The Criterion Collection
Nov 18, 2015 — Richard Brooks’s In Cold Blood applied cinematic specificity and flair to the literary realism of Truman Capote’s classic “nonfiction novel.”
Nov 17, 2015 — Satyajit Ray began his filmmaking career by offering a vision of the young Apu, the character he would go on to follow throughout the three films of his stunning breakthrough epic.
Essays
Nov 12, 2015 — Michael Haneke’s politically prescient drama explores the tenuous, uneasy connections between inhabitants of a globally interwoven Europe.
Nov 5, 2015 — Julien Duvivier’s early sound films offer emotionally rich explorations of life in prewar France.
Nov 4, 2015 — Linklater circa 1990 In 1985, six years before the release of Slacker, Richard Linklater's iconic portrait of a generation, the Texan filmmaker founded the Austin Film Society. The group began as a small band of cinephiles eager to see classic,...
Short Takes
Oct 27, 2015 — Earlier this month the cinema world lost Chantal Akerman, one of the field's most vital and influential artists. For nearly fifty years, the renowned Belgian filmmaker not only shaped moviemaking with her daring and profound narrative films and documentaries, but...
Short Takes
Oct 26, 2015 — Known to most of the world as the labyrinthine inspiration for Stephen King’s novel The Shining (which was of course the basis for Stanley Kubrick’s iconic 1980 adaptation), the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, is about to get a...
Short Takes
Oct 23, 2015 — Sweden's new two-hundred-krona bill features the country's most renowned filmmaker.
Essays
Oct 21, 2015 — Masaki Kobayashi takes on broken vows and the unreality of the past in his sensual and spooky four-part adaptation of Lafcadio Hearn’s Japanese folktales.
Oct 20, 2015 — Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien is back with an awe-inspiring martial-arts epic.