The Criterion Collection
Apr 27, 2016 — Bret Easton Ellis may be best known for his novels and short stories—including Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, and American Psycho, which was adapted as a film in 2000 and recently transformed into a musical that opened on...
Robert O. Paxton is a professor emeritus of history at Columbia University. He has published several books, including Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order and The Anatomy of Fascism.
Oct 2, 2025 — In Wes Anderson’s romantic ode to journalism, the director grapples with the danger and horror inherent in any field of endeavor worth pursuing.
The Daily
Apr 1, 2024 — The show may be “resolutely low-risk” overall, but for many, the standouts are film and video works.
The Daily
Dec 12, 2022 — Critics, the European Film Academy, and the International Documentary Association spent the weekend listing and awarding.
Sep 29, 2020 — In this masterpiece from the father of modern Indonesian cinema, Usmar Ismail, a violent military culture grips the nation in the years following a brutal revolution.
The Daily
Jun 21, 2019 — Can the movies survive? Can rotten people be great artists? Are we all doomed?
Sep 13, 2018 — The imitation of nature becomes a devotional act in Terrence Malick’s cinema, which reaches sublime heights in this exploration of childhood, memory, and grief.
Essays
Oct 4, 2011 — Pier Paolo Pasolini’s work demonstrates an aversion for the present while simultaneously suggesting the impossibility of escaping it, and thus the need to confront it.
Jun 24, 2002 — Oscar Wilde’s play is brought to the screen lovingly and meticulously by one of the great eccentrics of the British cinema, Anthony “Puffin” Asquith.