Movies: The Criterion Collection

  • 2015
    Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'

    Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom' (2015)

    Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'

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    Martin Scali, who was Wes Anderson's assistant on "Fantastic Mr. Fox", shot this short documentary in Newport, Rhode Island, during the filming of "Moonrise Kingdom"....

    Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'
  • 2020
    Making 'The Irishman'

    Making 'The Irishman' (2020)

    Making 'The Irishman'

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    Join legendary director Martin Scorsese, and acting icons Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino going behind the scenes of their universally acclaimed movie....

    Making 'The Irishman'
  • 2020
    'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

    'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War (2020)

    'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

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    Film critic J. Hoberman discusses the best-selling 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler on which "Fail-Safe" is based, along with the pervasiveness of nuclear paranoia in films of the sixties....

    'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
  • 2011
    The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet

    The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet (2011)

    The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet

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    In this visual essay, Charles Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance, author of "Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema", draws upon a wealth of photography as well as a wide range of interviews (Paulette Goddard, Sydney Chaplin, Chuck Jones, Leni Riefenstahl, Mel ...

    The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
  • 1996
    The Battle of Brazil: A Video History

    The Battle of Brazil: A Video History (1996)

    The Battle of Brazil: A Video History

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    This documentary, based on author Jack Mathew's book "The Battle of Brazil," reunites the players involved in the struggle over the film's U.S. release. This take on one of the noisiest, most unusual, and most instructive behind-the-scenes controvers...

    The Battle of Brazil: A Video History
  • 2008
    Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad

    Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad (2008)

    Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad

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    Documentary about the technical achievements of the 1940 film classic The Thief of Bagdad....

    Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad
  • 2017
    Remembering Reno: Reflections on the Making of Desert Hearts

    Remembering Reno: Reflections on the Making of Desert Hearts (2017)

    Remembering Reno: Reflections on the Making of Desert Hearts

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    Filmed in Los Angeles in August 2017, director Donna Deitch, cinematographer Robert Elswit and production designer Jeannine Oppewall discuss their collaboration in creating the look of DESERT HEARTS....

    Remembering Reno: Reflections on the Making of Desert Hearts
  • 2006
    Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'

    Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku' (2006)

    Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'

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    A new documentary on director Nobuo Nakagawa and the making of the film, Jigoku. Featuring exclusive interview with Nakagawa collaborators....

    Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'
  • 2013
    The Making of 'Nashville'

    The Making of 'Nashville' (2013)

    The Making of 'Nashville'

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

    The Making of 'Nashville'
  • 2010
    Tadao Sato on Ozu's The Only Son

    Tadao Sato on Ozu's The Only Son (2010)

    Tadao Sato on Ozu's The Only Son

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    Documentary and interview with Japanese film critic and scholar Tadao Sato about Yasujiro Ozu film The Only Son....

    Tadao Sato on Ozu's The Only Son
  • 2019
    Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’

    Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’ (2019)

    Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’

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    Featurette on the making of John Waters' "Polyester."...

    Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’
  • 2017
    Women in Love: Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau on Desert Hearts

    Women in Love: Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau on Desert Hearts (2017)

    Women in Love: Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau on Desert Hearts

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    DESERT HEARTS depended on the connection between its two lead actors, Patricia Charbonneau and Helen Shaver, and on their trust in director Donna Deitch. In the following program, made by the Criterion Collection in New York in 2017, the actors and t...

    Women in Love: Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau on Desert Hearts
  • 2005
    Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa

    Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa (2005)

    Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa

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

    Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa
  • 2013
    Functions of Film Sound

    Functions of Film Sound (2013)

    Functions of Film Sound

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    This visual essay sets clips from Robert Bresson's "A Man Escaped" to a reading of "Functions of Film Sound," a chapter from David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's book "Film Art." The chapter analyzes the sound design of Bresson's masterpiece as a me...

    Functions of Film Sound
  • 2021
    Undressing a Legacy

    Undressing a Legacy (2021)

    Undressing a Legacy

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    In this interview, conducted in spring 2021, scholar Nick Rees-Roberts traces the influence of La Piscine on the worlds of film and fashion in the half century since its release....

    Undressing a Legacy
  • 2004
    Vitellonismo

    Vitellonismo (2004)

    Vitellonismo

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    A look at the making of Federico Fellini's "I Vitelloni"....

    Vitellonismo
  • 2019
    Ron Briley on 'A Face in the Crowd'

    Ron Briley on 'A Face in the Crowd' (2019)

    Ron Briley on 'A Face in the Crowd'

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    In this interview, shot by the Criterion Collection in 2018, Ron Briley, author of 'The Ambivalent Legacy of Elia Kazan: The Politics of the Post-HUAC Films', discusses the origins of the Lonesome Rhodes character in the biographies of populist celeb...

    Ron Briley on 'A Face in the Crowd'
  • 2018
    Weimar on the Pacific

    Weimar on the Pacific (2018)

    Weimar on the Pacific

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    In this documentary, film scholars Gerd Germünden and Noah Isenberg discuss the artistic origins of Marlene Dietrich in the cabarets of Weimar Germany and her relationship to her native country during and after World War II....

    Weimar on the Pacific
  • 2022
    Making of Drive My Car

    Making of Drive My Car (2022)

    Making of Drive My Car

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    Program about the making of the film, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with actors Reika Kirishima, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masaki Okada, Park Yu-rim, Jin Dae-yeon, and others...

    Making of Drive My Car
  • 2016
    Shooting 'Blood Simple'

    Shooting 'Blood Simple' (2016)

    Shooting 'Blood Simple'

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    Telestrator commentary and interview with Joel and Ethan Coen and Barry Sonnenfeld....

    Shooting 'Blood Simple'