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.
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.
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.
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.
These uncategorizable works blur the lines between fiction and documentary with panache.
Some of the world’s great directors did their finest work during a time of terrible conflict and loss.