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Feb 3, 2015 — Jean-Luc Godard returned to the character-driven intensity of his earlier films with this satirical but serious-minded take on men, women, and money.
Jan 13, 2015 — Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s characters play an endlessly layered game of dress-up in this tale of sadomasochistic love.
Interviews
Aug 20, 2014 — One of John Cassavetes’s loyal troupe of collaborators reminisces about working with the fearless filmmaker.
Jul 29, 2014 — The writer and director is inspired by Lawrence Kasdan’s classic comic drama to consider the joys and disappointments of the baby boomer generation that begot her.
Jul 29, 2014 — Combining a tragic romance and the story of a workers’ strike, this musical melodrama is perhaps Jacques Demy’s most neglected masterpiece.
Jun 27, 2014 — The American war in Vietnam was officially divided into two halves: the military war and “the other war: the war to win the hearts and minds of the people,” which gives Peter Davis’s 1974 documentary its title. Whereas the aim...
Features
May 30, 2014 — The long relationship between director and festival has never been without its complications.
May 9, 2014 — Did You See This?• Godzilla reigns once more. • High praise for Paul Robeson • Richard Brody ranks the nonfiction greats. • Ian Buruma refuses to rank Mizoguchi. • Cahiers du cinéma’s editor lays it all out. • David Thomson...
Features
Mar 26, 2014 — The author recalls his encounters with the great Swedish actress.
Short Takes
Feb 27, 2014 — Paolo Sorrentino was in the Criterion office recently to do publicity for his Oscar-nominated film The Great Beauty, and while he was here we thought we’d ask this cinephile a few questions about movies. In this short, casual interview, he...