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September 12, 2018
Criterion Crash Course explores how Criterion's new release of The Tree of Life offers a thorough look at how sound…
May 26, 2017
An important film about the complex relationship between intimacy and work, Woman of the Year is ripe for re-discovery, thanks…
April 27, 2017
In Tampopo, just released by Criterion, food-worship is conveyed in inventive vignettes. Let's look at how these side stories bring…
April 3, 2017
For the moviemakers featured in our slate of content throughout March 2017, resourcefulness was the name of the game. Whether
March 27, 2017
Andrew Haigh's 45 Years, just released by Criterion, uses time and the sights and sounds of a decades-old marriage as…
March 24, 2017
At long last, Criterion has restored John Waters' Multiple Maniacs. The film wasn't made by following any "rules," but it…
March 1, 2017
Overseas attention for Pedro Almodóvar didn’t come until the release of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown in…
February 28, 2017
Richard Linklater's The Before Trilogy evokes the beautiful simplicity of love found and time passed. Explore how by studying the…
February 20, 2017
Criterion releases Ermanno Olmi’s 19th century rural epic The Tree of Wooden Clogs which updates Italian neorealism in 1978, winning…
February 20, 2017
Watch this brief history of Robert Altman's work as a television director for some insight into how he developed his…
February 13, 2017
Welcome to the jungle... The Asphalt Jungle. We discuss what moviemakers can learn about adaptation from the Criterion edition of…
January 2, 2017
Criterion Crash Course draws moviemaking lessons from Federico Fellini's Roma, a film which only includes the parts of Rome the…
November 30, 2016
Break out of that Thanksgiving food coma and join us as we wrap up November 2016 on Moviemaker.com with our…
November 22, 2016
The deceptively simple Punch-Drunk Love packs a formal wallop. Let’s talk about the elements that tie it all together, in…
November 18, 2016
Criterion Crash Course draws moviemaking lessons from Kenji Misumi, Yoshiyuki Kuroda and Buichi Saito's bloody and brilliant Lone Wolf and…
October 31, 2016
Criterion Crash Course, our series on Criterion Collection titles, draws moviemaking lessons from Luis García Berlanga's pitch-black comedy The Executioner.
October 28, 2016
Our latest Criterion Crash Course draws moviemaking lessons from Guillermo del Toro's Spanish-language Cronos, The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth.
October 19, 2016
Criterion Crash Course, our series on new Criterion Collection titles, draws moviemaking lessons from Robert Altman's "anti-Western," McCabe & Mrs.…
September 20, 2016
Criterion Crash Course, our series on new Criterion Collection titles, draws moviemaking lessons from the Coen Brothers' directorial debut, Blood…
September 15, 2016
Alongside our new series Criterion Crash Course, MovieMaker is giving away one new Criterion title each week! To enter, the…
September 13, 2016
Criterion Crash Course, our series focusing on new Criterion Collection titles, draws moviemaking lessons from The Story of the Last…