto Rossellini’s Rome Open City. This was Roberto Rossellini’s revelation, a harrowing drama about the Nazi occupation of Rome and the brave few who struggled against it. Though told with more melodramatic flair than the films that would follow it to for…

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Episode 204 – Wacky 2020!

4+ y ago

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Ryan is joined by David and Aaron to chat about the Wacky New Year’s Drawing for 2020. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS or in iTunes Past Wacky New Year’s Episodes 2019: Episode 196 – Wacky 2019! 2018: Episode 190 – New Year’s Wacky Drawing 2017–18 2017: Criterion Now – Episode 1 2016: The Newsstand – Episode 51 2015: The Newsstand – Episode 40 201…

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Episode 203 – Criterion Collection Favorites of 2019

4+ y ago

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To celebrate The Criterion Collection’s 2019 releases – and there’s a lot to celebrate – Ryan Gallagher, David Blakeslee, Scott Nye, Trevor Berrett, and Jordan Essoe gather to talk about the past year in Criterion, including their favorite three Criterion releases of 2019. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS or in iTunes Episode Notes Ryan’s List Favo…

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Episode 202 – William Wyler’s The Heiress

5y ago

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This time on the podcast, Trevor Berrett, Scott Nye, and David Blakeslee discuss William Wyler’s The Heiress. Directed with a keen sense of ambiguity by William Wyler, this film based on a hit stage adaptation of Henry James’s Washington Square pivots on a question of motive. When shy, emotionally fragile Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland, in a…

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Episode 201 – Ten Years!

5y ago

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To celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the first episode of the podcast going live (on July 6th, 2009), Ryan is joined by Arik Devens, David Blakeslee, Josh Brunsting, and Scott Nye to talk about the anniversary. They also get into their own thoughts on the theories surrounding the upcoming 1000th spine number, how the Criterion Channel is faring…

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Episode 200 – Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence

5+ y ago

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This time on the podcast, Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, Trevor Berrett, and Arik Devens discuss Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence. Two sisters—the sickly, intellectual Ester (Ingrid Thulin) and the sensual, pragmatic Anna (Gunnel Lindblom)—travel by train with Anna’s young son, Johan (Jörgen Lindström), to a foreign country that appears to be on the brink…

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Episode 199 – Ingmar Bergman’s Winter Light

5+ y ago

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This time on the podcast, Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, Trevor Berrett, and Arik Devens discuss Ingmar Bergman’s Winter Light. “God, why hast thou forsaken me?” With Winter Light, Ingmar Bergman explores the search for redemption in a meaningless existence. Small-town pastor Tomas Ericsson (Gunnar Björnstrand) performs his duties mechanically before …

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Episode 198 – A Conversation About DIANE, with Director Kent Jones

5+ y ago

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In this episode, David Blakeslee interviews director and film critic Kent Jones, a frequent contributor to the essays published by the Criterion Collection. His new film Diane, starring Mary Kay Place, won prizes at Tribeca and Locarno, and earned nominations at numerous festival showings in 2018. Diane is now set to open in theaters across the USA…

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Episode 197 – Ingmar Bergman’s Through a Glass Darkly

5+ y ago

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This time on the podcast, Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, Trevor Berrett, and Arik Devens discuss Ingmar Bergman’s Through a Glass Darkly. While vacationing on a remote island retreat, a family’s fragile ties are tested when daughter Karin (an astonishing Harriet Andersson) discovers her father (Gunnar Björnstrand) has been using her schizophrenia for …

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Episode 196 – Wacky 2019!

5+ y ago

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Ryan and David chat about the Wacky New Year’s Drawing for 2019. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS or in iTunes Miscellaneous Links Happy New Year! High resolution! Wacky New Years Drawing Hints At The Criterion Collection’s 2019 Line-Up Janus Films to Bring 30 Classic Czech Films to the States Past Wacky New Year’s Episodes 2018: Episode 190 – New …

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Episode 195 – Criterion Collection Favorites of 2018

5+ y ago

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To celebrate The Criterion Collection’s 2018 releases – and there’s a lot to celebrate – Ryan Gallagher, Arik Devens, David Blakeslee, and Jordan Essoe gather to talk about the past year in Criterion, including their favorite three Criterion releases of 2018. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS or in iTunes Episode Notes Ryan’s List Favorite Cover/Pac…

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Episode 194 — Ingmar Bergman’s Persona

6y ago

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This time on the podcast, Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, and Trevor Berrett discuss Ingmar Bergman’s Persona. By the midsixties, Ingmar Bergman had already conjured many of the cinema’s most unforgettable images. But with the radical Persona, he attained new levels of visual poetry. In the first of a series of legendary performances for Bergman, Liv U…

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Episode 193 – Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

