The Goumbé of the Young Revelers

Sep 16, 2010 — You may not know the name, but you know the face. Caterina Boratto, known for her indelible performances in such Italian cinema classics as 8½, Juliet of the Spirits, and Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, has died in Rome....

Sep 10, 2010 — Starting today, Angelenos should dance their way over to the Laemmle Sunset 5 Theatre in West Hollywood, where the new documentary Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff—a labor of love (nearly fifteen years in the making!) by Craig...

Aug 18, 2010 — Before Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus showed up on American and European screens in 1959, what would later be known as the “art film” came in only a few shades of glum: Bergmanesque existentialism, Japanese samurai tragedy, stories of Italian peasant...

Aug 12, 2010 — One of the most challenging aspects of our work is to get accurate color for films when there are no filmmakers to consult with. This is especially true of films from the fifties and sixties, for which cinematographers, directors, editors,...

This singularly audacious B-movie visionary made purposefully crude, elegantly stripped-down films that laid bare the dark side of American culture.

We are proud to present a selection of spellbinding music and dance, Criterion-style. Please hold your applause until the intermission.

There are eight million stories in the Naked City. Here are some of them.

There’s more in the collection than just the spine-numbered titles. Check out the releases that include short films as supplemental treasures.

In the 1960s a group of daredevil filmmakers brought about the creative revitalization of Japanese cinema.

These uncategorizable works blur the lines between fiction and documentary with panache.