The Criterion Collection
Apr 19, 2022 — Frank Tashlin directs Jayne Mansfield to her cartoonish limits in this outrageous showbiz satire that is a testament to the power of bad taste.
Features
Mar 11, 2022 — Deep Dives There’s an entire realm of children’s entertainment that survives mostly on the margins of collective consciousness. The average person is unlikely to know Michael Sporn’s name, but if they are of a certain age, they almost certainly have...
Feb 23, 2022 — In the 1961 screen adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s classic play, the actor radiantly embodies the conflicting impulses that define the character of Beneatha Younger—a modern woman filled with hope and longing.
The Daily
Feb 10, 2022 — The heads of each section discuss the highlights and themes of their selections.
Feb 9, 2022 — The Learning Tree may have been Gordon Parks’s first feature film as a director, but by the time filming began in the fall of 1968, Parks already had almost three decades of experience behind a camera. In 1940, the self-taught...
The Daily
Jan 4, 2022 — A thread runs from the Truffaut season in the UK through the Rivette retrospective in Paris to the first feature directed by Juliet Berto.
Dec 7, 2021 — Regina King’s feature-film directorial debut envisions the true-life convergence of four prominent Black figures with empathy and moral urgency.
Nov 23, 2021 — The End In the end, it should not have come as any kind of surprise. When Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo dethroned Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941) as the greatest film of all time in Sight & Sound magazine’s international poll of...
The Daily
Oct 8, 2021 — Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s new film will eventually make it to your local theater, and critics say it’s worth the wait.
The Daily
Oct 5, 2021 — Introduction won a Silver Bear in Berlin, and Lee Hyeyeong returns to the screen for the first time in over a decade for In Front of Your Face.