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Apr 17, 2025 — At eighty-two, the director has made his most deeply personal film yet.

Mar 21, 2025 — Anthony Banua-Simon is an award-winning filmmaker and editor as well as an adjunct professor in film editing. His films Third Shift and Cane Fire have both played on the Criterion Channel. The films he has chosen for this list have...

Mar 18, 2025 — In what he described as his “first serious drama,” Charlie Chaplin channeled the influence of modernist literature, foreign cinema, and his European travels into a work of striking formal sophistication.

Mar 3, 2025 — His range was astounding, and yet every performance was immediately recognizable as uniquely his.

Feb 14, 2025 — The director of Down with Love talks about his favorite romantic comedies set in the great metropolis and looks back on the making of his own foray into the genre.

Feb 10, 2025 — Igor Bezinović’s third feature recreates a ludicrous but foreboding chapter in the history of his hometown, Rijeka.

Feb 4, 2025 — The director has put together a series of films that have inspired his Nosferatu.

Feb 3, 2025 — Iranian director, writer, and producer Mohammad Rasoulof was born in Shiraz, Iran, and has made eight feature films. Though none have screened in his home country due to censorship, his films have been admired around the world. Much of his...

Jan 21, 2025 — In his first Hollywood film, British director Stephen Frears dives into the nihilistic world of Jim Thompson’s fiction, delivering an adaptation profoundly attuned to the novelist’s sense of ineluctable suffering.

Jan 14, 2025 — In his only directorial effort for the big screen, Richard Pryor takes the raw stuff of his life and alchemizes it as art, demonstrating the humor and vulnerability that made him a towering figure in American culture.