The Criterion Collection
Essays
Nov 26, 2018 — The Magnificent Ambersons In his interviews with Peter Bogdanovich published as This Is Orson Welles, Welles speaks nostalgically of the time he spent with his father in a tranquil enclave of 1920s Illinois, comparing it to “a childhood back in...
In Theaters
Nov 14, 2018 — Filled with passion and intrigue, one of the great epic romances of French cinema plays this Sunday at the Miami Beach Cinematheque.
Sep 24, 2018 — This faithful screen adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s legendary play explores a wide range of perspectives on working-class black life, and over the years has inspired reactions just as diverse.
In Theaters
Sep 21, 2018 — The complete works of French cinema rebel Jean Vigo are coming to theaters in gorgeous new restorations.
Aug 26, 2018 — Tomás Gutiérrez Alea brought cinema to the center of Cuban society with this richly ambiguous portrait of postrevolutionary Havana.
Jul 20, 2018 — American audiences weren’t ready for Barbara Loden’s Wanda when it premiered in 1970. A stark portrait of a working-class woman (played with raw conviction by Loden herself) who breaks free of a miserable marriage, only to find herself on the...
Essays
Jun 17, 2018 — The stakes are high. An unknown entertainer newly arrived in a foreign country prepares for her first performance, under pressure to make a hit with a restless, rowdy audience. It is a hot night; the crowd exudes a collective humidity,...
The Daily
May 18, 2018 — And Sergei Loznitsa wins the best director award for Donbass.
The Daily
May 12, 2018 — An urgent dispatch from the conflict in eastern Ukraine is winning plaudits from critics.
Essays
Mar 30, 2018 — This spectacular and technically ambitious Hollywood musical is a priceless window onto American pop culture’s view of itself in the 1930s.