Peter Becker Movies

In this visual essay, Charles Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance, author of "Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema", draws upon a wealth of photography as well...

This new piece, featuring Andrew Stanton and late production designer Ralph Eggleston -- who recently died on August 28 -- focuses on the color...

Film critic J. Hoberman discusses the best-selling 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler on which "Fail-Safe" is based, along with the...

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...

In 2009, Sean Baker sat down with the Godfather of Gore himself, Herschell Gordon Lewis, to discuss his legendary career as an exploitation pioneer...

This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algiers (1966), released in 2004. An in-depth look at...

To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS, we revisited our edit of the film and interviews with director Gillo Pontecorvo and...

A making of documentary on "The Darjeeling Limited".

Christopher Isham discusses Gillo Pontecorvo's 'The Battle of Algiers' with Richard A. Clarke, former USA national coordinator for security and...

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

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

The struggle of releasing "Brazil" in the United States of America is examined in this Criterion documentary.

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

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

Actor Tom Gaman (Simon) narrates some 8mm movies shot during the film's three-month production and shares memories of working on the movie during his...

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

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

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

A documentary on the career of William Greaves, featuring Greaves, his wife and co-producer Louise Archambault, actor Ruby Dee, filmmaker St. Clair...

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