The Criterion Collection
Dec 7, 2008 — Fitting as a monument to such a long, influential, multimedia career, the publisher Taschen has released the mammoth The Ingmar Bergman Archives, a 592-page, fifteen-pound chronicle of the Swedish filmmaker’s career in film, theater, and television (“Just don’t pick up...
The musician, producer, filmmaker, author, and actor reminisces about discovering Black Orpheus through Prince, shares his love for concert films like Monterey Pop and Gimme Shelter, and talks about how Spike Lee’s films have always been ahead of their time.
Shannon J. Effinger has been a freelance arts journalist and cultural critic for over a decade. Her work regularly appears in publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, AFAR magazine, W magazine, Pitchfork, Jazziz, and...
Steve Erickson is the author of Shadowbahn, Zeroville, and eight other novels that have been translated into a dozen languages. He is the chair of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, where he teaches literature and film.
The Daily
May 10, 2021 — Over the next two weeks, Laurent Kretzschmar and Srikanth Srinivasan will present translations of the renowned critic’s dispatches.
Short Takes
Oct 9, 2015 — Agnès Varda keeps popping up in the most unexpected places.
In Theaters
Jun 26, 2018 — Watch the new trailer for this rarely seen but deeply influential landmark of independent cinema.
Apr 20, 2018 — Jim Jarmusch filmed Neil Young recording the score for his 1995 revisionist western. Watch a bit of the never-released footage here.
On the Channel
Mar 13, 2017 — Cinema’s ability to evoke the knotty complexities of time, truth, and subjective experience makes it an ideal medium for exploring memory, a theme that has long been a source of fascination for artists. This week on the Criterion Channel, our...
In Theaters
Oct 23, 2014 — Repertory PicksNo nosy neighbors have ever been quite as troublesome as the Castavets in the great American horror film Rosemary’s Baby, which moviegoers in Cambridge, Massachusetts, can enjoy on the big screen at the historic Brattle Theatre on October 25...