The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 59 – Late Ozu [Part 2]

David and Trevor are joined by Matt Gasteier to discuss Ozu's transition to color in Equinox Flower, Good Morning and Floating Weeds.

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 second episode of a three-part series, David and Trevor are joined by Matt Gasteier to discuss the first three color films  directed by Yasujiro Ozu: Equinox Flower, from Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu, along with Good Morning and Floating Weeds. released as spine-numbered editions in the Criterion Collection.

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

Equinox Flower

David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series review
New York Times (1977)
Films de France
Only the Cinema
Ozu-San.com
Senses of Cinema
The Film Sufi
3 Quarks Daily
Guide to Flower Symbolism – Higanbana/Equinox Flower

Good Morning

David’s Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review
David’s Criterion Reflections review
Matt’s Criterion on the Brain review

Floating Weeds

David’s Criterion Reflections review
Matt’s Criterion on the Brain review
Scott Nye’s Masters of Cinema Blu-ray review

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

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