The Criterion Collection
Essays
Dec 11, 2024 — In this semiautobiographical meditation on the fickle nature of creative genius, Federico Fellini opens his arms wide to the enigmas of childhood, religion, art, sex, and love—mysteries with no solution.
The Daily
Dec 10, 2024 — The Locarno Film Festival is making a new restoration of Alberto Cavalcanti’s A Real Woman freely available worldwide.
Dec 10, 2024 — In this brilliant adaptation, Joel and Ethan Coen find a kindred spirit in novelist Cormac McCarthy, whose abiding themes—including destiny, the American West, and the contest between our better natures and our survival instinct—mirror their own.
The Daily
Dec 9, 2024 — One of the year’s most divisive films has swept up five European Film Awards and leads the nominations for the Golden Globes.
Features
Dec 4, 2024 — Before she won acclaim as a pioneering director, the Hollywood icon made her name as a powerfully vivid actor who brought grit and toughness to films by such masters as Raoul Walsh, Nicholas Ray, and Michael Curtiz.
The Daily
Nov 27, 2024 — The week offers evasive icons, an archive to rummage through, and a great but overlooked critic.
The Daily
Nov 26, 2024 — An animated menagerie teams up to survive a postapocalyptic flood in this wordless adventure.
Nov 26, 2024 — In this tragicomic road movie about a Bible-selling con man and his precocious young charge, Peter Bogdanovich brings Depression-era America to vivid life without sentimentality or nostalgia.
Nov 26, 2024 — Combining sci-fi magic and a distinctly human sense of intimacy, Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar-winning film reimagines an oppressive era in American history through a tale of romantic fate.
The Daily
Nov 19, 2024 — A pop star, psychics, and a punk-turned-priest are focus of this weekend’s series at the Museum of the Moving Image.