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The Frontlines of Freedom: A Conversation with Rebecca Landsberry-Baker and Joe Peeler
The Frontlines of Freedom: A Conversation with Rebecca Landsberry-Baker and Joe Peeler

The directors discuss their award-winning documentary Bad Press and their effort to invert the exploitative dynamics that have long existed between documentary filmmakers and Indigenous communities.

By Adam Piron

Aaron Schimberg’s Top 10
Aaron Schimberg’s Top 10

The director of A Different Man pays tribute to great American go-getters Harold Lloyd and Samuel Fuller, contemplates the unique qualities of different periods in a director’s career, and shares a personal story about Monte Hellman.

Writing Women in the 1930s
Writing Women in the 1930s

At a time when women were understood to be the primary audience for movies, Hollywood studios built vehicles for actresses that doubled as showcases for the industry’s many brilliant female screenwriters.

By Imogen Sara Smith

Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy: No Fucks Given
Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy: No Fucks Given

Emerging out of the mass death, cultural ferment, and semiotic tumult of the 1990s, this trio of deliriously profane films glares at American youth culture and gives zero shits if it looks back.

By Nathan Lee

Happiness: Love & Mercy
Happiness: Love & Mercy

A sceenwriter, novelist, and longtime friend of director Todd Solondz recalls the admiration he felt upon first seeing this audacious ensemble drama, which offers an unflinching, compassionate look at the pain and abjection of being human.

By Bruce Wagner

The Italian Art of Violence
The Italian Art of Violence

With their virtuosic celebrations of death, giallo films reflect the air of paranoia and fear that haunted Italian society in the 1960s and ’70s, a period when the country was undergoing dramatic, violent changes.

By Samm Deighan

What to Expect at the Criterion Mobile Closet
What to Expect at the Criterion Mobile Closet

In honor of our fortieth anniversary, we’re taking the Closet on the road and opening the door to everyone. Come in, explore the collection, and make your own Closet video!

The Long Good Friday: Corporate Governance
The Long Good Friday: Corporate Governance

A vision of late-1970s London that foreshadows the political volatility of the Margaret Thatcher era, this gangster saga stars an unforgettably tempestuous Bob Hoskins as a little Englander with big dreams.

By Ryan Gilbey

The Criterion Channel’s October 2024 Lineup

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The Criterion Channel’s October 2024 Lineup

With grisly special-effects showcases, some of cinema’s most memorable witches, Japanese horror classics, and spine-tingling Stephen King adaptations all on deck, there’s plenty to choose from for your spooky-season viewing.

The Criterion Closet Is Hitting the Road
The Criterion Closet Is Hitting the Road

In celebration of our fortieth anniversary, Criterion has built a replica of our famous films closet inside an eighteen-foot delivery van, and later this month, we’ll be taking our Criterion Closet Picks show on the road.

All of Us Strangers: Phantom Attachments
All of Us Strangers: Phantom Attachments

Andrew Haigh explores loss and queer loneliness in this exquisite, twilit tangle of lives and loves separated by space, time, and personal defenses.

By Guy Lodge

Close to Home: A Conversation with Juan Pablo González
Close to Home: A Conversation with Juan Pablo González

United by a meditative approach that captures the spiritual bounty of the natural landscape and the tolls of physical labor, this Mexican director’s films challenge stereotypical depictions of his country’s rural communities.

By Beatrice Loayza

Video

Room Tone 2023
On Film  – 25 Dec 2023