This June, John Waters' outrageous Female Trouble, starring the criminally beautiful Divine, will join the Criterion Collection decked out in cha-cha heels, doused in liquid eyeliner, and restored in 4K. Also appearing in a new 4K restoration is Lino Brocka's searing urban melodrama Manila in the Claws of Light, widely recognized as one of the greatest films in Filipino cinema. … More
This May, John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy — the era-defining classic of New American Cinema whose sexual frankness helped earn it both an X rating and an Oscar for best picture — will join the Criterion Collection in a new 4K digital restoration. But first, a major rediscovery: Moonrise, the long-unavailable final triumph by neglected Hollywood master Frank Borzage, will … More
FEBRUARY PROGRAMMING ON THE CRITERION CHANNEL ON FILMSTRUCK! Includes 100 years of Olympic Glory, Night of the Living Dead, Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love, and Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday! Thursday, February 1st The Great Escape* Based on the true story of an elaborately coordinated attempt to break out of a Nazi POW camp, John Sturges's The … More
This April, Sergei Parajanov's masterpiece The Color of Pomegranates, a revelatory film-poem overflowing with sensuous imagery, will join the Criterion Collection, on Blu-ray for the first time and in a stunning new 4K restoration. Also making its Blu-ray debut, Leo McCarey's genre-defining comedy The Awful Truth stars the irresistible Irene Dunne and Cary Grant as would-be ex-spouses who can't … More
JANUARY PROGRAMMING ON THE CRITERION CHANNEL ON FILMSTRUCK! Includes Adventures in Moviegoing with Mary Karr: No Country for Old Men, a double bill of Cat People and Curse of the Cat People, and Orson Welles's Mr. Arkadin! Monday, January 1 Anatomy of a Murder*: Edition #600 A virtuoso James Stewart plays a small-town Michigan … More
In March, Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence – the great New York filmmaker's lavish Edith Wharton adaptation, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, and Michelle Pfeiffer – will join the Criterion Collection in an edition featuring a new, restored 4K digital transfer, approved by the director and now available on Blu-ray. No less impressive a match … More
DECEMBER PROGRAMMING ON THE CRITERION CHANNEL ON FILMSTRUCK! Includes Godzilla and fourteen other kaiju classics, Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre, and Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence! Friday, December 1 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World*: Criterion Collection Edition #692 Stanley Kramer followed his harrowing Oscar winner Judgment at Nuremberg with the … More
This February, George Romero's revolutionary horror classic "Night of the Living Dead" comes lurching from the grave, in a major new edition featuring an astonishing new 4K restoration of the film, never-before-seen footage from the production, and hordes of interviews and programs exploring the incredible story of the making of this trailblazing independent film. No … More
NOVEMBER PROGRAMMING ON THE CRITERION CHANNEL ON FILMSTRUCK! Includes Adventures in Moviegoing with Barry Jenkins, four films by Shohei Imamura, and Luis Buñuel's Belle de jour! Wednesday, November 1 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold*: Criterion Collection Edition #452 The best-selling novel by John le Carré, about a Cold War spy on one … More
In January, the Criterion Collection will ring in the New Year with John Hughes's generation-defining high school movie The Breakfast Club, in an edition packed with special features, including extensive new and archival interviews with the film's iconic cast and fifty minutes of never-before-seen deleted scenes. That's just the beginning of a month that will also see … More
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