The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 58 – Late Ozu [Part 1]

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 first episode of a three-part series, David and Trevor are joined by Matthew Gasteier to discuss two films (Early Spring and Tokyo Twilight) from Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu.

About the films:

Master filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu directed fifty-three feature films over the course of his long career. Yet it was in the final decade of his life, his “old master” phase, that he entered his artistic prime. Centered more than ever on the modern sensibilities of the younger generation, these delicate family dramas are marked by an exquisite formal elegance and emotional sensitivity about birth and death, love and marriage, and all the accompanying joys and loneliness. Along with such better-known films as Floating Weeds and An Autumn Afternoon, these five works illustrate the worldly wisdom of one of cinema’s great artists at the height of his powers.

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Episode Links

Yasujiro Ozu

Criterion Explore Page Wikipedia Ozu-San.com Film Comment Japan Times Roger Ebert Senses of Cinema (bio) Senses of Cinema (article: “Is Ozu Slow?”)

Box Set Reviews

Combustible Celluloid Criterion Confessions Digitally Obsessed

Early Spring

David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series review New York Times (1974) Blueprint: Review  Films de France J-Film Pow-Wow Only the Cinema Ozu-San.com Ozu’s World Strictly Film School TCM The Film Sufi

Tokyo Twilight

David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series review Acting-Out Politics Adventures in Vertigo Blueprint: Review  CineSlice Dennis Grunes J-Film Pow-Wow Japanese Film Reflections MovieRapture Ozu-San.com Ozu’s World The Film Sufi

Next time on the podcast: Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu [Part 2]

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Twitter Email: theeclipseviewer (at) gmail.com David Blakeslee ( Twitter / Website ) Trevor Berrett ( Twitter / Website ) Matt Gasteier ( Twitter / Facebook / Website )