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This patient observer of everyday life in Japan has been enormously influential among filmmakers seeking a cinema of economy and poetry.

A lifelong cinephile, this French filmmaker reinvigorated cinema throughout the sixties and seventies by breaking from the industry’s bloated “tradition of quality.”

One of cinema’s great modern directors, this larger-than-life maestro created an inimitable cinematic style combining surreal carnival with incisive social critique.

From artistically refined epics to gory, pulpy spectacles, these films showcase the richness of a uniquely Japanese action subgenre.

One of cinema’s great subversives and mischief makers, this Spanish master combined surrealist non sequiturs with attacks on the bourgeoisie and the church.

Oct 30, 2008 — In town for the New York Film Festival screenings of his much-admired A Christmas Tale, French director Arnaud Desplechin talked to Dennis Lim about his always allusive filmmaking style and his particular influences in making this dysfunctional-family holiday film, including...

Oct 29, 2008 — Goetz Spielmann’s Revanche, a 2008 festival favorite and Austria’s submission for the best foreign film Oscar, has found a North American home with sister companies Janus Films and the Criterion Collection. In a rare step into the first-run business, Janus...

No one has influenced modern filmmaking more than this French New Wave pioneer. He was one of our greatest lyricists on historical trauma, religion, and the legacy of cinema.

Oct 27, 2008 — Variety reported today that Mike Nichols is getting ready to direct a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s beloved 1963 thriller High and Low, from a new screenplay by David Mamet, and likely to be executive produced by Martin Scorsese, who originally...

A singular, iconoclastic artist and philosopher, Bresson illuminates the history of cinema with a spiritual yet socially incisive body of work.