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In 1972, on the occasion of the Summer Games in Munich, the first-ever Olympic mascot made its debut. Waldi, a cheerful, bright-blue dachshund, was heavily merchandised, with over two million toys, keychains, T-shirts, and other memorabilia created...

The leading light in the generation of French filmmakers who launched their careers in the 1970s in the wake of the nouvelle vague, Bertrand Tavernier was born in Lyon in 1941. His father—a publisher, a poet, and an important figure in the local “intellectual Resistance” during the German occupation—encouraged his son to study law, but young Bertrand’s heart was with the cinema...

Sudan is full of film lovers. In the past, the country was famous for its open-air cinemas, where celluloid images played after sundown amid the hot desert climate. Before the advent of television, these venues were the primary source of entertainment for families; later, they became a refuge for young people seeking excitement and ways to get out of the house. Post–British c...

The following interview was conducted in December 2025, as Criterion Collection executive producer Kim Hendrickson and director Mike Mills were working to prepare the box set I’ll Remind You of Everything: The Films of Mike Mills.

Hi, Mike—maybe we start with Deformer, since it feels like an origin point for you as a filmmaker.

I cried the first time I saw a Mike Mills film. It happened at a screening of his first film, Thumbsucker, at the Oslo Film Festival. It must have been 2006, and Mike was there introducing it. His honesty had already moved me before the movie began because he had talked about personal inspirations and his own background in a way that was unusual, especially for an Amer...