The Criterion Collection
On the Channel
Dec 1, 2021 — Celebrate the holidays with our 21-film Alfred Hitchcock retrospective and a series dedicated to collaborations between female directors and cinematographers.
The Daily
Jan 8, 2021 — A new Cinema Scope is out, along with the first issue of Screening the Past in well over a year.
The Daily
Aug 23, 2018 — Remarkable as she was in over two dozen films, her first love was theater.
Oct 25, 2022 — One of the few American films of its era directed by a Black woman, Kasi Lemmons’s feature debut advances a critique of patriarchy and asks questions about gender and sexuality that still resonate today.
Nov 12, 2019 — The Daytrippers came out in theaters in 1997, back when I was in graduate school at NYU. That was a year when you could rent videotapes everywhere—at Blockbuster, but also at a Laundromat or a bodega. There were still phone booths...
Essays
Jul 19, 2004 — In Yasujiro Ozu’s hands, the extended-family drama widened its focus to encompass friends, neighbors, and employers.
The Daily
Jan 10, 2024 — The twentieth edition of MoMA’s festival of film preservation features classics and fresh discoveries from around the world.
May 16, 2019 — All week long, writers have been reminding us that there was more to Doris Day than sweet sunshine.
On the Channel
Apr 17, 2024 — Three of this month’s programs blast back to the turbulent midcentury moment when old Hollywood gave way to something new.
Jun 26, 2013 — On the life and work of the famous Czech author, and the pleasures and challenges of translating him.