The Criterion Collection
May 29, 2012 — Harriet Andersson’s Monika is both an erotic object and an empowered female protagonist in Bergman’s groundbreaker.
May 29, 2012 — A watershed film in Bergman’s career, this tale of a woman caught between the past and present is a masterful study in darkness and light.
In Theaters
May 23, 2012 — Repertory PicksWhen most people think of Peter Falk, who died in June 2011, they recall his indelible embodiment of TV detective Frank Columbo. Yet movie lovers also remember the legendary, smoky-voiced actor for his slew of unforgettable big-screen roles, from...
May 23, 2012 — Iranian master director Abbas Kiarostami voyaged to Italy to make a film that questions love, relationships, and Western art cinema.
May 22, 2012 — These five films chart the unlikely ascendance of a hero of American underground cinema.
May 18, 2012 — Did You See This? • Remembering Carlos Fuentes • Don DeLillo spills a few beans about David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis • On Truffaut on Bazin on Renoir • The Korean Film Archive has gone YouTube • Trailing the Mann of the...
In Theaters
May 17, 2012 — Repertory Picks It’s just a Wes kind of week. To coincide with next week’s U.S. opening of his Moonrise Kingdom, the Museum of the Moving Image in New York is launching a complete retrospective of Wes Anderson’s feature films, called...
May 11, 2012 — Did You See This? • Yes, Ingmar Bergman visited the set of Jaws • Where have all the movie palaces gone? • Playing dress-up with gangsters • Robert Pattinson is crazy for Cronenberg • Wim Wenders’s strange and quiet places...
Short Takes
May 11, 2012 — We spread the word about Larisa Shepitko, one of the true visionaries of Soviet cinema, when we released two of her incredible films in 2008, but she remains an under-the-radar figure for most movie lovers. By 1979, when she was...