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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.

The Oscar-winning writer-director of Anora shares his father’s favorite film, pays tribute to Chantal Akerman, and looks forward to revisiting Yi Yi.

The Paris-based Argentine filmmaker selects a few films that align with his interest in cinematic provocation, including unsettling works by Shohei Imamura and Pier Paolo Pasolini

Sep 23, 2015 — Bruce Beresford draws on a controversial episode of Australian colonial history from 1901 to create an electrifying drama that questions the moral certitude of war.

Sep 10, 2015 — Noah Baumbach asks one of his idols, Brian De Palma, about the stunningly elaborate museum sequence in Dressed to Kill.

May 29, 2015 — A shocking chapter of Soviet Czechoslovakian history is dramatized in Costa-Gavras’s controversial follow-up to Z.

Nov 4, 2014 — In cinema history, there truly is no gag like a Tati gag.

Aug 18, 2014 — The director explains the inspiration for his provocative erotic comedy, and how he dove into it even before finishing his previous movie.

May 6, 2014 — This humorous magazine piece from 1970 sheds some light on the meaning of the title of Il sorpasso, along with the way Vittorio Gassman comports himself behind the wheel in it.

Aug 27, 2013 — Ernst Lubitsch’s World War II–era high-wire act is a profound take on the absurdity cruelty of civilization and a perfect black comedy to boot.