Episode Details

This podcast focuses on Criterion’s Eclipse Series of DVDs. Hosts David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett give an overview of each box and offer their perspectives on the unique treasures they find inside. In this final episode of a three-part series (and perhaps the podcast itself), David and Trevor are joined by Matt Gasteier to discuss two films (Late Autumn and The End of Summer) from Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu.

About the films:

Master filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu directed fifty-three feature films over the course of his long career. Yet it was in the final decade of his life, his “old master” phase, that he entered his artistic prime. Centered more than ever on the modern sensibilities of the younger generation, these delicate family dramas are marked by an exquisite formal elegance and emotional sensitivity about birth and death, love and marriage, and all the accompanying joys and loneliness. Along with such better-known films as Floating Weeds and An Autumn Afternoon, these five works illustrate the worldly wisdom of one of cinema’s great artists at the height of his powers.

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Episode Links

Yasujiro Ozu

• Criterion Explore Page
• Ozu and Setsuko Hara (Donald Richie)
• Wikipedia
• Ozu-San.com
• Film Comment
• Japan Times
• Roger Ebert
• Senses of Cinema (bio)
• Senses of Cinema (article: “Is Ozu Slow?”)

Box Set Reviews

• Combustible Celluloid
• Criterion Confessions
• Digitally Obsessed

Late Autumn

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