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Wishing a happy birthday to legendary director Carl Franklin! 💙
In the meantime, watch Bi Gan’s KAILI BLUES (2015) and LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (2018) on the Channel!
✨MARK YOUR CALENDARS✨ Starting March 24, visionary filmmaker Bi Gan’s ravishing third feature RESURRECTION — his deepest plunge yet into the realm of pure dreamscape — will begin streaming exclusively on the Criterion Channel alongside a new Meet the Filmmakers interview with the writer-director!
A truly excellent @kphipps3000.bsky.social rumination today on video stores, inspired by Alex Ross Perry's VIDEOHEAVEN and the Criterion Channel VHS series. Not a nostalgia piece, but a more clear-headed remembrance of a bygone era. (Also free to read!): thereveal.film/ghosts-of-vi...
🖤 On the Criterion Channel, watch TWO LOVERS (2008) — James Gray's operatic Brighton Beach-set romantic drama. Now playing in our Three Starring Gwyneth Paltrow collection, alongside SLIDING DOORS and A PERFECT MURDER!
It's a newish thing.
Sometimes I think people don't realize there are (presently) some 3,341 films on the Criterion Channel. Just click on the ALL FILMS tab and you'll see there's so much more than what they put up fresh each month.
In April there's a discount because it's the channel anniversary
Exploration of time’s passage and the fragility of human life.
TAMALA 2010: A PUNK CAT IN SPACE (2002), arguably the only anime ever made inspired by both Hello Kitty and Thomas Pynchon’s "The Crying of Lot 49;" and GUNBUSTER: THE MOVIE (2006), an exhilarating space opera that blends turbocharged mecha action with a disarmingly poignant
Have you checked out our Anime section on the Criterion Channel? Watch the 26-episode first season of the riveting science-fiction crime procedural GHOST IN THE SHELL: STAND ALONE COMPLEX (2002- 2003);
With Charlie Kaufman's latest short film How to Shoot a Ghost now streaming on @criterionchannl.bsky.social, read our conversation with the director:
Watch some of Shinichiro Watanabe’s Closet Picks on the Criterion Channel!✨
THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE
BRANDED TO KILL
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THE COMPLETE JACQUES TATI
These impressionistic, intuitive, and vividly sensorial films drift dreamily through the urban landscape, finding bruising poignancy in the small, fleeting moments and encounters that give life its infinite richness.
Evening viewing recommendation? Watch HOW TO SHOOT A GHOST. An aching, Athens set elegy starring Jessie Buckley — featured in our Two Short Films by Charlie Kaufman and Eva H.D. collection! Alongside the New York cine-poem JACKALS & FIREFLIES.
Evening viewing recommendation? On the Criterion Channel, watch SLC PUNK! (1998) 💚 Fueled by an energetic star performance by @ogmatthewlillard.bsky.social, a classic punk soundtrack, and kinetic visual verve, this is a madcap story of one rebel’s search for a way to grow up without selling out.
On her birthday, watch Rachel Weisz's beautifully powerful performance in THE DEEP BLUE SEA. Terence Davies's ravishing adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play about a woman whose overpowering love threatens her well-being and alienates the men in her life. Now playing in our Yearning collection!
Evening viewing recommendation? Watch WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR? (1965)! Evocatively shot on location in stark black and white, the daringly ahead of its time Joseph Cates's film—presented here in its long-unseen, fully uncensored form—is a relentlessly tawdry time capsule of midsixties Times Square.
Both now playing on the Criterion Channel!
With their latest work WHAT WE DID BEFORE OUR MOTH DAYS (written by Shawn & directed by Gregory) now on stage in NY, what better time to revisit MY DINNER WITH ANDRÉ, directed by Louis Malle, as well as their striking Henrik Ibsen interpretation A MASTER BUILDER ('04) directed by Jonathan Demme
When André Gregory and Wallace Shawn—theater directors, writers, actors, and longtime friends—sat down for a stimulating meal in 1981’s MY DINNER WITH ANDRÉ, they launched a collaboration that would continue for decades.
If you get a chance to see this, I cannot recommend it highly enough. It's poetry about poetry. It's queer and lush and gorgeous.
Check out some of Maggie's great Closet Picks on the Criterion Channel! ✨
BEAU TRAVAIL
TAMPOPO
THE BRD TRILOGY
IL POSTO
I FIDANZATI
PERSONA
BREATHLESS
VIVRE SA VIE.
THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (1969) 🖤 A breathtaking fusion of poetry, ethnography, and cinema, Sergei Parajanov’s masterwork overflows with unforgettable images and sounds. 🖤 Now playing on the Criterion Channel!
Remembering the singular Dean Stockwell on his birthday. 💙 Seen here in dreams. . . playing his iconic role in David Lynch’s BLUE VELVET (1986).
❤️🔥 Maria Callas and Pier Paolo Pasolini in Greece, 1969 ❤️🔥 On the iconoclastic Italian polymath's birthday, you can watch Callas in his hypnotic adaptation of Euripides’s immortal tragedy MEDEA (1969) on the Criterion Channel alongside 10 of his other masterworks.
William Wellman's NOTHING SACRED (1937) w/ Fredric March and Carole Lombard is now on Criterion Channel.
This is the MoMA restoration from the original Technicolor separations, w/ warm, golden tones that are completely lost in other transfers.
It looks and sounds glorious. #FilmSky
Refn's follow-up to his bombshell debut PUSHER is equally raw and unflinching in its potent look at masculinity, alienation, and the point where repression turns to eruption.
Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Mads Mikkelsen in Nicolas Winding Refn's BLEEDER (1999) in our VHS Forever collection! On the gritty margins of Copenhagen, two friends drift apart as violence and obsession take hold.
