The Criterion Collection
The actor praises films by directors he has worked with, talks about how Mike Leigh’s Naked and Ken Loach’s Kes helped define contemporary British cinema, and thanks his father for his love of Tampopo.
The actor and director talks about the thrilling sensation of seeing All That Jazz for the first time, reminisces about watching Klute while on the set of Twilight, and reflects upon her favorite Ingmar Bergman films, such as Winter Light...
The writer and director of the cult classic The Babadook shares her love for fellow Australian filmmaker Peter Weir’s The Last Wave, talks about her repeat viewings of Mulholland Dr., and selects spine-tingling Japanese horror classics Kuroneko and Onibaba.
The artist and codirector of Agnès Varda’s documentary Faces Places talks about his intimate collaboration with the late iconic filmmaker, praises world-expanding masterpieces like La haine and Roma, and shouts out his friend Louis Garrel.
The actor, who stars in Todd Solondz’s Happiness, shares his appreciation for the playwright behind the source material of George Cukor’s Holiday; praises It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as one of the funniest films he has ever seen;...
The actor and director returns to the Closet, where he clarifies his feelings on Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom; shares how much he learned about filmmaking from supplemental features on the Criterion editions of Barry Lyndon and Roma;...
This Oscar-winning director began his career as a visual artist before moving on to create audacious narrative features about marginalized people, including the Black community in his native London.
Distinguished by their emotional intelligence and sharp dialogue, the films of this American writer-director explore the messy personal lives of intellectuals and bourgeois families.
The director and cinematographer is renowned for her formally innovative documentaries, which explore the ethics of filmmaking and spectatorship and the complexity of her own personal relationships.
With his candid portraits of musicians and political figures, this trailblazer of observational cinema redefined the documentary form and popular culture at large.