The Criterion Collection
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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 30, 2019 — An exhibition, a film series, and of course, If Beale Street Could Talk are markers of heightened interest in the writer, activist, and cinephile.
Essays
Nov 27, 2018 — With The Magnificent Ambersons, Orson Welles created a model of period filmmaking, lightly deploying historical signifiers while focusing on the haunting power of his actors’ faces.
Feb 19, 2018 — Jonathan Demme put an uncompromisingly feminist spin on the law-enforcement procedural with this wildly successful, Oscar-winning drama.
Aug 19, 2025 — In his fifth and sixth feature films, Edward Yang sought to uncover what was hidden in Taipei society, often in plain sight, looking past the city’s shiny skyline to the fault lines beneath the surface.
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Jun 24, 2024 — Costars and critics remember an outstanding actor who neither looked nor sounded like a movie star.
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Apr 7, 2023 — Along with the new Cinema Scope, we’re reading Raúl Ruiz’s diaries and conversations with Agnès Godard and Gregg Araki.
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Mar 2, 2023 — The Film Forum series spotlights Moreau’s close working relationships with Louis Malle, François Truffaut, Orson Welles, and Marguerite Duras.
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Jan 30, 2023 — The festival is sending around two dozen award-winners out into an uncertain marketplace.
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Nov 1, 2022 — The independent publisher launches a two-volume collection and a film series in New York.