en https://criterioncast.com/category/podcast/inside-the-box <![CDATA[Inside the Box]]> https://static.feedpress.com/logo/insidethebox-5ed343c29953b.jpg TV & Film/Film Reviews nonadult Conversations about box sets produced by The Criterion Collection. David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett film, cinema, home media, collecting, dvd, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Collection, David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett film, cinema, home media, collecting, dvd, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Collection, false David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett podcast@hyperbolic.tv David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett Each episode will focus attention on a particular Criterion box set, discussing not only the films themselves, but also the supplements, packaging and other background information that aims to enhance our understanding and appreciation for each of these unique editions. Conversations about box sets produced by The Criterion Collection. podcast@hyperbolic.tv Each episode will focus attention on a particular Criterion box set, discussing not only the films themselves, but also the supplements, packaging and other background information that aims to enhance our understanding and appreciation for each of these unique editions. no David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett Inside the Box https://criterioncast.com/category/podcast/inside-the-box A podcast series that will explore the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. Sat, 18 Nov 2023 02:42:00 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Inside the Box – Episode 18 – The Complete Jean Vigo https://criterioncast.com/podcast/inside-the-box/inside-the-box-episode-18-the-complete-jean-vigo David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett Sat, 18 Nov 2023 00:46:07 +0000 https://criterioncast.com/?p=68111

Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode, they discuss The Complete Jean Vigo. This box set contains the films À propos de Nice (1930), Taris (1988), Zéro de conduite (1933), and L’Atalante (1934).

Even among cinema’s legends, Jean Vigo stands apart. The son of a notorious anarchist, Vigo had a brief but brilliant career making poetic, lightly surrealist films before his life was cut tragically short by tuberculosis at age twenty-nine. Like the daring early works of his contemporaries Jean Cocteau and Luis Buñuel, Vigo’s films refused to play by the rules. This set includes all of Vigo’s titles: À propos de Nice, an absurdist, rhythmic slice of life from the bustling coastal city; Taris, an inventive short portrait of a swimming champion; Zéro de conduite, a radical, delightful tale of boarding-school rebellion that has influenced countless filmmakers; and L’Atalante, widely regarded as one of cinema’s finest achievements, about newlyweds beginning their life together on a canal barge. These are the witty, visually adventurous works of a pivotal film artist.

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]]> David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett no film, cinema, home media, collecting, dvd, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Collection, Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode,… In this episode of Inside the Box, Trevor and David discuss The Complete Jean Vigo, featuring the films Á propos de Nice (1930), Zéro de conduite (1933), and L'Atalante (1934). Inside the Box – Episode 17 – The Qatsi Trilogy https://criterioncast.com/podcast/inside-the-box/inside-the-box-episode-17-the-qatsi-trilogy David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett Thu, 22 Jun 2023 03:33:54 +0000 https://criterioncast.com/?p=67974

Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode, they discuss The Qatsi Trilogy. This box set contains the films Koyaanisqatsi (1983), Powaqqatsi (1988), and Naqoyqatsi (2002).

A singular artist and activist, Godfrey Reggio is best known for the galvanizing films of The Qatsi Trilogy. Astonishingly photographed, and featuring unforgettable, cascading scores by Philip Glass, these are immersive sensory experiences that meditate on the havoc humankind’s obsession with technological advancement has wreaked on our world. From 1983’s Koyaanisqatsi to 1988’s Powaqqatsi to 2002’s Naqoyqatsi, Reggio takes us on a journey from the ancient to the contemporary, from nature to industry, exploring life out of balance, in transformation, and as war, all the while keeping our eyes wide with wonder.

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]]> David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett no film, cinema, home media, collecting, dvd, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Collection, Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode,… In this episode of Inside the Box, Trevor and David discuss Godfrey Reggio's The Qatsi Trilogy, featuring the films Koyaanisqatsi (1983), Powaqqatsi (1988), and Naqoyqatsi (2002). Inside the Box – Episode 16 – The Infernal Affairs Trilogy https://criterioncast.com/podcast/inside-the-box/episode-16-the-infernal-affairs-trilogy David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett Fri, 03 Mar 2023 01:43:13 +0000 https://criterioncast.com/?p=67803

Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode, they discuss The Infernal Affairs Trilogy. This box set contains the films Infernal Affairs (2002), Infernal Affairs II (2003), and Infernal Affairs III (2003).

