The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 37 – Dušan Makavejev Free Radical

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 episode, David and Trevor discuss Eclipse Series 18: Dušan Makavejev Free Radical.

About the films:

There’s never been another filmmaker quite like Dušan Makavejev. Even in the 1960s, when all of cinema’s rules seemed to be breaking down and artists such as Godard, Cassavetes, and Marker were dissolving the boundary between fiction and documentary, Yugoslavia’s Makavejev stood alone. His films about political and sexual liberation were revolutionary, raucous, and ribald. Across these, his wild, collagelike first three films, Makavejev investigates—with a tonic mix of earnestness and whimsy—love, death, and work; the legacy of war and the absurdity of daily life in a Communist state; criminology and hypnosis; strudels and strongmen.

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Episode Links

Dušan Makavejev

• Criterion Explore page


• Wikipedia


• Film Museum retrospective summary


• Manifesto (1989 video interview) from SBS on Demand


• AFS Archives article (featuring video interview clip) by Lars Nielsen


• Dusan Makavejev: A Film-maker Teaches Film, from the Harvard Crimson (1977) by Talli Nauman


• Senses of Cinema intereview by Ray Privett


• Interview with Roger Ebert


• Outtakes: Dusan Makavejev, from The Hindu by Srikanth Srinivasan


• The Last Yugoslav: On Dusan Makavejev by Richard Byrne


• Bright Lights Film Journal review by Gary Morris

Box Set Reviews

• New York Times review by Dave Kehr


• Los Angeles Times review by  Dennis Lim


• ArtMargins review by Milena Michalski


• DVD Talk review by Jamie S. Rich


• DVD Verdict review by Joel Pierce


• PopMatters review by David Ray Carter


• Home Theater Forum reviewhttp://www.hometheaterforum.com/topic/287272-htf-dvd-review-dusan-makavejev-free-radical-eclipse-series-18/ by Matt Hough

Man is Not a Bird

• David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series review


• New York Times review (1974) by Vincent Canby


• Senses of Cinema review by Constantin Parvulescu


• Only the Cinema review by Ed Howard


• Movie Morlocks review by Jeff Stafford


• A.V. Club review by Noel Murray

Love Affair, or The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator

• David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series review


• Review by Roger Ebert


• Strictly Film School review by Acquarello


• The Seventh Art review  by Just Another Film Buff


• Eastern European Film Bulletin review by Konstanty Kuzma


• Review by Dennis Grunes

Innocence Unprotected

• David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series review


• Review by Roger Ebert


• New York Times review (1971)  by Roger Greenspun


• Review by Dennis Grunes


• National Gallery of Art review by Ksenya Gurshtein

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