The Criterion Collection
May 13, 2010 — Samuel Beam is an American singer-songwriter (and former film studies professor!) better known by the stage name Iron and Wine. His last album was 2007’s The Shepherd’s Dog, and a follow-up is in the works. When selecting his top ten...
Dec 7, 2008 — Fitting as a monument to such a long, influential, multimedia career, the publisher Taschen has released the mammoth The Ingmar Bergman Archives, a 592-page, fifteen-pound chronicle of the Swedish filmmaker’s career in film, theater, and television (“Just don’t pick up...
Nov 19, 2008 — Iranian-American writer and director Ramin Bahrani’s feature films include: Man Push Cart (2005), Chop Shop (2007), Goodbye Solo (2009), 99 Homes (2014), and Fahrenheit 451 (2018). They have won awards and acclaim all over the world, from Venice to Cannes...
Aug 28, 2007 — Having studied everything but film in college, I never would have imagined that landing a job in the DVD industry would help me get more out of fashion magazines. But sitting in the front office at Criterion, seeing every person...
Jan 1, 2007 — I’ve started writing this several times, and each time I’ve gotten diverted. Originally, I wrote about our troops in Iraq and the fact that we had sent along DVDs for the holidays, but I had a hard time equating our...
Mariah Larsson is a professor of film studies at Linnaeus University in Sweden. She is the author of A Cinema of Obsession: The Life and Work of Mai Zetterling (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020). Among her other publications are The...
Kara Keeling is a professor of cinema and media studies and of American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is the author of two books: The Witch’s Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image...
Matthew B. Karush is a professor of history at George Mason University. He is a specialist in modern Argentine history and the author of several books, including Musicians in Transit: Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music (Duke University Press,...
Doreen St. Félix is the television critic at the New Yorker. Her work has also appeared in New York magazine, n+1, the New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. In 2017, she was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for...