The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 50 – The Documentaries of Louis Malle [Part 2]

David, Trevor and Keith immerse themselves in Malle's epic explorations of India.

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 episode, David and Trevor are joined by Keith Enright to discuss Eclipse Series 2: The Documentaries of Louis Malle.

About the films:

Over the course of a nearly forty-year career, Louis Malle forged a reputation as one of the world’s most versatile cinematic storytellers, with such widely acclaimed, and wide-ranging, masterpieces as Elevator to the Gallows, My Dinner with Andre, and Au revoir les enfants. At the same time, however, with less fanfare, Malle was creating a parallel, even more personal body of work as a documentary filmmaker. With the discerning eye of a true artist and the investigatory skills of a great journalist, Malle takes us from a street corner in Paris to America’s heartland to the expanses of India in his astonishing epic Phantom India. These are some of the most engaging and fascinating nonfiction films ever made.

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Criterion Explore
New Wave Film
New York Times (Terrence Rafferty)
TCM

Box Set Reviews

Austin Chronicle
Cinema Gadfly
Criterion Confessions
Molodezhnaja
Senses of Cinema

Phantom India

BESTqUEST
The Film Sufi
Notes of a Film Fanatic
Robert Christgau
Search India

Calcutta

David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series
Dharma Documentaries
The Film Sufi
TCM

Next time on the podcast: Eclipse Series 2: The Documentaries of Louis Malle [Part 3]

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