The Criterion Collection
One of Japan’s most important filmmakers, Kenji Mizoguchi created a cinema rich in technical mastery and social commentary, specifically regarding the place of women in Japanese society.
Jun 25, 2013 — “This list is so hard to make,” writes Lena Dunham, writer and director of the film Tiny Furniture and writer and creator of the HBO series Girls. “I am Criterion-obsessed and even own some Janus Films VHS’s . . ....
May 28, 2013 — For Haskell Wexler, the director of Medium Cool, and the Oscar-winning cinematographer of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Bound for Glory, writing about his ten favorite Criterion films became a trip down memory lane. His responses, made up of...
Apr 30, 2013 — Nicholas Stoller directed the comedies Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek, and The Five-Year Engagement and was a writer and executive producer on The Muppets. While his list—which goes to eleven—tends toward some of the funnier films in...
Apr 17, 2013 — Four of the great Japanese director’s lesser-known, early films show the coming into being of a political artist.
Whether faithful adaptations or daring reimaginings, these are films that deserve to be appreciated alongside their printed progenitors.
Mar 27, 2013 — Andrew Loog Oldham was the manager of the Rolling Stones and Marianne Faithfull from 1963–1967. In 1965, he started Immediate Records, one of the first independent labels in the UK, where he worked with such artists as Jeff Beck, Eric...
Feb 27, 2013 — More than eighty films into his career, Kenji Mizoguchi made this emotionally devastating masterpiece, from a story by Ogai Mori.
Feb 21, 2013 — For decades, Andrew Weil has been one of the best-known doctors in America. He has been featured on the cover of Time magazine twice for the impact of his “integrative” approach to health care, fusing alternative medicine with conventional medical...
Dec 20, 2012 — The Los Angeles–based music producer Flying Lotus (born Steve Ellison) has been working in the electronic music field since the early 2000s. Well known for producing the bumper music for Adult Swim on Cartoon Network, he has also collaborated with...