Current

The longtime Criterion Collection and Janus Films contributor reflects on his role in the golden age of art-house cinema and his life as a film critic, historian, publisher, and festivalgoer.

In this powerful drama about family and memory, Joachim Trier explores how the past lives on in us, shapes us, and partly determines who we are and how we feel.

Featuring a quasi-documentary format that was innovative for its time, Bob Fosse’s complex portrait of stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce is a gesture of postmortem outreach from one prickly, jagged-edged artist to another.

The Lumière brothers were not just inventors who brought about major advancements in motion-picture technology, they were also cinema’s first artists, capturing modern life with dynamic compositions and ingeniously choreographed action.

New-media pioneer Shu Lea Cheang’s astonishingly prescient dystopian vision takes place in a world where technology feels sticky and bodily, and where networks seep into food, water, and flesh.

In his stylish and provocative directorial debut, Lawrence Kasdan uses the vehicle of a sex-and-murder plot to explore the film’s historical moment, which gave rise to the greed and amorality of the Reagan era.

Set out on an epic journey with our Odysseys collection, revisit the foundational Bond classics that introduced the silver screen’s most iconic superspy, and dive into a selection of Courtney Love’s greatest performances.

In the landscape of gay-themed cinema, which often focuses on positivity and pride, Ira Sachs’s debut feature stands out for asking unsettling questions about the limits of queer connection across socioeconomic and racial divides.

In the trio of star-studded films that cemented his legacy as a groundbreaking figure in American cinema, the writer-director illuminated the hopes and struggles of Black communities in his native Los Angeles.