The Criterion Collection announced April titles Friday. "Boyz n the Hood" anchors a John Singleton collection. "Life of Brian ...

Usually for someone’s birthday you have to get them something, but The Criterion Channel is celebrating its sixth birthday by giving movie fans one heck of a present — the ability to stream a number ...

Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident” and Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent” ...

When people hear the name Pasolini, if they recognize it at all, it's primarily due to two references: one, his brutal murder by a male prostitute (and perhaps a criminal syndicate group) or his later ...

I’ve been really into Les Blank’s body of work recently. The documentarian was best known for his representations of the American South, specifically as it relates to the tradition of folk music that ...

“Flow” is about to enter some rarified waters. The film from Latvian animator Gints Zilbalodis is currently up for two Academy Awards — and it will soon become part of the Criterion Collection, with a ...

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Danielle Burgos has over ten years of film writing experience for a variety of publications, niche and general. She's spent as many years programming lost and forgotten films in New York City. When ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

If you hadn’t heard, Criterion recently announced that its streaming service, Criterion Channel, will be introducing a new anime section with Ghost in the Shell, Redline, Paprika, and Tamala 2010: A ...