The Hong Kong crime drama was jolted to new life with the release of the Infernal Affairs trilogy, a bracing, explosively stylish critical and commercial triumph that introduced a dazzling level of narrative and thematic complexity to the genre with its gripping saga of two rival moles—played by superstars Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau Tak-wah—who navigate slippery moral choices as they move between the intersecting territories of Hong Kong’s police force and its criminal underworld. Set during the uncertainty of the city-state’s handover from Britain to China and steeped in Buddhist philosophy, these ingeniously crafted tales of self-deception and betrayal mirror Hong Kong’s own fractured identity and the psychic schisms of life in a postcolonial purgatory.

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]]> David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett no film, cinema, home media, collecting, dvd, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Collection, Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode,… In this episode of Inside the Box, Trevor and David discuss The Infernal Affairs Trilogy. Inside the Box – Episode 15 – 3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman https://criterioncast.com/podcast/inside-the-box/inside-the-box-episode-15-3-films-by-roberto-rossellini-starring-ingrid-bergman David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett Wed, 23 Nov 2022 23:03:49 +0000 https://criterioncast.com/?p=67620

Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode, they discuss 3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman. This untraditional box set contains the films Stromboli (1950), Europe ’51 (1952), and Journey to Italy (1954).

In the late 1940s, the incandescent Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman found herself so stirred by the revolutionary neorealist films of Roberto Rossellini that she sent the director a letter, introducing herself and offering her talents. The resulting collaboration produced a series of films that are works of both sociopolitical concern and metaphysical melodrama, each starring Bergman as a woman experiencing physical dislocation and psychic torment in postwar Italy. It also famously led to a scandalous affair and eventual marriage between filmmaker and star, and the focus on their personal lives in the press unfortunately overshadowed the extraordinary films they made together. Stromboli, Europe ’51, and Journey to Italy are intensely moving portraits that reveal the director at his most emotional and the glamorous actress at her most anguished, and that capture them and the world around them in transition.

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]]> David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett no film, cinema, home media, collecting, dvd, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Collection, Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode,… In this episode of Inside the Box, Trevor and David discuss 3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman, featuring the films Stromboli, Europe '51, and Journey to Italy. Inside the Box – Episode 14 – A Whit Stillman Trilogy https://criterioncast.com/podcast/inside-the-box/inside-the-box-episode-14-a-whit-stillman-trilogy David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett Mon, 26 Sep 2022 22:27:43 +0000 https://criterioncast.com/?p=67413

Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode, they discuss A Whit Stillman Trilogy. This untraditional box set contains the films Metropolitan (1990), Barcelona (1994), and The Last Days of Disco (1998).

Over the course of the 1990s, writer-director Whit Stillman made a trilogy of films about the acid tongues and broken hearts of some haplessly erudite young Americans in New York and abroad. Set in the eighties, these films trace the arc of that decade, led by Stillman’s Oscar-nominated debut, Metropolitan,which introduced moviegoers to a strange, endangered species of privileged New Yorker, the “urban haute bourgeoisie.” Chronologically, the tale continues with The Last Days of Disco, in which, with an earnest wink, Stillman mourns the close of New York’s nightclub era via the story of two young party-going women juggling day jobs in book publishing. Finally, Barcelona plunks down a pair of love-starved upper-class men in a foreign city rife with anti-American sentiment. At once effervescent and melancholy, these are comedies about the ends of cultural moments, social change as seen through the eyes of reluctant, unflaggingly sardonic romantics.

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]]> David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett no film, cinema, home media, collecting, dvd, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Collection, Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode,… In this episode of Inside the Box, Trevor and David discuss A Whit Stillman Trilogy, featuring the films Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco. Inside the Box – Episode 13 – Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 1, Part 3 https://criterioncast.com/podcast/inside-the-box/episode-13-martin-scorseses-world-cinema-project-no-1-part-3 David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett Fri, 22 Apr 2022 00:40:08 +0000 https://criterioncast.com/?p=66882

Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode, they discuss Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project, No. 1. This is the third of three episodes focused on this set, and will focus on Ahmed El Maanouni’s Trances and Kim Ki-Young’s The Housemaid.

