Criterion Collection
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Dorothy Arzner’s ‘Working Girls’ Shows Depression Hard-Knocks from the Female Perspective
Dorothy Arzner’s 1931 film ‘Working Girls’ shows “MEN may do the bossing — but the girls make their own plans for them!’
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Love Needs No Explanation in ‘History is Made at Night’
The restored Criterion edition of Frank Borzage’s masterpiece romance shows the talent and intuition he had to reach the audience’s hearts.
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The Infinite Reinvention of Wong Kar Wai
With the release of The Criterion Collection’s “World of Wong Kar Wai” set, we look at how Hong Kong’s King of Cool has built an inimitable career on repetition and iteration.
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‘A Face In the Crowd’ and the Unfulfilled Prediction of a Better America
Two demagogues, one fictional and one real, diverged in the wood.
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10 Terrifying Non-Horror Films From The Criterion Collection
From 2012, we list ten scary entries from the Criterion library.
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‘Night and Fog’ Makes the Atrocities of the Past Devastatingly Present
Welcome to the Criterion Files, an early FSR column in which Landon Palmer went through the Criterion Collection catalog disc by disc. This entry looks at release…
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Criterion Files #103: ‘The Lady Eve’
From 2011, this entry in our column digging into the Criterion Collection library explores Preston Sturges’ hilarious 1941 entry into the romantic comedy genre.
