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Under the Influence
In this ongoing series of videos, contemporary filmmakers talk to us about the movies that have had a lasting impact on their work.
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The writer, director, and comedian shines a spotlight on a group of iconic city films, a classic Japanese ghost story, and one of the defining movies of the Tumblr era.
The shape-shifting artist and director of The Giverny Document talks about the Black feminist tradition, her approach to direct animation, and the influence of Toni Morrison and Soviet montage theory on her work.
For our first trip this year, Criterion is bringing the Mobile Closet to PAM CUT in May, along with some exciting additional programming.
A crime-cinema masterpiece whose influence can be seen in such later touchstones as Mean Streets and Reservoir Dogs, this highly stylized portrait of a gangster subordinates the needs of plot to director John Boorman’s saturated aesthetic.
During a period of rapid deregulation and accelerating deindustrialization, Hollywood corporate thrillers depicted ambitious heroes gaining admission to a world of C-suites and private jets at the price of their souls.
This month, take a peek at movie history through the prism of the ’80s: our collection of the decade’s best remakes and the originals that inspired them reveals an era of wild reinventions and sly revisionism.
One of Ernst Lubitsch’s favorites among his own films, this delightful pre-Code whodunit exemplifies the director’s signature European worldliness and his ingenious way of drawing viewers in as if they were coconspirators.
The legendary comedy troupe’s most fully realized film is a hilarious Biblical parody with a streak of overwhelming horror and outrage running through it.
Violently nihilistic, simultaneously energizing and crushing, Tsui Hark’s remake of the martial-arts classic One-Armed Swordsman captures the zeitgeist of pre–1997 handover Hong Kong.
Claude Lelouch’s Palme d’Or–winning breakout hit combines elements of a classic Hollywood love story with dynamic photography, an edgy editing style, and a naturalistic sense of character and location.
Suffused with visual beauty and moments of magical realism, Jess X. Snow’s queer diasporic cinema invites us to imagine new possibilities for freedom, transformation, and intergenerational healing.
The first documentary feature about the rock legends, Charlie Is My Darling captures the band as a group of consummate musicians coming into their fame, fully committed to their craft and enjoying one another’s company.
Spotlight
In this ongoing series of videos, contemporary filmmakers talk to us about the movies that have had a lasting impact on their work.