Boasting one of the most compelling and adventurous filmographies of any actor working in Hollywood today, Julianne Moore has made consistently bold choices in a career that has moved easily between blockbuster hits and art-house passion projects. Working with auteurs like Todd Haynes, David Cron...

Check in and stay a while in some of cinema’s most iconic hotels, where souls in transit meet, identities shift, and the by turns liberating and lonely experience of being far from home heightens every interaction. From the gilded art deco glamour of GRAND HOTEL to the haunted corridors of THE SH...

Though their voices have historically been marginalized, innovative Black women filmmakers have long broken barriers to tell urgent, powerful, and perceptive stories on-screen. This celebration of pioneering Black women who made an impact with their very first—and in some cases only—feature film ...

As his unmissable television epic BLOSSOMS SHANGHAI comes to the Criterion Channel, immerse yourself in the woozy world of Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar Wai, whose lush visuals, swooning soundtracks, and wistful romanticism have made him one of contemporary cinema’s defining artists. Working with key...

With six features—including his acclaimed latest, SENTIMENTAL VALUE—to his name, Norwegian auteur Joachim Trier has established himself as one of the most virtuosic directors working today, a humanist who brings novelistic depth and insight to his intimate portraits of people grappling with every...

“Sexual perversion, and any inference to it, is strictly forbidden.” Thus spoke the Hollywood Production Code, the system of censorship that defined the limits of the permissible during the studio system’s golden age from the 1930s to the ’60s. According to such dictates, queer people simply didn...

When relatives get together, anything can happen. This collection brings together all-too-relatable family portraits that capture the dysfunction, tenderness, and hilarity of holidays, weddings, feasts, and homecomings both joyous and maddening. From the somber poignancy of John Huston’s masterfu...

In 1990s Shanghai, fortunes are waiting to be made—but not everyone can be a winner. In his first-ever television series, legendary director Wong Kar Wai (IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE) orchestrates a sprawling cast of stockbrokers, entrepreneurs, restaurateurs, bureaucrats, schemers, and dreamers riding ...

Both a consummate popular entertainer and an auteur so distinctive he inspired his own adjective, Howard Hawks built his movies around an exuberant, loose-limbed spirit of collaboration and improvisation, driven by the sparky banter and freewheeling interplay of charismatic stars at their best. I...

Among the most agonizingly intense films in the history of film noir are those that adopt the point of view of characters tormented by amnesia, memory holes, and drunken blackouts, leaving them to grasp in the dark in search of an often terrifying truth. Waking up unexpectedly in a stranger’s bed...