Peter Becker Filmes

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

'Black Orpheus' introduced an international audience to the sights and sounds of Rio de Janeiro. In this program, jazz historian Gary Giddins and...

The French-Brazilian-Italian coproduction 'Black Orpheus' is often considered less a Brazilian film than one with a decidedly European perspective....

A making of documentary on "The Darjeeling Limited".

Charli contemplates the messiness of the ethics in filmmaking and collaboration.

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

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

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

Founded by Richard Linklater in 1985 as a screening series dedicated to bringing experimental and art cinema to the city of Austin, Texas, the Austin...

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

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

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

In this new video essay, filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe delves into the dread-inducing mood and tone of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s modern horror...

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

In this conversation, shot by the Criterion Collection in 2019, actors Daniel London and Will Oldham reunite for the first time since the release of...

Sociologists Sophie Body-Gendrot, William Kornblum, and Jeffrey Fagan discuss the significance of the film 'La Haine', including its suburb setting...

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...

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!'.

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 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...