The Casagrandes Movie

Mar 31, 2016 — At the beginning of Julia Cafritz’s senior year of high school, she saw Peter Weir’s The Last Wave and decided to drop out of high school, skip college, move to Australia, marry Mr. Weir and devote her life to filmmaking....

Mar 18, 2016 — Meg Baird is a founding member of the experimental folk collective Espers (Drag City). She continues to perform and produce solo work under her own name, and she is the vocalist and drummer in Heron Oblivion (Sub Pop). Her most...

Mar 11, 2016 — Consider the story of Lolabelle, the rat terrier cast by Laurie Anderson—her human companion—in Anderson’s stirring, tender film Heart of a Dog.

Feb 25, 2016 — Actor, writer, and director Paul Schneider has long been a devotee of the Criterion Collection. His credits include films by Zhang Yimou, Warren Beatty, Christophe Honoré, Sam Mendes, and Woody Allen. Schneider won a best supporting actor award from the...

Feb 25, 2016 — Anderson’s intimate and moving nonfiction feature centers on the passing of her late, beloved terrier Lolabelle, using that loss as a starting point for a beautiful meditation on life, love, and death. To get a taste of the film, watch...

Feb 10, 2016 — Regular Criterion Collection contributor :: kogonada explores the innovative cinematic lexicon Godard developed in the fifteen features he made between 1960 and 1967.

Jan 29, 2016 — Film theorist Laura Mulvey, who introduced the world to the concept of the “male gaze,” is one of cinema’s most influential thinkers. She is a professor of film and media studies at the University of London’s Birkbeck College and is...

Jan 21, 2016 — Next week, the Dryden Theatre at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, will kick off Agnès Varda: (Self)-Portraits, Facts and Fiction, a monthlong series celebrating the pioneering French director’s body of work.

Jan 15, 2016 — The filmmaker and cinematographer had a lifelong commitment to the camera and how it could be used to foster dialogue and action.

Jan 13, 2016 — In Bitter Rice, Giuseppe De Santis focused his lens on the world of Italy’s female rice workers, for a story that’s part social commentary, part pulp melodrama—and introduced the world to a dazzling young actress named Silvana Mangano.