The Criterion Collection
Criterion Designs
Jul 29, 2010 — Criterion designer extraordinaire Eric Skillman used a distinctive drawing style of his own devising for our release of Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz (and blogged about it here and here). Sitting across from him in a meeting the other day, we noticed...
Food captured on-screen can have a particularly seductive appeal. Here’s what’s on the menu.
We are proud to present a selection of spellbinding music and dance, Criterion-style. Please hold your applause until the intermission.
These films underline both our need to ask eternal questions and the paradoxical power of a visual medium to capture the intangible.
To paraphrase Tolstoy, happy families are all alike: they’re really boring to watch on-screen. Thus, cinema is besotted with deliciously unhappy ones.
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.
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...
Call it star-spangled skepticism—these are films that wrestle with the idea and reality of America.
Short Takes
Jun 29, 2010 — We know that one of the most discussed aspects of a Criterion release is its cover art. So we wanted to draw your attention to a fascinating, entertaining blog post by Sam Smith, who designed the packaging for our new...