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A Visit to the Pixar Living Archive
A tour through the vaults of Pixar. WALL-E writer-director Andrew Stanton unearths a few treasures, including his sketchbook, concept art, visual gag pitches, and more, while recounting stories from several decades of his life and career.0.0
Year:
2022
Anatomy of a Scene: The Plant
This masterclass featuring writer-director Andrew Stanton was produced for the Criterion Collection in 2022.0.0
Year:
2022
Ralph-E: The Art of the Color Script
This new piece, featuring Andrew Stanton and late production designer Ralph Eggleston -- who recently died on August 28 -- focuses on the color scripts he created to help bring WALL-E to life. Under the circumstances, it doubles as a tribute to the talented Pixar mainstay, who also did similar work on Toy Story and Finding Nemo and gave Stanton one of his first jobs in the field.0.0
Year:
2022
Where It Began: The Origins of WALL·E
In this program, created for the Criterion Collection in 2022, writer-director Andrew Stanton explores the films that inspired his approach to cinematic language in WALL·E.0.0
Year:
2022
(There Is No) Cure
In this new video essay, filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe delves into the dread-inducing mood and tone of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s modern horror classic Cure, deploying a dizzying range of cinematic references to unravel the film’s eerie magic.0.0
Year:
2022
Reflecting On Take Out
In this new documentary, produced by the Criterion Collection in 2022, directors Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou and actors Charles Jang, Wang-Thye Lee, and Jeng-Hua Yu consider the making of the film and its importance in their lives since.9.0
Year:
2022
Making The Worst Person in the World
In this new program, director Joachim Trier, actors Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, and Herbert Nordrum, screenwriter Eskil Vogt, and sound designer Gisle Tveito discuss their passion for cinema and the conception and production of The Worst Person in the World. The interviews were shot in New York and Oslo in 2022. In English, not subtitled. (51 min). Part of the Criterion Collection home video release for THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD.10.0
Year:
2022
Passion Project
Explores the ten-year journey of adapting Uzodinma Iweala's 2005 novel "Beasts of No Nation" into the 2015 film.0.0
Year:
2021
Undressing a Legacy
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 half century since its release.0.0
Year:
2021
Robert Downey: Moment to Moment
To pay tribute to one of his filmmaking heroes, Sean Price Willams adopts a style that’s just as out there as his subject, mixing new material and never-before-seen archival footage in this portrait of the underground film titan Robert Downey (A Prince).0.0
Year:
2021
A Very Tricky Balance
In this program, director Bing Liu, executive producer Gordon Quinn, and producer Diane Quon discuss the conception of Minding the Gap and its evolution. The program features separated interviews that were conducted in 2020.0.0
Year:
2021
Uncovering The Naked City
In this short documentary and personal essay, Bruce Goldstein, founder of Rialto Pictures and repertory director at New York’s FIlm Forum, tracks down many of the 100+ New York City locations—from the Bronx to the Lower East Side—used in his friend Jules Dassin’s classic police procedural THE NAKED CITY, while also spotlighting the contributions of producer Mark Hellinger and cinematographer William Daniels.0.0
Year:
2020
The Making of "Marriage Story"
This video journal of the film's production features unseen on-set footage of the cast and crew. A part of the Criterion Collection release of Marriage Story.10.0
Year:
2020
Miranda July: Where it Began
In this documentary, produced in 2019, director Miranda July and filmmaker Lena Dunham explore July’s beginnings, including her early work as a performer, the creation of her Joanie 4 Jackie project, and the development and production of her first feature film, ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW.0.0
Year:
2020
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
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 pervasiveness of nuclear paranoia in films of the sixties.0.0
Year:
2020
Paul Schrader: Man in a Room
