The Criterion Collection
Essays
Dec 12, 2019 — Almost from the moment it arrived on screens in early 2006, Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy was celebrated as a new milestone for American cinema, even an expression of independent filmmaking’s delayed arrival at maturity. In relating its deceptively simple tale...
Nov 26, 2019 — Bette Davis gets the first laugh in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s All About Eve (1950), and a little over two hours later, she gets the last laugh too. The film opens at the dinner for something called the Sarah Siddons Award...
The Daily
Oct 7, 2019 — Critics respond to the New York Film Festival’s selection of new moving image art.
The Daily
Sep 30, 2019 — Critics are enthralled by a mobster’s three-and-a-half-hour alternative history of the mid-twentieth century.
The Daily
Sep 16, 2019 — Martin Eden tops the Platform competition, while audiences go for Jojo Rabbit.
The Daily
Aug 19, 2019 — Vitalina Varela leads this year’s award winners at the Locarno Film Festival.
The Daily
Aug 6, 2019 — The groundbreaking filmmaker had a hand in inventing—and then reinventing over and again—the modern documentary.
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Jul 17, 2019 — The program of more than three hundred films includes new work by Pedro Costa, Koji Fukada, and Jeanne Balibar.
Features
Jun 4, 2019 — The great Hollywood portrait photographs are like close-ups that never end. Cinema is an art of faces, and the chance to gaze at them, to get lost in them, may be the deepest thrill movies offer. In the darkness of...
On the Channel
May 31, 2019 — Channel Calendars The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) It’s vacation season, and we have a month of exciting journeys for you on the Criterion Channel. Get ready to travel through Europe with Ingrid Bergman, get lost in the enigmatic...