Peter Becker Movies

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...

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

In this documentary, film scholars Gerd Germünden and Noah Isenberg discuss the artistic origins of Marlene Dietrich in the cabarets of Weimar...

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

In this interview, conducted in 2015, prolific author Kazuo Koike talks about his original LADY SNOWBLOOD manga.

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

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

A retrospective interview with director Werner Herzog.

Fim scholar Vida T. Johnson, co-author of 'The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue, discusses the significance of 'Ivan's Childhood' in...

In this 25-minute video essay, film scholar David Bordwell, co-author of "Film Art: An Introduction", conducts an analysis of Howard Hawks's "His...

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

New conversation between director Christian Petzold and actor Nina Hoss

Film scholars Mary Desjardins, Amy Lawrence, and Patricia White consider the collaboration between Marlene Dietrich and Josef von Sternberg, as well...

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

In this short documentary, actor Shih Chun addresses his longtime collaboration with director King Hu and his performance as Gu Sheng-zhai in A Touch...

In this program, director Bing Liu, executive producer Gordon Quinn, and producer Diane Quon discuss the conception of Minding the Gap and its...

Charli contemplates the messiness of the ethics in filmmaking and collaboration.

Documentary on the making of Josef von Sternberg's 'Underworld,' which launched the American gangster genre as we know it.

In this short documentary, film critic Tony Rayns discusses director King Hu and A Touch of Zen.

New interview with cinematographer Hans Fromm.