The Criterion Collection
Essays
May 15, 2000 — Horror movies take place in their own territory. The trick is to get us there. It doesn’t matter whether they start with fantastic premises and gothic settings, or with ordinary neighborhoods and daily experience, because the places and assumptions change...
Essays
Feb 1, 1988 — Based on the novel by W.T. Burnett, this heist film set in a nameless midwestern city offered moviegoers in 1950 a new view of crime.
Interviews
Jul 18, 2024 — A pioneer of the 1980s downtown New York arts scene, the director of Sleepwalk talks about navigating her creative life in the city and the inspiration she has taken from mythology, fairy tales, and cinéma fantastique.
Dec 2, 2020 — Carrie Coon is one of Hollywood’s most exciting and sought-after talents. She has garnered acclaim throughout her career with film and television projects such as The Post, Gone Girl, The Leftovers, and Fargo. Her latest work is in the drama...
Sep 1, 2016 — Actor, writer, and director Illeana Douglas is the granddaughter of two-time Academy Award–winning actor Melvyn Douglas. She has starred in Cape Fear (1991), To Die For (1995), Grace of My Heart (1996), Picture Perfect (1997), and Ghost World (2001). In...
Oct 8, 2009 — Caitlin Kuhwald designed the covers for Criterion’s editions of Heaven Can Wait, The Thief of Bagdad, and Amarcord. She lives in Oakland, teaches illustration at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, and is a full-time freelance illustrator....
The actor praises the honest and vulnerable performances in John Schlesinger’s films, shares how Klute awakened her love for film noir, and talks about why she keeps returning to The Mother and the Whore.
The writer and director of Girlfight selects films with complex themes of power and ambition; praises women whose work she felt gave her permission to become a filmmaker, such as Martha Coolidge and Joan Micklin Silver; and shares her love...
Born in 1981, Juliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker based in London. She has published four books, including Trans: A Memoir (2015) and a short story collection, Variations (2021). Her fiction, journalism, and essays have appeared in numerous publications,...