Dear Readers,
Gillo Pontecorvo’s landmark 1966 feature is political and anticolonial filmmaking at its best.
Jia Zhangke’s terrific debut film marked the arrival of a distinct artist working on the margins of Chinese cinema.
Stanley Kubrick’s most psychologically complex and debated work is now available on UHD and Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection.
Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant exude charm in this funny, romantic, and ceaselessly entertaining Hitchcockian thriller.
Neil Jordan’s 1994 vampire classic remains a layered and lavish drama about outsiders and forbidden desires.
It’s one of the best musicals ever made and remains a chilling reminder of how apathy can enable the rise of authoritarianism.
Rob Reiner’s mockumentary remains one of the all-time funniest movies ever made.
A timeless work of art and entertainment, vital for historical study, but perhaps more essentially, urgently watchable and accessible more than a century later.
Steven Spielberg’s original can still convince audiences that dinosaurs are real.