The Criterion Collection
On the Channel
Mar 19, 2018 — For our latest episode of Meet the Filmmakers, on the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck, Canadian actor and director Connor Jessup traveled to meet with Apichatpong Weerasethakul in the Colombian jungle.
Sneak Peeks
Feb 26, 2018 — Film scholar Meheli Sen discusses the particular qualities that made Bengali actor Uttam Kumar a star and the perfect leading man for Satyajit Ray’s The Hero.
In Theaters
Feb 22, 2018 — As part of the fourth annual Cinema Revival, the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, will screen our 4K restoration of Tony Richardson’s Tom Jones.
On the Channel
Feb 12, 2018 — Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro shares heartfelt appreciations for eleven of his favorite films in the collection.
Feb 2, 2018 — On the fiftieth-anniversary commemoration of the armistice that ended World War I, the French television program Les dossiers de l’écran showed G. W. Pabst’s Westfront 1918 to a group of veterans and asked for their reactions.
Feb 1, 2018 — G. W. Pabst’s breathlessly paced reimagining of a mine disaster makes an urgent plea for international cooperation in the post–World War I era.
Jan 12, 2018 — One of the greatest works of Cuban cinema returns for a theatrical run at New York City’s Film Forum this week.
In Theaters
Jan 4, 2018 — Jacques Demy made his return to France after a stint in Hollywood with this Jean Cocteau–inspired vehicle for Catherine Deneuve, screening at Toronto’s Royal Cinema next week.
Sneak Peeks
Jan 4, 2018 — For his period epic Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick insisted on shooting primarily with candlelight. Two of his collaborators discuss the challenges presented by this approach and the solutions they arrived at on set.
Jan 2, 2018 — John Hughes created the blueprint for the American teen movie with this pop-culture phenomenon, finding the humanity in an assortment of high school archetypes.