Star!

May 15, 2019 — The star-studded zom-com has been met with a first round of mildly appreciative reviews.

The star and the director of Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. show love to politically charged films like Missing and Dheepan, and reminisce about the emotional balm they found in our Janus Films collector’s set.

Aug 26, 2018 — The director and the star of Smithereens reminisce about how their landmark film immortalized the mean streets and crumbling buildings of 1980s downtown New York.

The star of Whit Stillman’s trilogy explores his favorite films from the collection, ranging from Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz to Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused.

Feb 25, 2016 — Actor, writer, and director Paul Schneider has long been a devotee of the Criterion Collection. His credits include films by Zhang Yimou, Warren Beatty, Christophe Honoré, Sam Mendes, and Woody Allen. Schneider won a best supporting actor award from the...

When the English director visited Criterion for a screening of his film 45 Years, he was joined by the movie’s star. And when the pair took a trip into the Criterion closet, their charming closeness was evident.

Mar 16, 2015 — Director and star Robert Montgomery suffuses his moody 1947 New Mexico–set noir with palpable postwar anxiety and expressive fatalism.

Jun 12, 2012 — Miguel Arteta has directed the films Star Maps, Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl, Youth in Revolt, and Cedar Rapids, along with episodes of the television series American Horror Story, Nurse Jackie, Six Feet Under, and Ugly Betty. His list...

Feb 10, 2012 — The Chef whips up a sweet treat, using a recipe from a star of one of his favorite films in the collection, Wes Anderson’s candy-colored The Royal Tenenbaums.

May 12, 2008 — If ever an actor could reconcile his natural-born swagger with a kind of pervasive lethargy it was Maurice Ronet, the star of Louis Malle’s staggering psychological drama.