Criterion Reflections – Episode 116 – Jacques Demy’s The Pied Piper

Come listen and be entranced by our enchanted conversation about this overlooked folk horror fairy tale set in the tragic era of the Black Death.

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. This fourth season of the podcast features conversations about movies that originally premiered in 1972 and were destined to eventually receive the Criterion imprimatur. In this episode, David is joined by Robert Cioffi, Dan Humphrey and William Remmers to discuss The Pied Piper, directed by Jacques Demy. At the time this episode was recorded, The Pied Piper was not featured on the Criterion Channel, but was briefly available when that channel was hosted by FilmStruck back in 2018.

The Criterion Collection
The Criterion Channel
Wikipedia
Letterboxd
JustWatch
Film Comment (1971 interview)
BFI (where to begin)
Cineccentric
Film Inquiry
FrenchFilms.org
Gagosian Quarterly
New Wave Film (ranked list)
Senses of Cinema
TSPDT
Queer Enchantments (book mentioned in the episode)

The Pied Piper

Wikipedia
Letterboxd
JustWatch
New York Times (1972)
Village Voice (1972)
CineFantastique (1973)
Between Productions
CinePassion
Dennis Schwarz
DVD Drive-in
Forgotten Films
Gonna Put Me in the Movies
Moria
Spinning Image
TCM
ZekeFilm

Source Material

Wikipedia
Robert Browning
The Brothers Grimm
Related Legends
Hameln.de – Official City Website

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

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