Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final film is just as hard to watch as it was half a century ago, but it’s even more necessary today.
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There are images and moments in Luis Buñuel’s Los Olvidados that stick in the memory long after the final fadeout, and […]
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Between Oscar winners, the late Diane Keaton co-starred in a send-up of Russian literature that showed off her prodigious comedic gifts.
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Decades before it became ‘MST3K’ fodder, Gamera posed a serious challenge to Godzilla’s status as “king of the monsters.”
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One decade after introducing Godzilla to the world, Ishiro Honda brought to the screen a more down-to-earth threat to humanity.
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The world of dog shows provided the fodder for Christopher Guest’s most inspired mockumentary, unleashed 25 years ago.
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Hammer Films brought Nigel Kneale’s signature character to movie screens 70 years ago, paving the way for its own hallowed place in popular culture.
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Lycanthropy runs in the family in two very different werewolf films unleashed 40 years ago this month.
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In a time when trans people find themselves increasingly on defense, the Criterion Channel celebrates one whose default is to play offense.
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Three boys escape their humdrum suburban lives by going to space in Joe Dante’s sci-fi fantasy, which launched into theaters 40 years ago.
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A film with a tangled history almost as convoluted as the story it tells, Orson Welles’s “Mr. Arkadin” has a playfulness that belies its ramshackle nature.
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With Alan Rudolph in the Criterion Channel’s Director Spotlight, we shine a light on one of his most eccentric – and stylish – films.
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