The Criterion Collection
Essays
Mar 21, 2019 — “The world is full of skeptics,” Detour’s Al Roberts struggles to explain, in voice-over, while on-screen we’re pondering Vera’s dead body. “I know. I’m one myself . . .”Even now, closing in on seventy-five years after the Producers Releasing Corporation...
Feb 26, 2019 — The trailblazing African American director Charles Burnett’s third feature, To Sleep with Anger (1990), was his biggest production to date, albeit still made on a modest budget of $1.4 million, a significant portion of which was raised through the attachment...
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Feb 8, 2019 — He became a star in Britain’s “angry young men” era, but some of his best work would come decades later.
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Feb 4, 2019 — All four of this year’s top prizewinners have been directed or codirected by women.
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Jan 14, 2019 — MoMA’s festival of film preservation features Lubitsch, Akerman, Murnau, Lupino, and an eclectic array of rediscoveries.
Jan 4, 2019 — The new year brings us new issues of Cinema Scope, Film Comment, the DGA Quarterly, and World Records.
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Jan 3, 2019 — We look ahead to films by Martin Scorsese, Greta Gerwig, Paul Verhoeven, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and dozens more.
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Nov 28, 2018 — The career of one of Italy’s greatest directors was riddled with scandal and accolades.
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Nov 16, 2018 — Critics Serge Daney and V. F. Perkins and filmmakers Dziga Vertov, William Friedkin, and Alfonso Cuarón are among the subjects of this week’s highlights.
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Oct 25, 2018 — Wim Wenders, Marilyn Monroe, and Peter Bogdanovich are among the names cropping up this week.