Exploring My Favorite Criterion Collection Films

Criterion Collection on Instagram: "Evening viewing recommendation? On the Criterion Channel, watch THE END OF THE AFFAIR (1999), Neil Jordan's exquisite adaptation of Graham Greene’s stirring metaphysical novel of desire and betrayal starring Julianne Moore and Ralph Fiennes. Moore stars as a married woman at the center of a torrid love triangle in World War II-era England. With equally powerful work from Fiennes as the obsessive lover driven to extremes, extravagant production design that capt

Criterion Collection on Instagram: "Evening viewing recommendation? Stay in with Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING (1980) on the Criterion Channel!"

Criterion Collection on Instagram: "THE '90s DO THE '70s 🪩 Coming to the Criterion Channel January 1! In the 1990s, the twenty-year cultural cycle—in which each generation rediscovers and reinterprets the youth culture of the last—saw Gen X filmmakers turn to the 1970s for inspiration. But with more in mind than mere nostalgia, directors like Richard Linklater, Sofia Coppola, Spike Lee, and Paul Thomas Anderson used this much-mythologized decade as a lens through which to examine contemporary s

Criterion Collection on Instagram: "Evening viewing recommendation? On the Criterion Channel, watch Arnaud Desplechin's beguiling A CHRISTMAS TALE (2008). 🎄🍷 Catherine Deneuve brings her legendary poise to the role of Junon, matriarch of the troubled Vuillard family, who come together at Christmas after she learns she needs a bone marrow transplant from a blood relative. That simple family reunion setup, however, can't begin to describe the unpredictable, emotionally volatile experience of thi

Criterion Collection on Instagram: "Evening viewing recommendation? On the Criterion Channel, watch Sara Gómez's ONE WAY OR ANOTHER (1977) in our Black Debutantes collection—a celebration of pioneering Black women who made an impact with their very first feature. The only feature from the radical Afro-Cuban filmmaker (who also worked as an assistant director with Agnès Varda and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea before her untimely death at age 31) is an extraordinary portrait of postrevolution Cuba. Blendin