The Express

Feb 20, 2015 — In time for this year’s Academy Awards ceremony, we wanted to celebrate all the incredible women who have been nominated for best actress Oscars for their roles in Criterion titles. They range from the 1930s to the 2010s, and include...

Oct 28, 2014 — What you hear is as crucial—and as funny—as what you see in Tati’s films.

Jul 31, 2014 — Repertory PicksThings are getting emotional at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image this August. As part of its recurring See It Big! series, the institution is presenting a selection of great Hollywood melodramas, from the 1930s to the 2000s,...

Oct 12, 2012 — Every ten years since 1952, the world-renowned film magazine Sight & Sound has polled a wide international selection of film critics and directors on what they consider to be the ten greatest works of cinema ever made, and then compiled...

Jun 13, 2012 — Tasteful British cinema got a refreshing dose of amorality with Danny Boyle’s stylish and violent tale of greed and paranoia.

Feb 28, 2011 — In 1969, director Alexander Macken­drick retired from the film industry and became founding dean of the film school at the newly established California Institute of the Arts. Passionately interested in the pedagogy of cinema (“Film writing and directing cannot be...

Aug 20, 2001 — Preston Sturges’s generous-hearted satire achieves a synthesis that is both terribly funny and deeply moving.

The writer and director expresses that Tampopo is really about “what lies in the depths of the human heart,” explains how Carl Theodor Dreyer’s films depict feelings and ideas that can only be portrayed through cinema, and admires Federico Fellini’s...

The actor and star of Babygirl expresses his love for the films of Lino Brocka, praises his costar Nicole Kidman’s performance in To Die For, and talks about being influenced by such filmmakers as Mike Leigh and Harmony Korine.

The writer and director of Vermiglio expresses her love for the poetry of Ermanno Olmi, praises how Michael Haneke’s films cut right to your heart and mind, and celebrates the emotional power of The Piano.