In the sixth installment of the Criterion Channel's Meet the Filmmakers series, director Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell, Listen Up Philip) visits the ever-iconoclastic auteur Paul Schrader during the making of his 2017 masterpiece First Reformed. On set and at home- where, for his own pleasure, he continues to work and rework his previous films- Schrader reflects on the highs and lows of his legendary career, the challenges and rewards of slow cinema, and the influences and experiences that continue to shape his approach to filmmaking. With this insightful portrait of one of his filmmaking heroes, Perry captures an artist who is continually at play, intentionally provocative, and never less than vital.6.0
Year:
2020
Daniel London and Will Oldham on Old Joy
In this conversation, shot by the Criterion Collection in 2019, actors Daniel London and Will Oldham reunite for the first time since the release of Old Joy and discuss their memories of making the film.0.0
Year:
2019
Introducing My Father, François Truffaut
Laura Truffaut shares her memories of her legendary filmmaker father.10.0
Year:
2019
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
In 2009, Sean Baker sat down with the Godfather of Gore himself, Herschell Gordon Lewis, to discuss his legendary career as an exploitation pioneer and creator of the splatter movie. In 2019, the footage formed the basis for this documentary produced by the Criterion Channel.0.0
Year:
2019
Ozu & Noda
A new documentary by Daniel Raim on Yasujiro Ozu's relationship with longtime screenwriter Kogo Noda.6.0
Year:
2019
On Camera: Fifteen Apollo Astronauts and Their Experience of a Lifetime
A collection of excerpted on-screen interviews with fifteen of the Apollo astronauts.0.0
Year:
2019
In Full Swing
A documentary on the making of the 1936 film Swing Time, featuring interviews with jazz and film critic Gary Giddens, dance critic Brian Seibert, and Dorothy Fields biographer Deborah Grace Winer. This is an all-encompassing feature covering the evolution of the Hollywood musical, Astaire's and Rogers' work, and the film's music, written by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields.0.0
Year:
2019
Mia Mask On Bojangles Of Harlem
In this interview, filmed by the Criterion Collection in 2019, film scholar Mia Mask discusses blackface and the 'Bojangles of Harlem' number in George Stevens's 'Swing Time' (1936).0.0
Year:
2019
Jay Cocks and Farran Smith Nehme on 'The Heiress'
In this 2018 Criterion Collection program, screenwriter Jay Cocks and film critic Farran Smith Nehme discuss the adaptation for the film version of 'The Heiress' (1949) of the 1947 play by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, which was itself inspired by the 1880 Henry James novel 'Washington Square'.0.0
Year:
2019
Evan Dalton Smith on Andy Griffith
'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 television's The Andy Griffith Show. In this interview, filmed by the Criterion Collection in 2018, Griffith expert Evan Dalton Smith discusses the actor's difficulties with the role of Lonesome Rhodes and how it led to his career-defining television show.0.0
Year:
2019
Ron Briley on 'A Face in the Crowd'
In this interview, shot by the Criterion Collection in 2018, Ron Briley, author of 'The Ambivalent Legacy of Elia Kazan: The Politics of the Post-HUAC Films', discusses the origins of the Lonesome Rhodes character in the biographies of populist celebrities such as Will Rogers and Arthur Godfrey. He also addresses the political implications of 'A Face in the Crowd' (1957) within the context of Kazan's career.0.0
Year:
2019
Glamour and Tension: John Bailey on Notorious
An analysis of Hitchcock's Notorious through Hitchcock's camera work, shots, camera angles, lens, and stylistic choices.0.0
Year:
2019
Powerful Patterns: David Bordwell on Notorious
An analysis of stylistic and narrative cinematic choices, themes, patterns composing scenes, and shots in Alfred Hitchcock's films, focusing on "Notorious" (1946), that demonstrate his genius as a master craftsman.0.0
Year:
2019
Poisoned Romance
A deeper look at the human interactions and motivations in Notorious by Hitchcock biographer David Spoto0.0
Year:
2019
Poitier's Walter Lee
An interview with film scholar Mia Mask, co-editor of Poitier Revisited.0.0
Year:
2018
Homay King on 'Shanghai Express'
Film scholar Homay King discusses director Josef von Sternberg's cinematic China and the role of star Anna May Wong in 'Shanghai Express'.0.0
Year:
2018
Dietrich Icon
