The Criterion Collection
Essays
Dec 12, 2012 — Even with limited resources, Christopher Nolan proved a force to be reckoned with in his thrilling, auspicious debut.
Oct 9, 2012 — British wartime audiences ate up these rule-breaking costume pictures—entertainments for a populace seeking escapism.
Short Takes
Oct 4, 2012 — Louis Malle is remembered primarily as a fiction filmmaker, but he had a parallel career as a documentarian. In fact, he got his start in nonfiction: when he was just twenty-three years old, Malle was given the opportunity to collaborate...
Short Takes
Aug 29, 2012 — Every ten years since 1952, the world-renowned film magazine Sight & Sound has polled a wide international selection of film critics and directors on what they consider to be the ten greatest works of cinema ever made, and then compiled...
Aug 29, 2012 — With humor and melancholy, Franc Roddam’s coming-of-age drama, based on the Who’s iconic album, shows us a g-g-generation on the edge.
Jul 31, 2012 — Aki Kaurismäki’s latest working-class fable is his warmest, and his most political.
Jul 24, 2012 — Trained as a musician, Jean Grémillon became one of French cinema’s most lyrical artists. His most beloved films were made during World War II.
Jun 11, 2012 — Charlie Chaplin’s transcendent, visionary comedy is made up of one iconic moment after another.
May 18, 2012 — Did You See This? • Remembering Carlos Fuentes • Don DeLillo spills a few beans about David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis • On Truffaut on Bazin on Renoir • The Korean Film Archive has gone YouTube • Trailing the Mann of the...
May 11, 2012 — Did You See This? • Yes, Ingmar Bergman visited the set of Jaws • Where have all the movie palaces gone? • Playing dress-up with gangsters • Robert Pattinson is crazy for Cronenberg • Wim Wenders’s strange and quiet places...