The Current
A magazine of film culture past and present, with new articles, interviews, and videos published every day
The Criterion Collection
A magazine of film culture past and present, with new articles, interviews, and videos published every day
A master at adapting literary classics for the screen, Luchino Visconti made a bold choice in emphasizing the homoerotic undertones in Thomas Mann’s novella.
The Oscar-nominated director of Hale County This Morning, This Evening finds an expansive political vision in the mind-altering work of Godfrey Reggio.
The most lavish screen adaptation of War and Peace comes back to screens this week at New York’s Film Society of Lincoln Center.
This Friday, critic Girish Shambu appears at the TIFF Bell Lightbox to introduce Aki Kaurismäki’s warmhearted fable Le Havre, the first film in his trilogy about the refugee crisis in Europe.
Things got a little hectic (and hilarious) when New York comedians Jaboukie Young-White, Lorelei Ramirez, Fumi Abe, Nore Davis, and Tomas Delgado visited the Criterion offices.
Brigitte Bardot delivers her greatest performance in what would be Henri-Georges Clouzot’s final masterpiece, a stinging indictment of a justice system run by a moralistic patriarchy.
While working on Ingmar Bergman’s devastating antiwar film, the actress developed an emotionally intense chemistry with her costar Max von Sydow.
The star of We the Animals and Looking looks back on the movies that expanded his idea of what cinema could be and made him want to be an actor.
This Saturday, a double feature at the Brattle Theatre highlights the dark side of the late, great filmmaker.
In the wake of Burning, one of the most critically acclaimed films of last year, we caught up with the great Korean director about what keeps him going as a storyteller.
In 1968, Ingmar Bergman channeled his anguish over the legacy of World War II and the escalating brutality in Vietnam into the most fiercely political film of his career.
A true acting iconoclast, Theresa Russell unleashes a torrent of emotion in this tale of sexual obsession, her first collaboration with the director Nicolas Roeg.
Spotlight
Critic Imogen Sara Smith delves into the shadows of film noir in this ongoing series of articles about the genre’s most fascinating figures and abiding themes.