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

David, Trevor and guest Matt Gasteier discuss Early Spring and Tokyo Twilight in the first of a three-part series.

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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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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