The Criterion Collection Movies

This visual essay sets clips from Robert Bresson's "A Man Escaped" to a reading of "Functions of Film Sound," a chapter from David Bordwell and...

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

Documentary about the technical achievements of the 1940 film classic The Thief of Bagdad.

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

Film critic J. Hoberman discusses the best-selling 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler on which "Fail-Safe" is based, along with the...

Writer and Rookie editor in chief Tavi Gevinson explores THE VIRGIN SUICIDES through the lens of adolescence, suicide, and memory. It features...

A look at the making of Federico Fellini's "I Vitelloni".

Actor Tom Gaman (Simon) narrates some 8mm movies shot during the film's three-month production and shares memories of working on the movie during his...

Program about the making of the film, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with actors Reika Kirishima, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masaki...

Filmmaker Robert Townsend executive-produced the following fifty-six-minute program for Criterion’s Meet the Filmmakers series in 2018. In it,...

A new documentary on director Nobuo Nakagawa and the making of the film, Jigoku. Featuring exclusive interview with Nakagawa collaborators.

In this documentary, film scholars Gerd Germünden and Noah Isenberg discuss the artistic origins of Marlene Dietrich in the cabarets of Weimar...

Documentary on the making of Josef von Sternberg's 'Underworld,' which launched the American gangster genre as we know it.

In this interview, conducted in spring 2021, scholar Nick Rees-Roberts traces the influence of La Piscine on the worlds of film and fashion in the...

Filmed in Los Angeles in August 2017, director Donna Deitch, cinematographer Robert Elswit and production designer Jeannine Oppewall discuss their...

A new documentary by Daniel Raim and Eugene Suen on the making of "Flowers of Shanghai," featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with Mark...

A new conversation between author Dave Eggers and the Coen Brothers about the production, from inception to release, of 'Blood Simple'.

'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...

A 25-minute visual essay by Kent Jones about Jean-Luc Godard and his film 'Weekend'.

In this interview, shot by the Criterion Collection in 2018, Ron Briley, author of 'The Ambivalent Legacy of Elia Kazan: The Politics of the...