The Criterion Collection
These ingenious early works by such masters as Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and Yasujiro Ozu lay the foundations for screen comedy.
This singularly audacious B-movie visionary made purposefully crude, elegantly stripped-down films that laid bare the dark side of American culture.
Cinema history is dotted with thunderous works of art that announced their makers’ brilliance right out of the gate.
Aug 4, 2010 — Québécois filmmaker Xavier Dolan’s debut feature, I Killed My Mother, won three prizes in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, and his follow-up, Heartbeats, competed for the festival’s Un certain regard. An avowed Criterion addict, Dolan...
Food captured on-screen can have a particularly seductive appeal. Here’s what’s on the menu.
We are proud to present a selection of spellbinding music and dance, Criterion-style. Please hold your applause until the intermission.
These films underline both our need to ask eternal questions and the paradoxical power of a visual medium to capture the intangible.
There are eight million stories in the Naked City. Here are some of them.
There’s more in the collection than just the spine-numbered titles. Check out the releases that include short films as supplemental treasures.