Episode 80: 1959 with Phillip Lopate
A podcast about the great movie years.
The essayist, poet, and film critic Phillip Lopate joins us to discuss his new collection My Affair with Art House Cinema: Essays and Reviews and the cinema of 1959, in which one series began with “The 400 Blows,” one series ended with “The World of Apu,” and Otto Preminger hit the courtroom in “Anatomy of a Murder.”
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The 400 Blows is streaming on Max, the Criterion Channel, and Kanopy, and is available for digital rental or purchase. The World of Apu is also on Max and the Criterion Channel, and is also available for digital rental or purchase, but we recommend picking up Criterion’s gorgeous 4K set of the entire Apu trilogy - currently on deep discount via Barnes & Noble’s Criterion sale.
Anatomy of a Murder is is streaming on Amazon Prime and is available for digital rental or purchase. Good Morning is streaming on Max, the Criterion Channel, and Tubi, and is available for digital rental or purchase, or on that Criterion Blu-ray Jason mentioned.
And The Crimson Kimono is on Tubi and is available for digital rental or purchase, but if you have a multi-region Blu-ray player, we highly recommend this Indicator edition (currently on sale!). Oh, and you can read Jason’s piece about the movie at Crooked Marquee here.
If you’d like to hear our last pass at 1967, with guest Aisha Harris, you can listen to that here.
You can buy My Affair with Art House Cinema: Essays and Reviews here or here. You can follow Jason on Blusky, Instagram, and Letterboxd - where you'll find his lists of all the movies on every episode of the show (including this one). You can follow Mike on Instagram, Blusky and Twitter/X/whatever.
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