The Chechahcos

Feb 10, 2003 — The poet Paul Eluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more than your car. Ordinarily, I would settle for that. However, with so much being written about the film...

Jun 3, 2002 — In addition to being his funniest film, The Horse’s Mouth is the most personal, and touching, of all Alec Guinness’ movies. Apart from starring as the brilliant but bedraggled artist Gulley Jimson, Guinness also adapted the Oscar-nominated screenplay from Joyce...

Nov 9, 1987 — The stories French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse tells in these sharply crafted featurettes are simple, yet they cut straight to the heart of a child’s view of the world.

Oct 15, 2050 — Voice-over narration has existed since the beginnings of cinema and has been an integral part of some of the great masterworks of narrative film, from The Magnificent Ambersons to Double Indemnity to Jules and Jim to Taxi Driver. It spans...

Nov 3, 2026 — Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans’s seismic pop-culture phenomenon is a colorful, musical twist on a classic coming-of-age story, featuring a young protagonist reckoning with the contrast between who she really is and who she’s expected to be.

Oct 29, 2026 — Julie Klausner created and costarred in the critically acclaimed Hulu cult comedy Difficult People, now available on Blu-ray. She hosts How Was Your Week and cohosts Double Threat, both podcasts, and is a prolific writer and performer. She lives in...

Oct 29, 2026 — One of the most passionately analyzed shows in television history is a mind-bending investigation of free will and modern surveillance culture, told with an audacious blend of symbolism, philosophy, and avant-garde surrealism.

Oct 29, 2026 — Drawing on his global understanding of Black expressive culture, the director of I Ran from It and Was Still in It and Blur creates freewheeling narrative structures that explore the intricacies of time, loss, and collective memory.

Oct 23, 2026 — Classics of highway horror, like Road Games, The Appointment, and Race with the Devil, present the open road as a dangerous landscape and automobiles as single-minded killing machines.

Oct 23, 2026 — To get you in the mood for Halloween, we invited a group of six writers and filmmakers to tell us about horror movies on the Criterion Channel that they feel deserve more attention.