Criterion Reflections – Episode 25 – Věra Chytilová’s Fruit of Paradise

David and Jordan discuss the Czech director's follow-up to Daisies.

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 to discuss Fruit of Paradise, directed by Věra Chytilová, which was available on the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck at the time of this episode’s publication.

Criterion
Wikipedia
Bio – State University of New York, Buffalo
BFI – Vera Chytilova for Beginners
The Guardian – Interview from 2000
Film Comment – In Memoriam

Fruit of Paradise

FilmStruck
At the Mansion of Madness
Australian Film Review
Central Europe Review
CineOutsider
CineVue
Doormouse, Etc.
Electric Sheep
Film Walrus
Mondo Digital
PopMatters
The Arts Desk

Additional Links

Daisies – A Journey Through the Eclipse Series
Daisies – Criterion Reflections
Daisies – The Eclipse Viewer
The Loss of Sexual Innocence (dir. Mike Figgis) – Trailer
“Train” Exhibit at SFMOMA
Robert F. Kennedy’s Funeral Train – Photography by Paul Fusco

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