The Criterion Collection
The singer-songwriter and visual artist talks about the punk sensibility of Jubilee, shares why Paris Is Burning is a film she can watch endlessly, and shouts out the Eurythmics’ unique soundtrack for 1984.
The actor talks about Steven Soderbergh’s use of nonlinear storytelling in Traffic, shares how Sid & Nancy continues to inspire him as a performer, and praises the visual poetry of Drugstore Cowboy.
The legendary musician, filmmaker, and visual artist talks about The Color of Pomegranates and how it challenges the idea of what a film can be, shouts out Neil Young’s Dead Man score, and shares his affection for the sentimentality in...
The musician and author reminisces on her formative experiences watching Federico Fellini movies with friends, shares her love for the visual and emotional composition of Yi Yi, and talks about the haunting naturalism of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s work.
A groundbreaking visual stylist, this iconic American director has captivated generations of film lovers with his meticulously crafted epics about war, violence, and history.
The director and cowriter of Emilia Pérez shares his love for Fritz Lang’s rich visual language, compares Robert Altman’s narratives to “surrealist exquisite-corpse exercises,” and praises the Viennese sensibility of Max Ophuls’s La ronde.
The actor and author raves about the visual beauty of The Color of Pomegranates, shares his love for Debbie Harry and her performance in Videodrome, and reflects on the formative experience of seeing River Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho...
The director and cowriter of Nickel Boys praises The Qatsi Trilogy as “vital for understanding the visual world,” quotes from Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil, and talks about watching Bruce Lee movies with his dad.
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.
The legendary actor shares his love for the Akira Kurosawa classics Red Beard and Ikiru, recalls how Tatsuya Nakadai was his teacher when he first began acting, admires the visual storytelling of City Lights, and shouts out his latest collaborator,...