The Criterion Collection
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.
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.