David Harbour has won the Emmy for Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for his portrayal of Floyd Smernitch in HBO Max’s “DTF St. Louis.”…
Sudan is full of film lovers. In the past, the country was famous for its open-air cinemas, where celluloid images played after sundown amid the hot desert clim…
For years, it’s been rumored that Nathan Fielder had been interviewing Theranos founder (and certified huckster) Elizabeth Holmes — including visiting her in pr…
The following interview was conducted in December 2025, as Criterion Collection executive producer Kim Hendrickson and director Mike Mills were working to prepa…
The Tokyo International Film Festival will introduce two new competitive awards, a Southeast Asia-focused section and a prize honoring women in cinema. The Nipp…
I cried the first time I saw a Mike Mills film. It happened at a screening of his first film, Thumbsucker, at the Oslo Film Festival. It must have been 2006, an…
Korean sales house Finecut has closed a string of international deals for three festival titles, including Hong Sangsoo’s Locarno prizewinner “Nowhere to Lay My…
Harry Dean Stanton’s Jerry Schue doesn’t get on-screen until a full hour of Ulu Grosbard’s Straight Time (1978) has passed. Unlike Orson Welles as Harry Lime in…
Midway through Night 2 of the 78th Emmys, Apple TV’s “Widow’s Bay” has also won six Emmys so far — putting it firmly in the frontrunners position among comedy c…
At the beginning of Cruel Story of Youth (1960), the title splashes across the screen in fiery red. Each of the three Japanese words that appear offers a key to…
Andy “The Butcher” Williams, a professional wrestler who played guitar with the bands Every Time I Die and Atomic Rule, died Saturday night after collapsing at …
Channel Calendars This month on the Criterion Channel, crank up the volume on our playlist of (actually good) rock biopics that go beyond cliché to explore the …
Netflix wants the “ink” to dry on its Oscar prospects. Danny Boyle made his first trip to Venice with “Ink,” his adaptation of James Graham’s stage sensation, w…
In May of 1962, when Martin Ritt arrived in the Texas Panhandle town of Claude to begin filming Hud, he may have sensed that his career was about to change. Hud…
Forty years into a career that has made him one of American cinema’s most recognizable character actors, John Turturro has a Cannes best actor prize, an enviabl…
One of the funniest and most affecting scenes in 1970s Hollywood cinema is also one of the most quietly radical—no small feat in a decade of movies marked by wi…
Against the rubble gray and stiff mahogany with which director May el-Toukhy washes out her post-Second World War Copenhagen, the pops of crimson in “Woman Unkn…
The legacy of Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game has become inextricably entangled with a defining trope of AIDS-era mainstream queer representation: the revelation …
Macklemore opened for Ed Sheeran on Friday night in New Jersey at the MetLife Stadium, and during his set the rapper sang out “Free Palestine” before launching …
On October 30, 1992, the Provisional Irish Republican Army set off two bombs as part of an ongoing campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland. One, a sma…
Critics Miriam Bale and Öykü Sofuoğlu discuss new films from Werner Herzog, Martin McDonagh, Paul Schrader, and more…
Deep Dives One of the most mischievous figures in world cinema, Věra Chytilová is still best known for Daisies, the daring 1966 film whose gonzo vision of femal…
I first met Courtney Love in 1994. I was twelve years old, and I felt ugly and confused pretty much all the time. I was slouching through the locker bay at Call…
The distinction between social and political cinema is not always clear. The former category, which focuses on realistic portrayals of the everyday lives and st…