The Criterion Collection
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Celebrating Mike Nichols
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Into the Woods: An Interview with The Witch’s Robert Eggers By Hillary Weston
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What’s Happening on Hulu
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Repertory Pick: Nagisa Oshima in Texas
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The Kid: The Grail of Laughter and the Fallen Angel By Tom Gunning
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Celebrating Mike Nichols
For over half a century, Mike Nichols’s varied talents and singular voice made him a cultural icon. From his early days in sketch comedy with Elaine May to his career as a theater director and his prolific output as a filmmaker, his work . . . Read more »
Clippings, Video
- Posted on February 19, 2016
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Into the Woods: An Interview with The Witch’s Robert Eggers
By Hillary Weston
After possessing audiences and winning the directing award at Sundance last year, Robert Eggers’s haunting seventeenth-century folktale The Witch opens nationwide today. Set in an unspecified part of New England—five decades before the Salem . . . Read more »
Interviews
- Posted on February 19, 2016
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What’s Happening on Hulu
For our free festival on Hulu, we’re highlighting a selection of Slow-Burning Thrillers: films that quietly simmer with suspense before culminating in grand, dramatic crescendos. This week’s films run the gamut, from European crime drama to . . . Read more »
Hulu, Announcements
- Posted on February 19, 2016
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Repertory Pick: Nagisa Oshima in Texas
Big Screen, Video
- Posted on February 18, 2016
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The Kid: The Grail of Laughter and the Fallen Angel
By Tom Gunning
The Kid marked Charlie Chaplin’s wholehearted embrace of sentiment, which he intertwined with the slapstick he was known for to enrich his Tramp character and carry the narrative of feature-length directorial debut.
Read more »Film Essays
- Posted on February 18, 2016
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Reintroducing Nagisa Oshima’s Death by Hanging
It’s been nearly fifty years since the original release of Nagisa Oshima’s Death by Hanging, yet the 1968 feature remains as viscerally powerful as ever. Oshima, one of the Japanese New Wave’s most prominent directors, made the film as a . . . Read more »
Video
- Posted on February 17, 2016
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On Location with Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin’s 1921 masterpiece of silent cinema, The Kid, is now available on Blu-ray and DVD. In this film, his feature-length directorial debut, Chaplin stars as his already iconic Tramp character alongside a young Jackie Coogan, who . . . Read more »
Clippings
- Posted on February 17, 2016
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Death by Hanging: Hanging by a Thread
By Howard Hampton
In Death by Hanging, Nagisa Oshima spins a complex aesthetic web around his documentary-like structure, packing detail, history, politics, and emotion into his surrealist inquiry into capital punishment.
Read more »Film Essays
- Posted on February 16, 2016
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In the Mood for Love
View galleryPhoto Galleries
- Posted on February 14, 2016
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Dance on Camera at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
Last night marked the opening of the forty-fourth annual Dance on Camera festival, hosted by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and copresented with the Dance Films Association. Read more »
Big Screen, Clippings
- Posted on February 13, 2016
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What’s Happening on Hulu
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner (reminder: it’s this Sunday . . .), we’re looking at occasions when Eros’s quiver went astray, with French Affairs, our free festival on Hulu. This week’s selection of tales about forbidden amour . . . Read more »
Hulu
- Posted on February 12, 2016
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Repertory Pick: Monte Hellman Heads to Toronto
The Janus Films touring retrospective Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road has made its way to Toronto, where it’s playing through March 6 at the TIFF Cinematheque. Simultaneously, TIFF is also presenting Wim’s Films: American Friends & . . . Read more »
Big Screen, Video
- Posted on February 11, 2016
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Godard in Fragments
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Video Essays
- Posted on February 10, 2016
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The Emigrants/The New Land: Homelands
By Terrence Rafferty
Jan Troell’s narration of one Swedish couple’s arduous journey to America portrays the migratory quality of marriage—of “finding that you think of this person who is not you, or this place that is not the land of your birth, as your home.” Read more »
Film Essays
- Posted on February 09, 2016
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From the Truffaut Archives
Today marks what would have been the eighty-fourth birthday of French New Wave pioneer François Truffaut. In celebration of his incredible life and body of work, revisit a selection of essays and Criterion supplements dedicated to the brilliant . . . Read more »
Features, Film Essays
- Posted on February 06, 2016
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What’s Happening on Hulu
This week, we’re highlighting a selection of films from the 1950s and ’60s, with Mid-century Cool, our free festival on Hulu. The films on offer, all of them effortlessly embodying that era’s particular sense of style, range from Japanese New . . . Read more »
Hulu
- Posted on February 05, 2016
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Liv Ullmann Reflects on Working with Jan Troell
The Emigrants and The New Land, the incredible pair of films made by Swedish director Jan Troell in the early 1970s, remain among the most authentic and powerful portrayals of the mid-nineteenth-century wave of emigration from Europe to the . . . Read more »
On Five, Video
- Posted on February 05, 2016
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Repertory Pick: Pedro Almodóvar in Philadelphia
Last month, the International House Philadelphia, in conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania, kicked off a series called Cinema, Censorship, and the Scandal of Sex, selecting four films that “have been seen as an outrage to decency, . . . Read more »
Big Screen, Photo Galleries, Video
- Posted on February 04, 2016
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Gregory Crewdson’s Cinematic Worlds
By Hillary Weston
For more than two decades, photographer Gregory Crewdson has been creating otherworldly images that reveal an eerie side of Americana. His works, typically tableaux of small-town life, transform the everyday into the uncanny. Read more »
Interviews
- Posted on February 03, 2016
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Walking with Werner Herzog
In November of 1974, German filmmaker Werner Herzog began walking from Munich to Paris. He had just learned that his friend and mentor, the film historian Lotte Eisner, was gravely ill and had been hospitalized in Paris, and Herzog decided to . . . Read more »
Clippings
- Posted on February 02, 2016
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What’s Happening on Hulu
This week, enjoy a vacation from winter’s muted palette with Directing in Color, our free festival on Hulu, featuring a selection of our favorite directors’ first films in color. On offer are: Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan’s The . . . Read more »
Hulu, Video
- Posted on January 29, 2016
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Introducing I Knew Her Well
Next Friday, Film Forum begins a weeklong run of our new 4K restoration of Antonio Pietrangeli’s 1965 masterpiece I Knew Her Well, presented by filmmaker Alexander Payne. This newly rediscovered gem, one of Pietrangeli’s most complex and . . . Read more »
Video
- Posted on January 29, 2016
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Repertory Pick: The Red Shoes Dances Its Way to the Castro