The latest in Criterion’s online magazine: A blacklisted Hollywood renegade and a spiritual-jazz iconoclast

By rahmat hidayat

Sunday, June 1, 2025

Plus: Constance Tsang's Top 10 list, a look at this year's Cannes winners, and Kaveh Akbar on Abbas Kiarostami

Current HIGHLIGHTS JUNE 1, 2025 A roundup of recent articles from Criterion's online magazine. Happy reading!

Crooked World The Noirs of Blacklisted Filmmaker Cy Endfield. The exiled American director of Try and Get Me! and Hell Drivers depicted crime and violence as the inevitable results of capitalist competition. By Imogen Sara Smith WATCH Two of Endfield's films are now playing on the Criterion Channel along with film noirs by other blacklisted directors.

Tune in to Transcendence When Alice Coltrane Took Her Message to Late-Night Television. In her singular mid-1980s show Eternity's Pillar, the jazz iconoclast gave viewers a chance to experience the healing powers of her music—and the intense spiritual practice that fueled it. By Shannon J. Effinger WATCH Four episodes of Eternity's Pillar are now playing on the Criterion Channel.

Constance Tsang's Top 10 The director of Blue Sun Palace chooses a selection of films that have taught her about the craft of cinema. WATCH Tsang's number-one pick is now playing on the Criterion Channel.

Household Disturbances  A Conversation with Ifeyinwa Arinze. The director discusses her path from neuroscience to cinema and the childhood memory that inspired her short August Visitor, a film about culture and intergenerational understanding. By Tayler Montague WATCH August Visitor is now playing on the Criterion Channel. The Path in Between On The Wind Will Carry Us. In this masterpiece of lived-in ethical complexity and high spiritual stakes, Abbas Kiarostami explores the tensions between provinciality and modernity, and between artists and their subjects. By Kaveh Akbar WATCH In an episode of the Criterion Channel series Observations on Film Art, Professor Kristin Thompson offers an analysis of Kiarostami's distinctive use of landscape.

OLDIE BUT GOODIE "Fassbinder acted at the speed of his emotions and his thoughts. He wanted and got a direct correlation between living and fiction-making." —Kent Jones on the late German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who would have turned eighty this week

THE DAILY Celebrating the Best of Cannes A Look at This Year's Winners. The triumphant return of Jafar Panahi, who took home the Palme d'Or, capped off what many consider to be a terrific year at the festival. READ MORE David Hudson throws the spotlight on a new book about Barbara Loden's Wanda.

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