The Criterion Collection
Nov 6, 2006 — The New York Times ran a really nice piece about the Janus box this morning. It started on the front page of the Arts section and jumped to another half page inside. It featured big pictures from M, L'Avventura, Seven...
During a trip to what he calls our “city of movies,” the director of Afire talked about the jazzy qualities of Steven Soderbergh’s films, the inspiration he has taken from Preston Sturges, and an overpoweringly erotic moment in Stromboli.
The director of Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. stopped by to talk about the movies that loom large in her personal canon.
When the English director visited Criterion for a screening of his film 45 Years, he was joined by the movie’s star. And when the pair took a trip into the Criterion closet, their charming closeness was evident.
Michael Wood teaches English and comparative literature at Princeton University. He is the author of America in the Movies and a study of Luis Buñuel’s Belle de jour. His most recent book is Marcel Proust (Oxford University Press, 2023).
Phillip Lopate’s latest book is A Mother’s Tale. He has written extensively on the movies for the Criterion Collection, Film Comment, Cineaste, and the New York Times and is a professor at Columbia University.
Molly Haskell is a critic and author whose books include From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies; Love and Other Infectious Diseases; Frankly, My Dear: “Gone with the Wind” Revisited; and Steven Spielberg: A Life in...
Terrence Rafferty is the author of The Thing Happens: Ten Years of Writing About the Movies. He has written for the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Nation, GQ, and Sight and Sound, and taught at Columbia...
On the Channel
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The Daily
Feb 25, 2025 — In the run-up to the Oscars, Sean Baker calls on independent filmmakers to band together as a community.