Dana Polan teaches cinema studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is the author of eight books on film and cultural studies, including a volume on Jane Campion in the British Film Institute’s World Directors series,...

Jan 27, 2020 — Jason Polan and his drawing of King Kong We’re deeply saddened today by the passing of our friend Jason Polan. Jason was an integral part of the Criterion family for over a decade, responsible for, among many other things, the monthly...

Aug 20, 2015 — You may recognize Jason Polan’s often wacky, always charming drawings from our newsletter emails. But the artist, whose illustrations have also been published in the New Yorker, Metropolis, and the New York Times, has his sights set on more than...

Dec 10, 2010 — To be eligible to receive a drawing, place an order on criterion.com for in-stock items totaling $150 or more (excluding sales tax and shipping/handling) before December 25, 2010. Preorders and backorders are not eligible. Drawings will be mailed two to...

Oct 23, 2006 — The New Zealand director’s debut feature is a bridge between her tentative, probing film school works and her subsequent female character studies.

Sep 26, 2023 — The winner of a Special Jury Prize in Venice and a box-office hit in Poland now heads to the New York Film Festival.

Aug 24, 2021 — Andrzej Wajda’s masterful portrait of postwar Poland pits Communist ideals against the bitter realities of a new order.

Sep 27, 2016 — This monumental meditation on the Ten Commandments captures the spiritual undercurrents of life in late-Communist Poland.

Sep 2, 2016 — Returning for its first theatrical run in fifteen years, this ten-part meditation on the Ten Commandments centers on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, charting the moral and philosophical dilemmas that arise as their lives intersect.

Odie Henderson is a film critic for RogerEbert.com and a member of the National Society of Film Critics. He has contributed essays to such publications as Slate, Vulture, the Village Voice, and Slant Magazine, and has appeared on NPR’s Pop...