The Criterion Collection
Mar 16, 2015 — Director and star Robert Montgomery suffuses his moody 1947 New Mexico–set noir with palpable postwar anxiety and expressive fatalism.
Feb 10, 2015 — The late film scholar beautifully analyzes the visual lyricism of the French master’s legendary short work.
Features
Nov 28, 2014 — It Happened One Night is part of a long tradition of American comedies on the move.
Nov 20, 2014 — The two writers chat about Nehme’s new novel.
Nov 17, 2014 — Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable’s effortless banter is pure magic, but Frank Capra’s comedy is rooted in the reality of the times.
Oct 29, 2014 — George Sluizer’s singularly unsettling work of psychological terror is a model of lucid craftsmanship.
In Theaters
Oct 23, 2014 — Repertory PicksNo nosy neighbors have ever been quite as troublesome as the Castavets in the great American horror film Rosemary’s Baby, which moviegoers in Cambridge, Massachusetts, can enjoy on the big screen at the historic Brattle Theatre on October 25...
Oct 14, 2014 — What happens offscreen is as important as what’s on- in John Ford’s subtle, elegiac take on the Wyatt Earp–Doc Holliday story.
Aug 26, 2014 — Define the Japanese New Wave however you like—there are innumerable possible launching points, and the name players in the fifties and sixties were old and young and in between—but from any juncture, Shohei Imamura was a primary figure and, at...
Aug 18, 2014 — The director explains the inspiration for his provocative erotic comedy, and how he dove into it even before finishing his previous movie.