Why didn’t you finally watch all three hours and 21 minutes of “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels” sooner? If you’re a cinephile who is still mourning the death of FilmStruck, the online ...

What makes a film a classic? First, it must have a great story. Next, the story must be stylishly filmed by a master director, a filmmaker whose vision more than matches the material. Finally, it must ...

Invoke the phrase “greatest movie of all time,” and you’d better bring your A-game. Film fans don’t take their “bests” lightly; while fleeting passions may prompt easy praise (Avatar anyone?), smart ...

A fight scene from Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, which is included in the Criterion Collection. Hulton Archive/Getty Images “The Criterion Channel will be picking up where the old service left off,” the ...

In honor of what would have been Akira Kurosawa’s 103 rd birthday, Hulu and the Criterion Collection are streaming 24 of his films for one weekend only. Just about all the Japanese director’s classics ...

Akira Kurosawa's landmark 1950 Japanese film, a penetrating study of the subjectivity of truth and perception, changed cinema forever and inspired the phrase "the Rashomon effect." So yes, it belongs ...

Best extra: Commentary with critic and Japanese film historian Donald Richie, a carryover from a previous edition, helps put the film and characters in context for first time viewers A PRISTINE ...

An all time classic and essential film, Rashomon has spent seven decades as the high watermark of questioning the subjective nature of truth. Often imitated, even spawning the so-called Rashomon ...

The holidays are fast approaching. But for cinephiles, we’re already in the midst of a month-long cause for celebration: the Criterion Collection sale at Barnes & Noble. What is the Criterion ...