The Criterion Collection
Features
Nov 3, 2015 — We present an excerpt from the book David Lynch: The Man from Another Place, by Dennis Lim.
Essays
Oct 21, 2015 — Masaki Kobayashi takes on broken vows and the unreality of the past in his sensual and spooky four-part adaptation of Lafcadio Hearn’s Japanese folktales.
Short Takes
Oct 20, 2015 — Koko the gorilla has found some new friends.
Short Takes
Oct 9, 2015 — The eternal Beatle and mischievous star of A Hard Day’s Night (1964) would have turned seventy-five today.
Oct 9, 2015 — Guy Maddin and his filmmaking partner Evan Johnson dropped by the Criterion kitchen to talk about their new film, The Forbidden Room.
Sep 29, 2015 — Merchant Ivory Productions’ sun-kissed romantic comedy is an effervescent tale of class and manners among the Edwardian English.
Sep 24, 2015 — Bruce Beresford critiques the British colonialist era in this precise, layered adaptation of a 1939 novel by Joyce Cary.
Criterion Designs
Sep 24, 2015 — The French Lieutenant’s Woman is a film with the look of a lush period piece and the structure of postmodern metafiction. When it came time to design the cover, we wanted something that would emphasize the ways the film makes...
Short Takes
Aug 28, 2015 — Wes Anderson’s famous style just keeps extending its reach. According to W magazine, a lot of this year’s fall fashions are torn straight from the iconoclastic American director’s stylebook, with designers from Gucci to Bally offering looks reminiscent of The...
Aug 17, 2015 — François Truffaut’s love letter to the movies is a lightheartedly self-reflexive symphony of camera movement and musical flourish.