Between my busy travel schedule and the near-total dearth of interesting new DVDs to discuss, it would have been the easiest thing in the world for Heather Noel and I to have taken a week off and simply not produced a new episode of the DVD Afternoon podcast. But our work ethic and our dedication to our listeners simply wouldn't allow that to happen, dear reader-slash-listener, and so we took a look at the new Blu-Ray reissues of two backlist titles from Criterion: Ingmar Bergman's 1955 romantic comedy Smiles of a Summer Night, and Catherine Breillat's queasily intimate 2001 drama Fat Girl. And we're glad we did: both films provided more than enough fodder for us to fill out the episode. It was also the first time Heather and I actually watched the week's movies (or any movie, for that matter) together. I don't know if that had any bearing on our reviews, but it still seems like a milestone worth mentioning. Turns out I have a distractingly loud laugh. But don't worry: I was not laughing at all during Fat Girl.
Here's how the episode breaks down. By the way, I edited this episode together in my cramped seat during the plane trip to St. John's, so I apologize if it sounds stranger or more choppy than usual.
0:00: Intro/Smiles of a Summer Night
20:05: Names and Faces, "Keep Smiling"
21:06: Fat Girl
33:58: Geraldo Pine, "Heavy Heavy Heavy"
35:08: Other noteworthy new DVDs and Blu-Rays/Outro
Here's the trailer for Fat Girl:
And here's the trailer for Catherine Breillat's peculiar companion film to Fat Girl, Sex Is Comedy. (By the way, if anyone out there has seen both Fat Girl and Sex Is Comedy, I'd love to hear what you think of them, and whether the second film changed your impressions of the first one.)
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