Movies: Gabriel Chávez

Featurette on the making of John Waters' "Polyester."...

In this brand new featurette, executive producer T Bone Burnett and the Coen brothers discuss the history of some of the songs that heard in Inside Llywin Davies and possible origin of the stories they tells, the folk movement during the 1960s and th...

Produced for the Criterion Collection in 2018, the documentary features actors Peter Gallagher, Andie MacDowell, and Laura San Giacomo discussing their work with director Steven Soderbergh on his first feature, and the ways that the film transformed ...

Fun thirty-three minute documentary about the making of David Cronenberg's THE BROOD features interviews with star Samantha Eggar, executive producer Pierre David, special effects artists Rick Baker and Joe Blasco as well as assistant director John B...

A conversation between Jill Drew and D.A. Pennebaker....

Telestrator commentary and interview with Joel and Ethan Coen and Barry Sonnenfeld....

A crooked CEO is kidnapped and nobody cares enough to pay his ransom....

In this 2016 piece, filmmaker and cultural theorist Manthia Diawara (“African Film: New Forms and Aesthetics and Politics”) addreses the significance of Ousmane Sembène's debut film....

Scholar Kelley Conway discusses director Agnès Varda’s unique approach to self-representation in THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS, in this interview recorded for the Criterion Collection in 2019....

In this 2018 Criterion Collection program, screenwriter Jay Cocks and film critic Farran Smith Nehme discuss the adaptation for the film version of 'The Heiress' (1949) of the 1947 play by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, which was itself inspired by the 188...

This visual essay, produced in 2023, builds upon rare radio interviews that Chantal Akerman gave in 1975 and 1977, in which she reflects on her films and her ascendance to critical success....

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

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT was released a year before the U.S. entered World War II. The ending of the film was added at the last minute to bolster anti-isolationist sentiment among American viewers....

In this program, director Bing Liu, executive producer Gordon Quinn, and producer Diane Quon discuss the conception of Minding the Gap and its evolution. The program features separated interviews that were conducted in 2020....

Sound editor/re-recording mixer Larry Blake and composer Cliff Martinez have worked with director Steven Soderbergh since the beginning of his career. In this conversation, recorded in April 2018, they discuss the challenges of the director's debut f...

In this essay on Babette's Feast, filmmaker Michael Almereyda charts the path from Isak Dinesen’s story to Gabriel Axel’s film, taking detours along the way into art history, philosophy, and the author’s life in Africa....

Documentary taking a look at the career of Jackie Coogan who was considered the first child star....

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

Sam, a young film student, discovers a USB detailing the life and career of forgotten Italian horror director Saturnino Barresi. As she begins to investigate his mysterious disappearance, Sam finds herself pulled into a violent conspiracy eerily simi...

An interview with Paul Schrader on his 1990 film "The Comfort of Strangers"...