The Criterion Collection
Short Takes
Aug 2, 2010 — The great, beloved screenwriter Suso Cecchi D’Amico died this past weekend at the age of ninety-six. A longtime collaborator of Luchino Visconti’s (they’re pictured together above), including on the epic The Leopard (1963), Cecchi D’Amico worked with just about every...
Mar 12, 2007 — Kon Ichikawa’s incendiary and extraordinarily brutal war film renders the emotional carnage that festers long after the battle’s end.
Essays
Aug 18, 2003 — Ingmar Bergman’s chamber film is his most concentrated inquiry into the significance of religion, and of Lutheranism specifically.
The Daily
Oct 8, 2020 — The poetic portrait of a mother struggling to reunite her family won a documentary directing award at Sundance.
The Daily
Apr 28, 2020 — Twenty of the world’s top festivals, including Cannes, Venice, Berlin, and Sundance, will take part in a free global event.
Aug 19, 2016 — Born and raised in Los Angeles, Andrew Ahn is a Korean-American filmmaker whose debut feature, Spa Night, premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and won the US Grand Jury Prize at Outfest. The film’s lead actor, Joe Seo, won...
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Aug 12, 2021 — Gleaning the best of Cannes, Berlin, and Sundance, NYFF programmers have selected thirty-two features from nearly as many countries.
Oct 23, 2012 — After winning an Oscar, John Schlesinger used his newfound artistic freedom to make a personal film in which homosexuality is treated as groundbreakingly ordinary.
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Dec 3, 2025 — The Academy Museum celebrates film presentation with a series of twenty-four new restorations.
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Sep 22, 2025 — The LA genre festival presents a doc on a reviled sequel as well as the latest features from Radu Jude and Lucile Hadžihalilović.