The Return

The actor returns to the Criterion Closet, where he selects a few movies to watch with his kids, talks about his magical experience viewing Hobson’s Choice, and picks up a new edition of a film by his favorite director, Abbas...

The actor and director returns to the Closet, where he clarifies his feelings on Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom; shares how much he learned about filmmaking from supplemental features on the Criterion editions of Barry Lyndon and Roma;...

The legendary auteur returns to the Criterion Closet, where he selects new editions of favorite films like Down by Law and Wanda, talks about Kurosawa’s genius for recreating weather on-screen, and shouts out his former assistant director Claire Denis.

Nov 18, 2025 — This December, make yourself at home in some of cinema’s most memorable hotels, celebrate Julianne Moore’s bracingly human performances, or explore the trailblazing debuts of Black women filmmakers.

Oct 16, 2025 — This month, join us for a Thanksgiving feast of some of the movies’ most memorable family reunions, or delve into the dark alleyways of noir mysteries built around protagonists tormented by amnesia, memory holes, and drunken blackouts.

Oct 2, 2025 — The festival presents new films from Gianfranco Rosi, Kahlil Joseph, Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus, and Lucrecia Martel.

Nov 13, 2024 — Spend the holiday season with the Pope of Trash, the Master of Suspense, MTV Productions’s turn-of-the-century thrills, and Columbia Pictures’s pre-Code button-pushers.

Sep 30, 2024 — Showered with accolades, loved, admired, and feared, Smith was one of the most accomplished stars of the stage and screen.

Jun 25, 2024 — Barry Jenkins’s extraordinarily ambitious limited series distinguishes itself in the tradition of the cinematic slavery epic through its understanding that Black joy and Black trauma cannot be cleaved from each other.

May 31, 2024 — This week revives the ghost of Fellini and overflows with conversations about movies, movies, and more movies.