The Criterion Collection
Jul 12, 2018 — The French director’s English-language debut and first science fiction film is one of the first seven films selected to compete in San Sebastián.
Essays
Jul 2, 2018 — Josef von Sternberg may have been one of cinema’s original micromanagers, but his films are testaments to longstanding collaborations with brilliant artists and technicians.
Jun 26, 2018 — John Waters’ favorite among his early works is both an assault on political correctness and a no-holds-barred expression of gay militancy.
In Theaters
Jun 26, 2018 — Watch the new trailer for this rarely seen but deeply influential landmark of independent cinema.
Jun 25, 2018 — It’s been six weeks since the Ukrainian filmmaker began his hunger strike.
Essays
Jun 24, 2018 — During a period when studios gave him carte blanche, Josef von Sternberg created a sublime cinematic language that shrugged off one orthodoxy after another.
Jun 21, 2018 — I have lost count of the number of times I have had the pleasure of watching El Sur, but I suspect it is among the films I have seen most frequently in my life. It is a treasure chest that reveals...
The Daily
Jun 20, 2018 — A Motion Selfie is a wryly comic silent film made by a crew of one.
Jun 12, 2018 — Among the six movies Lino Brocka directed between 1974 and ’76, there were three landmark works that changed the course of his career and that of Philippine cinema: Weighed but Found Wanting (1974), Manila in the Claws of Light (1975),...
Jun 8, 2018 — Both Italian directors broke from neorealism to head off in entirely different directions.