The Criterion Collection
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May 30, 2014 — The long relationship between director and festival has never been without its complications.
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May 14, 2014 — The author recalls his meetings and correspondence with the uncompromisingly independent British director.
Mar 7, 2014 — Did You See This?• Building Wes Anderson’s Hotel, and finding his Easter eggs • Awarding Chris Marker and Alain Resnais • Exploring early Fritz Lang films • What’s next for Paolo Sorrentino • Ghana posters a-go-go • Farran Smith Nehme...
Sep 26, 2013 — Roberto Rossellini officially left neorealism behind with his modern masterpiece, an intimate tale of marriage on the rocks.
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Aug 13, 2013 — John Frankenheimer burrows into the insidious side of the American sixties in his visually dazzling thriller.
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Jul 31, 2013 — The story of the author’s long correspondence with the silent film icon.
Mar 26, 2013 — Charlie Chaplin manages to make a ruthless murderer likable in his brilliant satire of middle-class morality.
May 8, 2012 — To start on a personal note: I wrote a book about La haine that came out in November 2005, just as the Paris suburbs (banlieues) erupted in an unprecedented wave of violence. Every night, as in the Bob Marley song we...
Dec 13, 2011 — Seijun Suzuki’s delirious, absurdist deconstruction of the crime genre is the strangest film the director made at Nikkatsu, Japan’s oldest film company.