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Under the Influence
In this ongoing series of videos, contemporary filmmakers talk to us about the movies that have had a lasting impact on their work.
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The Complete Films of Agnès Varda
Godmotherly Love
So unique and propulsive was Agnès Varda’s vision that she could be said to be her own ancestor and her own progeny.
The Complete Films of Agnès Varda
The Heart of Documentary
Suffused with a palpable love for her subjects, Agnès Varda’s nonfiction work investigates the complex interrelations between self and community, public and private.
The Complete Films of Agnès Varda
A Woman’s Truth
Over the course of an extraordinary six-decade career, Agnès Varda fused her feminist politics with an original artistic practice that made her a leading figure of the French New Wave.
In His Hands: The Audacious Formal Device in Kazik Radwanski’s Cutaway
The Canadian filmmaker explains what led him to center his intensely personal short film, now playing on the Criterion Channel, entirely on images of the protagonist’s hands.
The Final-Hour Preservation of Dance, Girl, Dance in Nitrate
Our plans to release Dorothy Arzner’s feminist classic set in motion a restoration process that led Warner Bros. to discover a nitrate negative that had begun to deteriorate in storage.
The Ross Brothers’ Top 10
The filmmaking duo behind Bloody Nose Empty Pockets share with us the movies they turn to time and again for inspiration.
The Valedictory Anthem That Takes Us Inside Inside Llewyn Davis
The heartbreaking lament “Fare Thee Well” builds in resonance as it drifts through multiple scenes in the Coen brothers’ folk-fueled drama.
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum: The Past Is Present
Once dismissed as overly topical, this New German Cinema masterpiece is now regarded as an enduringly relevant indictment of surveillance capitalism and patriarchal oppression.
The Criterion Channel’s August 2020 Lineup
From a sweeping survey of the Australian New Wave to a series of films about bad vacations, next month’s lineup is full of reasons to stay out of the summer heat.
Carry That Weight: The Films of Atom Egoyan
The Canadian auteur’s fanatically elaborate puzzle-box narratives invite the audience to discover their hidden meanings and bear the psychological burdens of their characters.
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Parisian Rendezvous
For his first project set outside of Japan, the great director drew on the deep influence French cinema has long had on his filmmaking.
10 Things I Learned: The War of the Worlds
As Criterion producer Karen Stetler learned while working on our new edition, this adaptation of H. G. Wells’s sci-fi novel was a career milestone for a wide range of talent, from director Byron Haskin to feline performer Orangey.