Film scholars Mary Desjardins, Amy Lawrence, and Patricia White consider the collaboration between Marlene Dietrich and Josef von Sternberg, as well as Dietrich's role as a Hollywood icon.0.0
Year:
2018
Weimar on the Pacific
In this documentary, film scholars Gerd Germünden and Noah Isenberg discuss the artistic origins of Marlene Dietrich in the cabarets of Weimar Germany and her relationship to her native country during and after World War II.0.0
Year:
2018
In Search of Ozu
In this documentary, filmmaker Daniel Raim delves into Yasujiro Ozu's remarkable late work, in which the master made the leap from black and white to color. In his stirring tribute to the great filmmaker, Raim examines Ozu's life and work through archival treasures such as his diary and the red teakettle from the family drama "Equinox Flower" (1958); sits down with Ozu's nephew and the producer of the director's gently elegiac final film, "An Autumn Afternoon" (1962); and interweaves many scenes and images from the vibrant and humane films with which the director capped his career.7.0
Year:
2018
A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Canadian actor and filmmaker Connor Jessup (Closet Monster, Falling Skies) profiles Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a maverick of Thai cinema who explores the slippery nature of time and consciousness with a sublimely idiosyncratic, often surreal approach to film form.7.5
Year:
2018
Matthew Polly On "Game Of Death"
Matthew Polly analyzes the film and its impact0.0
Year:
2017
Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson
In this 25-minute video essay, film scholar David Bordwell, co-author of "Film Art: An Introduction", conducts an analysis of Howard Hawks's "His Girl Friday" (1940), which he believes to be the apotheosis of classical Hollywood storytelling. Bordwell discusses the film's history and the status of Howard Hawks as an auteur before delving into a detailed analysis of various aspects of the film's narrative, dialogue, use of props, editing, and staging.0.0
Year:
2017
Hawks on Hawks
This ten-minute segment, heralded as part of a new shorts program, is composed of excerpts from a 1972 audio conversation between Hawks and Peter Bogdanovich, as well as a 1973 interview of Hawks with Richard Schickel, wherein the director reminisces about casting "His Girl Friday" (1940) and the changes from the original source material.0.0
Year:
2017
Way Out on a Limb
Documentary with several of director Robert Altman's longtime collaborators, as they discuss making the film McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), the style and themes of the story and working with Altman.0.0
Year:
2016
Hans Fromm on 'Phoenix'
New interview with cinematographer Hans Fromm.0.0
Year:
2016
Love/Work/Cinema: A Conversation with Christian Petzold and Nina Hoss
New conversation between director Christian Petzold and actor Nina Hoss0.0
Year:
2016
Andrew Cohen on Crisis and Its Outtakes
Historian Andrew Cohen discusses Robert Drew's 1963 documentary Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment.8.0
Year:
2016
Jill Drew and D.A. Pennebaker
A conversation between Jill Drew and D.A. Pennebaker.9.0
Year:
2016
Sharon Malone and Eric Holder
An interview with Sharon Malone and Eric Holder regarding the 1963 desegregation of the University of Alabama.8.0
Year:
2016
Robert Drew & Associates at the Museum of Tolerance
In 1998, documentary filmmaker Robert Drew and his associates attend the Museum of Tolerance.8.0
Year:
2016
The Way of Folk
In this brand new featurette, executive producer T Bone Burnett and the Coen brothers discuss the history of some of the songs that heard in Inside Llywin Davies and possible origin of the stories they tells, the folk movement during the 1960s and the social and cultural ideas that it represented, the authenticity and the identity of folk music and the balance between the two, the future of folk music, etc. Included with the featurette are illustrations by Drew Christie. The featurette was created exclusively for Criterion in 2015.0.0
Year:
2016
A Beautiful Demon: Kazuo Koike on 'Lady Snowblood'
In this interview, conducted in 2015, prolific author Kazuo Koike talks about his original LADY SNOWBLOOD manga.0.0
Year:
2016
Emotional Uncertainties
In this short documentary, produced in 2015, actors Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep and editor John Bloom discuss director Karel Reisz and their experiences working on The French Lieutenant'Woman.0.0
