Gabriel Chávez Movies

This visual essay, produced in 2023, builds upon rare radio interviews that Chantal Akerman gave in 1975 and 1977, in which she reflects on her films...

A conversation between Jill Drew and D.A. Pennebaker.

In this 2016 piece, filmmaker and professor of French Samba Gadjigo ('Sembène!') characterizes what defines the work of Ousmane Sembène.

Film scholar Ian Christie unpacks why 'The Cranes Are Flying' is such a landmark of Soviet cinema, breaking away as it did from decades of forcibly...

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT was released a year before the U.S. entered World War II. The ending of the film was added at the last minute to bolster...

A crooked CEO is kidnapped and nobody cares enough to pay his ransom.

In this brand new featurette, directors Guillermo del Toro (The Devil's Backbone), Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Till Dawn), and Frank Darabont (The...

Conducted in 2016, this interview with filmmaker and cultural theorist Manthia Diawara (“African Cinema: Politics and Culture”) analyzes...

In this interview, conducted in 2023, critic B. Ruby Rich offers a comprehensive primer to Chantal Akerman’s prodigious first decade of...

In this essay on Babette's Feast, filmmaker Michael Almereyda charts the path from Isak Dinesen’s story to Gabriel Axel’s film, taking...

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

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

Sound editor/re-recording mixer Larry Blake and composer Cliff Martinez have worked with director Steven Soderbergh since the beginning of his...

Conducted in 2016, this interview with actor M’Bissine Thérèse Diop covers her lead role in 'Black Girl'.

Fun thirty-three minute documentary about the making of David Cronenberg's THE BROOD features interviews with star Samantha Eggar, executive producer...

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

Telestrator commentary and interview with Joel and Ethan Coen and Barry Sonnenfeld.

Sam, a young film student, discovers a USB detailing the life and career of forgotten Italian horror director Saturnino Barresi. As she begins to...

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

Conversation between director Kiyoshi Kurosawa and filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi, recorded in 2020.