The Criterion Collection
Criterion Designs
Feb 26, 2020 — For the Blu-ray edition of Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman, we wanted to make something that quite literally stood out. As an homage to the pioneering craftsman Zeman—whose wondrous work is represented in our newly released set by Journey...
Feb 26, 2020 — Karel Zeman belonged to an obsessive fringe fellowship of moviemakers that stretched right back to the medium’s first formative days—a lineage of auteurs who believed in cinema as a full-blown daydream machine, capable of realizing inhabitable fantasias. These were filmmakers—practical-effects...
The Daily
Feb 18, 2020 — From the making of Chinatown, through fresh memoirs and ongoing biographies, here’s this month’s overview of new and noteworthy titles.
Essays
Feb 18, 2020 — In what was no doubt an appeal to subtitle-averse audiences, advertisements for the U.S. release of Teorema (1968) trumpeted, “There are only 923 words spoken in Teorema—but it says everything!” A meager few of those utterances are expended in an...
Essays
Dec 12, 2019 — Almost from the moment it arrived on screens in early 2006, Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy was celebrated as a new milestone for American cinema, even an expression of independent filmmaking’s delayed arrival at maturity. In relating its deceptively simple tale...
On the Channel
Nov 25, 2019 — Karyn Kusama has always been fascinated by what terrifies and startles audiences. A director who has won acclaim for her fresh, surprising spins on familiar genres—from teen horror (Jennifer’s Body) to the detective thriller (Destroyer)—she has drawn creative inspiration from masters of...
On the Channel
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The Daily
Sep 27, 2019 — Some of the top titles premiering in Berlin, Locarno, and Venice this year are featured in the New York Film Festival’s Main Slate.
On the Channel
Sep 23, 2019 — Acclaimed filmmaker Rian Johnson has made a career out of retrofitting genres to his own imaginative specifications. After novel spins on the gumshoe neonoir (Brick) and the time-travel thriller (Looper), the writer-director launched into space—and won a much wider audience—with...