The Criterion Collection
On the Channel
Sep 7, 2018 — For the Criterion Channel original series Art-House America, now playing on FilmStruck, we recently visited the Texas Theatre in Dallas, a venue that became infamous as the site where Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and now hosts a variety of imaginative...
The Daily
Sep 4, 2018 — A series at Anthology Film Archives and an archived special feature make for fine companions.
Aug 31, 2018 — And a pillar of American film criticism falls.
Aug 31, 2018 — There’s a wistful sense of what might have been running through this week’s round of five.
Aug 30, 2018 — By posing provocative questions about revolutionary politics, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea brought Cuban filmmaking onto the international stage.
Aug 7, 2018 — Can creative genius flourish on the federal dime? Animator Norman McLaren’s remarkably innovative, government-funded films suggest it can.
Jul 27, 2018 — In one of the most stunning technical feats in their filmography, directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger envisioned a conveyance that sends souls into the great beyond.
Essays
Jul 16, 2018 — In this essay originally published in the New Yorker, Roger Angell hails Ron Shelton’s comic ode to baseball as one of the few movies to capture the essence of the sport.
Jul 12, 2018 — The director of Bull Durham explains the ins and outs of bringing baseball to the screen and why Kevin Costner is the finest athletic actor he’s worked with.
The Daily
Jul 2, 2018 — An exhibition of on-set photography by Raymond Cauchetier and Georges Pierre opens in Paris.