Movies: The Criterion Collection
- 2015
Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom' (2015)
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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"....
- 2020
Making 'The Irishman' (2020)
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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....
- 2020
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War (2020)
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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....
- 2011
The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet (2011)
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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 ...
- 1996
The Battle of Brazil: A Video History (1996)
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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...
- 2008
Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad (2008)
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Documentary about the technical achievements of the 1940 film classic The Thief of Bagdad....
- 2017
Remembering Reno: Reflections on the Making of Desert Hearts (2017)
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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....
- 2006
Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku' (2006)
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A new documentary on director Nobuo Nakagawa and the making of the film, Jigoku. Featuring exclusive interview with Nakagawa collaborators....
- 2013
The Making of 'Nashville' (2013)
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Retrospective documentary on the making of Robert Altman's Nashville (1975)....
- 2010
Tadao Sato on Ozu's The Only Son (2010)
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Documentary and interview with Japanese film critic and scholar Tadao Sato about Yasujiro Ozu film The Only Son....
- 2019
Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’ (2019)
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Featurette on the making of John Waters' "Polyester."...
- 2017
Women in Love: Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau on Desert Hearts (2017)
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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...
- 2005
Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa (2005)
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Directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola discuss [Akira] Kurosawa and their roles as executive producers of Kagemusha....
- 2013
Functions of Film Sound (2013)
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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...
- 2021
Undressing a Legacy (2021)
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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....
- 2004
Vitellonismo (2004)
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A look at the making of Federico Fellini's "I Vitelloni"....
- 2019
Ron Briley on 'A Face in the Crowd' (2019)
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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...
- 2018
Weimar on the Pacific (2018)
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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....
- 2022
Making of Drive My Car (2022)
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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...
- 2016
Shooting 'Blood Simple' (2016)
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Telestrator commentary and interview with Joel and Ethan Coen and Barry Sonnenfeld....