The Criterion Collection
The host of the hit interview show Chicken Shop Date talks about Portrait of a Lady on Fire and being drawn to films with undeniable chemistry, praises 12 Angry Men as one of the greatest films of all time, and...
The director of All Quiet on the Western Front and Conclave shares his love for Downhill Racer and its innovative sound design, talks about the emotional impact of Cold War, and selects a few of Roberto Rossellini’s films featuring Ingrid...
The actor, who stars in Todd Solondz’s Happiness, shares his appreciation for the playwright behind the source material of George Cukor’s Holiday; praises It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as one of the funniest films he has ever seen;...
This Oscar-winning director began his career as a visual artist before moving on to create audacious narrative features about marginalized people, including the Black community in his native London.
Starting out as a leading figure in Australia’s 1970s film renaissance, this acclaimed director went on to achieve critical and commercial success in Hollywood.
A love of monsters (and state-of-the-art prosthetics!) distinguishes the hauntingly beautiful work of this Mexican filmmaker, whose dark fairy tales are triumphs of the imagination.
Acclaimed for a delicate portrait of queer Black adolescence and an ambitious epic set in the era of Jim Crow, the Nashville-born writer and director has distinguished herself as a major new force in contemporary American cinema.
A sensitive chronicler of Black life, the Oscar-winning director breathes poetry into his explorations of masculine vulnerability, systemic injustice, and impossible love.
The writer-director of Europa Europa and Green Border talks about Agnès Varda’s influence on women in cinema, praises contemporary masterworks like Parasite and Anatomy of a Fall, and shares why she always returns to Diamonds of the Night before making...
The writer-director talks about how Federico Fellini and John Waters gave him the passion and confidence to become a filmmaker, shares his poignant experience watching Claudine as a young man, and selects favorites such as Pickup on South Street, Do...