The Criterion Collection
Feb 13, 2008 — We’ve been getting some questions about the three children’s classics from Janus Films. One good customer writes: “I’m wondering what the situation with The Red Balloon, White Mane, and Paddle to the Sea is. They are listed on the Criterion...
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Oct 14, 2026 — Putin’s crackdown on independent media sends TV Rain journalists fleeing the country.
Essays
Aug 25, 2026 — The pioneering husband-and-wife duo transformed the field of Japanese nonfiction cinema with their portraits of spectacular, edgy personalities and collectives under duress.
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Jul 27, 2026 — Some read Thomson’s new book as an attack on cinema; others argue that they’re missing the point.
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May 8, 2026 — Film Comment relaunches, Richard Kelly writes, Lynne Ramsay prepares, and in 1976, Roberto Rossellini talked.
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Apr 22, 2026 — Boots Riley and Olivia Wilde both have two films at this year’s edition of New England’s largest film festival.
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Apr 25, 2024 — The American Cinematheque presents all six features, including the Los Angeles premiere of Eureka.
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Sep 22, 2020 — The New Yorker’s music critic traces the history of the composer’s impact on art, culture, and the movies.
Aug 4, 2020 — The NYFF lines up three films by Steve McQueen, Venice adds two titles, and Telluride reveals the lineup for the edition that would have been.
Mar 27, 2020 — The cost to the Soviet population due to the war with Germany from 1941 to 1945 has not been definitively established; the best-circulated estimate, about twenty-seven million, is thought by some scholars to be low by many millions. Under Joseph...