The Criterion Collection
The Oscar-nominated screenwriter of One Night in Miami . . . selects a handful of favorite films, including an animated movie that haunted his childhood and a classic courtroom drama that has influenced his approach to dialogue.
The writer-director-star of Appropriate Behavior shares what she’s learned about life and cinema from her favorite movies.
Shortly before the critically acclaimed success of their off-Broadway show Get on Your Knees, the two comedians stopped by for a few good laughs in our closet.
During his visit to our closet, the Oscar-winning director of Toy Story 3 chatted with us about his nerve-wracking first encounter with Jane Campion and the lessons he learned about editing from All That Jazz.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Barry Levinson shouts out two of Fellini’s most personal films and praises the game-changing work of such masters as Cassavetes and Godard.
During the Norwegian filmmaker’s visit to the Criterion closet, he excitedly expounded upon his wide-ranging selections, from Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters to the Six Moral Tales of Eric Rohmer.
Willow Catelyn Maclay is a film essayist and queer historian. She is coauthor of Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema and has written for numerous outlets including the Village Voice, Reverse Shot, and Film...
Phoebe Chen is a writer, lecturer, and historian of visual culture based in Brooklyn. Her essays and criticism can be found in the New York Times, Artforum, the Nation, the New York Review of Books, Apartamento, Aperture, and more. She...
Barry Jenkins is a film director and screenwriter. He directed and cowrote the film Moonlight, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2016. In 2018, he wrote and directed a film adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel If Beale...