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- Interview outtakes from Jeffrey Schwarz's 2013 documentary 'I Am Divine' which feature director John Waters; actors Susan Lowe, Mink Stole, George Figgs, and Mary Vivian Pearce; film critic Dennis Dermody; production designer Vincent Peranio; and production manager Pat Moran.
- '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 television's The Andy Griffith Show. In this interview, filmed by the Criterion Collection in 2018, Griffith expert Evan Dalton Smith discusses the actor's difficulties with the role of Lonesome Rhodes and how it led to his career-defining television show.
- In this 2018 video essay, Bernard Herrmann scholar Christopher Husted explores the relationship between Orson Welles's 'mangled' film and Herrmann's 'mangled' score, and looks to the full version of the score Herrmann composed for clues about Welles's original vision for 'The Magnificent Ambersons' (1942).
- Marlon Riggs and Peter Webster's thesis project reflects on the heyday of Oakland blues in the late 1940s and '50s, when an influx of African American shipyard workers mostly hailing from Louisiana and Texas arrived in the Bay Area. Combining vintage photographs, archival footage, interviews, and performances at venues like Eli's Mile High Club, Riggs and Webster chronicle Oakland's vibrant past while revealing an uncertain present.
- To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of The Battle of Algiers (1966), we revisited our edition of the film and our interviews with director Gillo Pontecorvo and producer Saadi Yacef, who discuss the process of depicting Algeria's fight for independence and the challenges of presenting a balanced vision of the conflict. This documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD for La Bataille d'Alger (1966), released in 2004.
- In the following program, produced by the Criterion Collection in 2018, director Michael Moore and 'Bowling for Columbine' chief archivist Carl Deal, composer and field producer Jeff Gibbs, supervising producer Tia Lessin, and field producer Meghan O'Hara discuss the process by which a film by Michael Moore gets made.
- In this interview, shot by the Criterion Collection in 2018, Ron Briley, author of 'The Ambivalent Legacy of Elia Kazan: The Politics of the Post-HUAC Films', discusses the origins of the Lonesome Rhodes character in the biographies of populist celebrities such as Will Rogers and Arthur Godfrey. He also addresses the political implications of 'A Face in the Crowd' (1957) within the context of Kazan's career.
- Highlighting both the joys and trials of growing up Black in the Midwest, three young Milwaukee residents confront and reconcile the unrequited love between them and their city. Through outspoken interviews, they reveal the ways in which Milwaukee has shaped them and they in turn have shaped Milwaukee. Graced with poetry and luminous images, Marquise Mays's heartfelt documentary takes an at once loving and critical look at a city still riven by inequality-while offering an empowering vision for a brighter future.
- The eccentric members of a dysfunctional family reluctantly gather under the same roof for various reasons.
- A carpenter in the Fascist Slovak State is appointed "Aryan controller" of a Jewish widow's store.