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A Beautiful Demon: Kazuo Koike on 'Lady Snowblood'
Jan 05, 2016In this interview, conducted in 2015, prolific author Kazuo Koike talks about his original LADY SNOWBLOOD manga.
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Making The Worst Person in the World
Jun 28, 2022In this new program, director Joachim Trier, actors Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, and Herbert Nordrum, screenwriter Eskil Vogt, and sound designer Gisle Tveito discuss their passion for cinema and the conception and production of The Worst Person in the World. The interviews were shot in New York and Oslo in 2022. In English, not subtitled. (51 min). Part of the Criterion Collection home video release for THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD.
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Undressing a Legacy
Jul 20, 2021In this interview, conducted in spring 2021, scholar Nick Rees-Roberts traces the influence of La Piscine on the worlds of film and fashion in the half century since its release.
Hollywood Propaganda and World War II
Feb 18, 2014FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT was released a year before the U.S. entered World War II. The ending of the film was added at the last minute to bolster anti-isolationist sentiment among American viewers.
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Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’
Sep 17, 2019
Passion Project
Aug 31, 2021Explores the ten-year journey of adapting Uzodinma Iweala's 2005 novel "Beasts of No Nation" into the 2015 film.
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An interview with Paul Schrader on his 1990 film "The Comfort of Strangers"
A Very Tricky Balance
Jan 12, 2021In this program, director Bing Liu, executive producer Gordon Quinn, and producer Diane Quon discuss the conception of Minding the Gap and its evolution. The program features separated interviews that were conducted in 2020.
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Way Out on a Limb
Oct 11, 2016Documentary with several of director Robert Altman's longtime collaborators, as they discuss making the film McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), the style and themes of the story and working with Altman.
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Ozu & Noda
Aug 27, 2019A new documentary by Daniel Raim on Yasujiro Ozu's relationship with longtime screenwriter Kogo Noda.
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Where It Began: The Origins of WALL·E
Nov 22, 2022In this program, created for the Criterion Collection in 2022, writer-director Andrew Stanton explores the films that inspired his approach to cinematic language in WALL·E.
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Anatomy of a Scene: The Plant
Nov 22, 2022This masterclass featuring writer-director Andrew Stanton was produced for the Criterion Collection in 2022.
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A Visit to the Pixar Living Archive
Nov 22, 2022A tour through the vaults of Pixar. WALL-E writer-director Andrew Stanton unearths a few treasures, including his sketchbook, concept art, visual gag pitches, and more, while recounting stories from several decades of his life and career.
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Daniel London and Will Oldham on Old Joy
Dec 10, 2019In this conversation, shot by the Criterion Collection in 2019, actors Daniel London and Will Oldham reunite for the first time since the release of Old Joy and discuss their memories of making the film.
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Living 'Lord of the Flies'
Jul 16, 2013Actor Tom Gaman (Simon) narrates some 8mm movies shot during the film's three-month production and shares memories of working on the movie during his summer vacation.
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Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson
Jan 10, 2017In this 25-minute video essay, film scholar David Bordwell, co-author of "Film Art: An Introduction", conducts an analysis of Howard Hawks's "His Girl Friday" (1940), which he believes to be the apotheosis of classical Hollywood storytelling. Bordwell discusses the film's history and the status of Howard Hawks as an auteur before delving into a detailed analysis of various aspects of the film's narrative, dialogue, use of props, editing, and staging.
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Hawks on Hawks
Jan 10, 2017This ten-minute segment, heralded as part of a new shorts program, is composed of excerpts from a 1972 audio conversation between Hawks and Peter Bogdanovich, as well as a 1973 interview of Hawks with Richard Schickel, wherein the director reminisces about casting "His Girl Friday" (1940) and the changes from the original source material.
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The Way of Folk
Jan 19, 2016In this brand new featurette, executive producer T Bone Burnett and the Coen brothers discuss the history of some of the songs that heard in Inside Llywin Davies and possible origin of the stories they tells, the folk movement during the 1960s and the social and cultural ideas that it represented, the authenticity and the identity of folk music and the balance between the two, the future of folk music, etc. Included with the featurette are illustrations by Drew Christie. The featurette was created exclusively for Criterion in 2015.
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Reflecting On Take Out
Sep 13, 2022In this new documentary, produced by the Criterion Collection in 2022, directors Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou and actors Charles Jang, Wang-Thye Lee, and Jeng-Hua Yu consider the making of the film and its importance in their lives since.
