The Criterion Collection
Sep 22, 2009 — Something very heavy happened at Monterey last weekend. Those very odd three days began in Friday’s cool gray air as the first of the crowd began to circle through the booths of the fairground. The only word for it then...
Aug 13, 2007 — Cría cuervos . . . , Carlos Saura's political and psychological masterpiece, was shot in the summer of 1975, as Spanish dictator Francisco Franco lay dying, and premiered in Madrid's Conde Duque Theatre, on January 26, 1976, forty years after...
Oct 16, 2006 — Screenwriter Carlos Cuarón delves into the character played by Claudia Ramírez
In Theaters
Nov 30, 2017 — The great Kurosawa classic that inspired Star Wars screens at the Alamo Drafthouse in El Paso this Saturday.
The actor, writer, and director shares what makes Michael Haneke and Robert Bresson such exceptional filmmakers, praises the cinematography of Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, and talks about the power of representation in Do the Right Thing and El Norte.
Feb 8, 2019 — An actor in film, television, and theater, Raúl Castillo is best known for his portrayal of Paps in the critically acclaimed We the Animals, for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, and for his role as Richie...
Having begun her career in radio journalism in 1981, at the age of nineteen, Elvira Lindo went on to become an acclaimed novelist as well as a writer for television and film. She is a weekly contributor to El País,...
Mark Danner has reported on war and politics for three decades, from Central America to Bosnia to Iraq. He teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and Bard College and is the author of The Massacre at El Mozote, Torture...
Megan Abbott is the award-winning author of twelve crime novels, including the New York Times best seller The Turnout. Her latest novel, the national best seller El Dorado Drive, was published in June 2025. Formerly a writer on HBO’s The...
Jun 21, 2018 — I have lost count of the number of times I have had the pleasure of watching El Sur, but I suspect it is among the films I have seen most frequently in my life. It is a treasure chest that reveals...