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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.

A medium shot of a woman in a high, white conical hat with a peacock feather, wearing a blue and white striped garment and white gloves. She holds thin white threads connected to spindles, posed against a pale wall with an ornate, gilded Baroque frame featuring a cherub behind her.

A wide, symmetrical shot of a sparse, cream-colored room with two small arched windows. A long, sheer blue fabric drapes from a golden frame on the back wall across the floor toward a prayer rug. A wooden stand and various ritualistic objects are scattered across the patterned white floor.

A highly stylized, theatrical composition against a black background. On an elevated platform, a man lies horizontally while figures in ornate costumes pose around him. Below, a man in a black robe stands next to a llama resting on hay, with various candles and a patterned textile in the center.

Three people in traditional, ornate Georgian or Armenian costumes stand on a dry, dirt slope. The central figure holds a decorative blue umbrella; the figure on the left holds a rifle and a curved sword, and the figure on the right holds two golden spheres. Scattered animal pelts lie on the ground behind them.

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!

A close-up shot of a man with dark, curly hair and pale skin, singing into a vintage-style silver microphone. He has his eyes closed and mouth slightly open. He is wearing a dark, paisley-patterned jacket over a white ruffled shirt with a large collar.

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.

A screen cap from the Criterion Channel.

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.

And ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, BLACK PANTHER capture two of the most galvanizing personalities of his time with electrifying immediacy. Still largely overlooked in the United States, his films are audacious, iconoclastic antidotes to all forms of social oppression.

In his three colorful, surreal fiction features—WHO ARE YOU, POLLY MAGGOO?, MR. FREEDOM, and THE MODEL COUPLE—he skewers the fashion industry, American empire, and governmental mind control with hilarious, cutting aplomb. While his essential documentaries MUHAMMAD ALI, THE GREATEST

WILLIAM KLEIN'S SUBVERSIVE EYE featuring Muhammad Ali, the Greatest Mr. Freedom Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? and more

Directed by William Klein 🎞️ Now playing on the Criterion Channel! Klein’s explosive New York street photography made him one of the most heralded artists of the sixties. As an American expatriate in Paris, Klein also made bold challenging cinema in a filmmaking career that spanned more than 40 years

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Andrew Davis’s sleek sophisticated thriller A PERFECT MURDER (1998) in our Gwyneth Paltrow collection.Paltrow stars alongside Michael Douglas & Viggo Mortensen in this update of Alfred Hitchcock’s DIAL M FOR MURDER that sizzling with suspense and sharp dialogue

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THE COMPLETE MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL
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WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR? IS ON THE CRITERION CHANNEL THIS MONTH

PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS, a current Best Documentary Short Academy Award nominee is now on Criterion Channel.

Narration by Maya Hawke, footage culled from hundreds of sources, from TV commercials to blockbuster films, this sprawling, engrossing & witty pop-culture deep dive tells the story of the video store’s glorious, confusing, novel, sometimes seedy & undeniably seismic impact on American movie culture

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch the exclusive streaming premiere of Alex Ross Perry's VIDEOHEAVEN (2025). Now playing in our VHS Forever collection! 📼 ❤️
Cultural hub, consumer mecca, and source of existential dread: the video-rental store forever changed the way we interact with movies.

A minimalist, illustrated poster on a pale blue background. It shows the black silhouette of a horse falling upside down, with a knight in silver armor also falling. A vibrant pool of red blood spills from the knight's helmet at the bottom. The title is in large blue font at the top.

A minimalist poster featuring a large, textured square of deep blue ink in the center of a white background. Inside the blue square, there is a small, cut-out black and white image of a man walking. The title is printed in bold, black capital letters at the bottom.

A black and white film poster featuring a man in a dark hat and coat facing a woman in a light-colored coat and hat. They are standing close together against a blurred outdoor background.

A German film poster with a high-contrast style. A central image shows a man climbing a rope against a bright light, framed by thick black horizontal and vertical bars. A large red rectangle on the left contains the film title in white text.

Posters for some of the Robert Bresson films now playing on the Criterion Channel in our retrospective of the iconoclastic artist's work.❤️

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Happy birthday to the one and only Joachim Trier! 🧡 Watch our Meet the Filmmakers episode with the Norwegian auteur on the Criterion Channel alongside a collection of his early films—including REPRISE; OSLO, AUGUST 31ST; THELMA, and LOUDER THAN BOMBS.

The complete first season of GHOST IN THE SHELL: STAND ALONE COMPLEX, the exclusive premiere of a new Charlie Kaufman short starring Jessie Buckley, the vicious teen-movie favorite CRUEL INTENTIONS, and the lone feature to date directed by THE SOPRANOS creator David Chase.

Post-Communist realities.
While a retrospective dedicated to pioneering queer filmmaker Monika Treut encompasses taboo-shattering erotica and sensitive nonfiction alike. There’s so much more to choose from this month, including a trio of Gwyneth Paltrow performances.

Now playing on the Criterion Channel! 📼 ❤️ This March, step into the video store of your dreams: VHS Forever celebrates the technology that revolutionized film culture. A spotlight on the Romanian New Wave highlights the brilliant movement that brought an unsparing, dryly funny eye to the country’s