The Criterion Collection
Jan 28, 2019 — With WR: Mysteries of the Organism, the late Serbian director made what Amos Vogel called “one of the most important subversive masterpieces of the 1970s.”
Essays
Dec 18, 2018 — Half a century before Julien Duvivier made his 1946 film Panique, the French social psychologist Gustave Le Bon published his influential study of mob behavior, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, in which he argued that recent upheavals in...
Criterion Designs
Dec 5, 2018 — Studio Visits When it comes to evoking fantastical worlds, artist Angela Rizza is nothing if not a natural. Since graduating from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2011, she has quickly made a name for herself as a children’s-book illustrator,...
The Daily
Nov 28, 2018 — The career of one of Italy’s greatest directors was riddled with scandal and accolades.
Nov 20, 2018 — The loss of Pablo Ferro and Douglas Rain reminds us that Kubrick had a sharp eye for unique talent.
The Daily
Aug 27, 2018 — Theater and movie audiences laughed at his one-liners throughout the 1960s and ’70s.
Aug 23, 2018 — The director of Computer Chess and Support the Girls finds in John Cassavetes a surrealist whose weirdest set pieces could make David Lynch blush.
Jul 10, 2018 — The martial-arts film was never the same after King Hu got his hands on it, reinventing the genre with subtle editing and dazzling choreography.
The Daily
Jun 27, 2018 — The current series in New York is just a taste; the full picture’s on view in Spain.
Essays
Jun 24, 2018 — During a period when studios gave him carte blanche, Josef von Sternberg created a sublime cinematic language that shrugged off one orthodoxy after another.