The Criterion Collection
Sep 16, 2013 — Ingmar Bergman plumbs the depths of a fractured family and gives Ingrid Bergman a shocking star role.
Sep 13, 2013 — Did You See This?• John Bailey on game-changing movie cameras • Venice love from Claire Denis, Abbas Kiarostami, and sixty-eight others • John Le Carré takes on the world. • The tragic tale of Citizen Kane’s Dorothy Comingore • The...
Short Takes
Sep 11, 2013 — When Samuel Fuller’s elegantly pulpy Shock Corridor premiered on September 11, 1963, surely few would have predicted we’d look back on it as a benchmark of American cinema. But this intense film—about a Pulitzer Prize–seeking journalist who goes undercover in...
Sneak Peeks
Sep 10, 2013 — Novelist John Le Carré created one of literature’s most fascinating characters in Alec Leamas, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold’s main heavy, who is on a final, fateful mission in East Germany. In Martin Ritt’s movie version, now...
Sep 10, 2013 — Martin Ritt’s 1965 movie of John le Carré’s first great novel (and first best seller), The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, declares “a plague on all your houses” to capitalists, Communists, and ruthless intelligence operatives. It’s one espionage...
Sep 9, 2013 — As outré as it is, the most subversive thing about this classic farce is its take on what’s normal.
Sep 6, 2013 — Did You See This?• Praising the films of Howard Hawks and the folks who populate them • The gospel according to Alice Guy • Errol Flynn is back on the big screen. • James Franco dives into the murky depths...
In Theaters
Sep 5, 2013 — Repertory PicksLike any great western, Delmer Daves’s taut 3:10 to Yuma is especially commanding on the big screen. This has a lot to do with the film’s vast, ravishingly photographed landscapes, but seeing it in the theater also allows for...
FYI
Aug 20, 2013 — We answer some questions about our decision to begin releasing dual-format editions, including both DVD and Blu-ray discs in one package.
Aug 20, 2013 — Satyajit Ray’s delicate masterpiece about forbidden love in the late nineteenth century is lovingly adapted from a novella by the great Rabindranath Tagore.