The Criterion Collection
On the Channel
Mar 1, 2018 — Award-winning crime novelist Megan Abbott discusses her formative experiences as a film lover in the latest episode of our Channel-exclusive series Adventures in Moviegoing.
Nov 29, 2017 — Tracy Letts is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. He received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for drama for his play August: Osage County and a Tony Award for his portrayal of George in a revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia...
Sneak Peeks
Jul 21, 2017 — Tarkovsky lover Geoff Dyer discusses the visual and sonic elements of one of the most haunting sequences in Stalker.
The first Criterion Barry Jenkins ever owned was Ratcatcher. (The second was George Washington.) He also loves Cassavetes, Kieślowski, and Demy.
Apr 25, 2023 — Steve McQueen’s monumental, five-film portrait of London’s West Indian community is a howl of endorsement for political resistance and a vivid indictment of institutional malaise.
Aug 24, 2016 — During a 2006 meeting with the author, French New Wave icon Jeanne Moreau reminisced about working with Orson Welles, Louis Malle, and François Truffaut, and her turn to acting as a means of eluding the “destiny of a regular girl.”
In Theaters
Jun 16, 2016 — Repertory PicksThis week, Miloš Forman’s 1965 masterwork Loves of a Blonde will close out the series Female Sexuality in European Cinema at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz theater in Austin, Texas. This three-act Czech New Wave classic offers a tender portrait...
The Daily
Oct 23, 2026 — There’s a new Senses of Cinema out, plus conversations with Charles Burnett and Several Futures founder Graham L. Carter.