The Criterion Collection
On the Channel
Dec 17, 2025 — This January, savor multiple levels of nostalgia with a survey of ’90s cinema’s riffs on the ’70s, or turn a new page with a collection of films about dreamers seeking fresh starts in life.
The Daily
Jan 21, 2025 — Lynchian may be impossible to define, but you know it when you see it.
Essays
Sep 24, 2014 — Roman Polanski’s dark vision is the perfect fit for Shakespeare’s grim tale of treachery and ambition.
May 25, 2010 — Between 1952 and 2003, depending on how the various serial works are counted, Stan Brakhage made somewhere between 350 and 400 films, about half of them short film poems under ten minutes in length, most of the rest between ten...
The Daily
Feb 27, 2023 — The Golden and Silver Bears sparkled, but many of the true gems were to be found in the Encounters program.
Essays
Mar 18, 2013 — Using a 1958 murder spree as a narrative springboard, Terrence Malick fashioned a fractured fairy tale about American innocence lost.
On the Channel
Aug 30, 2021 — Next month, we’re headed to the Big Apple with a century-spanning survey of New York on-screen.
The Daily
Feb 12, 2019 — The competition is struggling as China yanks one film and theater owners threaten another.
Feb 9, 2022 — The Learning Tree may have been Gordon Parks’s first feature film as a director, but by the time filming began in the fall of 1968, Parks already had almost three decades of experience behind a camera. In 1940, the self-taught...