The Criterion Collection
Jul 26, 2010 — The Story of a Cheat: Breaking the Rules While most filmmakers arrive at their profession already possessed of a vigorous love of cinema, Sacha Guitry saw the form, at least at first, as a necessary evil. Paris’s most popular and prolific...
There are eight million stories in the Naked City. Here are some of them.
There’s more in the collection than just the spine-numbered titles. Check out the releases that include short films as supplemental treasures.
The history of cinema: one hundred years of do-overs. But no matter how hard the remakers try, no one can surpass these originals.
Predators, prey, objects of study, companions. Here are the animals in the Criterion menagerie.
These uncategorizable works blur the lines between fiction and documentary with panache.
Some of the world’s great directors did their finest work during a time of terrible conflict and loss.
Jul 13, 2010 — At the author’s request, Japanese names are given here in their traditional form: surname first. Ozu Yasujiro’s personal feelings about Japanese militarism in the 1930s and 1940s are not on record. Perhaps, like most people around him, he accepted the...
Essays
Jul 13, 2010 — At the author’s request, Japanese names are given here in their traditional form: surname first. Nineteen thirty-six was a decisive year for imperial Japan, marked by extreme violence at home and abroad. In the very early morning of February 26,...
Short Takes
Jul 8, 2010 — “Forty-eight years ago I stood on the set of The Leopard and watched Luchino Visconti bring to life his seminal motion picture about the dying world of the aristocracy, revolution against the old order, and the rise and new-gained riches...