Episode 37: 1957 with James Urbaniak
A podcast about the great movie years.
Character actor, cartoon doctor, and general bon vivant James Urbaniak joins us to walk through the cinema de 1957 - a year of foreign triumphs and domestic groundbreakers, of media satires and existential examinations. You won’t be surprised that a Hal Hartley regular is a knowledgable and eloquent cinephile, but you will be delighted!
Sweet Smell of Success is streaming on Kanopy, Tubi, and Pluto TV, is available for digital rental or purchase, and has a bang-up Criterion Blu-ray. Oh, and if you’d like to read more about its making, well, there’s a whole damn chapter about it in Fun City Cinema.
A Face in the Crowd is likewise available for digital rental or purchase and on Criterion Blu-ray.
The Seventh Seal is streaming on The Criterion Channel, Max, and Kanopy, and is available for digital rental or purchase as well. This one not only has a gorgeous Criterion Blu-ray - it just got the big 4K upgrade, so pick that up if you haven’t.
Kanal is streaming on The Criterion Channel, and is available on a region-free Blu-ray as well. And Night of Cabiria is available for digital rental or purchase, or you can pick up the Criterion Essential Fellini box set that Jason mentions.
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