The Swissmakers

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.

The history of cinema: one hundred years of do-overs. But no matter how hard the remakers try, no one can surpass these originals.

In the 1960s a group of daredevil filmmakers brought about the creative revitalization of Japanese cinema.

Predators, prey, objects of study, companions. Here are the animals in the Criterion menagerie.

Surreal, structural, et cetera: A handful of visionary, largely nonnarrative works belong to the collection, from some of the most important experimental film artists around the world—Jean Painlevé, Kenneth Macpherson, Stan Brakhage, and Chantal Akerman among them.