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The legendary director joins the star of his new film Hard Truths in the Criterion Closet, where they share their love for Akira Kurosawa and Charles Burnett, reminisce about early moviegoing experiences, and select favorites for each other.
The legendary auteur returns to the Criterion Closet, where he selects new editions of favorite films like Down by Law and Wanda, talks about Kurosawa’s genius for recreating weather on-screen, and shouts out his former assistant director Claire Denis.
Shai Heredia is a filmmaker, a curator, and the founder of Experimenta, the international festival for experimental cinema in India. Her programs and award-winning films have been exhibited worldwide, and she is on the curatorial team of the Berlinale Forum...
Jeb Brody joined Amblin Partners in 2017 and is currently president of production. He and Holly Bario oversee films produced under the company’s Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures banners, where he recently executive produced the Academy Award-nominated 1917 and the...
Inkoo Kang is a critic at the Hollywood Reporter, where she writes about film and television. Previously, she was a staff writer at Slate and a critic at MTV News and the Village Voice. She has written widely about pop...
Kelefa Sanneh is a staff writer at the New Yorker, where he writes about culture, politics, and (as often as he can) boxing.
Steven Vineberg is the author of Method Actors: Three Generations of an American Acting Style; No Surprises, Please: Movies in the Reagan Decade; and High Comedy in American Movies. He teaches theater and film at College of the Holy Cross,...
Enno Patalas founded Filmkritik magazine in 1957. From 1972 to 1994, he served as director of the Munich Filmmuseum, where he was instrumental in the reconstruction of several classic films. His most recent books are Alfred Hitchcock and Metropolis in...
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