Peter Becker Movies

A retrospective documentary on Brooks's career in television and film, featuring actresses Marilu Henner and Julie Kavner, among other collaborators.

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

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

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

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

To pay tribute to one of his filmmaking heroes, Sean Price Willams adopts a style that’s just as out there as his subject, mixing new material...

A tour through the vaults of Pixar. WALL-E writer-director Andrew Stanton unearths a few treasures, including his sketchbook, concept art, visual gag...

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

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

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

Laura Truffaut shares her memories of her legendary filmmaker father.

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

An interview with director Jan Troell, conducted by critic Peter Cowie, on his epic Oscar-nominated masterpieces, The Emigrants (1971) and The New...

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

A documentary created by the Criterion Collection for their release of Italian film director Federico Fellini's Amarcord about his relationship with...

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

An interview about 'Shoah' featuring Caroline Champetier, who did assistant camera work on the film, and Arnaud Desplechin.

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...

'A Face in the Crowd' was Andy Griffith's first film role; he would go on to be most famous for his folksy portrayal of Sheriff Andy Taylor on...