The Criterion Collection
In Theaters
Jun 14, 2012 — Repertory PicksThe legendary Monterey International Pop Festival happened forty-five years ago this weekend. It featured one of the most amazing lineups ever—Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, the Who, the Mamas & the Papas, Ravi Shankar, and so many more....
Jun 13, 2012 — Tasteful British cinema got a refreshing dose of amorality with Danny Boyle’s stylish and violent tale of greed and paranoia.
Short Takes
Jun 8, 2012 — You’d be forgiven for expecting something lurid and shameless from Ingmar Bergman’s Summer with Monika after viewing this trailer for the original, dubbed American release. Also: it was based on the Time magazine story “Sin in Sweden”? News to us!...
In Theaters
Jun 7, 2012 — Repertory PicksA film noir series is currently casting a long shadow over the Omaha movie theater Film Streams. The upcoming week’s selections include two prime crime melodramas from the fifties, both frenetic dispatches from the height of the cold war:...
Short Takes
Jun 1, 2012 — Though his career was devastatingly brief, Jean Vigo was able to leave behind many unforgettable images that have joined the cinematic pantheon. One of them is undoubtedly Zéro de conduite’s boarding-school insurrectionists in pajamas, whooping it up in slow motion...
Short Takes
May 30, 2012 — Kaneto Shindo died Tuesday at age one hundred. In honor of this extraordinary Japanese filmmaker, here is some silent Super 8 footage of the director on location during the filming of Onibaba, which was shot in Chiba Prefecture’s Inba Swamp...
May 30, 2012 — Our video series featuring filmmakers and friends Robert Downey Sr. and Paul Thomas Anderson discussing the films in the Eclipse set Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr. wraps up with an installment focusing on the most successful film of...
May 29, 2012 — Harriet Andersson’s Monika is both an erotic object and an empowered female protagonist in Bergman’s groundbreaker.
May 25, 2012 — Did You See This? • Meet the man behind the music for Wes Anderson's movies • Capra, Ford, Huston, Wilder—now on envelopes • Bordwell charts the digital transition • Belmondo! Vitti! Delon! A classic Cannes photo album • Polanski at...
May 24, 2012 — Robert Downey Sr.’s stream-of-consciousness Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight is a film that could use some explaining. Downey and friend P. T. Anderson are not interested in doing that, however, in this third part of our exclusive online series...