The Artist

Lizzie Francke has written about film for Sight & Sound and the Guardian and is the author of Script Girls: Women Screenwriters in Hollywood. From 1997-2001, she was the Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. She now works...

Sep 25, 2024 — A dozen newly restored films from the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s will screen in this year’s program.

Apr 1, 2024 — The show may be “resolutely low-risk” overall, but for many, the standouts are film and video works.

Mar 12, 2024 — In this profoundly emotional portrait of artist Nan Goldin, director Laura Poitras explores how her subject’s creative sensibility and commitment to activism spring from the same source.

Apr 11, 2023 — Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Kiyoshi Kurosawa praise Somai as a major influence, and Japan Society will present the first North American retrospective.

Sep 29, 2021 — Celebrate the spooky month with our collection dedicated to cinema’s most legendary monsters and a series of chilling home-invasion thrillers.

Aug 31, 2020 — Documentaries lead the charge this month on the Criterion Channel, with a wide-ranging offering of nonfiction films as formally imaginative and emotionally riveting as any scripted drama.

Apr 24, 2020 — The range this week stretches from silent Soviet classics through Hollywood’s heyday and the Czech New Wave to the revolutions of the late twentieth century.

Dec 31, 2019 — Even with the Globes and Oscars still ahead of us, we’ve now entered the final round of serious list-making.

Nov 28, 2018 — The career of one of Italy’s greatest directors was riddled with scandal and accolades.