The Criterion Collection
Jan 10, 2005 — Seijun Suzuki made a breakthrough with his second feature, a yakuza thriller full of devil-may-care assurance and try-anything imagination.
Essays
Dec 2, 1990 — In Martin Scorsese’s hands, the camera is not simply a recording device, but an x-ray machine—and it shows us close-ups of the human soul.
The actor and director praises Black God, White Devil as one of the most important Brazilian films ever made, talks about the complex humanity of Il Posto, and reflects on why Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are his favorite filmmakers.
The producer and founder of the Black List praises Don Cheadle’s and Denzel Washington’s performances in Devil in a Blue Dress, talks about why everyone who wants to work in Hollywood should see Bamboozled, and selects favorites by Charles Burnett...
The director of One False Move and Devil in a Blue Dress talks about his love of Yasujiro Ozu, the exploration of crime in Pixote, the inspiration he took from Children of Paradise, and one of the greatest jazz films...
Jul 7, 2010 — Frederick Elmes has served as cinematographer on some of the most acclaimed American movies of the past four decades, including Eraserhead, River’s Edge, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Broken Flowers, and Synecdoche, New York. The films in the Criterion Collection...
Alex Zucker’s translation of Jáchym Topol’s latest novel, The Devil’s Workshop, received an English PEN Award for Writing in Translation and will be published by Portobello Books in 2013. In 2012, he received a literature fellowship from the National Endowment...
Ti West is the writer and director of 2009’s The House of the Devil, among other critically acclaimed films. His latest, The Innkeepers, will be released in early 2012.
Matt Zoller Seitz is the editor at large of RogerEbert.com, a staff writer for New York magazine, and the author or coauthor of best-selling books on film and television, including “Mad Men” Carousel, “The Sopranos” Sessions, the multivolume Wes Anderson...
Tom Piazza is the author of twelve books, including the novels The Auburn Conference and A Free State, the post–Hurricane Katrina manifesto Why New Orleans Matters, and the essay collection Devil Sent the Rain. He was a principal writer for...