The Criterion Collection
Michael Anderegg’s books include Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture; Cinematic Shakespeare; and, published in 2015, Lincoln and Shakespeare.
Allison Anders is an award-winning film and television writer and director who got her first professional break working for her mentor, Wim Wenders, on his movie Paris, Texas (1984). Her feature debut was Border Radio (1987), cowritten and codirected with...
Greil Marcus is the author of Lipstick Traces, The Shape of Things to Come, and The Manchurian Candidate in the BFI Film Classics series. With Werner Sollors, he is the editor of A New Literary History of America (Harvard, 2009)....
Michael Töteberg is the author of Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2002) and has edited, in Germany, three volumes of Fassbinder’s screenplays as well as Peter Märthesheimer and Pea Fröhlich’s scripts for Fassbinder’s BRD trilogy: The Marriage of Maria...
Matt Zoller Seitz is the editor at large of RogerEbert.com and the author or coauthor of best-selling books on film and television, including “Mad Men” Carousel, “The Sopranos” Sessions, the multivolume Wes Anderson Collection series, The Oliver Stone Experience, and...
On the Channel
Jan 9, 2017 — The glittering surfaces of classic fairy tales often mask undercurrents of emotional torment, spiritual foreboding, and moral transgression. This week, our latest series on the Criterion Channel, Happily Ever After?, showcases the deviant forces lurking within some of cinema’s most...
In Theaters
Feb 25, 2016 — Repertory PicksFrom now until April 25, Emory University’s Emory Cinematheque in Atlanta will be hosting the series French New Waves: Classics and Rediscoveries. In addition to seminal works of the nouvelle vague, the series will be showcasing some celebrated precursors...
The Daily
Sep 25, 2026 — David Lynch keeps reentering the conversation, and so does Pauline Kael. Plus: A roundup of recent newsletters.
Sep 10, 2026 — The independent home-video retailer’s first brick-and-mortar store is a new physical destination for movie lovers to discover cinema, build their collections, and connect with the community around them.
The Daily
Sep 8, 2026 — Riding raves for Lee and his four leads, the film heads next to Toronto and New York.