Established by Martin Scorsese in 2007, the World Cinema Project expands the horizons of moviegoers everywhere. The mission of the WCP is to preserve and present marginalized and infrequently screened films from regions generally ill equipped to preserve their own cinema history. This collector’s set brings together six superb films from countries around the globe, including Senegal (Touki bouki), Mexico (Redes), India and Bangladesh (A River Called Titas), Turkey (Dry Summer), Morocco (Trances), and South Korea (The Housemaid). Each is a cinematic revelation, depicting a culture not often seen by outsiders on-screen.

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]]> David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett no film, cinema, home media, collecting, dvd, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Collection, Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode,… In this episode of Inside the Box, Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee discuss the third pair of films -- Ahmed El Maanouni's Trances and Kim Ki-Young's The Housemaid -- in Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project, No. 1. Inside the Box – Episode 12 – Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 1, Part 2 https://criterioncast.com/podcast/inside-the-box/episode-12-world-cinema-project-no-1-part-2 David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett Thu, 31 Mar 2022 21:46:23 +0000 https://criterioncast.com/?p=66806

Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode, they discuss Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project, No. 1. This is the second of three episodes focused on this set, and will focus on Ritwik Ghatak’s A River Called Titas and Metin Erksan’s Dry Summer.

Established by Martin Scorsese in 2007, the World Cinema Project expands the horizons of moviegoers everywhere. The mission of the WCP is to preserve and present marginalized and infrequently screened films from regions generally ill equipped to preserve their own cinema history. This collector’s set brings together six superb films from countries around the globe, including Senegal (Touki bouki), Mexico (Redes), India and Bangladesh (A River Called Titas), Turkey (Dry Summer), Morocco (Trances), and South Korea (The Housemaid). Each is a cinematic revelation, depicting a culture not often seen by outsiders on-screen.

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]]> David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett no film, cinema, home media, collecting, dvd, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Collection, Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode,… In this episode of Inside the Box, Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee discuss the second two films -- Ritwik Ghatak's A River Called Titas and Metin Erksan's Dry Summer -- in Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project, No. 1. Inside the Box – Episode 11 – Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 1, Part 1 https://criterioncast.com/podcast/inside-the-box/episode-11-martin-scorseses-world-cinema-project-no-1-part-1 David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett Wed, 23 Mar 2022 22:00:02 +0000 https://criterioncast.com/?p=66764

Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode, they discuss Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project, No. 1. This is the first of three episodes focused on this set, and will focus on Djibril Diop Mabéty’s Touki bouki and Emilio Gómez Muriel and Fred Zinnemann’s Redes.

Established by Martin Scorsese in 2007, the World Cinema Project expands the horizons of moviegoers everywhere. The mission of the WCP is to preserve and present marginalized and infrequently screened films from regions generally ill equipped to preserve their own cinema history. This collector’s set brings together six superb films from countries around the globe, including Senegal (Touki bouki), Mexico (Redes), India and Bangladesh (A River Called Titas), Turkey (Dry Summer), Morocco (Trances), and South Korea (The Housemaid). Each is a cinematic revelation, depicting a culture not often seen by outsiders on-screen.

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]]> David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett no film, cinema, home media, collecting, dvd, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Collection, Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode,… In this episode of Inside the Box, Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee discuss the first two films -- Djibril Diop Mabéty's Touki bouki and Emilio Gómez Muriel and Fred Zinnemann's Redes -- in Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project, No. 1. This is the first of three episodes focused on this set. Inside the Box – Episode 10 – Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander https://criterioncast.com/podcast/inside-the-box/episode-10-fanny-and-alexander David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett Fri, 24 Dec 2021 16:45:55 +0000 https://criterioncast.com/?p=66373

Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode, they discuss Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander.

Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden. Ingmar Bergman intended Fanny and Alexander as his swan song, and it is the legendary director’s warmest and most autobiographical film, a four-time Academy Award–winning triumph that combines his trademark melancholy and emotional intensity with immense joy and sensuality. The Criterion Collection is proud to present both the theatrical release and the original five-hour television version of this great work. Also included in the box set is Bergman’s own feature-length documentary The Making of “Fanny and Alexander,” a unique glimpse into his creative process.

