The Criterion Collection Movies

After the end of WWII, a young Lithuanian woman and a young Italian man from Stromboli impulsively marry, but married life on the island is more...

This program details the challenges that the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation, in collaboration with the Cinémathèque...

The Making of Eraserhead is a documentary featurette produced for the Criterion Collection's 2014 restoration and home-video release of David Lynch's...

Serge Toubiana, director of the Cinémathèque française, sat down with director Claude Lanzmann in his office in Paris in January...

In this video essay, critic Tag Gallagher analyzes the style of Josef von Sternberg's silent films.

New documentary featuring Scorsese, actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone, author David Grann, Osage Nation Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing...

In this hour-long piece, recorded in 2009, filmmaker Noah Baumbach talks with his friends the writer-actors André Gregory and Wallace Shawn...

A documentary on the making of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein

Special feature from Criterion’s release of Desperate Living, where writer-director John Waters tours the Baltimore location that served as the...

Retrospective documentary on the making of Robert Altman's Nashville (1975).

Featurette on the making of John Waters' "Polyester." Produced for The Criterion Collecton.

In July 2019, Alan Canvan premiered "Game of Death Redux", a new edit of the fight footage Bruce Lee shot in 1972 for "Game of Death". This version...

Documentary illuminating the film’s final shot, featuring Scorsese, Chief Standing Bear, and six members of the Osage Nation

Film composer and critic Michel Chion analyzes the sound design in Jacques Tati's films.

Guillermo del Toro gives a tour of his home office and personal collections, which he calls Bleak House. [Included on The Criterion Collection DVD,...

In this visual essay, Charles Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance, author of "Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema", draws upon a wealth of photography as well...

Directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola discuss [Akira] Kurosawa and their roles as executive producers of Kagemusha.

After a much-publicized but brief stint in Hollywood, Jean Seberg was selected by Jean-Luc Godard to star in BREATHLESS. It was to become the...

A making of documentary on "The Darjeeling Limited".

This visual essay, produced in 2023, builds upon rare radio interviews that Chantal Akerman gave in 1975 and 1977, in which she reflects on her films...