Collections/November 2025

Josh Brolin’s Adventures in Moviegoing

In a career studded with acclaimed collaborations with auteurs like the Coen brothers, Denis Villeneuve, and Gus Van Sant, Josh Brolin has brought a rugged grit and grounded authenticity to his committed portrayals of complex, conflicted antiheroes. In this edition of Adventures in Moviegoing, Brolin sits down with Criterion president Peter Becker to discuss his life’s journey through cinema, from the formative impact of The Warriors and Apocalypse Now to why Dog Day Afternoon is the movie he never gets tired of to his love for “imperfect” films. The films he has chosen to present include John Cassavetes’s A Woman Under the Influence , Christopher Nolan’s Following , and Michael Haneke’s The Piano Teacher , works that center troubling, complicated characters whose stories reflect the discomfiting ambiguities of the human condition.

6 films — 4 on the Channel, 2 unavailable