The Witness

Jul 8, 2022 — The actor brought a wiry tension to his roles in The Godfather, Thief, and Misery.

Nov 17, 2021 — Decades after Peter Lorre’s knife-toting creep Hans Beckert prowled the Berlin streets in search of little girls in Fritz Lang’s M (1931); after Robert Mitchum’s silver-tongued Harry Powell cut down all the “smooth and curly-haired things” he could get his...

Aug 30, 2021 — As the fifty-fifth edition wrapped over the weekend, Stefan Arsenijević’s As Far as I Can Walk took three prizes.

Jul 26, 2021 — The main competition boasts new work from Jane Campion, Pedro Almodóvar, Ana Lily Amirpour, and Pablo Larraín.

Mar 24, 2021 — Performances By the time The Manchurian Candidate was released in 1962, Frank Sinatra had been on American screens and in American hearts for nearly two decades. His bobby-soxers had been displaced by Elvis fans, who had been displaced by Beatles...

Feb 25, 2020 — A philosophical debate running nearly three and a half hours has opened the Berlinale’s new Encounters competition.

May 23, 2019 — Our survey of this year’s edition begins with the first animated feature to take the top award.

Jul 31, 2017 — In this clip from an episode of Split Screen, now playing on the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck, underground cinema icon Jonas Mekas recounts the wealth of viewing possibilities for moviegoers in midcentury New York.

Mar 16, 2015 — Director and star Robert Montgomery suffuses his moody 1947 New Mexico–set noir with palpable postwar anxiety and expressive fatalism.

Mar 18, 2014 — In addition to technical brilliance and a humanist message, Akira Kurosawa’s adventure features one of the director’s strongest female characters.