A Year of School

Mar 18, 2022 — With a collection of her films now available on the Criterion Channel, the director behind Still Processing discusses the radically personal nature of her work.

Aug 27, 2018 — British master Terence Davies makes evocative use of dissolves to create a slippery narrative structure driven by emotion and memory.

Jun 11, 2007 — Claude Berri’s witty comedy-drama depicts Nazi sympathizers with three-dimensional candor, neither whitewashing nor apologizing for their misguided ideas.

May 13, 2002 — In Barbet Schroeder’s portrait of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, we watch a seemingly amiable, thoroughly pompous despot attempt to transform himself into a figure of heroic proportions.

Dec 16, 1991 — Lady for a Day represented a watershed in the career of Frank Capra. The young director had been laboring at Columbia Pictures’ Poverty Row Studio, churning out 18 films in less than six years. He had moved from low-budget programmers...

Feb 10, 2026 — The renowned distributor of nearly six thousand films, videos, and media artworks turns sixty-five.

Dec 22, 2025 — The critic and curator talks about working on a program of films by trailblazing Black women directors, which opened at London’s BFI Southbank this year and is now playing on the Criterion Channel.

Jul 22, 2024 — The UK premiere of the new restoration of Werckmeister Harmonies at Cinema Rediscovered 2024 launches a retrospective.

Jan 10, 2024 — A Nigerian exile wanders 1968 San Francisco in this gorgeously shot time capsule.

Oct 26, 2023 — Appearing in well over 150 movies and television shows, Roundtree will be always remembered for his portrayal of John Shaft.