THE CRITERION COLLECTION
Elizabeth has produced special edition DVDs and Blu-Rays for The Criterion Collection for over a decade and created hundreds of supplements about the history of cinema and art of filmmaking for The Criterion Collection including documentaries and visual essays on films such as Portrait of a Lady on Fire, L’Avventura, The Worst Person In The World, The Parallax View, Irma Vep, The Awful Truth, Now, Voyager, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Cranes Are Flying, Desert Hearts, Time, Lord of the Flies, Claudine, Pariah, and directors like Sidney Lumet, Akira Kurosawa, Jean Renoir, D. A. Pennebaker, John Cassavetes, Robert Bresson, Ernst Lubitsch, Vittorio De Sica, Sidney Poitier, Christian Petzold, Leo McCarey, George Stevens, Yasujru Ozu,Terence Davies, René Clair, Tony Richardson, Mikhail Kalatozov, Jan Troell, Dino Risi, Jan Němec, and Mai Zetterling.
She has interviewed world famous filmmakers and artists including Agnes Varda, Guillermo del Toro, Stephen Sondheim, Céline Sciamma, Mike Leigh, Sophia Loren, Euzhan Palcy, Vicky Krieps, Costa Gavras, Vanessa Redgrave, Olivier Assayas, Liv Ullman, Dee Rees, Alexander Payne, Rita Tushingham, Joachim Trier, Mia Hansen-Løve, Ridley Scott, and many more.
INTERVIEWS
Criterion Edition | Wildlife - Special Feature Interviews with Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan, Paul Dano, and Zoe Kazan.
Interviewer, Director, Producer: Elizabeth Pauker
Criterion Edition | A Special Day - Special Feature Interview with Sophia Loren.
Interviewer, Director, Producer: Elizabeth Pauker
Criterion Edition | The Worst Person In The World - Special Feature Interviews with Joachim Trier, Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Herbert Nordrum, and Gisle Tveito.
Interviewer, Director, Producer: Elizabeth Pauker
Criterion Edition | Here Is Your Life - Special Feature Interview with Mike Leigh.
Interviewer, Director, Producer: Elizabeth Pauker
Criterion Edition | A Raisin in the Sun - Special Feature Interview with Lorraine Hansberry biographer and Princeton Professor Imani Perry.
Interviewer, Director, Producer: Elizabeth Pauker
Criterion Edition | Bergman Island - Special Feature Interview with Mia Hansen-Løve.
Interviewer, Director, Producer: Elizabeth Pauker
Behind The Scenes
Criterion Edition | The Worst Person In The World - Special Feature on the filming of the “frozen in time” sequence.
Interviewer, Director, Producer: Elizabeth Pauker
On-Set Cinematography: Johannes Veine Wiig
Conversations
Criterion Edition | Original Cast Album: “Company” - Special Feature Conversation with Stephen Sondheim and orchestrator Jonathan Tunick.
Interviewer: Frank Rich (Writer-at-Large, New York Magazine/ Exec. Producer, Succession, Veep)
Director and producer: Elizabeth Pauker
Criterion Edition | Pariah - Special Feature 2020 Virtual Reunion of the film’s department heads. In this clip, director Dee Rees and DP Bradford Young recall the challenges of lighting the film.
Moderator: Jacqueline Stewart (President, The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures)
Director and Producer: Elizabeth Pauker
Criterion Edition | Portrait of a lady on fire - Special Feature Conversation between director Céline Sciamma and critic Dana Stevens.
Director and Producer: Elizabeth Pauker
Criterion Edition | Time - Special Feature conversation between director Garrett Bradley and author/ critic Hilton Als.
Director and producer: Elizabeth Pauker
Criterion Edition | A Dry White Season - Special Feature Conversation between director Euzhan Palcy and critic Scott Foundas.
Director and producer: Elizabeth Pauker
Criterion Edition | Something Wild - Special Feature Conversation between director Jack Garfein and writer Kim Morgan.
Director and producer: Elizabeth Pauker
Visual Essays
Criterion Edition | L’Argent - Visual Essay by film scholar James Quandt on Robert Bresson's themes and motifs.
Produced by: Elizabeth Pauker
Criterion Edition | A Day In The Country - Visual Essay on Jean Renoir’s working methods, written and narrated by Christopher Faulkner.
Produced by: Elizabeth Pauker