The Criterion Collection
Features
Apr 10, 2017 — An exhibition at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image explores Martin Scorsese’s creative process, his deep personal connection to his films, and his lifelong cinephilia.
Features
May 14, 2014 — The author recalls his meetings and correspondence with the uncompromisingly independent British director.
Sep 26, 2012 — Countercultural icons Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov makes square subversive in Bartel’s cult classic.
Essays
Jan 16, 2007 — The marvel of Mouchette inheres in the elegance, obstinacy, and capaciousness of Bresson’s double-mindedness.
Essays
May 12, 2026 — Sexuality—how one defines it, lives with it, hides it, shuns it, or wields it—is inextricable from matters of socioeconomic class, though rare is the American film that centralizes this intersectional reality. The foundational myth of the American dream puts forth...
The Daily
May 21, 2025 — Lee reunites with Denzel Washington, who has been given an honorary Palme d’Or in Cannes.
The Daily
May 31, 2023 — It’s not every year that so many critics are pleased with the juries’ choices.
The Daily
May 27, 2022 — After firing up the screen in Something Wild, Liotta secured immortality as a wiseguy in Goodfellas.
Short Takes
Jan 8, 2018 — We remember the late portrait photographer Robin Holland with two images she took on the set of Paris, Texas.
The Daily
Sep 30, 2017 — “Nine years in the making, Western draws its title from [Valeska] Grisebach’s generic source inspiration, the American Western,” wrote Michael J. Anderson in a dispatch back to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art a couple of weeks ago. “Noted for...