The Criterion Collection

Martin Scali, who was Wes Anderson's assistant on "Fantastic Mr. Fox", shot this short documentary in Newport, Rhode Island, during the filming of "Moonrise Kingdom".

Featurette on the making of John Waters' "Polyester."

After a much-publicized but brief stint in Hollywood, Jean Seberg was selected by Jean-Luc Godard to star in BREATHLESS. It was to become the legendary actress’s best-remembered role. This 2007 video essay by Mark Rappaport, director of the 1995 film FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG, reveals the true story behind her iconic face.

In this brand new featurette, directors Guillermo del Toro (The Devil's Backbone), Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Till Dawn), and Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) explain what makes Night of the Living Dead a very special film and discuss its lasting impact on the horror genre. The featurette was produced exclusively for Criterion in 2017.

Join legendary director Martin Scorsese, and acting icons Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino going behind the scenes of their universally acclaimed movie.

“Cinematographer Stuart Dryburgh discusses his work on Lone Star in this interview, recorded for the Criterion Collection iin New York in 2023.”

Film critic J. Hoberman discusses the best-selling 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler on which "Fail-Safe" is based, along with the pervasiveness of nuclear paranoia in films of the sixties.

Actors Patricia Charbonneau and Helen Shaver discuss the making of with groundbreaking film of queer cinema, Desert Hearts (1985, Donna Deitch) and how it impacted their careers.

This documentary, based on author Jack Mathew's book "The Battle of Brazil," reunites the players involved in the struggle over the film's U.S. release. This take on one of the noisiest, most unusual, and most instructive behind-the-scenes controversies in Hollywood history features Mathews, director Terry Gilliam, producer Arnon Milchan, and studio executives Frank Price, Marvin Antonowsky, Bob Rehme, and Sidney Sheinberg.

In this new program, director Joachim Trier, actors Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, and Herbert Nordrum, screenwriter Eskil Vogt, and sound designer Gisle Tveito discuss their passion for cinema and the conception and production of The Worst Person in the World. The interviews were shot in New York and Oslo in 2022. In English, not subtitled. (51 min). Part of the Criterion Collection home video release for THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD.

Retrospective documentary on the making of Robert Altman's Nashville (1975).

A new documentary by Daniel Raim and Eugene Suen on the making of "Flowers of Shanghai," featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with Mark Lee Ping-bing, producer and editor Liao Ching-sung, production designer Hwarng Wern-ying, and sound recordist Tu Duu-chih.

This short documentary features interviews with film scholar Callisto Cosulich, BICYCLE THIEVES coscreenwriter Suso Cecchi d’Amico, and actor Enzo Staiola. The interviews were conducted in Italy in 2005.

In this visual essay, Charles Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance, author of "Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema", draws upon a wealth of photography as well as a wide range of interviews (Paulette Goddard, Sydney Chaplin, Chuck Jones, Leni Riefenstahl, Mel Brooks, Joan Collins et al.) to examine the production history of "The Great Dictator", the film's importance as a satire, and legacy.

In this interview, conducted in spring 2021, scholar Nick Rees-Roberts traces the influence of La Piscine on the worlds of film and fashion in the half century since its release.

In this hour-long piece, recorded in 2009, filmmaker Noah Baumbach talks with his friends the writer-actors André Gregory and Wallace Shawn about their experiences making My Dinner with Andre. Baumbach speaks first with Gregory, and then with Shawn.

A collection of excerpted on-screen interviews with fifteen of the Apollo astronauts.

Documentary about the technical achievements of the 1940 film classic The Thief of Bagdad.

Program about the making of the film, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with actors Reika Kirishima, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masaki Okada, Park Yu-rim, Jin Dae-yeon, and others

In this documentary, produced in 2019, director Miranda July and filmmaker Lena Dunham explore July’s beginnings, including her early work as a performer, the creation of her Joanie 4 Jackie project, and the development and production of her first feature film, ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW.