The Criterion Collection

Lena Dunham wrote, directed, and stars in Tiny Furniture, now on Criterion Blu-ray and DVD, and, as Garrett Conti puts it in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Read more »

When it comes to depicting actual people’s jobs, the truism goes, Hollywood gets everything wrong with stunning regularity. The rare exception is Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder Read more »

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s only work of science fiction, World on a Wire (1973) is surely one of the most obscure items among the forty-odd titles that constitute his filmography. Read more »

Wes Anderson’s deep-sea adventure The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou resurfaces this week on a handful of big screens. Read more »

“Francesco Rosi’s The Moment of Truth is an astonishing film, arguably the greatest bullfighting film ever made,” writes Svet Atanasov in a review at Blu-ray.com. “It is wild, it is brutal, it is beautiful and at times even erotic.” Read more »

Comedy evolves. We long ago bid adieu to the physical acrobatics of Buster Keaton, the wisecracks of Bob Hope, the witty repartee of Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. The now-reigning comedy of embarrassment, seen in the films of Judd Apatow and the . . . Read more »

For nearly three decades, Hideo Gosha (1929–1992) made some of the most explosive, artful, and original films in Japanese cinema. Along the way, he also became one of his country’s most established and acclaimed filmmakers. But his reputation . . . Read more »

Wes Anderson, as a young man growing up in Texas, had a dream of becoming a filmmaker. He came up with a few ideas for movies when applying to film school that eventually evolved into his first three feature films. Read more »