The Criterion Collection
Essays
Feb 19, 2001 — Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s romance film spins a web of myth and evocative symbolism around its central search for self-discovery.
Lisa Morton is a screenwriter and author whose books include The Cinema of Tsui Hark (2001), Savage Detours: The Life and Work of Ann Savage (2010), and The Art of the Zombie Movie (2023). Her film writing includes articles about...
Evan Calder Williams is a writer, theorist, and artist. He is the author of Combined and Uneven Apocalypse and Roman Letters.
Sam Di Iorio has written about Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Jacques Rivette, François Truffaut, and Luc Moullet. He teaches French cinema and French literature in the Department of Romance Languages at Hunter College and at the Graduate Center of the...
Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan is a New York–based film writer and curator, and U.S. programmer and selection committee member of the Venice Film Festival. From 2003 to 2006, she was the codirector of the Torino Film Festival. Among her books are...
Lesley Brill is the author of The Hitchcock Romance (Princeton, 1988) and John Huston's Filmmaking (Cambridge, 1997). He teaches film studies at Wayne State University, Detroit.
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Oct 13, 2026 — The Melbourne Cinémathèque screens five films by the poetic realist best known for Children of Paradise.
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Oct 6, 2026 — This week is packed with festival openings, special screenings, series, and retrospectives.
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Sep 30, 2026 — Reviews may be mixed, but everyone agrees that the main attraction is Rooney and Kate Mara’s sister act.
Sep 24, 2026 — The elegantly crafted portmanteau films Quartet, Trio, and Encore adapt twelve spellbinding tales of deception and passion from one of the best-selling authors of the twentieth century.