The Criterion Collection
Oct 29, 2019 — Matewan opens in the pitch-black darkness of a West Virginia coal mine. A miner lights the carbide lamp on his helmet. The small open flame he wears provides the only flicker of light in this cramped space next to a...
On the Channel
Oct 29, 2019 — Check out what’s in store next month on our streaming service!
The Daily
Oct 28, 2019 — This year’s Tokyo International Film Festival salutes two singular directors, both in their eighties now but still going strong.
Features
Oct 28, 2019 — One Scene In Nadav Lapid’s latest film, the award-winning Synonyms, a young man moves from Tel Aviv to Paris to make a clean break from his Israeli identity. This drastic attempt at self-reinvention is something that Lapid himself endeavored in his...
Sneak Peeks
Oct 28, 2019 — With his fifth feature, the coal-mining saga Matewan, independent filmmaker John Sayles gathered an impressive group of collaborators—among them cinematographer Haskell Wexler and actors James Earl Jones, Chris Cooper, and Will Oldham—to make a drama on a subject that had...
On the Channel
Oct 26, 2019 — With her resplendent early feature An Angel at My Table (1990), Jane Campion widened the scope of her storytelling, adapting the memoirs of New Zealand writer Janet Frame for a decades-spanning, convention-shattering biographical film. As it follows Frame from childhood...
The Daily
Oct 25, 2019 — This week we’re reading about Kira Muratova, The Uninvited, and The Wizard of Oz, and we’re listening in on Martin Scorsese and Kevin Jerome Everson.
On the Channel
Oct 25, 2019 — When he set out to become a director in the early 1960s, Herschell Gordon Lewis wanted to work on the kinds of movies that the major studios could never dream of making. His taste for the perverse gave rise to...
Oct 25, 2019 — It was a very long road to theaters for the Oscar-winning documentary When We Were Kings, a rousing record of a legendary boxing match, and a testament to the infectious energy, sly humor, and strong social conscience of Muhammad Ali....
The Daily
Oct 24, 2019 — A retrospective in Vienna focuses on the guerrilla heroes of partisan cinema.