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Jul 1, 2022 — Both crowd-pleasing and gleefully subversive, Blake Edwards’s 1982 hit Victor/Victoria remains one of the few Hollywood musicals that explicitly depicts queer life.
The writer-director-star of Appropriate Behavior shares what she’s learned about life and cinema from her favorite movies.
Jan 14, 2020 — Born in Fortaleza, Brazil, Karim Aïnouz is an award-winning film director, screenwriter, and visual artist. His first feature, Madame Satã, premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival in 2002. He has also directed Love for...
Jun 21, 2019 — The French iconoclast explains how his background in industrial filmmaking helped him bring life to abstract ideas about the human condition.
The trailblazing director of A Dry White Season reminisces about her childhood love of Hitchcock, the kindness that François Truffaut showed her, and a Brazilian classic that changed her life.
In Theaters
Jul 26, 2018 — Sergei Parajanov’s mesmerizing take on the life of poet Sayat-Nova plays in a free screening in Los Angeles this week.
On the Channel
Jan 10, 2018 — The director of the war masterpiece Come and See got his start lampooning social conformity in 1960s Soviet life. Two of his early-career gems are now available on the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck.
On the Channel
Nov 2, 2017 — Two leading figures in American independent cinema talk about the challenges of bringing their visions to life on shoestring budgets.
Essays
May 30, 2017 — Lino Brocka brought an invigoratingly personal and socially conscious vision to Philippine cinema with this gritty portrait of Manila barrio life.
During the Norwegian filmmaker’s visit to the Criterion closet, he excitedly expounded upon his wide-ranging selections, from Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters to the Six Moral Tales of Eric Rohmer.