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Criterion Reflections

Criterion Reflections

50 episodes

David Blakeslee and guests engage in concise but in depth conversations about Criterion films in their original historic context, and reflect on what they say to us today. Each episode covers a season of a year, discussing the movies in their chronological order of release.

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Criterion Reflections – Episode 139 – Ingmar Bergman’s Cries and Whispers

Published: Oct. 21, 2023, 11 a.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 138 – Melvin Van Peebles’ Don’t Play Us Cheap

Published: Sept. 22, 2023, 11:14 a.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 137 – Hanzo the Razor

Published: Aug. 31, 2023, 1 a.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 136 – Brian De Palma’s Sisters

Published: June 27, 2023, 11:20 a.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 135 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day

Published: April 25, 2023, 12:12 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 134 – Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris

Published: March 25, 2023, 8:15 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 133 – Bob Rafelson’s The King of Marvin Gardens

Published: March 4, 2023, 4:03 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 132 – Éric Rohmer’s Love in the Afternoon

Published: Feb. 22, 2023, 4:40 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 131 – Luis Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Published: Jan. 19, 2023, 2 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 130 – Martin Ritt’s Sounder

Published: Dec. 4, 2022, 3:10 a.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 129 – Shintaro Katsu’s Zatoichi in Desperation

Published: Nov. 19, 2022, 8:11 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 128 – Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left

Published: Nov. 9, 2022, 12:35 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 127 – William Crain’s Blacula

Published: Oct. 27, 2022, 1 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 126 – Late July 1972

Published: Oct. 14, 2022, noon
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 125 – Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Canterbury Tales

Published: Sept. 12, 2022, 11:36 a.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 124 – Ronald Neame’s The Poseidon Adventure

Published: Aug. 14, 2022, 11:46 a.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 123 – James Ivory’s Savages

Published: Aug. 9, 2022, 4:22 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 122 – Alan Gibson’s Dracula A.D. 1972

Published: June 30, 2022, 12:20 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 121 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

Published: June 22, 2022, 11:59 a.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 120 – Larry Hagman’s Beware! The Blob

Published: May 20, 2022, noon
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 119 – Gordon Parks’ Shaft’s Big Score!

Published: May 11, 2022, 11:54 a.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 118 – Bruce Lee’s The Way of the Dragon

Published: April 16, 2022, 7:01 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 117 – Michael Campus’s Z.P.G. and George A. Romero’s Hungry Wives a.k.a. Season of the Witch

Published: March 28, 2022, noon
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 116 – Jacques Demy’s The Pied Piper

Published: March 10, 2022, 3:21 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 115 – Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy

Published: Feb. 22, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 114 – Roberto Rossellini’s Blaise Pascal

Published: Feb. 14, 2022, 2 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 113 – John Huston’s Fat City

Published: Feb. 9, 2022, 1 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 112 – Peter Medak’s The Ruling Class

Published: Feb. 3, 2022, 1:01 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 111 – Maurice Pialat’s We Won’t Grow Old Together

Published: Jan. 17, 2022, 2:39 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 110 – Robert Altman’s Images

Published: Jan. 4, 2022, 10:49 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 109 – Lone Wolf and Cub [Part 2]

Published: Nov. 30, 2021, 2 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 108 – Kenji Misumi’s Lone Wolf and Cub [Part 1]

Published: Nov. 18, 2021, 12:51 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 107 – Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin’s Tout va bien / Letter to Jane

Published: Oct. 20, 2021, 10:15 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 106 – Godard 68/71

Published: Oct. 6, 2021, 11:32 a.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 105 – Godard 66/67

Published: Sept. 21, 2021, 11:12 a.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 104 – Massimo Dallamano’s What Have You Done to Solange?

Published: Sept. 3, 2021, 12:45 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 103 – Lo Wei’s Fist of Fury

Published: Aug. 14, 2021, 10:05 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 102 – Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris

Published: July 22, 2021, 2 a.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 101 – John Waters’ Pink Flamingos

Published: June 16, 2021, 11:05 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 100 – Dennis Hopper’s The Last Movie… and More!

Published: May 29, 2021, 10:15 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 99 – Sidney Poitier’s Buck and the Preacher

Published: May 14, 2021, 4:26 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 98 – Federico Fellini’s Roma

Published: May 12, 2021, 4 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 97 – Jun Fukuda’s Godzilla vs. Gigan

Published: April 29, 2021, 12:15 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 96 – Les Blank’s Spend It All & A Well Spent Life

Published: April 14, 2021, 10:19 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 95 – Peter Bogdanovich’s What’s Up, Doc?

