The Criterion Collection
May 11, 2012 — Did You See This? • Yes, Ingmar Bergman visited the set of Jaws • Where have all the movie palaces gone? • Playing dress-up with gangsters • Robert Pattinson is crazy for Cronenberg • Wim Wenders’s strange and quiet places...
May 4, 2012 — Did You See This? • William Klein, unguarded • The New York Review of Books plays Stalker and swoons over silence • Artist Dan Flavin’s planned homage to the “low-key adventure, not really important at all” La notte • Buffalo...
Apr 27, 2012 — Did You See This? • Go underground with Stanley Kubrick, circa 1946. • Catch up with Frau Blücher [sound of a horse whinnying] . . . • . . . and creepy Carrie White. • Lyons on Insdorf on Kaufman...
Apr 20, 2012 — Did You See This? • Richard Brody on the ecstasy of L’Atalante • David Bordwell on the digital conversion—and the Night and the City print that made Jules Dassin weep • Bresson, definitely • A bevy of posters from Moonrise...
Apr 13, 2012 — Did You See This? • Can La haine save London from more riots? • You can’t kid a kidder, but you can scare a scarer. • (Why can’t every day be) Derek Jarman Day • A Cassavetes Tumblr • Edward...
Apr 6, 2012 — Did You See This? • Looking through Keyhole with Guy Maddin • A stunning Rear Window time-lapse panorama • He likes words. • Watch Kubrick’s first three docs. • Is Leo McCarey’s Ruggles of Red Gap “the most patriotic American...
Mar 30, 2012 — Did You See This? • Whit Stillman is back and in distress. • The horror of Fellini • Noah Isenberg gets Wilder. • Citizen Kane GIFs • David Lynch would like to not tell you about his new paintings. •...
Mar 23, 2012 — Did You See This? • Under the skin of Frampton’s Surface Tension • Charting Buñuel’s “Red years” • Kael, Ebert, and the seventies . . . • . . . but what is cinephilia today? • Slacker and the Austin...
Mar 16, 2012 — Did You See This? • Terence Davies on his new film and stealing from David Lean • Unpublished Spartacus photos • The backlash against the Tiny Furniture backlash has begun. • Where in the Dickens did the BFI find this?...
Oct 17, 2011 — Scratch the surface of a contemporary J-horror classic like Ringu (1998) or any of the Ju-on films (2000–03) and you’ll glimpse Yabu no naka no kuroneko (Black Cat from the Grove), released in the U.S. as simply Kuroneko (1968). Shot...