The Other

Jul 16, 2008 — The locations for many of Ingmar Bergman’s most dramatically spare films have existed for so long in moviegoers’ minds as stark black-and-white dream states that to walk through them in living, vibrant color is truly transformative. Imagine the harsh, pebbled...

Jan 17, 2007 — This week, Border Radio was released on DVD. The film is the post-UCLA film school project of first-time directors Allison Anders, Kurt Voss, and Dean Lent. Yesterday, we got a note from a fan who wrote a really thoughtful, personal...

Aug 8, 2021 — This month on the Channel, dive into the films of John Huston, Jean Harlow, Josephine Baker, and other cinematic icons.

Jun 30, 2015 — Annie Baker is the writer of the play The Flick, the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, which is playing at the Barrow Street Theatre in New York until January 10, 2015. Her other plays include Body Awareness...

Nov 17, 2011 — We met award-winning actor Alec Baldwin on Twitter (@AlecBaldwin) and asked him to contribute a Criterion Top 10. His response was immediate and enthusiastic. Baldwin’s film credits include Beetlejuice, Miami Blues, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Cooler (for...

The two director friends recommend a few favorites to each other.

David Schwartz, an independent curator and writer, was chief curator at Museum of the Moving Image for more than thirty years, and has programmed for the Museum of Modern Art, Film Forum, Metrograph, and many other venues. He writes for...

Ashley Clark is the curatorial director at the Criterion Collection. Previously, he worked as director of film programming at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and he has curated film series at BFI Southbank, the Museum of Modern Art, and TIFF...

Wayne Koestenbaum, a poet and cultural critic, has published sixteen books, whose subjects include opera, Jackie Onassis, Andy Warhol, hotels, humiliation, and Harpo Marx. His most recent book is My 1980s & Other Essays. He is a Distinguished Professor of...

Oct 4, 2024 — The week offers conversations with Francis Ford Coppola and John McNaughton, deep dives into a horror classic, and a guide to Indie’a Parallel Cinema.