The Criterion Collection
Jul 19, 2013 — Did You See This?• Rediscoveries at this year’s Il Cinema Ritrovato festival • Unburied treasures of cinema past • Our fans amaze us. • Whit Stillman persuaded by Jane Austen • Hollis Frampton comes alive. • Curtis Harrington gets his...
Features
Jun 17, 2013 — The author recounts the story of his friendship with the great filmmaker.
May 28, 2013 — Mike Leigh’s breakthrough is a funny film about serious things, and an emotional and slyly political take on consumer culture.
May 21, 2013 — It’s tough to tell where reality ends and fiction begins in Haskell Wexler’s deft chronicle of a turbulent era.
Apr 5, 2013 — Did You See This?• Words for the great Roger Ebert: Carson, Edelstein, Emerson • When Kenneth Turan met Burt Lancaster • Alain Delon’s effortless style • Watch Martin Scorsese’s eloquent speech this week at the Kennedy Center. • On illustrating...
Feb 12, 2013 — The Dardenne brothers return to the streets of Seraing for a typically humane and suspenseful story of personal redemption.
Essays
Jul 24, 2012 — Whit Stillman’s wry comedy about Upper East Siders looked like a perverse bit of daring in 1990; today it seems like an artifact from an earlier century.
May 22, 2012 — These five films chart the unlikely ascendance of a hero of American underground cinema.
Features
Jun 27, 2011 — A rogue’s gallery of vituperative 1950s vixens and night-world tough-guy gargoyles all coalescing in a constellation of twinkling cold war lights, Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly is a film of a thousand stars. Stars of every sort, size, and description:...
Features
May 26, 2011 — Last month, a new art-house theater opened here in Austin, the Violet Crown Cinema. (Our city has several pet names, and one of them is the City of the Violet Crown. Why it’s called that has been completely lost to...