Published: April 3, 2021, 12:40 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 94 – Jan Troell’s The New Land

Published: March 14, 2021, 1:09 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 93 – William Greaves’s Nationtime

Published: March 1, 2021, 2 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 92 – Francesco Rosi’s The Mattei Affair and Lina Wertmüllers The Seduction of Mimi

Published: Feb. 17, 2021, 1 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 91 – Kazuo Mori’s Zatoichi At Large

Published: Jan. 31, 2021, 4:54 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 90 – Short Films of 1971

Published: Nov. 28, 2020, 12:24 a.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 89 – Hal Ashby’s Harold and Maude

Published: Oct. 5, 2020, 6 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 88 – Roman Polanski’s Macbeth

Published: Sept. 24, 2020, 12:12 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 87 – King Hu’s A Touch of Zen

Published: Sept. 2, 2020, 1 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 86 – Francois Truffaut’s Two English Girls

Published: Aug. 20, 2020, 12:02 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 85 – Claude Jutra’s Mon Oncle Antoine

Published: July 22, 2020, noon
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 84 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Merchant of Four Seasons

Published: July 11, 2020, 4 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 83 – Masahiro Shinoda’s Silence

Published: June 27, 2020, 3 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 82 – Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs

Published: June 23, 2020, 11:30 a.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 81 – Three Feminist Films of 1971

Published: May 27, 2020, noon
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 80 – Werner Herzog’s Land of Silence and Darkness

Published: May 24, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 79 – Lo Wei’s The Big Boss

Published: May 6, 2020, 1:01 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 78 – Norman Jewison’s Fiddler on the Roof

Published: April 29, 2020, 12:36 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 77 – Terence Young’s Red Sun

Published: April 18, 2020, 1 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 76 – Gordon Parks’s Shaft

Published: April 9, 2020, 4 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 75 – Dušan Makavejev’s WR: Mysteries of the Organism

Published: April 5, 2020, 1:24 a.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 74 – Sidney Lumet’s The Anderson Tapes & Richard Brooks’ $

Published: March 27, 2020, 1 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 73 – Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show

Published: March 23, 2020, 4:06 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 72 – Henry Jaglom’s A Safe Place

Published: March 14, 2020, 8 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 71 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Beware of a Holy Whore

Published: March 7, 2020, 1:30 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 70 – Louis Malle’s Murmur of the Heart

Published: Feb. 19, 2020, 1 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 69 – James Goldstone’s Brother John

Published: Feb. 11, 2020, 12:26 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 68 – Mike Hodges’ Get Carter

Published: Jan. 29, 2020, 12:30 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 67 – Code Name: THX ORANGE OMEGA

Published: Jan. 14, 2020, 12:41 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 66 – Yoshimitsu Banno’s Godzilla vs. Hedorah

Published: Nov. 27, 2019, 1:30 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 65 – Two-Lane Blacktop

Published: Nov. 21, 2019, 6 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 64 – John Schlesinger’s Sunday Bloody Sunday

Published: Nov. 9, 2019, 1:35 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 63 – Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout

Published: Nov. 2, 2019, 10:30 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 62 – Ken Russell’s The Devils

Published: Oct. 25, 2019, 3:15 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 61 – Mike Nichols’s Carnal Knowledge

Published: Oct. 7, 2019, 11:08 a.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 60 – Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Decameron

Published: Sept. 16, 2019, 11:38 a.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 59 – Werner Herzog’s Fata Morgana

Published: Sept. 10, 2019, midnight
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 58 – Pierre Granier-Deferre’s The Widow Couderc

Published: Aug. 31, 2019, 2 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 57 – Alan J. Pakula’s Klute

Published: Aug. 24, 2019, 1:30 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 56 – Reginald Mills’ Tales of Beatrix Potter

Published: Aug. 15, 2019, 10:40 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 55 – Ingmar Bergman’s The Touch

Published: June 24, 2019, noon
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 54 – Robert Altman’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Published: June 14, 2019, 5 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 53 – Roberto Rossellini’s Socrates

Published: May 16, 2019, 10:13 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 52 – Jack Nicholson’s Drive, He Said

Published: May 10, 2019, 11:30 a.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 51 – Nagisa Oshima’s The Ceremony

Published: May 3, 2019, noon
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 50 – Melvin Van Peebles’s SWEET SWEETBACK’S BAADASSSSS SONG

Published: April 24, 2019, noon
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 49 – Jacques Tati’s Trafic

Published: March 31, 2019, 7 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 48 – Jan Troell’s The Emigrants

Published: March 16, 2019, 6 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 47 – Barbara Loden’s Wanda

Published: March 9, 2019, 9 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 46 – Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice

Published: Feb. 28, 2019, 1 p.m.
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Criterion Reflections – Episode 45 – Pierre Etaix’s Land of Milk and Honey

Published: Feb. 20, 2019, 1:35 p.m.
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