Coming in January: The Dead, an elegiac take on a James Joyce short story, directed by John Huston; Captain Blood, a spectacular romantic swashbuckler directed by Michael Curtiz; Birth, Jonathan Glazer’s enigmatic portrait of a widow’s
Read MoreThis October, the Criterion Channel is the place to be for horror fans: their John Carpenter retrospective pays tribute to one of the genre’s most brilliant artists, and programs dedicated
Read MoreComing in December: Return to Reason, four swirling surrealist dreams from Man Ray, set to an ethereal score by SQÜRL; Salaam Bombay!, Mira Nair’s kaleidoscopic portrait of Bombay’s teeming street life; Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, an eccentric
Read MoreThis September, celebrate the centenary of Robert Altman, the master of freewheeling, big-ensemble filmmaking whose body of work abounds with all-time classics and eccentric, undiscovered gems alike. A Jodie Foster
Read MoreComing in November: Eyes Wide Shut, a tantalizing labyrinth crafted by Stanley Kubrick, one of cinema’s greatest visionaries; Él, a warped tale of wayward love from surrealist master Luis Buñuel; House Party, Reginald Hudlin’s feel-good comedy snapshot of 1990s hip-hop
Read MoreComing in October: A History of Violence, a provocative deconstruction of the American action hero from David Cronenberg; Deep Crimson, a deliriously perverse portrait of obsessive love, directed by Arturo Ripstein; Altered States, a mind-expanding cinematic head trip, directed by
Read MoreComing in September: Born in Flames, a DIY fantasia of female rebellion from Lizzie Borden; Flow, Gints Zilbalodis’s Academy Award–winning animated international sensation; Read My Lips and The Beat That My Heart Skipped, two tour-de-force thrillers from modern
Read MoreComing in August: A Confucian Confusion / Mahjong, a pair of sharp satires from one of Taiwan’s most celebrated directors, Edward Yang; Cairo Station, Youssef Chahine’s noir-melodrama set on the streets of Cairo; Shoeshine, an Italian
Read MoreMaura Delpero’s exquisite wartime drama Vermiglio marks the arrival of a powerful new filmmaking voice. Fresh from theaters, Vermiglio now makes its streaming debut on the Criterion Channel on May
Read MoreComing in July: The Big Heat, a hard-boiled tale of vice and retribution directed by Fritz Lang; Carnal Knowledge, an unnervingly frank look at American masculinity in the postwar era, directed by Mike Nichols; and Kenneth Lonergan’s You Can
Read MoreComing in June: The Wiz, a dazzling soul spin on a landmark tale, directed by Sidney Lumet; Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser, an intimate record of a jazz visionary from Charlotte Zwerin; Midnight, a topsy-turvy screwball comedy directed by Mitchell Leisen; William
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'Killer of Sheep,' American independent filmmaker Charles Burnett’s lyrical debut, gets The Criterion Collection treatment this month
Coming in May: Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep, a quiet revelation of American independent filmmaking; Withnail and I and How to Get Ahead in Advertising, two indelible comedies from maverick British writer-director Bruce Robinson; Abbas Kiarostami’s The
Read MoreComing in April: Anora, a whirlwind anti–Cinderella story, and Prince of Broadway, a moving exploration of the illusory nature of the American dream, from the singular modern auteur Sean Baker; Jean de Florette / Manon
Read MoreComing in March: A Woman of Paris, Charlie Chaplin’s long-overlooked silent masterpiece; Godzilla vs. Biollante, a high point in the mythology of the King of the Monsters, directed by Kazuki Omori; Night Moves, Arthur Penn’s haunting
Read MoreComing in February: King Lear, Jean-Luc Godard’s radical anti-adaptation of Shakespeare; Crossing Delancey, a love letter to 1980s Manhattan directed by Joan Micklin Silver; Drugstore Cowboy, Gus Van Sant’s lyrical Pacific Northwest addiction drama; and Performance, a transgressive
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Anthony Mann's landmark 'Winchester '73,' starring James Stewart, gets the Blu-ray and 4K UHD treatment from Criterion
Coming in January: The Mother and the Whore, the long-unavailable 1970s magnum opus from Jean Eustache; Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling, a lacerating self-portrait by legendary comedian Richard Pryor; The Grifters, Stephen Frears’s pulpy,
Read MoreComing in December: No Country for Old Men, Joel and Ethan Coen’s riveting West Texas borderlands noir, and Eastern Condors, Sammo Hung’s bazooka blast of Hong Kong action spectacle. Plus, now on 4K UHD: Paris,
Read MoreComing in November: Funny Girl, a musical screen debut for the ages, directed by William Wyler; Paper Moon, one of American cinema’s unlikeliest criminal double acts, directed by Peter Bogdanovich; Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape
Read MoreThis monumental forty-film box set celebrates forty years of the Criterion Collection by gathering an electrifying mix of classic and contemporary films, and presenting them with all their special features
Read MoreComing in October: I Walked with a Zombie / The Seventh Victim, a pair of moody horror milestones from visionary producer Val Lewton; Demon Pond, a folk-horror fantasia from Japanese New Wave renegade Masahiro
Read MoreComing in September Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy, a trio of films from the New Queer Cinema renegade; All of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh’s metaphysical exploration of queer love and loneliness; and Happiness, Todd
Read MoreComing in August: Brief Encounters / The Long Farewell: Two Films by KiraMuratova, two long-suppressed features by the fearless Ukrainian iconoclast; Not a Pretty Picture, a metacinematic experiment in recreating trauma from Martha Coolidge; Real Life, a satirical mockumentary about attempting to document the life of an ordinary American family, from Albert Brooks; and Mother, a comic
Read MoreComing this summer: A blood- and dust-caked elegy for the American West; a blistering existential western from Brazil; a serene ode to everyday life in Tokyo; a breathtakingly intimate saga
Read MoreComing in June: A hyperstylish, sapphic heist thriller, a delirious depiction of gay desire, a vibrant Mexican musical-melodrama-noir, and a monumental reimagining of American history through the eyes of an
Read MoreComing this May: Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembène, three powerful 1970s works by the trailblazing Senegalese auteur; Anatomy of a Fall, Justine Triet’s masterful examination of the line between truth and fiction; and Girlfight, Karyn
Read MoreComing this April: Werckmeister Harmonies, a hypnotic parable of societal collapse from auteur Béla Tarr and codirector-editor Ágnes Hranitzky; I Am Cuba, Mikhail Kalatozov’s dazzling work of radical political cinema; and Dogfight, a bittersweet tale of
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Criterion will release this month 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,' a documentary that follows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll
Coming in March: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, a powerful documentary from Laura Poitras about art and activism; Saint Omer, Alice Diop’s morally and emotionally complex courtroom drama; The Runner, Amir Naderi’s lyrical portrayal
Read MoreComing in February: Eric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons, a quartet of bittersweet tales about the follies of the human heart; The Heroic Trio / Executioners, two dazzling superhero sagas from martial-arts auteur
Read MoreComing in January: Chantal Akerman Masterpieces, 1968–1978, the revolutionary first decade of a singular filmmaker; Mudbound, an American tragedy set in the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, written and directed by Dee Rees; Trainspotting, the
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