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Musician Bo Harwood discusses his work with filmmaker John Cassavetes.
Bo Harwood on the Films of John Cassavetes
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...
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
In the following conversation, recorded remotely in 2020, filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Ari Aster discuss the mission, evolution, and ongoing work...
30 Years of the Film Foundation: Martin Scorsese and Ari Aster in Conversation
Athina Rachel Tsangari has become one of the foremost figures of the so-called “Greek Weird Wave”—a movement characterized by its...
Athina Rachel Tsangari: Cinema on the Edges
In 2009, Sean Baker sat down with the Godfather of Gore himself, Herschell Gordon Lewis, to discuss his legendary career as an exploitation pioneer...
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
A documentary from 2012 on the making of the film, featuring interviews with Pedro Almodóvar; Agustín Almodóvar; actors...
The Making of All About My Mother
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...
The Way of Folk
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, we revisited our edit of the film and interviews with director Gillo Pontecorvo and...
Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers
Canadian actor and filmmaker Connor Jessup (Closet Monster, Falling Skies) profiles Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a maverick of Thai cinema who...
A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Produced in 2014, this documentary about the making of TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN! features interviews with director Pedro Almodóvar; actors...
Untied! Reflections on Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
In this short documentary produced for the Criterion Collection, Oscar-winning visual-effects expert Craig Barron and film writer John Bengtson,...
Safety Last!: Locations and Effects
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...
Robert Downey: Moment to Moment
Get to know the siblings whose films have captured the skittering pulse of New York’s city streets. An original documentary featuring footage...
The Universe Is Out There: Josh and Benny Safdie
In the sixth installment of the Criterion Channel's Meet the Filmmakers series, director Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell, Listen Up Philip) visits the...
Paul Schrader: Man in a Room
Laura Truffaut shares her memories of her legendary filmmaker father.
Introducing My Father, François Truffaut
In this short documentary and personal essay, Bruce Goldstein, founder of Rialto Pictures and repertory director at New York’s FIlm Forum,...
Uncovering The Naked City
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...
In Search of Ozu
Filmmaker Robert Townsend executive-produced the following fifty-six-minute program for Criterion’s Meet the Filmmakers series in 2018. In it,...
A Walk with Charles Burnett
Composer Bo Harwood discusses his score for John Cassavetes' 1974 film A Woman Under the Influence.
Bo Harwood on 'A Woman Under the Influence'
In this new video by filmmaker Daniel Raim, production designer Robert F. Boyle uncovers how two great artists—Alfred Hitchcock and Edward...
Hitchcock, Hopper, and the Penultimate Moment