The Thing

May 25, 2016 — For the past ten years, we’ve been proudly welcoming the Bronx-based school’s students into our Criterion family. As the 2016 school year ends, we’re thrilled to watch another class of young filmmakers express their vision and employ what they’ve learned...

Feb 15, 2022 — Playful irreverence gives way to tragedy and transcendence in Leo McCarey’s 1939 masterwork, one of the defining romances of the Hollywood studio era.

Mar 20, 2020 — Also this week: Filmmaker and filmmakers make their work freely accessible, an appreciation of Barbara Hammer, and an interview with Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Jul 23, 2019 — He even walks in stereo. So proclaims a kid on a stoop toward the beginning of Do the Right Thing; he’s stunned by the sun but also by the sight and sound of Radio Raheem. Raheem is silent but so...

Mar 30, 2015 — The astonishing intimacy and scope of this remarkable, aesthetically captivating epic ushered in a new era of narrative documentary filmmaking.

Jul 4, 2014 — Did You See This?• The singular beauty of old movie theaters. . . • . . . And a rare peek inside a long-abandoned one • Barack and Michelle’s surprising first-date movie • A Hard Day’s Night: making it sound...

Jul 2, 2019 — The author of a book on method acting turns her attention to the performances in Do the Right Thing and the work of Juliette Binoche.

May 7, 2019 — Humming light sabers weren’t the only thing going on during the maligned decade.

May 27, 2022 — Joel Potrykus is a screenwriter and director based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His first feature, Ape, won the Best New Director prize at the 2012 Locarno Film Festival and his second film, Buzzard, took home the FIPRESCI prize at the...

Jun 13, 2018 — Ari Aster received his MFA in Directing from the AFI Conservatory. He has written and directed several short films, including The Strange Thing About the Johnsons (2011), Munchausen (2013), and Basically (2014). His films have played the New York Film...