The Criterion Collection
Essays
Apr 23, 2013 — Who is Pierre Etaix and where has he been all your life? This is the story of a filmmaker who was vanished, banished, skipped over. It’s as if one of those invisible cubicles mimes are always getting themselves shut in...
Sep 8, 2026 — Today marks the opening of Criterion’s new Canadian home at Cinema Cellar, the independent home-video retailer’s first brick-and-mortar store, which will bring together Criterion and other leading film labels under one roof.Just steps away from TIFF Lightbox and Scotiabank Theatre,...
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Sep 8, 2026 — Riding raves for Lee and his four leads, the film heads next to Toronto and New York.
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Sep 4, 2026 — Celebrating “reticent auteurs,” a unique London distributor, and the work of Satyajit Ray and Richard Linklater.
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Sep 3, 2026 — This year’s Venice opener propels us through the origin story of our current media hellscape.
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Aug 31, 2026 — The festival’s showcase of nineteen new restorations spans more than half a century of cinema history.
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Aug 28, 2026 — Revisiting work by Whit Stillman, Frederick Wiseman, Nathaniel Dorsky—and lots of road movies.
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Aug 27, 2026 — She was a winning presence on the big screen, even if her movies were only a fraction of her monumental impact on popular culture.
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Aug 26, 2026 — The fifteen-film series sets the mood for the unique first feature by Jack Auen and Kevin Walker.
Aug 25, 2026 — James Gray’s extraordinary debut feature is a painstakingly distilled tale of crime and family dysfunction, captured with a merciless gaze and a sharp attention to idiosyncratic detail.