The Criterion Collection
The award-winning playwright, actor, producer, and director shares his love for Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, celebrates how Bob Fosse captured dance on-screen like no one else, and talks about the artists who have shaped him, from Lena Dunham and the...
The duo behind the legendary band share their formative memories of encountering Island of Lost Souls, praise Fellini’s unique sonic sensibility, and talk about their love for Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster in Sweet Smell of Success.
The award-winning actor, writer, and director shares his love for the hard-boiled voice-over in Blast of Silence, praises the exquisite acting and production design of Topsy-Turvy, and selects favorites by his frequent collaborators Joel and Ethan Coen.
The writer and director admires how filmmakers like Jacques Tati, Wes Anderson, and David Lynch sculpt their own universes, selects a Spike Lee double feature, and praises Víctor Erice’s films as some of the best in cinema history.
The struggles of ordinary Americans are foregrounded in this acclaimed auteur’s understated yet deeply humanistic films.
A titan of American independent cinema, the iconoclastic director has sustained an aesthetic of cool through irreverent dramas and deadpan comedies that subvert genre codes.
An instantly recognizable icon of the twentieth century, this pioneering actor and director blended slapstick humor with poignant social commentary in some of the most beloved comedies of the silent era.
Widely revered as the Master of Suspense, the celebrated director revolutionized popular cinema with his psychosexual thrillers and meticulously plotted mysteries, which often feature icy blondes and macabre men.
The writer, director, actor, and producer shares what Marlon Riggs’s work means to her as a Black queer filmmaker, praises Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s radical approach to melodrama, and spotlights Chantal Akerman, Agnès Varda, and other directors whose work she can’t...
The Oscar-winning writer and director talks about Army of Shadows and Jean-Pierre Melville’s cinema of betrayal, shares his love for Denis Lavant's dancing in Beau travail, and selects favorites by Yasujiro Ozu, Ernst Lubitsch, and Nicholas Ray.