The World

Oct 9, 2018 — The Oscar-winning director of La La Land explains how an early encounter with À nos amours taught him to mix spontaneity and surprise into his own highly stylized worlds.

Nov 29, 2022 — Nina Menkes is a filmmaker whose works radically synthesize inner dream worlds with brutal outer realities. Her films have screened at major international film festivals, including Sundance, the Berlinale, Locarno, and Toronto. Menkes’s narrative films include Magdalena Viraga, Queen of...

Jan 19, 2022 — Ryusuke Hamaguchi was born in 1978. He made his first major appearance on the global stage with Happy Hour, a 317-minute feature film that premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival and went on to win major awards at numerous...

Sep 7, 2017 — Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein are New York City–based filmmakers best known for their award-winning short films, including The Strange Ones, Jonathan’s Chest, Social Butterfly, and Cigarette Candy, which have screened at hundreds of film festivals worldwide, such as Sundance,...

Tim Lucas is a novelist, critic, biographer, monographer, and lyricist, as well as the former editor and copublisher of the influential Video Watchdog magazine. The only journalist granted full access to the set of Videodrome, he is now the audio...

Jul 26, 2018 — The creator of Hamilton has lined up his directorial debut, a TV series, a book . . . the list goes on.

Nov 15, 2016 — This week’s Short + Feature program on the Criterion Channel pairs D.A. Pennebaker’s three-minute experimental Daybreak Express and Ronald Neame’s feature comedy The Horse’s Mouth.

Jul 10, 2025 — A series pairs Bollywood hits with Parallel classics, while India celebrates the Guru Dutt centennial and a new label launches.

Mar 6, 2023 — The Daniels’ juggernaut has won seven top Indie Spirit Awards and swept the major guilds.