Criterion Reflections – Episode 125 – Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Canterbury Tales

David and guests discuss the middle installment of Pasolinin's Trilogy of Life, an adaptation of the bawdiest chapters in Geoffrey Chaucer's classic medieval text.

Criterion Reflections is David Blakeslee’s ongoing project to watch all of the films included in the Criterion Collection in chronological order of their original release. Each episode of this third season of the podcast features conversations with a variety of guests offering insights on movies that originally premiered in 1971 and were destined to eventually bear the Criterion imprint. In this episode, David is joined by Dan Humphrey and Brad McDermott to discuss The Canterbury Tales, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.

The Criterion Collection
The Criterion Channel
Criterion Reflections – Episode 60 – The Decameron
BFI
Film Comment (1965 interview)
New World Encyclopedia
Poetry Foundation
TSPDT

The Canterbury Tales (film)

The Criterion Collection
Wikipedia
New York Times (1980)
Basement Rejects
Cinepassion
Criterion Confessions
Eye for Film
Midnight Only
Mondo Digital
Next Projection
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Ogg’s Movie Thoughts
Q Network
Slant

The Canterbury Tales (text)

Wikipedia
Canterbury Tales Project
LibriVox (public domain e-books)
Project Gutenberg
World History Encyclopedia

Medieval Art Referenced in the Episode (h/t Brad McDermott)

Criterion Reflections blog (1922 – 1967)
Criterion Reflections columns on CriterionCast (1968)
The Eclipse Viewer
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

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