The Fall of Berlin

Oct 16, 2014 — This past August, on the occasion of Volker Schlöndorff’s being selected for a Silver Medallion award by the Telluride Film Festival, Criterion’s Peter Becker talked with the German filmmaker about his long career. A short version of the conversation was...

Oct 18, 2011 — Hair, There, and Everywhere Are the Leningrad Cowboys for real? With pointy pompadours reaching to impossible heights above their expressionless faces and needlelike winklepicker shoes that could have been torn from the feet of oversize elves, they might be a...

Mar 2, 2021 — Anyone looking to demonstrate the range of this year’s competition might set Hong Sangsoo’s Introduction next to Dominik Graf’s Fabian: Going to the Dogs.

Sep 25, 2017 — Highlights from this year’s stellar Toronto International Film Festival lineup echoed a handful of classics from our collection.

Jan 29, 2020 — The festival will premiere new work from Christian Petzold, Hong Sang-soo, Philippe Garrel, Sally Potter, Mohammad Rasoulof, and Tsai Ming-liang.

Nov 12, 2007 — What is left of Berlin Alexanderplatz, this endless canon of the sublime and the trivial, is thus a perpetuum mobile of the human dance of love and death.

Jun 19, 2007 — One of the blessings (and curses) of working at Criterion is that every film we put out inspires a passionate response from someone, somewhere. Knowing how deeply people feel about a movie as I’m producing the DVD leads to some...

Aug 22, 2018 — Festivals from New York to London, from Busan to San Sebastián, are finalizing their lineups.

Oct 13, 2021 — Several of the season’s best-reviewed films arrive in the Windy City.

Jul 6, 2026 — Karlovy Vary hosts the world premiere of a new restoration of the Czech director’s 1988 tragicomedy.