Peter Becker Movies

Film scholars Mary Desjardins, Amy Lawrence, and Patricia White consider the collaboration between Marlene Dietrich and Josef von Sternberg, as well...

In this short documentary and personal essay, Bruce Goldstein, founder of Rialto Pictures and repertory director at New York’s FIlm Forum,...

Sheila O'Malley's visual essay "Watching Gena Rowlands" rounds out the set by focusing on Rowlands’ collaborations with Cassavetes.

This short documentary features interviews with film scholar Callisto Cosulich, BICYCLE THIEVES coscreenwriter Suso Cecchi d’Amico, and actor...

'A Face in the Crowd' was Andy Griffith's first film role; he would go on to be most famous for his folksy portrayal of Sheriff Andy Taylor on...

A documentary created by the Criterion Collection for their release of Italian film director Federico Fellini's Amarcord about his relationship with...

In this short documentary, actor Shih Chun addresses his longtime collaboration with director King Hu and his performance as Gu Sheng-zhai in A Touch...

New conversation between director Christian Petzold and actor Nina Hoss

In this short documentary, film critic Tony Rayns discusses director King Hu and A Touch of Zen.

In 1998, documentary filmmaker Robert Drew and his associates attend the Museum of Tolerance.

Fim scholar Vida T. Johnson, co-author of 'The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue, discusses the significance of 'Ivan's Childhood' in...

In this archival documentary, cinematographer John Bailey, production designer Eiko Ishioka, and composer Philip Glass discuss the conception of Paul...

In this essay on Babette's Feast, filmmaker Michael Almereyda charts the path from Isak Dinesen’s story to Gabriel Axel’s film, taking...

In 2006, jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis and critic Gary Giddins discuss the iconic Miles Davis and the critical time in his career when the score for...

In 1993, the original negatives of Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy were burned in a massive nitrate fire at a laboratory in London. Even though...

An interview with director Jan Troell, conducted by critic Peter Cowie, on his epic Oscar-nominated masterpieces, The Emigrants (1971) and The New...

An interview with film scholar Mia Mask, co-editor of Poitier Revisited.

In this documentary, filmmaker Daniel Raim delves into Yasujiro Ozu's remarkable late work, in which the master made the leap from black and white to...

Christopher Isham discusses Gillo Pontecorvo's 'The Battle of Algiers' with Richard A. Clarke, former USA national coordinator for security and...

In this new documentary, produced by the Criterion Collection in 2022, directors Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou and actors Charles Jang, Wang-Thye...