Synopsis
A monthly podcast, looking at the various releases in the Eclipse Series, from the Criterion Collection.
Episodes
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The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 43 – Alexander Korda’s Private Lives
05/06/2016David and Trevor discuss four historical biopics from the founder of London Films.
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The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 42 – Chantal Akerman in the Seventies
29/04/2016David and Trevor are joined by Lady P from the FlixWise podcast to discuss five early films by the innovative and influential Belgian auteur.
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The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 41 – Carlos Saura’s Flamenco Trilogy
11/04/2016David and Trevor discuss three films focused on the Spanish fusion of dance, music and passionate, disciplined melodrama.
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The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 40 – Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties [Part 2]
08/03/2016David, Trevor and Aaron conclude their two part series on the films of Nagisa Oshima.
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The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 39 – Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties [Part 1]
22/02/2016David and Trevor are joined by Aaron West to begin a two-part dissection of Nagisa Oshima's earliest independent films.
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The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 38 – Raffaelo Matarazzo’s Runaway Melodramas
01/02/2016David and Trevor push back against the winter's chill with a discussion of these torrid tales of virtue, vice and emotional torment.
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The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 37 – Dušan Makavejev Free Radical
16/12/2015David and Trevor discuss three early features from Yugoslavian cinema's notorious provocateur.
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The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 36 – Late Ray
02/12/2015As we celebrate the new release of Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy, David and Trevor discuss three of the final films directed by the great Indian auteur.
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The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 35 – Aki Kaurismäki’s Leningrad Cowboys
22/10/2015David and Trevor discover that "the world's worst rock-and-roll band" isn't really all that bad.
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The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 34 – Agnès Varda in California
21/09/2015David and Trevor offer their personal impressions of Agnès Varda's cinematic expressions of life in the Golden State during two distinctly different cultural epochs: the late 1960s and early 1980s.
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The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 33 – Three Wicked Melodramas from Gainsborough Pictures
19/08/2015David and Trevor indulge in the guilty pleasures to be enjoyed in this set of massively popular English women's films from the WWII era.
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The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 32 – Pearls of the Czech New Wave [Part 2]
04/08/2015David and Trevor conclude their conversation about the set, discussing Return of the Prodigal Son, Capricious Summer and The Joke.
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The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 31 – Pearls of the Czech New Wave [Part 1]
23/07/2015David and Trevor discuss Pearls of the Deep, Daisies and A Report on the Party and Guests in the first of a two-part series.
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The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 30 – Early Fassbinder [Part 2]
30/06/2015David and Trevor discuss the final three films in this box set: Gods of the Plague, The American Soldier and Beware of a Holy Whore.
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The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 29 – Early Fassbinder [Part 1]
22/06/2015David and Trevor cover Love is Colder than Death and Katzelmacher, the first two films written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 28 – Silent Ozu: Three Crime Dramas
19/05/2015David and Trevor dig into the newest Eclipse set, featuring a trio of repentant criminals seeking to mend their wicked ways.
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The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 27- Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr.
27/04/2015Do not watch AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON until after you listen to this podcast!
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The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 26 – Jean Grémillon During the Occupation
31/03/2015David and Trevor conclude their series of World War II era films with a conversation about a French director whose films have fallen into undeserved obscurity.
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The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 25 – The First Films of Akira Kurosawa
24/02/2015David and Trevor discuss four wartime movies that launched the career of one of cinema's most accomplished directors.
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The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 24 – Kinoshita and World War II
19/01/2015David and Trevor discuss the newest addition to the Eclipse Series, five films that launched the career of a great, but under-appreciated, Japanese filmmaker.