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]]> David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett no film, cinema, home media, collecting, dvd, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Collection, Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode,… In this episode of Inside the Box, Trevor and David discuss the box set devoted to Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander. Inside the Box – Episode 9 – Three Films by Luis Buñuel https://criterioncast.com/podcast/inside-the-box/inside-the-box-episode-9-three-films-by-luis-bunuel David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett Sat, 11 Dec 2021 15:00:07 +0000 https://criterioncast.com/?p=66310

Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode, they discuss Three Films by Luis Buñuel, which contains The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Phantom of Liberty, and That Obscure Object of Desire.

More than four decades after he took a razor blade to an eyeball and shocked the world with Un chien andalou, arch-iconoclast Luis Buñuel capped his astonishing career with three final provocations—The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Phantom of Liberty, and That Obscure Object of Desire—in which his renegade, free-associating surrealism reached its audacious, self-detonating endgame. Working with such key collaborators as screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière and his own frequent on-screen alter ego Fernando Rey, Buñuel laced his scathing attacks on religion, class pretension, and moral hypocrisy with savage violence to create a trio of subversive, brutally funny masterpieces that explore the absurd randomness of existence. Among the director’s most radical works as well as some of his greatest international triumphs, these films cemented his legacy as cinema’s most incendiary revolutionary.

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]]> David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett no film, cinema, home media, collecting, dvd, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Collection, Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode,… In this episode of Inside the Box, Trevor and David discuss the Three Films by Luis Buñuel box set from the Criterion Collection. Inside the Box – Episode 8 – Wim Wenders: The Road Trilogy https://criterioncast.com/podcast/inside-the-box/episode-8-wim-wenders-the-road-trilogy David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett Thu, 16 Sep 2021 23:30:02 +0000 https://criterioncast.com/?p=65988

Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode, they discuss Wim Wenders: The Road Trilogy, which contains Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move, and Kings of the Road.

In the 1970s, Wim Wenders was among the first true international breakthrough artists of the revolutionary New German Cinema movement, a filmmaker whose fascination with the physical landscapes and emotional contours of the open road proved to be universal. In the middle of that decade, Wenders embarked on a three-film journey that took him from the wide roads of Germany to the endless highways of the United States and back again. Each starring Rüdiger Vogler as the director’s alter ego, Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move, and Kings of the Roadare dramas of emotional transformation that follow their characters’ searches for themselves, all rendered with uncommon soulfulness and visual poetry.

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]]> David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett no film, cinema, home media, collecting, dvd, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Collection, Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode,… In this episode of Inside the Box, Trevor and David look into Wim Wenders: The Road Trilogy, featuring Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move, and Kings of the Road. Inside the Box – Episode 7 – The Samurai Trilogy https://criterioncast.com/podcast/inside-the-box/episode-7-samurai-trilogy David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett Wed, 04 Aug 2021 11:33:14 +0000 https://criterioncast.com/?p=65816

Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode, they discuss The Samurai Trilogy, which contains Hiroshi Inagaki’s trilogy of films Musashi Miyamoto, Duel at Ichijoji Temple, and Duel at Ganryu Island.

The Samurai Trilogy, directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and starring the inimitable Toshiro Mifune, was one of Japan’s most successful exports of the 1950s, a rousing, emotionally gripping tale of combat and self-discovery. Based on a novel that’s often called Japan’s Gone with the Wind, this sweeping saga fictionalizes the life of the legendary seventeenth-century swordsman (and writer and artist) Musashi Miyamoto, following him on his path from unruly youth to enlightened warrior. With these three films—1954’s Oscar-winning Musashi Miyamoto, 1955’s Duel at Ichijoji Temple, and 1956’s Duel at Ganryu Island—Inagaki created a passionate epic that’s equal parts tender love story and bloody action.

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]]> David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett no film, cinema, home media, collecting, dvd, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Collection, Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode,… In this episode of Inside the Box, Trevor and David look into Hiroshi Inagaki's The Samurai Trilogy, featuring Musashi Miyamoto, Duel at Ichijoji Temple, and Duel at Ganryu Island. Inside the Box – Episode 6 – David Lean Directs Noël Coward https://criterioncast.com/podcast/inside-the-box/episode-6-david-lean-directs-noel-coward David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett Sun, 16 May 2021 01:10:51 +0000 https://criterioncast.com/?p=65487

Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode, they discuss David Lean Directs Noël Coward, which contains the films In Which We Serve, This Happy Breed, Blithe Spirit, and Brief Encounter.

