The Criterion Collection
In Theaters
May 17, 2018 — Repertory Picks On Sunday afternoon and Wednesday evening, at Film Streams’ historic Dundee Theater in Omaha, Nebraska, Ettore Scola’s 1977 film A Special Day will show on the big screen. Anchored by against-type turns by screen icons Sophia Loren and...
May 15, 2018 — Critics come down hard on this portrait of a serial killer, but the film does have its champions.
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May 14, 2018 — A fable, a social critique, and a frontrunner for the top prize.
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May 14, 2018 — A favorite at Cannes, the Spanish director returns with one of his best features yet.
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May 14, 2018 — Few critics come to the defense of this story of an all-female Kurdish combat unit.
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May 13, 2018 — Critics may differ on Jia’s sprawling gangster movie, but all agree that Zhao Tao is outstanding.
May 10, 2018 — What goes into staging the perfect on-screen kiss? Director Sofia Coppola and actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett look back on shooting a passionate make-out session in The Virgin Suicides.
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May 10, 2018 — The followup to Mrs. Fang is an oral history of China’s “Anti-Rightist Campaign” in the late 1950s.
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May 10, 2018 — The director of Ida returns with the story of an intense love affair.
May 8, 2018 — Horror movies are often understood as products of the imagination, but in the case of Caroline Monnet and Daniel Watchorn’s work, the conventions of the genre are grounded in stories of real-life injustice. Set in a Canadian residential school for...