Criterion Originals
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Spotlight on French Poetic Realism
The following interview with critic Imogen Sara Smith was recorded in 2024.
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Adam Gopnik on L’ATALANTE
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Michael Cunningham on THE RULES OF THE GAME
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Spotlight on Sara Gómez
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Justin Simien on DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST
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Josh and Benny Safdie on BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS
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THE WATERMELON WOMAN Introduction
Critic and Queersighted programmer Michael Koresky and food and film writer Mayukh Sen discuss Cheryl Dunye's landmark film.
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Isabella Rossellini Interview
This interview with actor and director Isabella Rossellini was recorded in 2024.
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Mike Leigh Interview
This interview with director Mike Leigh was recorded in 2022.
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Ethan Hawke’s Adventures in Moviegoing
1 season
The thinking man’s movie star, Ethan Hawke has moved seamlessly between mainstream hits and acclaimed passion projects for directors such as Richard Linklater and Paul Schrader ever since breaking into Hollywood at age fourteen, garnering Academy Award nominations for both acting and screenwritin...
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Spotlight on MODERN TIMES with Racquel J. Gates
In the following introduction recorded in 2022, film scholar Racquel J. Gates unpacks how Charlie Chaplin’s 1936 masterpiece explores anxieties around technology and bids farewell to the silent era.
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RaMell Ross on the Qatsi Trilogy
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Megan Abbott on TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME
The bestselling author explores David Lynch’s suburban inferno.
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Josh and Benny Safdie on CAMERA BUFF
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Paul Dano on STILL WALKING
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Introducing Blue Christmas
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John Waters in Conversation
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Spotlight on the Czechoslovak New Wave
Programmer and critic Irena Kovarova, directors Miloš Forman and Jan Němec, and film professor Peter Hames discuss one of the most radical film movements of the 1960s.
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John Turturro in Conversation
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Spotlight on Italian Neorealism
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Spotlight on New Hollywood
The following introduction by Mark Harris, author of “Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood,” was recorded in 2024
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Spotlight on Mikio Naruse
The following interview with scholar Imogen Sara Smith was recorded in 2024.
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Spotlight on Youssef Chahine
The following interview with scholar Richard Peña was recorded in 2024.
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Intro to Method Acting with Vincent D’Onofrio, Ethan Hawke, and Isaac Butler
This conversation between actors Ethan Hawke and Vincent D’Onofrio and author Isaac Butler was recorded in 2023.
