Who famously said, “Everything I learned about painting, I learned from De.”

Among the featured painters are Robert Rauschenberg, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Barnett Newman, Hans Hofmann, Jules Olitski, Philip Pavia, Larry Poons, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, and Andy Warhol

Of painters from 1940 to 1970.
Having forged friendships with many of the leading artists of the midcentury, de Antonio interviews them in their studios, capturing the cutting edge of movements ranging from abstract expressionism to hard edge and color field to pop art.

Painters Painting - The Criterion Channel Directed by Emile de Antonio • 1972 • United States Though director Emile de Antonio was best known for his caustic political documentaries, he was also deeply immersed in the art world, a connection...

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Emile de Antonio’s PAINTER’S PAINTING (1972) 🎨🎞️ Though director Emile de Antonio was best known for his caustic political documentaries, he was also deeply immersed in the art world, a connection that led him to make the definitive look at the New York School

You can also watch Bronstein's first feature YEAST (in which she stars alongside Greta Gerwig) on the Criterion Channel.

Alongside the conversation, she presents a selection of favorite films—including Shirley Clarke’s vérité landmark PORTRAIT OF JASON, George A. Romero’s horror bombshell NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, and Susan Seidelman’s punk classic SMITHEREENS.

In this edition, Bronstein sits down with Aliza Ma, head of programming for the Criterion Channel, to talk about her love of movies, from her early infatuation with Hollywood legends to discovering the possibilities of indie filmmaking.

Mary Bronstein’s ADVENTURES IN MOVIEGOING 🎟️ Enjoy a few moments from a new episode of our Criterion Channel original series Adventures in Moviegoing, featuring with the acclaimed writer-director of IF I HAD LEGS I KICK YOU!

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On the Criterion Channel, check out SWEETIE, one of Elisabeth's great Closet Picks! ✨

A twitter meme from 2021, on screen text reads "I took film classes from a Czech guy who was like 'when I was in my country I make movie about cat who wear sunglasses, and he shows people true feelings' and years later I saw it and it kicks ass. It's called The Cat Who Wore Sunglasses.

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Dano has established himself as one of the most thoughtful and versatile artists working today, both on-screen and behind the camera.

Join us on Wednesday, May 13 in Queens for a wide-ranging conversation about the performances that have shaped him. From his breakthrough roles in LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE and THERE WILL BE BLOOD to his transformative turn in LOVE & MERCY and his acclaimed directorial debut WILDLIFE

A side profile of Paul Dano on the right of the screen, looking toward the left. On the left side, within a green square frame, the text reads "THE CRAFT OF ACTING" followed by "ISAAC BUTLER interviews PAUL DANO." The background is a neutral, light beige.

✨MARK YOUR CALENDARS!✨ We're thrilled to announce the third installment of our Criterion Channel original series The Craft of Acting, featuring Paul Dano in conversation with Isaac Butler — in partnership with Museum of the Moving Image.

The Cassandra Cat - The Criterion Channel Directed by Vojtěch Jasný • 1963 • Czechoslovakia Starring Jan Werich, Emília Vášáryová, Vlastimil Brodský In this modern-day fairy tale and rediscovered Czech New Wave cult classic, an ordinary Bohe...

Now playing on the Criterion Channel

Still from “The Cassandra Cat” A woman with dark hair in a red outfit looks at the camera, holding a cat wearing white sunglasses.

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PHANTOM THREAD (2017) Now streaming on the Criterion Channel!

Watch Tony Gilroy's MICHAEL CLAYTON (2007) in our Corporate Thrillers collection! This masterfully scripted and acted legal thriller—widely heralded as one of the best films of the twenty-first century thus far—turns every shady backroom machination into riveting moral drama.

Friday evening viewing recommendation? On the Criterion Channel, watch William Friedkin’s TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985) — a kinetic neonoir that takes the ’80s action thriller to new heights of hyperstylized excess. Now playing in our Stunts! collection.

Amazing feminist pro choice film from my favorite director. Highly recommend!

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Check out some of Sophy Romvari’s Closet Picks on the Criterion Channel! ✨

A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
THE WATERMELON WOMAN
NOT A PRETTY PICTURE
JULES AND JIM

🌊 Agnès Varda's ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN'T (1977) Now streaming on the Criterion Channel

Fellow indie veterans including Henry Rollins, Frank Black, Kim Gordon, and Kevin Shields are all on hand to pay tribute to the band’s formidable legacy.

As the unlikely guitar hero Mascis puts it: “I don’t know where people got this idea that music was supposed to be fun. It never occurred to us that it was supposed to be fun.”

This intimate documentary offers a rare glimpse into the complex dynamics between the band’s members who, despite a famously turbulent personal history (falling-outs, firings, breakups, reunions), put their uncompromising approach to music above all else.

Watch FREAKSCENE: THE STORY OF DINOSAUR JR. (2021) One of the most influential bands to emerge from the 1980s underground, East Coast rock legends Dinosaur Jr. laid the foundation for the grunge and alt-rock explosion of the 1990s with their ferocious mix of melody and distortion.

Kinski’s unhinged performance, the mystical score by Popol Vuh, and the lush, hallucinatory jungle images come together in one of the most haunting, deliriously inspired visions in all of 1970s cinema, a senses-shattering journey to the edge of madness.

Evening viewing recommendation? Before it leaves the Criterion Channel in May, don't miss AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD (1972)—the first of Werner Herzog’s legendary and notoriously tempestuous collaborations with actor Klaus Kinski.

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Directed by Kimi Takesue These visually mesmerizing and reflective films traverse genres-including documentary, fiction, and experimental forms-to explore the charged spaces between observer and observed. Often centered on the act of travel, Takesue's work follows tourists and locals as they navigate shared yet unequal terrain. In evocative shorts and acclaimed features, she turns an unblinking lens on cross-cultural encounters, revealing the subtle tensions, curiosities, and power dynamics that shape how we see and are seen across differences.

Directed by Kimi Takesue ✨ Coming to the Criterion Channel in May