Peter Becker Movies

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...

The struggle of releasing "Brazil" in the United States of America is examined in this Criterion documentary.

In this program, created for the Criterion Collection in 2022, writer-director Andrew Stanton explores the films that inspired his approach to...

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

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

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

Directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola discuss [Akira] Kurosawa and their roles as executive producers of Kagemusha.

Sheila O'Malley's visual essay "Watching Gena Rowlands" rounds out the set by focusing on Rowlands’ collaborations with Cassavetes.

CHE was the first feature to use the Red camera, which Soderbergh embraced for its versatility and image quality. This short 2009 documentary looks...

An interview with Sharon Malone and Eric Holder regarding the 1963 desegregation of the University of Alabama.

In this new documentary, produced by the Criterion Collection in 2022, directors Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou and actors Charles Jang, Wang-Thye...

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

In this interview, conducted in 2015, prolific author Kazuo Koike talks about his original LADY SNOWBLOOD manga.

In this archival documentary, cinematographer John Bailey, production designer Eiko Ishioka, and composer Philip Glass discuss the conception of Paul...

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...

This ten-minute segment, heralded as part of a new shorts program, is composed of excerpts from a 1972 audio conversation between Hawks and Peter...

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

In this short documentary and personal essay, Bruce Goldstein, founder of Rialto Pictures and repertory director at New York’s FIlm Forum,...

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...

Actor Jane Birkin talks about her friendship with director Agnes Varda, and about their work on 'Jane B. Par Agnes V.' and Kung-Fu Master!'.