The Criterion Collection
The actor and star of Anora talks about Five Easy Pieces and being drawn to morally ambiguous characters, praises Isabelle Huppert’s performance in The Piano Teacher as one of the greatest of all time, and selects Take Out, one of...
The actor and star of The Last Showgirl talks about being profoundly inspired by Barbara Loden’s Wanda, shares her passion for the poetry of Abbas Kiarostami, and praises the style and craft of actors like Romy Schneider, Katharine Hepburn, and...
The legendary director shares the importance of learning from the work of Krzysztof Kieślowski, talks about how Straw Dogs sparked his desire to pursue filmmaking, and selects box sets by two of his favorite filmmakers, Martin Scorsese and Masaki Kobayashi.
Celebrate in style with a monumental 40-film anthology box set, four bespoke canvas bags, and a tiny toy truck!
The singer and actor reflects on Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied and the importance of seeing Black queer men express themselves on-screen, talks about working with Regina King on One Night in Miami . . ., and selects favorites by Carl...
The host of the hit interview show Chicken Shop Date talks about Portrait of a Lady on Fire and being drawn to films with undeniable chemistry, praises 12 Angry Men as one of the greatest films of all time, and...
This Oscar-winning director began his career as a visual artist before moving on to create audacious narrative features about marginalized people, including the Black community in his native London.
This American auteur’s uncompromising films are paradigm-shifting explorations of Black history, racism, and urban survival.
Known for playing helpless but lovable neurotics, this brilliant performer has also written and directed some of the sharpest satires of modern American culture, all characterized by his singularly dry sense of humor.
Acclaimed for a delicate portrait of queer Black adolescence and an ambitious epic set in the era of Jim Crow, the Nashville-born writer and director has distinguished herself as a major new force in contemporary American cinema.