The Criterion Collection
Jun 26, 2012 — Hiroshi Inagaki’s action epic is as responsible for creating Toshiro Mifune’s legendary cinematic persona as the films of Kurosawa.
Jun 12, 2012 — Miguel Arteta has directed the films Star Maps, Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl, Youth in Revolt, and Cedar Rapids, along with episodes of the television series American Horror Story, Nurse Jackie, Six Feet Under, and Ugly Betty. His list...
Interviews
Jun 7, 2012 — In this classic self-interview, published to coincide with the release of Summer with Monika, the director reveals key elements of his filmmaking process.
The only female director of the French New Wave, Agnès Varda has been called both the movement’s mother and its grandmother.
Essays
May 25, 2012 — The following article by the filmmaker himself originally appeared in the German newspaper Die Filmwoche on May 20, 1931.
May 22, 2012 — These five films chart the unlikely ascendance of a hero of American underground cinema.
May 16, 2012 — Chuck Klosterman is the author of seven books (most recently, The Visible Man and Eating the Dinosaur) and serves as an accidental narrator of the LCD Soundsystem documentary Shut Up and Play the Hits. Of compiling this list, Klosterman says,...
Apr 18, 2012 — Born in Queens, New York, American television writer and producer Phil Rosenthal is best known as the creator of the hit sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, which ran on CBS for nine seasons; he is also the director of the 2010...
Short Takes
Apr 6, 2012 — Images by the avant-garde icon can be seen at Anthology Film Archives this weekend.
Mar 13, 2012 — John Taylor is a member of the British rock group Duran Duran, which he founded in 1978 while at college in Birmingham, along with his fellow student Stephen “TinTin” Duffy and their neighborhood friend Nick Rhodes. When not on the...