John Huston's final film, completed on the precipice of his own death, The Dead turns James Joyce's short story into a ...

I’ve been really into Les Blank’s body of work recently. The documentarian was best known for his representations of the American South, specifically as it relates to the tradition of folk music that ...

Rian Johnson visited the Criterion Closet and highlighted movies like the sports romance Love & Basketball and the epic war ...

Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray is now available in the Criterion Collection.

Sideshow and Janus Films have announced that Gints Zilbalodis’ multi-award-winning, Oscar-nominated film Flow will be joining the prestigious Criterion Collection of custom-curated, cineaste-beloved, ...

If you hadn’t heard, Criterion recently announced that its streaming service, Criterion Channel, will be introducing a new anime section with Ghost in the Shell, Redline, Paprika, and Tamala 2010: A ...

Wes Anderson and The Criterion Collection are old friends, with most of his films getting special edition Blu-rays and DVDs through the boutique label. They’ve now announced the Wes Anderson Archive, ...

In her films, Agnès Varda constantly transfigured the world, and few directors so consistently sought out new methods and milieus with which to perform these transmutations. Looking back at Varda a ...

In today’s news that makes you go, “Wait…What? How Is That Possible?” Tim Burton finally has a film in the Criterion Collection. Fittingly, it’s his first, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, which is getting a ...

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