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During the 1994 Academy Awards, Lizzie Gardiner made fashion history with her win for The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert , and Dianne Wiest won for an all-timer performance.
The Classics Shelf: The 1994 Academy Awards, Thirty Years Later
Revisiting the Academy Awards honouring the best films of 1994, where Forrest Gump trumped Pulp Fiction in one of the Oscars' Best Picture wins that hasn't aged so gracefully.
The Classics Shelf: Billy Wilder
Nobody's perfect, but Billy Wilder came damn near close. The latest edition of The Classics Shelf looks at the career of the director behind classics like The Apartment and Some Like It Hot .
The Classics Shelf: The 2013 Berlin Film Festival
This edition of the Classics Shelf reviews the 2013 Berlin Film Festival where Child's Pose won the Golden Bear in a modest competition.
The Classics Shelf: The 1999 Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival held in May 1999 was the last before the new, for some dreaded, millennium, and featured its own watershed moments, including an Almodóvar film that aged far better than the Palme winner.
The Classics Shelf: The Films Of Jan Hrebejk
He has an Oscar nomination for Divided We Fall and his films screen at prominent festivals worldwide, so why isn't Czech filmmaker Jan Hrebejk a household name in the arthouse circuit?
The Classics Shelf: Cannes ’82
Revisiting the 1982 Cannes Film Festival where Missing and Yol shared the Palme d'Or, but only one of them has stood the test of time.
The Criterion Shelf: The Films of Yasujiro Ozu
Paying tribute to the films of Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu, including Tokyo Story, Early Summer, , Floating Weeds and Late Spring .
The Criterion Shelf: Pre-Code Divas
Surveying the films in Criterion Channel's Pre-Code Divas collection, including The Divorcee, She Done Him Wrong, Dishonored, and The Cheat .
The Criterion Shelf: Grindhouse Gothic – Roger Corman Directs Edgar Allan Poe
Revisiting Roger Corman's film adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories, including The Raven , Tales of Terror , and The Red Mask of Death .
The Criterion Shelf: AI
Surveying the films in Criterion Channel's collection devoted to artificial intelligence in films like A.I., 2046, and Ghost in the Shell .
The Criterion Shelf: Directed by Seijun Suzuki
Ranking the films of Seijun Suzuki in Criterion Channel's collection devoted to the Japanese action film auteur behind films like Branded to Kill and Gate of Flesh .
Interview: Jared Harris on the many sides of his famous father and new doc The Ghost of Richard Harris
Jared Harris about the many facets of his famous father, and re: the new documentary that explores them all: The Ghost of Richard Harris.
The Criterion Shelf: Queer Britannia – A Derek Jarman Retrospective
Surveying the films of Derek Jarman in Criterion Channel's collection devoted to the singular artist, activist, and visionary queer voice.
The Criterion Shelf: Abbas Kiarostami’s Childhood Films
The "Childhood films" of Abbas Kiarostami highlight his work with non-professionals even when treading on more mature themes, always with the playful, exploratory spirit of youth.