Wit

Sep 13, 2016 — Kenji Mizoguchi achieved the sublime with this structurally complex portrait of artistic ambition and female subjugation.

Sep 12, 2016 — Before kicking off a week run of To Sleep with Anger at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the influential director joined us for a conversation about how his encounters with international cinema inspired him as a filmmaker of color.

Sep 1, 2016 — Balancing epic scale with lyrical intimacy, Orson Welles inflects the spirit of Shakespeare’s history plays with his own zest for cinematic invention.

Sep 1, 2016 — The Loft Cinema kicks off a monthlong Jim Jarmusch retrospective with a screening of the director’s 1984 sophomore feature, Stranger Than Paradise.

Aug 5, 2016 — The director returns to the big screen with our new restoration of his long-unavailable sophomore feature, shot in 1970 on a shoestring budget, which kicks off its national theatrical rollout with a run at New York’s IFC Center.

Aug 4, 2016 — Douglas Hart is a filmmaker, video director, and founding member of the Jesus and Mary Chain. As a video director, Hart has worked with My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream, the Stone Roses, Baby Shambles, Paul Weller, the Horrors, and the...

Aug 1, 2016 — Back in January, veteran actor Keith Baxter stopped by the Criterion offices for lunch and regaled us with memories of his experience working with Orson Welles.

Jul 30, 2016 — Art director Eric Skillman describes working with Jack on the design for our release of Stanley Kramer’s It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as one of the highlights of his career.

Jul 28, 2016 — The National Gallery of Art presents the 1930 silent film, an exuberant ode to Weimar Berlin, with live musical accompaniment.

Jul 26, 2016 — On what would have been the iconic filmmaker’s eighty-eighth birthday, we’re celebrating him with a selection of essays, photos, and videos from our releases.