6+ y ago

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In this episode, Trevor Berrett, David Blakeslee and Scott Nye discuss Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. The angelically beautiful Catherine Deneuve was launched to stardom by this dazzling musical heart-tugger from Jacques Demy. She plays an umbrella-shop owner’s delicate daughter, glowing with first love for a handsome garage mechanic, p…

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Episode 192 – 100 Years of Olympic Films [Winter Games Edition]

6+ y ago

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In this episode, David Blakeslee, Arik Devens and Aaron West take a break from watching live coverage of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Peongchyang to talk about some of their favorite images from past Winter Games, as captured in the Criterion Collection’s massive release from late 2017, 100 Years of Olympic Films 1912-2012. Spanning fifty-three movi…

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Episode 191 – John Ford’s Young Mr. Lincoln

6+ y ago

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In this episode, David Blakeslee, Scott Nye and Trevor Berrett discuss John Ford’s Young Mr. Lincoln, recently reissued by the Criterion Collection in a newly upgraded 4K restoration on Blu-ray and DVD. Few American historical figures are as revered as Abraham Lincoln, and few director-star collaborations embody classic Hollywood cinema as beautifu…

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Episode 190 – New Year’s Wacky Drawing 2017-18

6+ y ago

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Hot off the press, David Blakeslee and Aaron West get together to dissect the clues provided by the Criterion Collection’s annual Wacky Drawing hinting at upcoming releases for 2018. Follow along with our conversation by referencing the alphabet-coded breakdown of this year’s illustration by Jason Polan. Links to past analyses: Here are links to th…

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Episode 189 – Criterion Collection Favorites of 2017

6+ y ago

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To celebrate The Criterion Collection’s 2017 releases – and there’s a lot to celebrate – Aaron West, Arik Devens, David Blakeslee, Jordan Essoe, Scott Nye and Trevor Berrett gather to talk about the past year in Criterion, including their favorite three Criterion releases of 2017. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS or in iTunes Episode Notes Jordan’s…

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Episode 188 – Monte Hellman’s The Shooting & Ride in the Whirlwind

7y ago

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This time on the podcast, Scott is joined by David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett to discuss Monte Hellman’s The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind. In the midsixties, the maverick American director Monte Hellman conceived of two westerns at the same time. Dreamlike and gritty by turns, these films would prove their maker’s adeptness at brilliantly d…

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Episode 187 – Jack Clayton’s The Innocents

7y ago

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This time on the podcast, Trevor Berrett, David Blakeslee, and Scott Nye discuss Jack Clayton’s The Innocents. This genuinely frightening, exquisitely made supernatural gothic stars Deborah Kerr as an emotionally fragile governess who comes to suspect that there is something very, very wrong with her precocious new charges. A psychosexually intensi…

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Episode 186 – Yasujiro Ozu’s An Autumn Afternoon

7y ago

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In this episode, David Blakeslee, Trevor Berrett and Matt Gasteier provide a conclusion to their conversations about “Late Ozu”, carried over from the final three episodes of The Eclipse Viewer podcast. They’re also joined by Scott Nye. About the film: The last film by Yasujiro Ozu was also his final masterpiece, a gently heartbreaking story about …

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Episode 185 – Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker

7y ago

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This time on the podcast, Trevor Berrett and Scott Nye discuss Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker. Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guide—the Stalker—leads a writer and a professor into the heart of the Zone, the rest…

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Episode 184 – Mark Robson’s Valley of the Dolls

7y ago

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This time on the podcast, David Blakeslee and Catherine Stebbins discuss the 1967 Hollywood blockbuster Valley of the Dolls. Cutthroat careerism, wild sex, and fierce female protagonists are all on offer in this adaptation of Jacqueline Susann’s sensational and wildly popular novel. Patty Duke, Barbara Parkins, and Sharon Tate star as three friends…

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Episode 183 – Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up

7y ago

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This time on the podcast, Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, and Trevor Berrett discuss Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up. In 1966, Michelangelo Antonioni transplanted his existentialist ennui to the streets of swinging London for this international sensation, the Italian filmmaker’s first English-language feature. A countercultural masterpiece about the a…

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Episode 182 – George Stevens’ Woman of the Year

7+ y ago

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This time on the podcast, David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett discuss George Stevens’s Woman of the Year. George Stevens’s Woman of the Year, conceived to build on the smashing comeback Katharine Hepburn had made in The Philadelphia Story, marked the beginning of the personal and professional union between Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, who would go on …

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Episode 181 – Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock

7+ y ago

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This time on the podcast, Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee discuss Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock. This sensual and striking chronicle of a disappearance and its aftermath put director Peter Weir on the map and helped usher in a new era of Australian cinema. Based on an acclaimed 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock is set at t…

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Episode 180 – Criterion Collection Favorites of 2016

