The Criterion Collection
Essays
Jan 21, 2008 — While Agnès Varda was prescient in picking up on the new social phenomenon of France’s young female drifters, she also anticipated the culture of extreme individualism that has come to dominate Western society since the 1980s.
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Jan 5, 2026 — One of France’s biggest stars took the world by storm before her reputation took a turn.
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Sep 27, 2021 — Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand star in Coen’s first feature as a solo director.
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Sep 22, 2021 — Wes Anderson collects his favorite New Yorker stories, and Werner Herzog has written his first novel.
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Jan 12, 2021 — Nomadland has triumphed on the first big night of awards season.
Jul 27, 2020 — Venice, Toronto, Telluride, and New York will present Zhao’s third feature starring Frances McDormand.
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Feb 12, 2020 — Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch now has a trailer; and Pedro Almodóvar and Dee Rees are lining up new projects.
Features
May 30, 2014 — The long relationship between director and festival has never been without its complications.
Nov 15, 2011 — Jean Renoir’s masterpiece is a dazzling accomplishment, original in form and style, a comic tragedy, absurd and profound, graced by two of the most brilliant scenes ever created.
Aug 9, 2011 — Gillo Pontecorvo’s incendiary epic commemorates the popular uprising that had succeeded in ousting the French from Algeria in July 1962.