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Nov 17, 2015 — Max von Sydow has spent the past six decades cultivating one of cinema’s most illustrious careers, and now, at eighty-seven, the Swedish actor “may be on the verge of becoming a pop-culture icon,” writes Terrence Rafferty in the Atlantic.

Nov 5, 2015 — Repertory PicksIn honor of the hundredth anniversary of Ingrid Bergman’s birth, the Loft Cinema in Tucson is currently hosting a monthlong celebration of the Swedish star's work entitled “The Films of Ingrid Bergman.” The series features five of her most...

Nov 1, 2015 — Forty years ago today, we lost Pier Paolo Pasolini—the celebrated Italian filmmaker, actor, poet, novelist, journalist, playwright, painter, and public intellectual. On November 2, 1975, Pasolini was found brutally murdered on a beach in Ostia, Italy, just weeks before the...

Oct 30, 2015 — Creating the design that graces our cover of Masaki Kobayashi’s haunting set of ghost stories involved inks, a tank of water, and a fair bit of ingenuity.

Oct 1, 2015 — Holy cow—the pope is a Criterion fan and he doesn’t even know it. As reported in Entertainment Weekly, during Pope Francis’s historic visit to the United States last week, the Prince Theatre in Philadelphia screened three films of which His...

Sep 21, 2015 — This week, veteran director Bruce Beresford joins the collection with Breaker Morant and Mister Johnson, two early twentieth-century period pieces about colonialism and its destructive legacies. Beresford (seen above on the set of Mister Johnson) has been making movies for...

Sep 14, 2015 — It is a sad day at Janus Films and the Criterion Collection, as we lost our cofounder, William Becker, on Saturday. This New York Times obituary is a fitting celebration of the life of this extraordinary man, a great lover...

Sep 11, 2015 — Check out designer Peter Stults’s fanciful and inspired “What If” posters, for which he mainly recasts contemporary films with stars from the past.

Sep 9, 2015 — Here’s an enjoyable reminder of what Terry Gilliam does best: a new trailer for Gilliamesque: A Pre-posthumous Memoir. Animated in that old Monty Python style and set to the disturbingly catchy score from Brazil, it’s a nice, quick preview of...

Sep 3, 2015 — It’s hard to imagine Wim Wenders’s movies without the music featured in them, from Alice in the Cities’Can soundtrack and Chuck Berry performance to Paris, Texas’s Ry Cooder guitar score to Wings of Desire’s Nick Cave sequences. In a new...