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 second episode of a three-part series, David and Trevor are joined by Matt Gasteier to discuss the first three color films  directed by Yasujiro Ozu: Equinox Flower, from Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu, along with Good Morning and Floating Weeds. released as spine-numbered editions in the Criterion Collection.

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


• 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

Equinox Flower

• David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series review


• New York Times (1977)


• Films de France


• Only the Cinema


• Ozu-San.com


• Senses of Cinema


• The Film Sufi


• 3 Quarks Daily


• Guide to Flower Symbolism – Higanbana/Equinox Flower

Good Morning

• David’s Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review


• David’s Criterion Reflections review


• Matt’s Criterion on the Brain review

Floating Weeds

• David’s Criterion Reflections review


• Matt’s Criterion on the Brain review


• Scott Nye’s Masters of Cinema Blu-ray review

Next time on the podcast: Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu [Part 3]

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