The Criterion Collection
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Aug 6, 2018 — The new half-hour series lives up to the promise of his unclassifiable debut feature.
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.
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Jul 25, 2018 — And Orson Welles’s The Other Side of the Wind will finally see the light of day.
Jul 19, 2018 — Deep Dives A tough, dirty gangster picture that delivers the requisite payload of violence and bastardly behavior, Giuliano Montaldo’s Gli intoccabili (released in the U.S. as Machine Gun McCain) is also a landmark in the story of John Cassavetes and his ragtag repertory...
Jul 17, 2018 — Without doubt, Steven Soderbergh’s sex, lies, and videotape struck a nerve when it was released in 1989. Astonishingly, it still does today. Among the most storied of American independent films, it debuted at the U.S. Film Festival (soon to be renamed the...
Essays
Jun 24, 2018 — During a period when studios gave him carte blanche, Josef von Sternberg created a sublime cinematic language that shrugged off one orthodoxy after another.
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Jun 21, 2018 — The American philosopher was an early proponent of cinema as a subject worthy of serious study.
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Jun 5, 2018 — The director’s been talking about his forthcoming thriller, Domino, and the project that will follow next year.
Features
Jun 4, 2018 — For the production design on Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, director Paul Schrader turned to famed graphic designer Eiko Ishioka. The below images of her groundbreaking sets, as well as this excerpted text, first appeared in the 2000 book...
Jun 4, 2018 — An exhibition draws comparisons and contrasts between the works of the father and son.