In America

Dec 3, 1984 — Since the dawn of the sound era, an estimated 25,000 feature-length films have been produced—and that’s in the English language alone. When, in the early 1960s, an international group of film critics were polled as to their “number-one film of...

Apr 29, 2025 — In this exuberant and moving portrait of a Brooklyn sex worker, Sean Baker draws on themes he has explored throughout his career, depicting the workaday grind of twenty-first-century American existence with biting humor and clear-eyed humanity.

Jun 16, 2023 — Daisy von Scherler Mayer is an American film and television director. She made her feature debut with the critically acclaimed cult classic Party Girl, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1995, and was recently streaming on the Criterion...

Apr 9, 2020 — The American Cinematheque premieres a delightful five-minute film that Varda made in 2008.

Nov 29, 2017 — Tracy Letts is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. He received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for drama for his play August: Osage County and a Tony Award for his portrayal of George in a revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia...

Dec 9, 2016 — Clea DuVall is an acclaimed actor whose credits over the past twenty years include the cult favorites But I’m a Cheerleader and The Faculty, Rodrigo Garcia’s Passengers, David Fincher’s Zodiac, and Ben Affleck’s Oscar-winning Argo, as well as the TV...

Nov 30, 2015 — Ana Lily Amirpour is an Iranian-American director, writer, producer, and actor best known for her award-winning debut film, the Persian-language vampire western A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014). Her second feature, The Bad Batch, is scheduled for release...

Jul 31, 2014 — A celebrated American photographer, Mary Ellen Mark has traveled the world as a photojournalist since the 1960s, published photographs in such magazines as Life, Rolling Stone, the New Yorker, and Vanity Fair, and taken pictures on the sets of over...

Sep 26, 2013 — “It’s silly to choose ten, but okay!” wrote Donald Fagen, the American songwriter and musician best known as the cofounder and lead singer of Steely Dan, when presented with the task of picking his favorite titles in the Criterion Collection....

Jul 30, 2013 — A genuine American movie legend, the eighty-seven-year-old producer and director Roger Corman has been in the film business since the early 1950s. He is perhaps best known for the low-budget horror films he issued with remarkable speed in the early...