Year:
2015
Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star
Documentary taking a look at the career of Jackie Coogan who was considered the first child star.0.0
Year:
2015
Babe Ruth Footage
One of SPEEDY’s many delights is a surprise cameo by Babe Ruth. In this new piece, David Filipi, director of film and video at the Wexner Center for the Arts at the Ohio State University, presents and discusses a selection of rare Hearst Metrotone newsreel footage featuring Ruth from the UCLA Film & Television Archive.0.0
Year:
2015
Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth'
A new documentary on the Criterion Collection edition of Roman Polanski's 1971 adaptation of Macbeth featuring interviews with the director, producer Andrew Braunsberg, assistant executive producer Victor Lownes, and actors Francesca Annis and Martin Shaw.5.0
Year:
2014
John Bailey on Freddie Francis
Cinematographer John Bailey discusses director of photography Freddie Francis's innovations for the 1961 film 'The Innocents', and how Francis and director Jack Clayton achieved the look of the film.0.0
Year:
2014
Watching Gena Rowlands
Sheila O'Malley's visual essay "Watching Gena Rowlands" rounds out the set by focusing on Rowlands’ collaborations with Cassavetes.0.0
Year:
2014
Giving Up the Ghost
A visual essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda.0.0
Year:
2013
Table Scraps: Notes on Babette's Feast
In this essay on Babette's Feast, filmmaker Michael Almereyda charts the path from Isak Dinesen’s story to Gabriel Axel’s film, taking detours along the way into art history, philosophy, and the author’s life in Africa.0.0
Year:
2013
Living 'Lord of the Flies'
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 summer vacation.0.0
Year:
2013
Caroline Champetier and Arnaud Desplechin: A Conversation about 'Shoah'
An interview about 'Shoah' featuring Caroline Champetier, who did assistant camera work on the film, and Arnaud Desplechin.0.0
Year:
2013
Functions of Film Sound
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 Kristin Thompson's book "Film Art." The chapter analyzes the sound design of Bresson's masterpiece as a means of discussing the use of sound in film.0.0
Year:
2013
Making Badlands
An overview of the making of Badlands (1973).8.0
Year:
2013
The Film That Warped Too Much: A Restoration Demonstration
A summary of the problems of the best surviving film elements and the restoration of the film0.0
Year:
2013
Revolutions Per Second
A 25-minute visual essay by Kent Jones about Jean-Luc Godard and his film 'Weekend'.0.0
Year:
2012
The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
In this visual essay, Charles Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance, author of "Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema", draws upon a wealth of photography as well as a wide range of interviews (Paulette Goddard, Sydney Chaplin, Chuck Jones, Leni Riefenstahl, Mel Brooks, Joan Collins et al.) to examine the production history of "The Great Dictator", the film's importance as a satire, and legacy.6.0
Year:
2011
James L. Brooks: A Singular Voice
A retrospective documentary on Brooks's career in television and film, featuring actresses Marilu Henner and Julie Kavner, among other collaborators.0.0
Year:
2011
The Making of 'The Night of the Hunter'
Documentary exploring the production of "The Night of the Hunter."0.0
Year:
2010
Constructing a House
Interview-based documentary looking back on the making and reception of Nobuhiko Ōbayashi's 1977 film House.7.0
Year:
2010
The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited'
A making of documentary on "The Darjeeling Limited".0.0
Year:
2010
Underworld: How it Came to Be
Documentary on the making of Josef von Sternberg's 'Underworld,' which launched the American gangster genre as we know it.0.0
Year:
2010
Tadao Sato on Ozu's The Only Son
Documentary and interview with Japanese film critic and scholar Tadao Sato about Yasujiro Ozu film The Only Son.0.0
Year:
2010
Masahiro Shinoda on 'The Human Condition'
In this video appreciation, created in 2009, we present filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda’s observations on THE HUMAN CONDITION and director Masaki Kobayashi.0.0
Year:
2009
CHE and the Digital Cinema Revolution
CHE was the first feature to use the Red camera, which Soderbergh embraced for its versatility and image quality. This short 2009 documentary looks at the evolution of the camera during the film’s production and at the many ways it has enhanced and altered the process of modern digital filmmaking.0.0
