The Criterion Collection
The celebrated actors and costars of The Return recommend favorites to each other, share their love for Andrei Tarkovsky and Orson Welles, and discover such Eclipse box sets as The First Films of Samuel Fuller and Basil Dearden’s London Underground.
The underground rock veteran (and founding member of the band Osees, a.k.a. Thee Oh Sees or Oh Sees) stopped by our office to stock up on an eclectic mix of cinematic thrills.
Ehsan Khoshbakht is the codirector of Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, Italy. An architect by training, he curates films around the world and is also a filmmaker (Celluloid Underground, Filmfarsi). His most recent book as writer and editor is The...
Barry Jenkins is a film director and screenwriter. He directed and cowrote the film Moonlight, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2016. In 2018, he wrote and directed a film adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel If Beale...
Lisa B. Thompson is the Patton Professor of African & African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class, Single Black Female,...
Veteran music journalist Michael Azzerrad is the author of Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana (Doubleday, 1993) and the upcoming Just Gimme Indie Rock: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 (Little, Brown). He once caught a sunfish...
A longtime critic for the late Village Voice, J. Hoberman is the author of books including a three-volume history of Cold War Hollywood (An Army of Phantoms, The Dream Life, and Make My Day) as well as monographs on Jack...
Jun 30, 2026 — The distinction between social and political cinema is not always clear. The former category, which focuses on realistic portrayals of the everyday lives and struggles of the working class, generally includes the films of Italian neorealism and British social realism,...
On the Channel
Jun 17, 2026 — Channel Calendars This month on the Criterion Channel, celebrate the hundredth birthday of the great Harry Dean Stanton, delight in the twists and thrills of our Murderous Melodramas collection, or binge the surreal cult-favorite TV series The Prisoner. There’s so...
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.