The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 60 – Late Ozu [Part 3]

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 final episode of a three-part series (and perhaps the podcast itself), David and Trevor are joined by Matt Gasteier to discuss two films (Late Autumn and The End of Summer) 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 Ozu and Setsuko Hara (Donald Richie) 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

Late Autumn

David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series review New York Times (1973) Ozu-San.com Celluloid Wicker Man Ozu’s World Pop Matters Senses of Cinema Strictly Film School The Film Sufi The Flickering Wall The Guardian Webs of Significance World Cinema Review

The End of Summer

David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series review Ozu-San.com Boomtron J-Film Pow-Wow Japanese Culture Reflections Movie Rapture Nishikata Film Review Only the Cinema Ozekiland Ozu’s World The Film Sufi Webs of Significance World Cinema Review

Contact us

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

 

… And before I wrap this up, I’d like to take a moment to thank Rob Nishimura and Trevor Berrett for being great podcasting partners in their respective stints in that role, and for providing their editing skills so that all I had to do was sit back and talk. Also gotta give credit to Rob and my son Brandon Blakeslee for brilliantly handling the graphic design chores in creating the logos, headers and feature images. Lots of love to all of our guests who graciously enhanced our conversations over the past five years:

Scott Nye (Silent Naruse and Mizoguchi’s Fallen Women) West Anthony (The First Films of Samuel Fuller) Joshua Brunsting (The Actuality Dramas of Allan King) Ryan Gallagher (2012 in Review and Sabu!) Lauren LoGiudice (Lubitsch Musicals) Michael Koresky (A Conversation with Michael Koresky – former staff writer for the Criterion Collection) Mark Hurne (Raymond Bernard) Aaron West (Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties and Julien Duvivier in the Thirties) Pauline Lampert (Chantal Akerman in the Seventies and George Bernard Shaw on Film) Pablo Knote (The Warped World of Koreyoshi Kurahara and Nikkatsu Noir) Keith Enright (The Documentaries of Louis Malle) Matt Gasteier (Late Ozu)

And finally, my sincere appreciation for everyone who’s dropped us a comment, passed along a link, told their cinephile friends about our podcast or just sent us the occasional good vibes and note of encouragement in any way. I’m really glad we got the chance to connect and I am eager to continue on with new projects, very soon!