The Criterion Collection
Oct 24, 2017 — Stephen Cone is a Chicago-based filmmaker whose films Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party and The Wise Kids are available on DVD and VOD. His latest, Princess Cyd, premiered at Maryland Film Festival, was an official selection of BAMcinemaFest and Frameline, and...
Oct 18, 2017 — Actor Sheryl Lee discusses the experience of collaborating with David Lynch on Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and the director’s unique method of guiding his cast through a process that defied conventional logic.
Essays
Oct 17, 2017 — In this lavishly mounted epic, Stanley Kubrick captures the ghostly ephemerality of a vanishing world with paradoxical immediacy.
In Theaters
Oct 12, 2017 — The Roxy Theater in Missoula, Montana, pays tribute to one of the masters of body horror with a screening of the 1981 film Scanners.
In Theaters
Sep 28, 2017 — Herk Harvey’s one and only film, the haunting low-budget classic Carnival of Souls, plays next Wednesday evening at London’s Regent Street Cinema.
Short Takes
Sep 27, 2017 — Filmmaker Allison Anders recalls a story about her time working with the late Harry Dean Stanton on the set of Paris, Texas.
Features
Sep 27, 2017 — In conjunction with a new edition of Stan Brakhage’s Metaphors on Vision, we’re sharing a selection from the opening pages of this seminal work.
Sep 26, 2017 — This collection of excerpts from interviews with Stan Brakhage illuminates the evolution of his philosophy of film through his career.
In Theaters
Sep 21, 2017 — Tonight, Shotgun Cinema in New Orleans screens a piquant sampling of the wildly idiosyncratic documentaries of Les Blank.
Sneak Peeks
Sep 20, 2017 — Award-winning author Maile Meloy talks about the process of having her short stories translated to the screen in Certain Women.