The Criterion Closet 40
The monumental forty-film box set CC40 celebrates forty years of the Criterion Collection with an electrifying mix of classic and contemporary films, and presents them with all their special features and essays.
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Introducing FilmStruck
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Commemorating William Becker at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards
At the gala for the New York Film Critics Circle’s 2016 awards dinner Criterion president Peter Becker accepted an award on behalf of his father, Criterion cofounder William Becker. His remarks are reproduced here.
A Conversation with Volker Schlöndorff
Re: Format
Last November, when we announced that we would start releasing dual-format editions, we hoped that we had found an alternative that would address our concerns about packaging costs across two formats, while guaranteeing that both DVD and Blu-
…Why Dual-Format?
We answer some questions about our decision to begin releasing dual-format editions, including both DVD and Blu-ray discs in one package.
Emperor 2.0
Red, White, and Blog
Double Trouble
Ang Lee on Ingmar Bergman
Voyagers
The Adventures of Pierre et Bertrand
Reality at 25/24 Frames per Second
Here, There, and Everywhere
Blogged Down
It was bound to happen. After a good start for the blog, a quiet stretch. The year has gotten off to a busy start. Every minute there seems to be a meeting with a new player about a new technology or a new way to use an old technology. We've been to
…iSalute
We have always been a Mac shop. For us, it hasn't just been a technological choice. It's a state of mind. There is something about Apple that feels like home. Our companies were founded at the same time, and in a sense they both grow out of the same
…On Five
Mission Accomplished (gulp)
La rive gauche, Part 2
We left St-Michel feeling uplifted and took a nice stroll south, past the Closerie des Lilas, the restaurant made famous by Hemingway, and through the Luxembourg gardens, where a film crew was laying dolly tracks and fitting counterweights on a small
…La rive gauche
We've been all over the city in the past couple of days, lugging around the fourteen-pound Janus box in a prototype Janus tote, feeling a little like traveling salesmen, but it's okay, because Paris is just so beautiful, even on these gray fall days.
…Home Away from Home
Beautiful People
At the Museum of the Moving Image tonight, Peter Cowie is presenting his new book on Louise Brooks, Lulu Forever, and they are digitally screening our new Pandora's Box restoration with the Gillian Anderson score. I don’t think I’ve ever been so
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