The Criterion Collection
Mar 10, 2009 — “All movies are political,” the indefatigable Costa-Gavras told Leonard Lopate last week while stopping by his WNYC radio show. As busy and vital as ever, the seventy-six-year-old Greek filmmaker was in town for both the North American premiere of his...
Jan 11, 1988 — In Young and Innocent (1937) Alfred Hitchcock uses all the signs in his visual vocabulary to tell one of his favorite stories: fugitive hero unjustly accused of murder. Yet this is also a story of youth and innocence triumphant—a light...
Jul 5, 2013 — Did You See This?• Movies from sea to shining sea • J. Hoberman gets medieval. • Woody Allen can’t stop working. • The Saul Bellow cinema that never was • Monochrome movies are back. • Richard Brody is under the...
Dec 7, 2008 — Fitting as a monument to such a long, influential, multimedia career, the publisher Taschen has released the mammoth The Ingmar Bergman Archives, a 592-page, fifteen-pound chronicle of the Swedish filmmaker’s career in film, theater, and television (“Just don’t pick up...
Essays
Feb 16, 2004 — Henri-Georges Clouzot took the standard ingredients of the Continental-Films detective movies and used them to make something darker and more complex—to make, in fact, the first classic French film noir.
The singer, songwriter, actor, and producer reminisces about having her mind blown by Céline and Julie Go Boating, shares how watching David Cronenberg’s movies helped her escape the repetitiveness of life on the road and praises the unabashed beauty of...
Kenneth Lonergan is a playwright, screenwriter, and the director of three movies and counting.
Danny Peary is the author of Cult Movies and has written film criticism for such publications as Focus on Film, the Velvet Light Trap, and Newsday.
On the Channel
Aug 5, 2018 — The writer-director of Monsoon Wedding and Salaam Bombay! takes us through an eclectic mix of favorite films, including works by Jane Campion, Lars von Trier, and Satyajit Ray.
The Daily
May 21, 2026 — The Cannes sidebar wraps with prizes for three stories about teenage girls and another about a determined adult woman.