The Criterion Collection
Jan 21, 2008 — In September 1997, I saw Agnès Varda introduce a brand-new 35 mm print of her first feature film, La Pointe Courte (made in 1954), to an admiring audience at Yale University. More astonishing than the luminous black-and-white images was Varda’s...
Jul 2, 2026 — I first met Courtney Love in 1994. I was twelve years old, and I felt ugly and confused pretty much all the time. I was slouching through the locker bay at Calle Mayor Middle School in Torrance, California, when I...
The Daily
Mar 28, 2018 — Even if you won’t be anywhere near Ghent from today through Sunday, you’ll want to know about the Courtisane Festival. The program for this year’s edition alone will likely have you making mental notes on films to add to your...
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Feb 27, 2025 — Along with the premieres and parades, this year offers an oddity from Michael Almereyda and Courtney Stephens.
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Sep 6, 2024 — Alex Cox discusses his first and next films, Warhol rarities screen in New York, and a courtroom drama revisits the culture wars of 1970s France.
On the Channel
Aug 13, 2024 — This month brings riveting courtroom dramas, New American Cinema classics, giallo shockers, pre-Code gems by women screenwriters, and a new episode of Adventures in Moviegoing.
Nov 7, 2019 — Kasi Lemmons is an award-winning filmmaker. Her 1997 directorial debut, Eve’s Bayou, has been selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry. Her latest film is Harriet, based on the life of Harriet Tubman.Photo by...
Jul 25, 2019 — Dennis Lim is the director of programming at Film at Lincoln Center and the author of the critical biography David Lynch: The Man From Another Place. He has contributed to the New York Times, Artforum, Film Comment, and other publications,...
Mar 18, 2016 — Meg Baird is a founding member of the experimental folk collective Espers (Drag City). She continues to perform and produce solo work under her own name, and she is the vocalist and drummer in Heron Oblivion (Sub Pop). Her most...
Aug 21, 2014 — The Iranian-British Hossein Amini received an Academy Award nomination for his 1997 screenplay adaptation of Henry James’s The Wings of the Dove and wrote the screenplays for Jude (1995), The Four Feathers (2002), and Drive (2011). In 2014, he made...