Criterion Reflections – Episode 20 – Costa-Gavras’s The Confession

David is joined by Trevor Berrett and Jordan Essoe to discuss Costa-Gavras's harrowing portrayal of a man under pressure to admit to crimes that he never committed.

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 second season of the podcast features conversations with a variety of guests offering insights on movies that originally premiered in 1970 and were destined to eventually bear the Criterion imprint. In this episode, David is joined by Jordan Essoe and Trevor Berrett to discuss The Confession, directed by Costa-Gavras.

Criterion
Wikipedia
DW
Huffington Post
The Culture Trip
The Guardian

The Confession

Criterion
New York Times (1970)
Film Quarterly (1971)
Roger Ebert (1971)
AV Film
Criterion Close-Up
Criterion on the Brain
Film Fanatic
Films de France
Ion Cinema
New York Times (2015)
Q Network
Slant
The Dissolve
The Mookse and the Gripes

The Slansky Trials

The Guardian – 2018 discovery of archival film and audio recordings from the trials
Private Prague
Wikipedia
Archive.org – Complete Trial Transcript
YIVO – Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
Communism on Trial: The Slansky Affair and Anti-Semitism in Post-WWII Europe

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