The Criterion Collection
Mar 21, 2024 — Molly Manning Walker is a writer, director, and cinematographer based in London. How to Have Sex, the first feature film she has written and directed, won the Un Certain Regard Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Her work as...
Mar 12, 2024 — In this profoundly emotional portrait of artist Nan Goldin, director Laura Poitras explores how her subject’s creative sensibility and commitment to activism spring from the same source.
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Jan 30, 2024 — Metrograph will screen Kimi Takesue’s study of tourism in Laos and stream her two previous features as well.
Jan 23, 2024 — In the first ten years of her extraordinary career, the Belgian filmmaker used the raw materials of quotidian, marginal lives to spark a radical reinvention of cinema.
Nov 1, 2023 — Chloe Domont is a Los Angeles–based writer and director whose feature directorial debut, Fair Play, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by Netflix. Her short films, Haze and All Good Things, have been included in the official...
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Oct 31, 2023 — With the full force of her imagination, director Nikyatu Jusu examines the complicated nature of Black motherhood, as well as the importance of Black communion as an antidote to racial oppression.
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Oct 12, 2023 — The director completes her “trilogy on Italian identity” by offering an outsider’s point of view.
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Oct 5, 2023 — Cailee Spaeny won the Best Actress award in Venice for her portrayal of Elvis Presley’s frightfully young girlfriend and wife.
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Jul 18, 2023 — In her music, her films, and her often stormy romances, Birkin captivated us for more than half a century.
Jul 13, 2023 — Celine Song’s feature directorial debut, Past Lives, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2023 and was released in theaters by A24. Her play Endlings received its world premiere in 2019 at the American Repertory Theater and had its New...