The Criterion Collection
The Oscar-winning writer and director talks about Army of Shadows and Jean-Pierre Melville’s cinema of betrayal, shares his love for Denis Lavant's dancing in Beau travail, and selects favorites by Yasujiro Ozu, Ernst Lubitsch, and Nicholas Ray.
The Oscar-winning costume designer recalls a memorable screening of Down by Law in Rome and explains what makes the Italian classics Bicycle Thieves and The Leopard so revelatory.
The beloved Hong Kong filmmaker has influenced a generation of cinematic sensualists with his wistfully romantic dramas and lush, nostalgia-soaked aesthetics.
While browsing our collection, the editor, actor, and fashion maven shared some stories of movie love, including one about how Broadcast News played a part in her college applications.
During their trip inside our closet, the Greek director and actor (who are married) share their love of Robert Bresson, Jean-Pierre Melville, Luis Buñuel, and the Maysles' Salesman, "the best documentary ever made."
Mexican author Juan Villoro has been a visiting professor at Yale, Princeton, and Stanford universities. His books in English are the short-story collection The Guilty, the novel The Reef, the young-adult novel The Wild Book, and God Is Round, a...
David Forgacs is Professor of Contemporary Italian Studies at New York University. His recent publications include a history of violence in modern Italy. His other contributions for the Criterion Collection include a filmed interview on Miracle in Milan (Vittorio De...
Sneak Peeks
May 7, 2014 — Director Spike Lee is something of a superfan of Billy Wilder’s scathing American media satire Ace in the Hole, as you can see in this clip from an interview with him on our release. He even brought a piece of...
In Theaters
Nov 16, 2017 — Preston Sturges’s screwball masterpiece, about a glamorous con artist who fleeces a naïve millionaire, screens in Baltimore this week.
May 27, 2011 — We’re excited to show you the brand-new trailer for Janus Films’ upcoming release of World on a Wire, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1973 made-for-TV science-fiction epic. It will tour theaters around the country starting this summer. Check Janus’s official page to...