When we watch a new movie and see something we rarely see, it feels revolutionary. This could be about representation, sexuality, even nonlinear timelines. But when we watch an older film, it...
When you pick movies nearly at random that are leaving the Criterion Channel, your life as a writer is never boring. When I began this column, one of my goals was to...
Hey everyone, here is an important update to our InSession Film Awards (Staff Picks), as we now have our winners! It was a heated battle, with no less than 5 categories being...
This week on the InSession Film Podcast, we feature our 9th annual InSession Film Awards! This year, we did something a little bit different. We asked all of staff writers to be...
2021 is a year unlike any other, but also a year like every other year. Yes, theaters reopened (kind of). Yes, cinema was saved by three young men in spider suits (kind...
Of the many glories of watching movies on The Criterion Channel, one of the most satisfying is finding filmmakers' early works. The landscape of film being what it is, most promising artists...
Films can be a lesson on thematic flexibility. Many films may have the same theme, but completely different ways of arriving at said theme and expressing it. Parenthood, in general, and motherhood,...
The Criterion Channel has a mostly earned reputation for having a large collection focused mostly on “art house cinema.’ But as time passes, this definition likely changes. Let’s take Oscar-nominated films as...
