The Criterion Collection
Jun 20, 2023 — In their first collaboration, director Joseph Losey and screenwriter Harold Pinter explore the cultural fissures in modern England by dramatizing a kind of role-play in which no role is stable or easy to define.
Mar 16, 2009 — This long-underappreciated giant of Japanese cinema was an innovative visual stylist and a born storyteller who preferred to make films about outsiders.
Aug 22, 2005 — This delicate, fascinating film is self-consciously, almost militantly, naive, and it remains something of an anomaly in Roberto Rossellini’s body of work.
Essays
Mar 11, 1991 — The long absent comic essence of the silent era was suddenly revived in the hands of lovable and wildly antic filmmaker Jacques Tati.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Barry Levinson shouts out two of Fellini’s most personal films and praises the game-changing work of such masters as Cassavetes and Godard.
The artist, musician, and director of Heart of a Dog shouts out Guy Maddin as one of her favorite filmmakers, praises the first scene in Sunday Bloody Sunday, and can’t resist Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Trilogy of Life.
Nov 8, 2016 — This adaptation of one of the most influential series in manga history is a delirious mix of breathtaking swordplay and pop vulgarity.
Essays
Dec 11, 2024 — In this semiautobiographical meditation on the fickle nature of creative genius, Federico Fellini opens his arms wide to the enigmas of childhood, religion, art, sex, and love—mysteries with no solution.
The Daily
Jun 24, 2024 — Costars and critics remember an outstanding actor who neither looked nor sounded like a movie star.
The Daily
Sep 19, 2023 — Warmly received in Venice, Cooper’s portrait of Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre now heads to festivals in New York, Zurich, London, Mill Valley, and Los Angeles.