This Week on the Criterion Channel

Last year, award-winning memoirist and poet Mary Karr joined Rome Film Festival artistic director Antonio Monda to talk about her personal journey through cinema for our series Adventures in Moviegoing. Among the favorite films she discussed . . .

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