Criterion Reflections – Episode 51 – Nagisa Oshima’s The Ceremony

David is joined by Grant Douglas Bromley, Josh Hornbeck and Trevor Berrett to analyze this tormented family saga, a ritualized encapsulation of 25 years of Japanese history.

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 third season of the podcast features conversations with a variety of guests offering insights on movies that originally premiered in 1971 and were destined to eventually bear the Criterion imprint. In this episode, David is joined by Trevor Berrett, Grant Douglas Bromley, and Josh Hornbeck to discuss The Ceremony, directed by Nagisa Oshima.

Criterion
Wikipedia
Film Comment
Hammer to Nail
Harvard Film Archive
Japan Times
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Senses of Cinema
TSPDT
Univeristy of Tokyo Center for Philosophy (pdf booklet, including a full chapter on The Ceremony)

The Ceremony

The Criterion Channel
4:3
Also Like Life
CineFiles Database (great collection of vintage contemporary reviews)
Cinepassion
Columbus Museum of Art
Dennis Grunes
Derek Smith
Film Comment
Japanese Culture Reflections
Japan Society
JFilm Pow-Wow
Strictly Film School

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

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