Peter Becker Movies

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

This short documentary features interviews with film scholar Callisto Cosulich, BICYCLE THIEVES coscreenwriter Suso Cecchi d’Amico, and actor...

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

Danish film scholar, Lars-Martin Sorensen, describes US censorship of Japanese film during the American occupation of Japan (1945-1952) and the...

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

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

Radio producer Harry Alan Towers discusses his work with Orson Welles.

Canadian actor and filmmaker Connor Jessup (Closet Monster, Falling Skies) profiles Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a maverick of Thai cinema who...

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 2018 Criterion Collection program, screenwriter Jay Cocks and film critic Farran Smith Nehme discuss the adaptation for the film version of...

Documentary and interview with Japanese film critic and scholar Tadao Sato about Yasujiro Ozu film The Only Son.

Film scholar Homay King discusses director Josef von Sternberg's cinematic China and the role of star Anna May Wong in 'Shanghai Express'.

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...

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...

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

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

In this documentary, producers Tom Luddy and Mata Yamamoto recount the challenges of producing “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters.”

Orson Welles Biographer Simon Callow discusses the making of "Mr. Arkadin" (aka "Confidential Report.")

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

Seven Samurai: Origins and Influences, a documentary looking at the samurai traditions and films that helped shape Kurosawa's masterpiece