The Criterion Collection
The Daily
Aug 11, 2023 — Great as they are, there was a lot more to Hurricane Billy than The French Connection and The Exorcist.
Features
Aug 1, 2023 — “Do you want me to turn them loose?” This is what cowboy Perce asks a sad-eyed Roslyn in John Huston’s elegiac The Misfits (1961), and that one question about untying the mustangs he and fellow wranglers Gay (Clark Gable) and...
Jul 25, 2023 — In his five collaborations with actor Randolph Scott and producer Harry Joe Brown, Boetticher presents an unsentimental vision of honor-bound men competing and banding together in a desolate landscape ruled by chance.
The Daily
Jun 26, 2023 — The Cinemateca Brasileira programs an odd pairing, but it all comes together in 1983.
The Daily
Jun 14, 2023 — At least one adaptation was met with unqualified critical and financial success—and then there’s the one McCarthy wrote from scratch.
Jun 9, 2023 — One of Hollywood’s most beloved actors showed a turbulent, sometimes downright sinister side in his collaborations with director Anthony Mann, which include the classic westerns Winchester ’73 and The Man from Laramie.
The Daily
May 31, 2023 — It’s not every year that so many critics are pleased with the juries’ choices.
Essays
May 30, 2023 — Seamlessly blending an array of cinematic traditions, Thelma & Louise is more than anything a western—one that takes advantage of the genre’s elasticity and reflects its preoccupation with justice, liberty, and self-determination.
The Daily
May 24, 2023 — Two of Cannes’s favorite directors, Aki Kaurismäki and Wes Anderson, return to the competition.
On the Channel
May 22, 2023 — Get in character for a journey through the history of Method acting, a movement that transformed the art of screen performance forever.