In the 1940s, the wit of playwright Noël Coward and the craft of filmmaker David Lean melded harmoniously in one of cinema’s greatest writer-director collaborations. With the wartime military drama sensation In Which We Serve, Coward and Lean (along with producing partners Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan) embarked on a series of literate, socially engaged, and enormously entertaining pictures that ranged from domestic epic (This Happy Breed) to whimsical comedy (Blithe Spirit) to poignant romance (Brief Encounter). These films created a lasting testament to Coward’s artistic legacy and introduced Lean’s visionary talents to the world.

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]]> David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett no film, cinema, home media, collecting, dvd, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Collection, Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode,… In this episode of Inside the Box, Trevor and David look into David Lean Directs Noël Coward, featuring In Which We Serve, This Happy Breed, Blithe Spirit, and Brief Encounter. Inside the Box – Episode 5 – The Koker Trilogy https://criterioncast.com/podcast/inside-the-box/episode-5-the-koker-trilogy David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett Fri, 26 Feb 2021 21:00:18 +0000 https://criterioncast.com/?p=65092

Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode, they discuss The Koker Trilogy, which contains Where Is the Friend’s House, And Life Goes On, and Through the Olive Trees.

Abbas Kiarostami first came to international attention for this wondrous, slyly self-referential series of films set in the rural northern-Iranian town of Koker. Poised delicately between fiction and documentary, comedy and tragedy, the lyrical fables in The Koker Trilogy exemplify both the gentle humanism and the playful sleight of hand that define the director’s sensibility. With each successive film, Kiarostami takes us deeper into the behind-the-scenes “reality” of the film that preceded it, heightening our understanding of the complex network of human relationships that sustain both a movie set and a village. The result is a gradual outward zoom that reveals the cosmic majesty and mystery of ordinary life.

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]]> David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett no film, cinema, home media, collecting, dvd, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Collection, Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode,… In this episode of Inside the Box, Trevor and David look into The Koker Trilogy, featuring Where Is the Friend's House, And Life Goes On, and Through the Olive Trees. Inside the Box – Episode 4 – The Marseille Trilogy https://criterioncast.com/podcast/inside-the-box/episode-4-the-marseille-trilogy David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett Sat, 23 Jan 2021 13:53:18 +0000 https://criterioncast.com/?p=64935

Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode, they discuss The Marseille Trilogy, which contains Marius, Fanny, and César.

In the 1930s, Marcel Pagnol, a leading light of the Paris theater, set out for new horizons as a filmmaker in his native Provence. His early masterpieces Marius, Fanny, and César mix theatrical stagecraft with realistic location photography to create an epic love story from the fabric of everyday life. Gruff, sentimental César (music-hall star Raimu) owns a waterfront bar in the Old Port of Marseille where his son, Marius (Pierre Fresnay), wipes down tables and dreams of a life at sea. The prosperous, middle-aged sailmaker Panisse (Fernand Charpin) wants to wed Marius’s sweetheart, Fanny (Orane Demazis), setting up a fateful romantic triangle whose story unfolds across a generation in the films of The Marseille Trilogy, which first earned Pagnol his place in cinema history. “If Pagnol is not the greatest auteur of the sound film,” critic André Bazin wrote, “he is in any case something akin to its genius.”

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]]> David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett no film, cinema, home media, collecting, dvd, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Collection, Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode,… In this episode of Inside the Box, Trevor and David look into The Marseille Trilogy, featuring Marius, Fanny, and César. Inside the Box – Episode 3 – Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman https://criterioncast.com/podcast/inside-the-box/inside-the-box-episode-3-three-fantastic-journeys-by-karel-zeman David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett Sat, 28 Nov 2020 20:14:46 +0000 https://criterioncast.com/?p=64708

Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode, they discuss Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman, which contains Journey to the Beginning of Time, Invention for Destruction, and The Fabulous Baron Munchausen.

