The Criterion Collection
Every holiday season, we like to put together a montage of footage from the end of our on-camera interviews with filmmakers, critics, and scholars, highlighting the moments when we capture “room tone”—the ambient sound that our editors need to create a seamless video.
As we look back on these meditative silences shared with our guests, we’re feeling grateful for the collaborations and friendships that sustain our work.
As we come to the end of 2025, we’re looking back at some of the essays and interviews we’ve shared with you over the past year.
The director of Rat Trap and Monologue was an uncompromising artist who helped establish the Indian state of Kerala as a hub of bold political filmmaking.
Beginning on November 24, the Criterion Channel will exclusively premiere the long-awaited television series from visionary director Wong Kar Wai.
Classics of the genre—including Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession and David Cronenberg’s The Fly—explore the gory extremes of corporeal experience.