The Criterion Collection
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The Criterion Collection, Inc. is an American home entertainment distribution company that focuses on licensing, restoring, and distributing "important classic and contemporary films". A "sister compa
Criterion Collection section at Barnes & Noble
Cinephilia
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Cinephilia is the term used to refer to a passionate interest in films, film theory, and film criticism. The term is a portmanteau of the words cinema and philia, one of the four ancient Greek words f
The Italian director Federico Fellini, a fashionable figure in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s, owed part of his popularity to the support of film critics and the distribution of foreign films in order to accommodate the increasingly sophisticated public.
Wong Kar-wai (pictured) is a renowned arthouse film director from Hong Kong known for works such as Chungking Express (1994) and In the Mood for Love (2000).
Though his films have met with mixed commercial and critical success, American director Michael Mann (pictured above at Cinémathèque Française in 2009) is often considered to be a major figure of vulgar auteurism by contemporary cinephiles.
American director and cinephile Quentin Tarantino often makes references in his work to films and directors he admires.