A one-of-a-kind silver-screen illusionist, Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman devoted his career to transporting viewers to realms bey­ond their wildest imagining. The deft, breathtaking combin­ations of live action and animation techniques that he pioneered in the postwar years earned him comparisons to legends such as Georges Méliès, and an array of followers that includes Jan Švankmajer, Terry Gilliam, and Wes Anderson. Presented here are three of Zeman’s most enchanting fantasies—a boys’ adventure into the mists of prehistory, a Jules Verne–derived flight of fancy, and an exotic eighteenth-century tall tale—all of them treasure chests of wondrous sights, tactile textures, and headlong yarn-spinning that helped put Czechoslovak cinema on the international map.

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]]> David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett no film, cinema, home media, collecting, dvd, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Collection, Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode,… Trevor and David explore the films in Criterion's Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman. Inside the Box – Episode 2 – The Apu Trilogy https://criterioncast.com/podcast/inside-the-box/inside-the-box-episode-2-the-apu-trilogy David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett Tue, 08 Sep 2020 16:31:40 +0000 https://criterioncast.com/?p=63764

Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode, they discuss The Apu Trilogy, which contains Pather Panchali, Aparajito, and Apur Sansar.

Two decades after its original negatives were burned in a fire, Satyajit Ray’s breathtaking milestone of world cinema rises from the ashes in a meticulously reconstructed new restoration. The Apu Trilogy brought India into the golden age of international art-house film, following one indelible character, a free-spirited child in rural Bengal who matures into an adolescent urban student and finally a sensitive man of the world. These delicate masterworks—Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road), Aparajito (The Unvanquished), and Apur Sansar (The World of Apu)—based on two books by Bibhutibhusan Banerjee, were shot over the course of five years, and each stands on its own as a tender, visually radiant journey. They are among the most achingly beautiful, richly humane movies ever made—essential works for any film lover.

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Satyajit Ray

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]]> David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett no film, cinema, home media, collecting, dvd, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Collection, Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that explores the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this episode,… Trevor and David discuss three early films by Satyajit Ray. Inside the Box – Episode 1 – 3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg https://criterioncast.com/podcast/inside-the-box/episode-1-3-silent-classics-by-josef-von-sternberg David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett Tue, 02 Jun 2020 13:00:42 +0000 https://criterioncast.com/?p=63711

Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that will explore the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this inaugural episode, they discuss 3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg, which contains Underworld, The Last Command, and The Docks of New York.

Vienna-born, New York-raised Josef von Sternberg directed some of the most influential, stylish dramas ever to come out of Hollywood. Though best known for his star-making collaborations with Marlene Dietrich, von Sternberg began his career during the final years of the silent era, dazzling audiences and critics with his films’ dark visions and innovative cinematography. The titles in this collection, made on the cusp of the sound age, are three of von Sternberg’s greatest works, gritty evocations of gangster life (Underworld), the Russian Revolution (The Last Command), and working-class desperation (The Docks of New York) rendered as shadowy movie spectacle.

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Josef von Sternberg

Underworld

The Last Command

The Docks of New York

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]]> David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett no film, cinema, home media, collecting, dvd, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Collection, Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that will explore the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection. In this… Trevor and David launch their new series, discussing a trio of impressive films that established Josef von Sternberg as one of Hollywood's greatest directors of the 1920s. Inside the Box – Episode 0 – Trailer! https://criterioncast.com/podcast/inside-the-box/inside-the-box-episode-0-trailer David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett Sun, 31 May 2020 05:29:57 +0000 https://criterioncast.com/?p=63721

Inside the Box is a new podcast dedicated to conversation about box sets produced by The Criterion Collection. Co-hosts Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee, partners on The Eclipse Viewer podcast from 2013 to 2018, pick up where they left off after they completed their coverage of Criterion’s Eclipse Series.

Each episode will focus attention on a particular Criterion box set, discussing not only the films themselves, but also the supplements, packaging and other background information that aims to enhance our understanding and appreciation for each of these unique editions.

Here’s a short introduction from Trevor and David to let you know a little bit more about what they have in mind for their new program!

The unedited version of the first episode of Inside the Box is now available to our supporters on Patreon.

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]]> David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett no film, cinema, home media, collecting, dvd, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Collection, Inside the Box is a new podcast dedicated to conversation about box sets produced by The Criterion Collection. Co-hosts Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee, partners on The Eclipse Viewer podcast… Trevor Berrett and David Blakeslee are pleased to present Inside the Box, a podcast series that will explore the riches in the various box sets released by The Criterion Collection.