The Criterion Collection
Visual Analysis
Jun 6, 2017 — The veteran documentary filmmaker behind Hoop Dreams and the recently released Abacus: Small Enough to Jail discusses the ways in which Robert Altman’s masterpiece combines epic scope with intimate detail.
Essays
Oct 4, 2011 — Pier Paolo Pasolini’s work demonstrates an aversion for the present while simultaneously suggesting the impossibility of escaping it, and thus the need to confront it.
The Daily
Jun 23, 2025 — The director followed up on his cult classic House (1977) with four tales of teen love, magic, and memory.
The Daily
Jan 23, 2025 — In the run-up to the forty-first edition, critics have been writing up lists of their most-anticipated films.
Dec 13, 2022 — A pioneering feminist artist drawn to universal themes, the Swedish director mined the complexity and humor of human behavior in films that courted controversy and cultivated a sense of detachment.
The Daily
Sep 3, 2019 — Early verdicts diverge as widely as opinions on how to respond to the very idea of a new film by Roman Polanski.
Essays
Dec 9, 1985 — Movie thrillers may come and go, but after half a century, Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps still reigns supreme. And not only for the sheer, breathless excitement of the story; the seamless construction; the chilling, beautifully realized atmosphere; and the...
Essays
Jun 17, 2025 — Mitchell Leisen’s marvelously chic and brilliantly constructed screwball classic revolves around a heroine who flounders through a succession of complications but always manages to come out ahead.
The Daily
Oct 30, 2023 — Halloweenish movies from France will screen every Tuesday in New York through mid-December.
Nov 1, 2022 — In one of the most incendiary and formally experimental films of the Czechoslovak New Wave, two mysterious young women uncover humanity’s endless potential for revolt.