The Criterion Shelf: Directed by Satyajit Ray
Exploring the works of the great Satyajit Ray, including Pather Panchali, The Music Room, and The Big City.
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Wild Combination: An Intro to Arthur Russell
To celebrate the addition of Matt Wolf's Wild Combination (2008) to the Criterion Channel, Marko Djurdjic takes a dive into the eclectic world of avant-hero Arthur Russell.
The Criterion Shelf: Directed by Bertrand Tavernier
The films of Bertrand Tavernier deliver rich presentations of human relationships that one feels deeply, his stark but never preachy criticisms of French society always accompanied by stunning visual landscapes that are often breathtaking.
The Criterion Shelf: Starring Peter Sellers
For a man who claimed to have no personality of his own, the versatile Peter Sellers always made us laugh.
The Criterion Shelf: The Best of Mae West
A sharp wit with an even sharper taste for business who wrote her own scripts and loved to rock a glamorous gown, she was an unapologetic voluptuary whose jokey attitude towards enjoying the carnal side of life skillfully cloaked a nuanced understanding of its painful realities.
The Criterion Shelf: Written By Harold Pinter
Pinter directed nearly fifty productions for stage, theatre and screen.
The Criterion Shelf: Cary Grant Comedies
Criterion Channel's collection of Cary Grant comedies proves the measure of true star power.
The Criterion Shelf: Claire Denis, Bill Forsyth, Nadav Lapid
The Criterion Channel is currently screening three collections of three very different filmmakers.
Black Hole Films Episode 185 – Ingmar Bergman Cinema Closing Night: Fanny & Alexander
Jeremy finishes off his Ingmar Bergman's Cinema series!
The Criterion Shelf: Starring Joan Crawford
Crawford showed up ready for stardom, as time passed the perfection of her face hardened but you could never do anything about those eyes.
The Criterion Shelf: ’70s Horror
Just in time for Halloween, Bil Antoniou takes a look at 28 spooky classics.
The Criterion Shelf: Directed by Volker Schlöndorff
Beginning with his feature debut Young Törless, Schlöndorff showed himself interested in examining the gray area of morality.
The Criterion Shelf: Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Christo’s projects push the limit of what people consider to be the usefulness of art.
The Criterion Shelf: Starring Alain Delon
The face of an angel with haunted, almost devilish eyes couldn’t be more suited to capturing the hearts and imaginations of viewers, and throughout his lengthy career Delon has played a series of charismatic bad boys that have made him a very potent, very eternal sex symbol
The Criterion Shelf: Directed by Powell and Pressburger
It’s not just marriages that are made in heaven, some film collaborations are as well, and the artform rarely benefited more from two artists collaborating than when Austrian émigré screenwriter Emeric Pressburger was paired up with English director Michael Powell.
