This December, Euzhan Palcy will join the Criterion Collection with A Dry White Season, a courageous chronicle of injustice and resistance in apartheid South Africa that made history as the first Hollywood studio film directed by a black woman. Barbara Stanwyck leads the charge in Samuel Fuller’s unconventional western Forty Guns, a thrilling exemplar of the director’s no-holds-barred approach … More
SEPTEMBER PROGRAMMING ON THE CRITERION CHANNEL ON FILMSTRUCK! Includes Olivier Assayas’s Clouds of Sils Maria, Adventures in Moviegoing with Paul Feig, and Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man! Saturday, September 1 Cul-de-sac*: Edition #577 This slyly absurd tale of paranoia stars Donald Pleasence and Françoise Dorléac as a withdrawn couple whose isolated house is invaded by a rude, … More
This November, the Criterion Collection will present Orson Welles’s elegiac second feature, The Magnificent Ambersons, in its first-ever Blu-ray release, an edition packed with supplemental features. Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, and Tony Curtis star in Billy Wilder’s gender-bending Some Like It Hot, a pinnacle of Hollywood comedy, appearing in a new 4K restoration. David Byrne … More
AUGUST PROGRAMMING ON THE CRITERION CHANNEL ON FILMSTRUCK! Includes Sydney Pollack’s Tootsie, Adventures in Moviegoing with Barry Jenkins on The World, the Flesh and the Devil, and Sofia Coppola’s Lick the Star! Wednesday, August 1 Tootsie: Edition #738* In Tootsie, Michael Dorsey lands the role of a lifetime-as did the actor playing him, Dustin Hoffman. … More
This October, the beloved fairy-tale classic The Princess Bride will join the Criterion Collection in a clothbound storybook Blu-ray edition packed with special features — as you wish! Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s long-unavailable television series Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day, a working-class soap opera suffused with affection and solidarity, will appear in a new 2K restoration. Warren Beatty stars … More
Coming this September, Olivier Assayas’s long-unavailable coming-of-age masterpiece Cold Water, recently released theatrically for the first time in the U.S., will join the Criterion Collection in a new 4K restoration supervised by the director. Andrei Tarkovsky’s monumental epic Andrei Rublev will make its Blu-ray debut in an edition that includes both the director’s preferred 185-minute cut and the extended … More
This August, The Tree of Life, visionary filmmaker Terrence Malick’s magnum opus starring Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain, will join the Criterion Collection in an edition featuring a new cut that includes nearly fifty minutes of additional footage. And fifty years after its initial release put Cuban cinema on the map, Memories of Underdevelopment, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s long-unavailable masterpiece … More
JULY PROGRAMMING ON THE CRITERION CHANNEL ON FILMSTRUCK! Includes Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills, and a series of Ingmar Bergman-inspired Double Features! Sunday, July 1 From the Archives: Taxi Driver* Scripted by Paul Schrader and directed by Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver is a powerful study of a dangerously fractured psyche, as well as a vividly grimy portrait … More
JUNE PROGRAMMING ON THE CRITERION CHANNEL ON FILMSTRUCK! Includes Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night, the Complete Monterey Pop Festival, and Aki Kaurismäki’s The Other Side of Hope! Friday, June 1 It Happened One Night*: Edition #736 Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight from Frank Capra, about a spoiled runaway socialite (Claudette … More
MAY PROGRAMMING ON THE CRITERION CHANNEL ON FILMSTRUCK! Includes Richard Linklater’s Slacker, the cinema of Kelly Reichardt, and nine films from Cannes ’68! Tuesday, May 1 From the Archives: High Noon* Gary Cooper stars in this real-time western as a sheriff looking forward to retirement and marriage whose plans are upended by the news … More
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