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Watching Gena Rowlands
Aug 01, 2014Sheila O'Malley's visual essay "Watching Gena Rowlands" rounds out the set by focusing on Rowlands’ collaborations with Cassavetes.
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Weimar on the Pacific
Jul 03, 2018In this documentary, film scholars Gerd Germünden and Noah Isenberg discuss the artistic origins of Marlene Dietrich in the cabarets of Weimar Germany and her relationship to her native country during and after World War II.
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Dietrich Icon
Jul 03, 2018Film scholars Mary Desjardins, Amy Lawrence, and Patricia White consider the collaboration between Marlene Dietrich and Josef von Sternberg, as well as Dietrich's role as a Hollywood icon.
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Homay King on 'Shanghai Express'
Jul 03, 2018Film scholar Homay King discusses director Josef von Sternberg's cinematic China and the role of star Anna May Wong in 'Shanghai Express'.
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Ron Briley on 'A Face in the Crowd'
Apr 23, 2019In this interview, shot by the Criterion Collection in 2018, Ron Briley, author of 'The Ambivalent Legacy of Elia Kazan: The Politics of the Post-HUAC Films', discusses the origins of the Lonesome Rhodes character in the biographies of populist celebrities such as Will Rogers and Arthur Godfrey. He also addresses the political implications of 'A Face in the Crowd' (1957) within the context of Kazan's career.
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Evan Dalton Smith on Andy Griffith
Apr 23, 2019'A Face in the Crowd' was Andy Griffith's first film role; he would go on to be most famous for his folksy portrayal of Sheriff Andy Taylor on television's The Andy Griffith Show. In this interview, filmed by the Criterion Collection in 2018, Griffith expert Evan Dalton Smith discusses the actor's difficulties with the role of Lonesome Rhodes and how it led to his career-defining television show.
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Jay Cocks and Farran Smith Nehme on 'The Heiress'
May 07, 2019In this 2018 Criterion Collection program, screenwriter Jay Cocks and film critic Farran Smith Nehme discuss the adaptation for the film version of 'The Heiress' (1949) of the 1947 play by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, which was itself inspired by the 1880 Henry James novel 'Washington Square'.
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Birth Pains
Oct 16, 2015Fun thirty-three minute documentary about the making of David Cronenberg's THE BROOD features interviews with star Samantha Eggar, executive producer Pierre David, special effects artists Rick Baker and Joe Blasco as well as assistant director John Board.
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Constructing a House
Oct 26, 2010Interview-based documentary looking back on the making and reception of Nobuhiko Ōbayashi's 1977 film House.
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Sharon Malone and Eric Holder
Apr 20, 2016An interview with Sharon Malone and Eric Holder regarding the 1963 desegregation of the University of Alabama.
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Andrew Cohen on Crisis and Its Outtakes
Apr 20, 2016Historian Andrew Cohen discusses Robert Drew's 1963 documentary Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment.
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Jill Drew and D.A. Pennebaker
Apr 20, 2016Robert Drew & Associates at the Museum of Tolerance
Apr 20, 2016In 1998, documentary filmmaker Robert Drew and his associates attend the Museum of Tolerance.
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Emotional Uncertainties
Aug 11, 2015In this short documentary, produced in 2015, actors Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep and editor John Bloom discuss director Karel Reisz and their experiences working on The French Lieutenant'Woman.
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Miranda July: Where it Began
Apr 28, 2020In this documentary, produced in 2019, director Miranda July and filmmaker Lena Dunham explore July’s beginnings, including her early work as a performer, the creation of her Joanie 4 Jackie project, and the development and production of her first feature film, ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW.
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Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star
Aug 07, 2015Documentary taking a look at the career of Jackie Coogan who was considered the first child star.
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The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
May 24, 2011In this visual essay, Charles Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance, author of "Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema", draws upon a wealth of photography as well as a wide range of interviews (Paulette Goddard, Sydney Chaplin, Chuck Jones, Leni Riefenstahl, Mel Brooks, Joan Collins et al.) to examine the production history of "The Great Dictator", the film's importance as a satire, and legacy.
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City Wide Fever
Jan 01, 1970Sam, a young film student, discovers a USB detailing the life and career of forgotten Italian horror director Saturnino Barresi. As she begins to investigate his mysterious disappearance, Sam finds herself pulled into a violent conspiracy eerily similar to those of the films she adores.
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Table Scraps: Notes on Babette's Feast
Jul 23, 2013In this essay on Babette's Feast, filmmaker Michael Almereyda charts the path from Isak Dinesen’s story to Gabriel Axel’s film, taking detours along the way into art history, philosophy, and the author’s life in Africa.
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