The Criterion Collection
Mar 17, 2011 — Bill Hader is a Saturday Night Live cast member and has appeared in the films Superbad, Pineapple Express, Adventureland, and Paul, among others. In compiling his top ten Criterion editions, Hader says, “I couldn’t pick ten . . . sorry....
Mar 17, 2011 — Greg Mottola has directed the feature films The Daytrippers, Superbad, Adventureland, and Paul, as well as episodes of the Judd Apatow TV series Undeclared, Arrested Development, and HBO’s The Comeback. Photo credit: Jaimie Trueblood/Universal Pictures
Scott MacDonald is the author of the series A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers, now in five volumes, as well as seven other books about independent cinema, including, most recently, Adventures of Perception: Cinema as Exploration (2009). He teaches...
Stanley Booth traveled with the World’s Greatest Rock-and-Roll Band in 1969 while writing The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones, chapter 31 of which details the complete events of Altamont. The book was republished by A Cappella in 2000. This...
Movie critic Michael Sragow, the author of Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master, edited two volumes of James Agee’s prose for the Library of America. His documentary writing and coproducing credits include Image Makers: The Adventures of America’s Pioneer Cinematographers...
Essays
Nov 25, 2013 — He massages, he gambles, and he’s great with a blade. Who is this blind swordsman, anyway?
The Daily
Jul 24, 2026 — September will bring new films from Lee Chang-dong, Julia Loktev, Barbara Kopple, Mariano Llinás, and Takashi Miike.
On the Channel
Jul 17, 2026 — Channel Calendars This month on the Criterion Channel, crank up the volume on our playlist of (actually good) rock biopics that go beyond cliché to explore the elusive place where inspiration sparks and musical legends are born. Our Southern Gothic...
Essays
Jul 14, 2026 — In May of 1962, when Martin Ritt arrived in the Texas Panhandle town of Claude to begin filming Hud, he may have sensed that his career was about to change. Hud would be Ritt’s ninth feature but his first personal...
The Daily
May 29, 2026 — We’re revisiting work by Tarkovsky, Pelechian, and Portabella as well as two films with the word Dead in the title.