The Criterion Collection
Cinema history is dotted with thunderous works of art that announced their makers’ brilliance right out of the gate.
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.
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.