Ida director Pawil Pawlikowski returns with a haunting film about doomed love under chaotic times.
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Joshua Brunsting
Scott Reviews Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cold War [Theatrical Review]
Its slight 85-minute running time gives the further impression of time slipping away, how moments stretch out, only for you to blink and a year’s gone by.
Scott Nye
Joshua Reviews Wang Bing’s Dead Souls [Theatrical Review]
Despite being a nearly nine-hour documentary, Wang Bing returns with maybe 2018's most important and powerful non-fiction feature film.
Joshua Reviews Aleksey German’s Khrustalyov, My Car! [Theatrical Review]
20 years after its initial release, Aleksey German's 1998 masterpiece arrives in theaters in an essential new restoration from Arrow Films.
Criterion Now – Episode 76 – FilmStruck, Fandor, and the state of home media
Fritzi Kramer and Jill Blake join to discuss the big week with the end of FilmStruck, potential end of Fandor, and all of the implications.
Aaron West
Criterion Reflections – Episode 41 – 1970 Short Films/Season Finale
David and guests wrap up Season 2 of the podcast with conversations about 1970 films from Stan Brakhage, Hollis Frampton, David Lynch, Stuart Cooper and Ingmar Bergman.
David Blakeslee
Episode 194 — Ingmar Bergman’s Persona
For this episode of The CriterionCast, Scott, David, and Trevor join to discuss Ingmar Bergman's Persona.
Trevor Berrett
Criterion Now – Episode 75 – Bergman Box Set
Becky D'Anna and Dave Eves join to unpack and unravel the massive Criterion Ingmar Bergman's Cinema box set.
Joshua Reviews Anahi Berneri’s Alanis [Theatrical Review]
This humanist portrait of a woman on the brink of collapse is one of fall 2018's great discoveries.
Criterion Reflections – Episode 40 – Norman Mailer’s Maidstone
David and William punch their way through Mailer's improvised apocalyptic tour de force.
Joshua Reviews Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters [Theatrical Review]
The Still Walking filmmaker returns with one of his best films yet, a devastating look at what it truly means to be a family.
The Newsstand Episode 67 – The Criterion Channel Lives!
Ryan is joined by Arik Devens and David Blakeslee to discuss the news that the Criterion Channel will re-launch in the spring of 2019.
Ryan Gallagher
Criterion Now – Episode 74 – February 2019 Titles, Criterion Channel, StudioCanal, Andrei Rublev
Josh and Matt join to go through the February announcements, the Criterion Channel, the Kino Lorber StudioCanal deal, and Andrei Rublev.
Criterion Reflections – Episode 39 – Jacques Demy’s Donkey Skin
David and guests Robert Taylor, William Remmers and Derek J. Power express their varying degrees of enchantment in response to this whimsical fairy tale.
Joshua Reviews Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah: Four Sisters [Theatrical Review]
Lanzmann's final film is an epic, haunting look at life during the Holocaust.