The Criterion Collection
The Daily
Aug 14, 2019 — A week into this year’s edition, a few critical favorites are emerging from the competition.
The Daily
May 17, 2019 — Moving from the merely unsettling to the outright bloody, the Brazilian directors come down hard on their new government.
The Daily
May 12, 2018 — The five-part essay film is “infused in equal measures by despair and aspiration.”
The Daily
May 10, 2018 — The director of Ida returns with the story of an intense love affair.
Jul 13, 2017 — “Martin Scorsese is putting the band back together,” writes Anita Busch, breaking the news at Deadline that “Joe Pesci has officially joined Al Pacino (whose deal is currently being finalized) and Robert De Niro in Scorsese’s Jimmy Hoffa disappearance film...
Aug 9, 2011 — Gillo Pontecorvo’s incendiary epic commemorates the popular uprising that had succeeded in ousting the French from Algeria in July 1962.
Essays
Oct 31, 2023 — With the full force of her imagination, director Nikyatu Jusu examines the complicated nature of Black motherhood, as well as the importance of Black communion as an antidote to racial oppression.
The Daily
Nov 19, 2020 — This month, we’re sorting through new books featuring—for starters—Jean-Luc Godard, Marguerite Duras, Billy Wilder, Geraldine Chaplin, and Harmony Korine.
The Daily
Nov 21, 2019 — A richly varied showcase of Korean films made between 1996 and 2003 opens in New York.