Peter Becker Movies

Documentary with several of director Robert Altman's longtime collaborators, as they discuss making the film McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), the style...

This new piece, featuring Andrew Stanton and late production designer Ralph Eggleston -- who recently died on August 28 -- focuses on the color...

Explores the ten-year journey of adapting Uzodinma Iweala's 2005 novel "Beasts of No Nation" into the 2015 film.

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...

In this documentary, film scholars Gerd Germünden and Noah Isenberg discuss the artistic origins of Marlene Dietrich in the cabarets of Weimar...

A new documentary on the Criterion Collection edition of Roman Polanski's 1971 adaptation of Macbeth featuring interviews with the director, producer...

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...

In 2009, Sean Baker sat down with the Godfather of Gore himself, Herschell Gordon Lewis, to discuss his legendary career as an exploitation pioneer...

In this visual essay, Charles Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance, author of "Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema", draws upon a wealth of photography as well...

Actor Tom Gaman (Simon) narrates some 8mm movies shot during the film's three-month production and shares memories of working on the movie during his...

In the sixth installment of the Criterion Channel's Meet the Filmmakers series, director Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell, Listen Up Philip) visits the...

Documentary taking a look at the career of Jackie Coogan who was considered the first child star.

Danish film scholar, Lars-Martin Sorensen, describes US censorship of Japanese film during the American occupation of Japan (1945-1952) and the...

Interview-based documentary looking back on the making and reception of Nobuhiko Ōbayashi's 1977 film House.

This masterclass featuring writer-director Andrew Stanton was produced for the Criterion Collection in 2022.

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...

A visual essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda.

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...

This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algiers (1966), released in 2004. An in-depth look at...

An overview of the making of Badlands (1973).