The Criterion Collection
Oct 4, 2013 — Did You See This?• Guillermo del Toro goes to Springfield and enters a Cabinet of Curiosities. • Call Lena Dunham—there’s a new girl in town. • The art of the vamp • A glimpse of the latest from Costa-Gavras •...
In Theaters
Oct 3, 2013 — Repertory PicksLove Is Colder Than Death is the name of a new Rainer Werner Fassbinder screening series beginning this weekend at Berkeley’s Pacific Film Archive. It’s also the title of the first of the forty-four movies made by the peversely...
Features
Sep 30, 2013 — The author describes his interactions with the great Polish filmmaker.
Sep 27, 2013 — Did You See This?• Baby making • Chronicle of an unsung documentarian • The Pope loves Fellini! • Los Angeles replays itself. • At home with Antonio Monda • David Bordwell catches up with Wong Kar-wai. • A new look...
Sep 23, 2013 — The neorealist master and the Hollywood icon forged a brilliant artistic path together, despite the backlash their controversial romance generated.
Sep 20, 2013 — Did You See This?• J. Hoberman revisits Shock Corridor. • Watercoloring the movies • Donald Richie to be honored • Time Bandits’ journey to the screen • Adam Curtis’s documentary attack • Howard Hampton slacks off. • Agnès Varda then...
Essays
Sep 18, 2013 — This chapter about director Richard Linklater’s beginnings, from the 1996 book Spike, Mike, Slackers & Dykes: A Guided Tour Across a Decade of American Independent Cinema, is by the former producer’s representative, creator and host of IFC’s Split Screen, and...
Short Takes
Sep 17, 2013 — The author sheds some light on the fascinating life of the American scriptwriter behind Roberto Rossellini’s Paisan.
Sep 16, 2013 — Ingmar Bergman plumbs the depths of a fractured family and gives Ingrid Bergman a shocking star role.
Sneak Peeks
Sep 13, 2013 — Edouard Molinaro’s 1978 La Cage aux Folles is not only an entertaining farce but also a landmark, for the way it opened many viewers’ eyes to both drag culture and same-sex relationships. To find out more about the film’s sexual...