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Jan 5, 2015 — Who is Tootsie, anyway?

Dec 18, 2014 — Becoming Dorothy Michaels in Tootsie was as much a revelation for Dustin Hoffman as for his character, Michael Dorsey. In this short excerpt from a much longer interview on our new release of Sydney Pollack’s great comedy, the Oscar winner...

Dec 15, 2014 — Earlier this year, actor Julianne Moore and director Todd Haynes sat down to have an in-depth conversation for a supplement on our new release of their brilliant 1995 film Safe. Here is moment from their chat that is appearing only...

Dec 10, 2014 — Social satire, women’s melodrama, queer metaphor, or horror movie? Todd Haynes’s elusive masterpiece is all of these and none of them.

Dec 5, 2014 — A film about garlic? Only Les Blank could pull it off. In this clip from a new supplement on our release Les Blank: Always for Pleasure, we get the story of how Blank’s pungent documentary Garlic Is as Good as...

Dec 5, 2014 — Earlier this week, we had a party for the release of our new book, Criterion Designs, at the Society of Illustrators in New York. Our friend the filmmaker :: kogonada brought the following video, in which Criterion artwork comes to...

Dec 3, 2014 — “We were just in London, clubbing, all those things people did in the ’60s in the middle of London,” British actor Francesca Annis recalls, in an interview on the new Criterion release of Macbeth, of “crossing paths” with director Roman...

Dec 2, 2014 — Les Blank’s documentaries focusing on musicians are wonderfully easygoing and authentic. Watching films like A Well Spent Life, a 1971 portrait of Texas blues guitarist Mance Lipscomb, one senses a relationship of total trust between subjects and filmmakers. In this...

Dec 1, 2014 — Agroup of rich Italians is on a cruise off the coast of Sicily when one of their number—a moody, unhappy young woman—disappears. Murder, kidnapping, accident, suicide? Her boyfriend and her close friend search for her, but the search turns into...

Nov 27, 2014 — Repertory PicksNew York’s Museum of the Moving Image is kicking off its series See It Big: Animation this holiday weekend. And what better movie for Thanksgiving time than one about an unrepentant poultry thief? Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, featuring...