Lee Kline

A new documentary on director Nobuo Nakagawa and the making of the film, Jigoku. Featuring exclusive interview with Nakagawa collaborators.

In this short documentary, actor Shih Chun addresses his longtime collaboration with director King Hu and his performance as Gu Sheng-zhai in A Touch of Zen.

In this short documentary, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ang Lee describes his appreciation for King Hu's Dragon Inn and A Touch of Zen, and the influence they had on his own acclaimed martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).

In this brand new featurette, directors Guillermo del Toro (The Devil's Backbone), Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Till Dawn), and Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) explain what makes Night of the Living Dead a very special film and discuss its lasting impact on the horror genre. The featurette was produced exclusively for Criterion in 2017.

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

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

This documentary, based on author Jack Mathew's book "The Battle of Brazil," reunites the players involved in the struggle over the film's U.S. release. This take on one of the noisiest, most unusual, and most instructive behind-the-scenes controversies in Hollywood history features Mathews, director Terry Gilliam, producer Arnon Milchan, and studio executives Frank Price, Marvin Antonowsky, Bob Rehme, and Sidney Sheinberg.

In this short documentary, produced in 2015, actors Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep and editor John Bloom discuss director Karel Reisz and their experiences working on The French Lieutenant'Woman.

A summary of the problems of the best surviving film elements and the restoration of the film

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

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

Serge Toubiana, director of the Cinémathèque française, sat down with director Claude Lanzmann in his office in Paris in January 2013 to discuss the making of his epic work. Their conversation, presented here, was recorded exclusively for the Criterion Collection.

In this brand new featurette, executive producer T Bone Burnett and the Coen brothers discuss the history of some of the songs that heard in Inside Llywin Davies and possible origin of the stories they tells, the folk movement during the 1960s and the social and cultural ideas that it represented, the authenticity and the identity of folk music and the balance between the two, the future of folk music, etc. Included with the featurette are illustrations by Drew Christie. The featurette was created exclusively for Criterion in 2015.

In this archival documentary, cinematographer John Bailey, production designer Eiko Ishioka, and composer Philip Glass discuss the conception of Paul Schrader's film, the image of Mishima that they had prior to committing to the project, the manner in which some of his ideas resonated with them, the unusual portrait of Mishima that the film offers, its form and visual style, etc.

In this short documentary, film critic Tony Rayns discusses director King Hu and A Touch of Zen.

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

In this short documentary, actress Hsu Feng discusses her iconic role as Yang Hui-zhen in King Hu's A Touch of Zen.

Historian Andrew Cohen discusses Robert Drew's 1963 documentary Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment.

Stars Genevieve Lemon and Karen Colston recall their work in Jane Campion's 1989 film 'Sweetie'.

In 1998, documentary filmmaker Robert Drew and his associates attend the Museum of Tolerance.