The Criterion Collection Movies

Stars Genevieve Lemon and Karen Colston recall their work in Jane Campion's 1989 film 'Sweetie'.

A new documentary by Daniel Raim on Yasujiro Ozu's relationship with longtime screenwriter Kogo Noda.

Conducted in 2016, this interview with actor M’Bissine Thérèse Diop covers her lead role in 'Black Girl'.

Orson Welles Biographer Simon Callow discusses the making of "Mr. Arkadin" (aka "Confidential Report.")

Featurette on the making of John Waters' "Polyester."

A documentary created by the Criterion Collection for their release of Italian film director Federico Fellini's Amarcord about his relationship with...

“Cinematographer Stuart Dryburgh discusses his work on Lone Star in this interview, recorded for the Criterion Collection iin New York in...

This visual essay, produced in 2023, builds upon rare radio interviews that Chantal Akerman gave in 1975 and 1977, in which she reflects on her films...

Sociologists Sophie Body-Gendrot, William Kornblum, and Jeffrey Fagan discuss the significance of the film 'La Haine', including its suburb setting...

Conducted in 2016, this interview with filmmaker and cultural theorist Manthia Diawara (“African Cinema: Politics and Culture”) analyzes...

Haskell Wexler revisits the themes of his previous work "Medium Cool" on the occasion of the Occupy demonstrations in Chicago in 2012.

Martin Scali, who was Wes Anderson's assistant on "Fantastic Mr. Fox", shot this short documentary in Newport, Rhode Island, during the filming of...

Scholar Kelley Conway discusses director Agnès Varda’s unique approach to self-representation in THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS, in this...

The French-Brazilian-Italian coproduction 'Black Orpheus' is often considered less a Brazilian film than one with a decidedly European perspective....

Retrospective documentary on the making of Robert Altman's Nashville (1975).

Directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola discuss [Akira] Kurosawa and their roles as executive producers of Kagemusha.

“In this conversation, recorded for the Criterion Collection in Los Angeles in 2023, filmmaker Gregory Nava talks with director John Sayles...

'A Face in the Crowd' was Andy Griffith's first film role; he would go on to be most famous for his folksy portrayal of Sheriff Andy Taylor on...

In this brand new featurette, directors Guillermo del Toro (The Devil's Backbone), Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Till Dawn), and Frank Darabont (The...

Join legendary director Martin Scorsese, and acting icons Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino going behind the scenes of their universally...