This week on The Spectator Film Podcast… Seconds (1966) 6.21.19 Featuring: Austin, Maxx Commentary track begins at 13:00 — Notes — We watched the Criterion Collection release of Seconds for the show this week. It looks wonderful and includes lots of neat bonus features, including a commentary track from John Frankenheimer. ‘Seconds: Reborn Again’ by David Sterritt from The Current A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film edited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer — Here’s a really nice collection of essays on Frankenheimer’s entire career – opposed to focusing only on his 60’s work – and it serves as a great critical introduction to his work. There’s several good essays in here discussing Seconds. ‘”The Old Vines are Buried Deep” Classical Motifs in John Frankenheimer’s Seconds‘ by Sean Easton from Illonois Classical Studies — Here’s a really neat essay that examines some of the Greco-Roman motifs in the film, some of which we discussed during the commentary but not to this extent. It illuminates an additional layer of subtext to this already fascinating film. — Corrections — We never had a chance to really mention it, but fun fact: the camera crew for Seconds also included John Alonzo – no wonder the camerawork is so fantastic.
