The Criterion Collection
Sep 30, 2025 — Made with a formal control unparalleled in modern American cinema, the films of this utterly distinctive auteur seek to contain and understand an uncontainable, unknowable world.
Apr 29, 2016 — This July brings two new Criterion releases in the United Kingdom: Stanley Kubrick’s satirical Cold War masterpiece Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb and Howard Brookner’s Burroughs: The Movie.
May 25, 2023 — Mark Jenkin is a filmmaker based in West Cornwall in the United Kingdom. He acts as cinematographer and editor on his films and often hand-processes his own footage. He won a BAFTA for Bait, which premiered at the 2019 Berlinale...
Jan 24, 2023 — Filled with evocative images and guided by the unique aesthetic sensibility of the landlocked kingdom of Lesotho, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s film is an exploration of the power of grief that is paradoxically uplifting.
Jan 6, 2023 — Kazuo Ishiguro is a Nobel Prize–winning novelist, screenwriter, and song lyricist. Born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954, he moved to Britain with his parents when he was five years old. His books, translated into over fifty languages, have earned him...
Apr 18, 2016 — In partnership with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, select Criterion titles are now available for purchase on Blu-ray in the United Kingdom, both in stores and online.
Nov 11, 2002 — Continued from Anatomy of a Love Festival - Part One The real turn-on, though, was the music—twenty-two hours of it, divided into solid chunks that usually ran more than thirty minutes. Friday night was the epitome of what San Francisco...
Essays
Sep 9, 2002 — With her debut feature, Lynne Ramsay confirmed herself as one of the most distinct and important voices to emerge from the United Kingdom in recent years.
The Academy Award–winning producer praises Claire Denis’s portrayal of masculinity in Beau travail, talks about the lessons he learned from Luis Buñuel’s producer Serge Silberman, and selects favorites by friends and collaborators, including The Last Wave, The Double Life of...
On the Channel
Nov 13, 2024 — Spend the holiday season with the Pope of Trash, the Master of Suspense, MTV Productions’s turn-of-the-century thrills, and Columbia Pictures’s pre-Code button-pushers.