The Criterion Collection
The Oscar-winning writer-director of Anora shares his father’s favorite film, pays tribute to Chantal Akerman, and looks forward to revisiting Yi Yi.
The Paris-based Argentine filmmaker selects a few films that align with his interest in cinematic provocation, including unsettling works by Shohei Imamura and Pier Paolo Pasolini
The artist, musician, and director of Heart of a Dog shouts out Guy Maddin as one of her favorite filmmakers, praises the first scene in Sunday Bloody Sunday, and can’t resist Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Trilogy of Life.
May 29, 2014 — Christopher Hobbs is a production designer whose work includes Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane (1976), Caravaggio (1986), and Edward II (1991); Terence Davies’s The Long Day Closes (1992) and The Neon Bible (1995); and Todd Haynes’s Velvet Goldmine (1998). He says that...
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Jan 1, 2014 — This January 1, we present a red and black sketch to keep you guessing for the year ahead.
Genevieve Yue is an associate professor of culture and media at the New School and the author of Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality (2020) and Trains (due out in fall 2026).
Lynn Anthony Higgins is the Edward Tuck Professor Emerita of French Studies at Dartmouth College, where she is also affiliated with the Film & Media Studies Department. She is the author of Bertrand Tavernier (in Manchester University Press’s French Film...
Murtada Elfadl is a culture writer, critic, and film curator. Born and raised in Khartoum, Sudan he currently resides in New York. His work has appeared in Variety, SEEN , and the A.V. Club, among other publications. He is a...
Joachim Trier is a Norwegian Danish filmmaker. He is a multiple-time Oscar nominee and the winner of Norway’s first Academy Award for a fiction feature film, as well as its first BAFTA award, Golden Globe, and Cannes Film Festival Grand...
Gabriel Miller is Professor Emeritus of English at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Films of Martin Ritt: Fanfare for the Common Man and editor of Martin Ritt: Interviews, and has written books on Clifford Odets and William...