7+ y ago

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To celebrate The Criterion Collection’s 2016 releases — and there’s a lot to celebrate — Arik Devens, David Blakeslee, Keith Enright, Scott Nye, and Trevor Berrett gather to talk about the past year in Criterion, including their favorite three Criterion releases of 2016. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS or in iTunes Episode Notes Arik’s List – Favo…

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Episode 179 – Criterion Collection Wish List for 2017

7+ y ago

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Episode Links Past Wish List Episodes Episode 63.9 – Disc 3 – Top Criterion Blu-ray Upgrades for 2011 Episode 110 – Criterion Collection Blu-ray Upgrade Wish List for 2012 Episode 136 – Criterion Collection Blu-ray Upgrade Wish List for 2013 Episode 146 – Criterion Collection Blu-ray Upgrade Wish List for 2014 Episode 154 – Criterion Collection Blu…

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Episode 178 – Fritz Lang’s The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

8y ago

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This time on the podcast, Ryan is joined by Arik Devens to discuss Fritz Lang’s The Testament of Dr. Mabuse. Locked away in an asylum for a decade and teetering between life and death, the criminal mastermind Doctor Mabuse (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) has scribbled his last will and testament: a manifesto establishing a future empire of crime. When the doc…

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Episode 177 – Georges Franju’s Eyes Without a Face

8y ago

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This time on the podcast, Ryan is joined by West Anthony to discuss George Franju’s Eyes Without a Face. At his secluded chateau in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive doctor (Pierre Brasseur) attempts a radical plastic surgery to restore the beauty of his daughter’s disfigured countenance—at a horrifying price. Subscribe to the podcast …

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Episode 176 – Kenji Mizoguchi’s The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

8y ago

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This time on the podcast, Scott is joined by David Blakeslee and Ryan Gallagher to discuss Kenji Mizoguchi’s The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum. This heartrending masterpiece by Kenji Mizoguchi about the give-and-take between life and art marked the first full realization of the hypnotic long takes and eloquent camera movements that would come to …

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Episode 175 – Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night

8y ago

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This time on the podcast, Scott is joined by David Blakeslee, Trevor Berrett, and Arik Devens to discuss Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night. About the film: After fifteen films that received mostly local acclaim, the 1955 comedy Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens leende) at last ushered in an international audience for Ingmar Bergman. I…

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Episode 174 – Ingmar Bergman’s Summer with Monika

8y ago

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This time on the podcast, Scott is joined by David Blakeslee, Trevor Berrett, and Arik Devens to discuss Ingmar Bergman’s Summer with Monika. About the film: Inspired by the earthy eroticism of Harriet Andersson, in the first of her many roles for him, Ingmar Bergman had a major international breakthrough with this sensual and ultimately ravaging t…

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Episode 173 – Ingmar Bergman’s Summer Interlude

8y ago

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This time on the podcast, Scott is joined by David Blakeslee, Trevor Berrett, and Arik Devens to discuss Ingmar Bergman’s Summer Interlude. About the film: Touching on many of the themes that would define the rest of his legendary career—isolation, performance, the inescapability of the past—Ingmar Bergman’s tenth film was a gentle drift toward tru…

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Episode 172 – Michael Bay’s Armageddon

8+ y ago

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This time on the podcast, Scott is joined by David Blakeslee, Ryan Gallagher, and James McCormick to discuss Michael Bay’s Armageddon. About the film: Bruce Willis and an all-star cast of roughneck oil drillers blast off on a mission to save the planet in Michael Bay’s doomsday space epic. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS or in iTunes Buy The Film …

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Episode 171 – Vilgot Sjöman’s I Am Curious…

8+ y ago

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This time on the podcast, Scott is joined by David Blakeslee and James McCormick to discuss Vilgot Sjöman’s I Am Curious (Yellow) and I Am Curious (Blue). About the film: Seized by customs upon entry to the United States, subject of a heated court battle, banned in cities across the United States, Vilgot Sjöman’s I Am Curious—Yellow is one of the m…

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Episode 170 – The Flowers of St. Francis

8+ y ago

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This time on the podcast, Scott is joined by David Blakeslee to discuss Roberto Rossellini’s The Flowers of St. Francis. About the film: In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of the People’s Saint: humility, compassion, faith, and sacrifice. Gor…

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Episode 169 – Criterion Collection Blu-ray Upgrade Wish List for 2016

8+ y ago

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This time on the podcast, Ryan is joined by Scott Nye, David Blakeslee, Mark Hurne and Trevor Berrett to present their Blu-ray upgrade wish lists for 2016. Subscribe in iTunes or RSS. Episode Links Past Wish List Episodes Episode 63.9 – Disc 3 – Top Criterion Blu-ray Upgrades for 2011 Episode 110 – Criterion Collection Blu-ray Upgrade Wish List for…

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