The Criterion Collection
Apr 11, 2014 — Did You See This?• Olivia de Havilland on Mickey Rooney—one Hollywood legend remembers another. • Neal Gabler on a truly inspiring Hollywood honcho • A new retrospective expands the horizons of documentary. • Incredible behind-the-scenes photos from 2001 • Films...
Essays
Apr 8, 2014 — In telling the story of the young outcast Antoine Doinel, François Truffaut was moving both backward and forward in time—recalling his own experience while forging a filmic language that would grow more sophisticated throughout the 1960s.
Apr 4, 2014 — Did You See This?• Harvey Milk commemorated • The great movie critic James Baldwin • Seriously beef up your Orson Welles memorabilia. • Taking inspiration from Cléo • A Crimean film festival • Doris Day turns ninety! • French critics...
Features
Mar 26, 2014 — The author recalls his encounters with the great Swedish actress.
Mar 25, 2014 — Silent comedy superstar Harold Lloyd played big dreamers; few were more determined to succeed than the college football player Harold Lamb.
Mar 18, 2014 — In addition to technical brilliance and a humanist message, Akira Kurosawa’s adventure features one of the director’s strongest female characters.
Mar 17, 2014 — Errol Morris’s documentary investigation into the life and theories of Stephen Hawking sets one man against the universe.
Mar 14, 2014 — Did You See This?• A Felliniesque life • A primer on African-American movie history • Errol Morris on the resuscitated A Brief History of Time • Vivian Kubrick’s photos of working with her dad • Winding through Wes Anderson’s world...
Mar 11, 2014 — Presenting five poor, black and white North Carolina preteens as they awaken to love and death, George Washington (2000) tells a common adolescent story, yet the film is distinguished by the poetic, ruminative style of its twenty-five-year-old director, David Gordon...
Feb 28, 2014 — The Great Beauty, which is up for best foreign-language film at Sunday’s Academy Awards, feels at times like a glorious throwback to a time when art-house cinema reigned. Feeling nostalgic for that era, when films by the great directors of world...