The Criterion Collection
Feb 4, 2019 — Performances The first movie that Nicolas Roeg and Theresa Russell made together, Bad Timing (1980), was denounced by its distributor, the Rank Organisation, as a “sick film made by sick people for sick people,” which may sound to some like...
Aug 20, 2018 — A haven for punks and drifters, 1980s downtown New York is captured in all its grit and romance in Susan Seidelman’s Palme d’Or–nominated debut feature.
The Daily
May 16, 2018 — Joachim Trier’s jury goes for a satire about a Portuguese soccer star.
May 6, 2018 — The filmmaker and consultant had an immeasurable impact on cinema for over half a century.
Apr 9, 2018 — Ingrid Bergman’s work in her native Sweden was an early showcase for her dazzlingly precocious talent and emotional depth.
Dec 26, 2017 — The great Austrian filmmaker spoke with us about his early experiences falling in love with cinema and the films that have shaped his singular aesthetic.
Dec 21, 2017 — No one has captured the complexities of forbidden love with more intimacy than Celia Johnson in David Lean’s classic romance.
Apr 5, 2017 — At eighty-eight years old, Agnès Varda is still blossoming as an artist. Long known primarily as a filmmaker, a vocation she took up more than half a century ago, the French iconoclast is now in what she gleefully describes as...
Mar 21, 2017 — A “celluloid atrocity” overflowing with deviant shenanigans, John Waters’s low-budget satire makes mincemeat of the peace-and-love era.
Short Takes
Jun 21, 2016 — For more than thirty years, Taiwanese cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bin has been collaborating with some of the greatest living filmmakers. Although best known for his work with director Hou Hsiao-hsien on films such as A Time to Live, a Time...