The Criterion Collection
Apr 23, 2019 — It’s unlikely that anyone who pays attention to contemporary short films will be unfamiliar with our selection this week on the Criterion Channel, which took the film-festival circuit by storm last year, garnering dozens of awards and an Oscar nomination....
Interviews
Apr 2, 2019 — Mike Leigh’s endless fascination with human behavior is palpable in every one of the films he’s made over the course of his nearly fifty-year career. With an acute sensitivity to rhythm, character, and setting, he extracts extraordinary moments from the...
The Daily
Jan 31, 2019 — The actor’s immediately relatable face left a lasting impression in nearly 200 films and television shows.
The Daily
Jan 29, 2019 — The renowned composer made movie history with his collaborations with Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Joseph Losey, and Barbra Streisand.
Dec 7, 2018 — Christian Petzold’s films are like dances in which people circle each other but never quite connect. The most resonant moments in the German writer-director’s work are not ones of dialogue or plot development but of blocking and choreography: bodies intertwining,...
The Daily
Nov 14, 2018 — He transformed a fledgling comic book publisher into a juggernaut brand.
On the Channel
Sep 10, 2018 — One of the pleasures of programming a new short-and-feature pairing every week on the Criterion Channel is getting to celebrate the artistic freedom that short films offer emerging artists. With tighter run times and smaller budgets, the form comes with...
The Daily
Sep 3, 2018 — Here’s how the competition is shaping up so far.
Aug 31, 2018 — There’s a wistful sense of what might have been running through this week’s round of five.
The Daily
Aug 13, 2018 — Looking back on the highlights of the seventy-first edition.