Criterion Reflections – Episode 125 – Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Canterbury Tales

Criterion Reflections is David Blakeslee’s ongoing project to watch all of the films included in the Criterion Collection in chronological order of their original release. Each episode of this third season of the podcast features conversations with a variety of guests offering insights on movies that originally premiered in 1971 and were destined to eventually bear the Criterion imprint. In this episode, David is joined by Dan Humphrey and Brad McDermott to discuss The Canterbury Tales, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Episode Links:

Pier Paolo Pasolini

• The Criterion Collection
• The Criterion Channel
• Criterion Reflections – Episode 60 – The Decameron
• BFI
• Film Comment (1965 interview)
• New World Encyclopedia
• Poetry Foundation
• TSPDT

The Canterbury Tales (film)

• The Criterion Collection
• Wikipedia
• New York Times (1980)
• Basement Rejects
• Cinepassion
• Criterion Confessions
• Eye for Film
• Midnight Only
• Mondo Digital
• Next Projection
• Not Coming to a Theater Near You
• Ogg’s Movie Thoughts
• Q Network
• Slant

The Canterbury Tales (text)

• Wikipedia
• Canterbury Tales Project
• LibriVox (public domain e-books)
• Project Gutenberg
• World History Encyclopedia

Medieval Art Referenced in the Episode (h/t Brad McDermott)

PREVIOUSLY:

THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE

UP NEXT:

CIAO! MANHATTAN / GREASER’S PALACE / BONE

MORE!

• Criterion Reflections blog (1922 – 1967)
• Criterion Reflections columns on CriterionCast (1968)
• The Eclipse Viewer
• A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

CONTACT US:

• David Blakeslee [ Twitter / Website / Facebook / Letterboxd ]
• Dan Humphrey [ Website / Book: Archaic Modernism – Queer Poetics in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini ]
• Brad McDermott [ Website / Letterboxd / Instagram ]