The Criterion Collection
On the Channel
Feb 27, 2023 — Among the highlights this month is a series celebrating Oscar nominee Michelle Yeoh, an international star who began her career as one of Hong Kong cinema’s fiercest action heroes.
On the Channel
May 28, 2020 — Check out what’s in store next month on our streaming service!
The Daily
Jul 13, 2023 — Films by Jack Smith, Barbara Rubin, and more New York underground filmmakers will screen for free this weekend in Los Angeles.
Short Takes
May 11, 2012 — We spread the word about Larisa Shepitko, one of the true visionaries of Soviet cinema, when we released two of her incredible films in 2008, but she remains an under-the-radar figure for most movie lovers. By 1979, when she was...
Sep 22, 2016 — In this 1979 French television interview, the Cat People director discusses Lewton’s creative idealism and the impact it had on his own pragmatic sensibility.
This Belgian visionary took a profoundly personal and aesthetically idiosyncratic approach to film form, using it to investigate geography and identity, space and time, sexuality and religion.
On the Channel
Jan 20, 2026 — This month, leap into a century of cinema’s greatest stunts, feel the ache of thwarted romance and bittersweet yearning, or get into trouble with the Depression-era hustlers of Mervyn LeRoy’s pre-Code films.
On the Channel
May 22, 2023 — Get in character for a journey through the history of Method acting, a movement that transformed the art of screen performance forever.
The Daily
Aug 3, 2023 — Reubens’s man-child creation was the role of a lifetime, but filmmakers were eager to have him show us his real range.
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.