The Criterion Collection
The members of the beloved rock band take turns spotlighting movies that have a special meaning for them.
The Daily
Oct 3, 2025 — Among them are the latest from Claire Denis, the return of Daniel Day-Lewis, and a dazzling restoration.
Jun 30, 2025 — The Austin Film Society spotlights nine performances, each of them a unique declaration of independence.
The Daily
Oct 13, 2022 — Denis’s second film of the year split the critics when it won a Grand Prix in Cannes—and it’s still splitting them now.
The sisters behind the acclaimed fashion brand share their love for the iconoclastic filmmakers who have inspired them.
Essays
Dec 10, 2014 — Social satire, women’s melodrama, queer metaphor, or horror movie? Todd Haynes’s elusive masterpiece is all of these and none of them.
Essays
Jan 7, 2014 — Satyajit Ray was ailing when he made them, but these three works from the great filmmaker’s final years show an artist at the height of his powers.
The images in these films are inextricable from the flawlessly selected tunes accompanying them.
Jun 3, 2002 — In addition to being his funniest film, The Horse’s Mouth is the most personal, and touching, of all Alec Guinness’ movies. Apart from starring as the brilliant but bedraggled artist Gulley Jimson, Guinness also adapted the Oscar-nominated screenplay from Joyce...
Alexander Stille is a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the author of several books, three of them on Italian subjects: Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism; Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the...