The Criterion Collection
Feb 25, 2016 — Actor, writer, and director Paul Schneider has long been a devotee of the Criterion Collection. His credits include films by Zhang Yimou, Warren Beatty, Christophe Honoré, Sam Mendes, and Woody Allen. Schneider won a best supporting actor award from the...
Feb 25, 2016 — Anderson’s intimate and moving nonfiction feature centers on the passing of her late, beloved terrier Lolabelle, using that loss as a starting point for a beautiful meditation on life, love, and death. To get a taste of the film, watch...
Essays
Feb 24, 2016 — Fifty years after its initial release, Antonio Pietrangeli’s I Knew Her Well is only now emerging as a dazzling peer of the classics of 1960s Italian cinema.
Visual Analysis
Feb 10, 2016 — Regular Criterion Collection contributor :: kogonada explores the innovative cinematic lexicon Godard developed in the fifteen features he made between 1960 and 1967.
Interviews
Feb 3, 2016 — For more than two decades, photographer Gregory Crewdson has been creating otherworldly images that reveal an eerie side of Americana. His works, typically tableaux of small-town life, transform the everyday into the uncanny.
Jan 29, 2016 — Film theorist Laura Mulvey, who introduced the world to the concept of the “male gaze,” is one of cinema’s most influential thinkers. She is a professor of film and media studies at the University of London’s Birkbeck College and is...
In Theaters
Jan 21, 2016 — Next week, the Dryden Theatre at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, will kick off Agnès Varda: (Self)-Portraits, Facts and Fiction, a monthlong series celebrating the pioneering French director’s body of work.
Production Notes
Jan 15, 2016 — The filmmaker and cinematographer had a lifelong commitment to the camera and how it could be used to foster dialogue and action.
Jan 13, 2016 — In Bitter Rice, Giuseppe De Santis focused his lens on the world of Italy’s female rice workers, for a story that’s part social commentary, part pulp melodrama—and introduced the world to a dazzling young actress named Silvana Mangano.
Short Takes
Jan 6, 2016 — Celebrated English playwright, actor, screenwriter, and composer Noël Coward brought us many cinema classics, but his relationship with the medium was far from straightforward, as Coward scholar Barry Day explains in a post at Literary Hub.