The Criterion Collection

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.

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".

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.

This visual essay sets clips from Robert Bresson's "A Man Escaped" to a reading of "Functions of Film Sound," a chapter from David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's book "Film Art." The chapter analyzes the sound design of Bresson's masterpiece as a means of discussing the use of sound in film.

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.

A new documentary on director Nobuo Nakagawa and the making of the film, Jigoku. Featuring exclusive interview with Nakagawa collaborators.

A documentary on the making of the 1936 film Swing Time, featuring interviews with jazz and film critic Gary Giddens, dance critic Brian Seibert, and Dorothy Fields biographer Deborah Grace Winer. This is an all-encompassing feature covering the evolution of the Hollywood musical, Astaire's and Rogers' work, and the film's music, written by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields.

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.

A new documentary by Daniel Raim on Yasujiro Ozu's relationship with longtime screenwriter Kogo Noda.

Filmed in Los Angeles in August 2017, director Donna Deitch, cinematographer Robert Elswit and production designer Jeannine Oppewall discuss their collaboration in creating the look of DESERT HEARTS.

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, film scholars Gerd Germünden and Noah Isenberg discuss the artistic origins of Marlene Dietrich in the cabarets of Weimar Germany and her relationship to her native country during and after World War II.

A new conversation between author Dave Eggers and the Coen Brothers about the production, from inception to release, of 'Blood Simple'.

Documentary on the making of Josef von Sternberg's 'Underworld,' which launched the American gangster genre as we know it.

DESERT HEARTS depended on the connection between its two lead actors, Patricia Charbonneau and Helen Shaver, and on their trust in director Donna Deitch. In the following program, made by the Criterion Collection in New York in 2017, the actors and the director discuss the making of the film, the close bond they formed, and the ways it changed their lives.

This documentary traces the "physical history" of Fritz Lang’s M, from its production and original distribution to the digital restoration used as the basis for this edition. It includes a look at the French-language version of M but was produced before the discovery of the English-language version.

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

Director Robert Altman and writer Garry Trudeau discuss their collaboration on Tanner ‘88 in a conversation recorded in June 2004.

Director Peter Bogdanovich discusses the career of director/writer Leo McCarey. Included in The Criterion Collection's 2010 DVD release of the Leo McCarey film Make Way for Tomorrow (1937).