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David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett
A podcast series that will explore the riches in the various box sets released by The 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, 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.
Episode Links The Complete Jean Vigo + À propos de Nice (1930) + Zéro de conduite (1933) + L’Atalante (1934) * Jean Vigo* + Wikipedia + Far Out Magazine: “The Life and Times of Jean Vigo: The Man Who Influenced the French New Wave,” by Swapnil Dhruv Bose + The New York Times: “Jean Vigo: A Short and Ferocious Life,” by Joan Dupont
Episode Credits* Trevor Berrett (Twitter/Website) * David Blakeslee (TikTok/Website)
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In this episode of Inside the Box, Trevor and David discuss Godfrey Reggio's The Qatsi Affairs Trilogy, featuring the films Koyaanisqatsi (1983), Powaqqatsi (1988), and Naqoyqatsi (2002).
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.
Episode Links* + The Infernal Affairs Trilogy - Infernal Affairs (2002) - Infernal Affairs II (2003) - Infernal Affairs III (2003)
Episode Credits* Trevor Berrett (Twitter/Website) * David Blakeslee (TikTok/Website)
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In this episode of Inside the Box, Trevor and David discuss the box set devoted to Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander.
In this episode of Inside the Box, Trevor and David discuss the Three Films by Luis Buñuel box set from the Criterion Collection.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In this episode of Inside the Box, Trevor and David look into The Marseille Trilogy, featuring Marius, Fanny, and César.
Trevor and David explore the films in Criterion's Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman.
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.
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.