Year:
2009
Kurosawa and the Censors
Danish film scholar, Lars-Martin Sorensen, describes US censorship of Japanese film during the American occupation of Japan (1945-1952) and the challenges Kurosawa faced from these censors on his early films, particularly Drunken Angel (1948).0.0
Year:
2007
Working with De Sica
This short documentary features interviews with film scholar Callisto Cosulich, BICYCLE THIEVES coscreenwriter Suso Cecchi d’Amico, and actor Enzo Staiola. The interviews were conducted in Italy in 2005.0.0
Year:
2007
Life as a Dream
Fim scholar Vida T. Johnson, co-author of 'The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue, discusses the significance of 'Ivan's Childhood' in Tarkovsky's body of work.0.0
Year:
2007
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
A retrospective look at the career of Paul Robeson and his legacy as both an American and a citizen of the world.0.0
Year:
2007
Discovering William Greaves
A documentary on the career of William Greaves, featuring Greaves, his wife and co-producer Louise Archambault, actor Ruby Dee, filmmaker St. Clair Bourne, and film scholar Scott MacDonald. Released within Criterion's Symbiopsychotaxiplasm set.7.0
Year:
2006
Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'
A new documentary on director Nobuo Nakagawa and the making of the film, Jigoku. Featuring exclusive interview with Nakagawa collaborators.6.0
Year:
2006
Seven Samurai: Origins and Influences
Seven Samurai: Origins and Influences, a documentary looking at the samurai traditions and films that helped shape Kurosawa's masterpiece10.0
Year:
2006
Reviving Harry Lime
Radio producer Harry Alan Towers discusses his work with Orson Welles.0.0
Year:
2006
Miles Goes Modal
In 2006, jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis and critic Gary Giddins discuss the iconic Miles Davis and the critical time in his career when the score for ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS was recorded.0.0
Year:
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Making Sweetie
Stars Genevieve Lemon and Karen Colston recall their work in Jane Campion's 1989 film 'Sweetie'.0.0
Year:
2006
Fellini's Homecoming
A documentary created by the Criterion Collection for their release of Italian film director Federico Fellini's Amarcord about his relationship with his home town, Rimini, featuring archive interviews with the director and more recent interviews with some of his friends and collaborators.0.0
Year:
2006
Men of Mystery
Orson Welles Biographer Simon Callow discusses the making of "Mr. Arkadin" (aka "Confidential Report.")0.0
Year:
2006
Dreams and Burdens
A retrospective interview with director Werner Herzog.6.0
Year:
2005
Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa
Directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola discuss [Akira] Kurosawa and their roles as executive producers of Kagemusha.0.0
Year:
2005
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algiers (1966), released in 2004. An in-depth look at the Battle of Algiers through the eyes of five established and accomplished filmmakers; Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh, Oliver Stone, Julian Schnabel and Mira Nair. They discuss how the shots, cinematography, set design, sound and editing directly influenced their own work and how the film's sequences look incredibly realistic, despite the claim that everything in the film was staged .10.0
Year:
2004
Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, we revisited our edit of the film and interviews with director Gillo Pontecorvo and producer Saadi Yacef, who discuss the process of representing Algeria's struggle for independence and the challenges of presenting a balanced view of the conflict.7.2
Year:
2004
The Battle of Algiers: A Case Study
Christopher Isham discusses Gillo Pontecorvo's 'The Battle of Algiers' with Richard A. Clarke, former USA national coordinator for security and counterterrorism, and Michael A. Sheehan, former USA State Department coordinator for counterterrorism.0.0
Year:
2004
For All Mankind
A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the missions and astronaut interviews, the documentary offers the viewpoint of the individuals who braved the remarkable journey to the moon and back.7.8
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1989