Panic

Oct 14, 2020 — The first raves are in, but we’ll have to wait until Christmas Day to see it.

Sep 29, 2020 — In this masterpiece from the father of modern Indonesian cinema, Usmar Ismail, a violent military culture grips the nation in the years following a brutal revolution.

May 8, 2020 — The opening and closing credits in a film are a form of housekeeping, fulfilling a legal obligation to compile the names of cast and crew who made the final product possible. Visionary designer Saul Bass saw the aesthetic potential in...

Nov 12, 2019 — The Daytrippers came out in theaters in 1997, back when I was in graduate school at NYU. That was a year when you could rent videotapes everywhere—at Blockbuster, but also at a Laundromat or a bodega. There were still phone booths...

Apr 19, 2019 — In this excerpt from an interview on the edition of Diamonds of the Night, film programmer Irena Kovarova talks about the work of one of director Jan Němec’s key collaborators, Ester Krumbachová.

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...

Jun 20, 2018 — The anniversary edition features three world premieres and the best of this year’s Sundance.

May 27, 2018 — Les Parents terribles features the stars of Beauty and the Beast, Jean Marais and Josette Day.

May 26, 2017 — “How on earth is she going to keep this up?” asks Little White Lies’ David Jenkins. “That’s the question, posed internally, that sprang to mind while watching the gently delightful debut feature Jeune femme [Montparnasse Bienvenue]. The ‘she’ is ambiguous...

May 17, 2017 — Welcome to the first entry of the Daily at the Criterion Collection. For those of you who don’t know me, since 2003 I’ve been gathering links to essential—or simply fun—reading, news stories, and items of interest into a sort of...