The One and Only

Jun 25, 2014 — Only a small fraction of the footage Peter Davis shot for Hearts and Minds made it into his 112-minute Academy Award­–winning documentary on the Vietnam War. Davis and his crew filmed hundreds of hours in the United States, Vietnam, and...

Nov 20, 2019 — A sprawling, sweeping period romance that plays out over the course of fifteen years and across several national borders, Cold War is also, for acclaimed filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski, a highly personal work. His own parents’ marriage served as Pawlikowski’s primary...

Apr 17, 2012 — Few directors have as precise and recognizable a style as Yasujiro Ozu, sometimes called the father of Japanese cinema. Film scholars have studied and dissected that style for years, and filmmakers imitated it. One artist particularly moved by Ozu’s elegant...

Nov 29, 2018 — Repertory Picks Tonight at 7, Minneapolis’s Trylon cinema will give over its single screen to Godfrey Reggio’s 1983 Koyaanisqatsi. Drawing its title from a Hopi term meaning “life out of balance,” the experimental, fiercely poetic film indicts the excesses of...

Oct 22, 2024 — In his entrancingly deviant directorial debut, Harmony Korine captures life in an impoverished, tragedy-stricken small town in all its beautiful fragility.

Jan 24, 2024 — Neon’s latest Sundance acquisition is a ghost story told by the ghost.

Jun 21, 2018 — How much can a film turn the tide on American violence? Michael Moore and archivist Carl Deal reflect on the moral urgency that gave rise to one of the most talked-about documentaries of all time.

Apr 18, 2022 — Six films by the Indian writer and experimental filmmaker are streaming at e-flux.

Sep 18, 2018 — One of cinema’s most charismatic canines shows off his comedic chops in Leo McCarey’s screwball masterpiece The Awful Truth.

Apr 18, 2016 — We’re thrilled to announce that the Criterion Collection has begun releasing a selection of titles in the United Kingdom. We’re kicking off our UK launch today with six incredible films from the collection, and further releases will follow each month....