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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 Seventh Victim: The Inner Darkness
Though it received dismissive reviews upon its release, this chillingly nihilistic horror film has since influenced such masters as Alfred Hitchcock and Jacques Rivette with its low-budget evocation of anxiety and indeterminacy.
I Walked with a Zombie: Better Doctors
An otherworldly exploration of the realm between life and death, this horror masterpiece transcends its genre with its poetic, often unsettling use of fragmentation and discontinuity.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
