The Criterion Collection
Criterion Designs
Jan 28, 2016 — The film is is a high-water mark in the careers of its director, actors, and cowriter. But for design nerds, the contributions of Pablo Ferro, who designed the film’s iconic opening credit sequence, are just as notable.
Sep 26, 2013 — “It’s silly to choose ten, but okay!” wrote Donald Fagen, the American songwriter and musician best known as the cofounder and lead singer of Steely Dan, when presented with the task of picking his favorite titles in the Criterion Collection....
Apr 7, 2010 — Seth is a cartoonist whose books include It’s a Good Life If You Don’t Weaken, George Sprott (1894–1975), and Clyde Fans Book One. As an illustrator and designer, he has worked on a number of high-profile projects, including Fantagraphics Books’...
Jun 9, 2009 — “It’s worth noting that I have not seen the majority of the films in the collection (giving me hundreds of hours of great stuff to look forward to!),” says Joe Swanberg. “But of the many that I have seen, the...
These two filmmakers forged an alliance that lasted from the late thirties to the early seventies, making their mark on the world of British cinema by always going against its realist strain.
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...
Daniel Kremer has provided commentary tracks and video essays for physical-media releases from over a dozen labels, including Kino Lorber, Imprint Films, Milestone, and Severin. His book Sidney J. Furie: Life and Films (2015) was the first to cover its...
Film critic Stéphane Delorme was editor in chief of Cahiers du cinéma from 2009 to 2020. He was a programmer at the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival when Daddy Longlegs made its world premiere there in 2009.
Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer and its sequel, The Committed. His other books include The Refugees and Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War.
Greg Tate is a Village Voice staff alum, musician, and cultural provocateur who lives high atop Harlem’s Sugar Hill. His books include Flyboy in the Buttermilk, Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader, Midnight Lightning: Jimi Hendrix and the Black Experience,...