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To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, we revisited our edit of the film and interviews with director Gillo Pontecorvo and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gillo Pontecorvo

A documentary from 2012 on the making of the film, featuring interviews with Pedro Almodóvar; Agustín Almodóvar; actors...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pedro Almodóvar

In 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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: T Bone Burnett

Produced in 2014, this documentary about the making of TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN! features interviews with director Pedro Almodóvar; actors...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pedro Almodóvar

This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algiers (1966), released in 2004. An in-depth look at...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Brahim Hadjadj

Musician Bo Harwood discusses his work with filmmaker John Cassavetes.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bo Harwood

In the following conversation, recorded remotely in 2020, filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Ari Aster discuss the mission, evolution, and ongoing work...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Martin Scorsese

In the sixth installment of the Criterion Channel's Meet the Filmmakers series, director Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell, Listen Up Philip) visits the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Schrader

Canadian actor and filmmaker Connor Jessup (Closet Monster, Falling Skies) profiles Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a maverick of Thai cinema who...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Athina Rachel Tsangari has become one of the foremost figures of the so-called “Greek Weird Wave”—a movement characterized by its...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Athina Rachel Tsangari

Composer Bo Harwood discusses his score for John Cassavetes' 1974 film A Woman Under the Influence.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bo Harwood

Get to know the siblings whose films have captured the skittering pulse of New York’s city streets. An original documentary featuring footage...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Josh Safdie

In this documentary, filmmaker Daniel Raim delves into Yasujiro Ozu's remarkable late work, in which the master made the leap from black and white to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Shizuo Yamanouchi

In 2009, Sean Baker sat down with the Godfather of Gore himself, Herschell Gordon Lewis, to discuss his legendary career as an exploitation pioneer...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Herschell Gordon Lewis

In this short documentary produced for the Criterion Collection, Oscar-winning visual-effects expert Craig Barron and film writer John Bengtson,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Bengtson

Filmmaker Robert Townsend executive-produced the following fifty-six-minute program for Criterion’s Meet the Filmmakers series in 2018. In it,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Charles Burnett

In this new video by filmmaker Daniel Raim, production designer Robert F. Boyle uncovers how two great artists—Alfred Hitchcock and Edward...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert F. Boyle

In this short documentary and personal essay, Bruce Goldstein, founder of Rialto Pictures and repertory director at New York’s FIlm Forum,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bruce Goldstein

To pay tribute to one of his filmmaking heroes, Sean Price Willams adopts a style that’s just as out there as his subject, mixing new material...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Downey Sr.

Laura Truffaut shares her memories of her legendary filmmaker father.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laura Truffaut