The Criterion Collection
In Theaters
Jun 28, 2018 — The new restoration of Olivier Assayas’s long-unavailable breakthrough film, Cold Water, continues its tour across the country this week.
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Jun 26, 2018 — Les Carabiniers (1963) is touring the States this summer, and a rarely seen 1986 made-for-TV film is set for its U.S. premiere.
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May 17, 2018 — High praise for the Korean director’s first film in eight years.
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May 16, 2018 — Critical reception is subdued compared to the raves for Happy Hour (2015).
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May 12, 2018 — The five-part essay film is “infused in equal measures by despair and aspiration.”
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May 9, 2018 — Cannes’s Opening Night film is met with a first round of lukewarm reviews.
Essays
May 8, 2018 — In his uncharacteristic final masterpiece, the great Hollywood melodramatist Frank Borzage approaches the shadowy violence of film noir with his unique brand of romanticism.
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May 1, 2018 — Cairo is “the city that made me what I am,” says Tamer El Said.
On the Channel
Feb 27, 2018 — In a new episode of Observations on Film Art, film-studies scholar Kristin Thompson analyzes the lyrical techniques in Raymond Bernard’s brutal war drama Wooden Crosses.
Feb 1, 2018 — G. W. Pabst’s breathlessly paced reimagining of a mine disaster makes an urgent plea for international cooperation in the post–World War I era.