The Criterion Collection
The Daily
Nov 8, 2019 — A digital resurrection, an image book, and a painting of a hammer all figure in this week’s round.
On the Channel
Jun 10, 2017 — In an excerpt from John Pierson’s irreverent IFC series Split Screen, the fifth installment of which premieres on the Criterion Channel today, Lars von Trier loosens up in front of the camera to explain the impetus behind Dogme 95.
The Daily
Jun 2, 2023 — This week we’re spotlighting Ken Jacobs, queer cinema in the 1990s, and the return of the afro-horn.
The Daily
Dec 6, 2018 — Also in today’s round of festival news: Guillermo del Toro’s alternative history of Mexican cinema and Sundance’s New Frontier.
Jul 4, 2018 — Wim Wenders and Jim Jarmusch have always been eager to credit the Dutch cinematographer for teaching them about color and light.
The Daily
Nov 16, 2017 — “Hong Sang-soo has a reputation for being a tricky interview, and he knows it,” writes Darren Hughes in the Notebook. But if anyone can get Hong talking, it’s Hughes. Take a look at this page. Gathered here are some of...
May 15, 2012 — Circumlocutory critic Perkus Tooth sits down with a very patient Spike Jonze to talk gerunds and colons.
Jun 13, 2024 — Baker has selected seventeen films to screen in New York before her first feature opens next week.
Essays
Jun 11, 2024 — A radically strange, postmodern adaptation of a novel by Jean Genet, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film is grounded by a sweaty, seething, meaty eroticism—a confrontational sexuality that remains bracing.
Feb 18, 2019 — The Swiss actor will be remembered for a range of characters spanning from heaven to hell.