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Jia Zhangke Gets His Closeup on Criterion by Nevin Thompson Book and Film Globe
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Our First 4K Ultra HD Releases
We’re thrilled to announce that Orson Welles's CITIZEN KANE will lead Criterion’s first slate of 4K Ultra HD releases along with the Hughes Brothers's MENACE II SOCIETY, Jane Campion's THE PIANO, David Lynch's MULHOLLAND DR., Powell and Pressburger’s THE RED SHOES, and Richard Lester's A HARD DAY'S NIGHT! The first of these editions and their special features will be detailed in our November 2021 announcement next week, with others to follow in subsequent months. Learn more in the Current.
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Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman | Criterion Channel 10 films
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One of the great artists of his generation, Philip Seymour Hoffman captured the essence of human frailty…
August 2024 Leaving Soon | Criterion Channel 47 films
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August 2024 Newly Added | Criterion Channel 70 films
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This August, we’re celebrating the expansive, archetype-exploding films of Paul Thomas Anderson, as well as the career…
Vacation Noir | Criterion Channel 13 films
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Unlucky vacationers discover that crime doesn’t take a holiday in these deceptively sunny, seductively dark thrillers set…
Photographer’s Gaze | Criterion Channel 13 films
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The inextricable link between cinema and photography has long made the latter a subject of intense fascination…
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson | Criterion Channel 5 films
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The great cinematic mythmaker of the San Fernando Valley, Paul Thomas Anderson stages uniquely American tales of…
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Kinuyo Tanaka Retrospective
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David Lynch @ Janus
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Banned!
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Contemporary Masterpieces
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The Letterboxd Show: Isabel Sandoval's Four Favorites
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LE CRITERION CLUB
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You can practically smell the pheromones wafting off this kaleidoscopic odyssey, which finds director Gregg Araki crossing soap-operatic elements with blasts of science fiction, indie-kid cool, and shiny pop-art subversion. On the day when the world is foretold to end, a group of terminally horny, disillusioned, zonked-out teens in Los Angeles see their lives explode in a glitter bomb of drugs, sex, death, and alien abduction. Bisexual lust, vaporizing Valley girls, sinister televangelists, nipple-ring S&M, murder by Campbell’s-soup can—Araki folds…
Gregg Araki takes a road trip to hell in this wild, meth- and fast-food-fueled joyride through the margins of a menacing American wasteland. When they inadvertently link up with a dangerously alluring drifter (Johnathon Schaech), a chilled-out Cali bro (James Duval) and his spiky, foulmouthed girlfriend (Rose McGowan) find themselves on an increasingly violent, kinky, and darkly comic journey in which erotic tensions rise along with the body count. Working with a significant budget for the first time, Araki employs…
A delirious mix of punk nihilism and deadpan irony, the first film in Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy puts an audaciously queer spin on Jean-Luc Godard’s classic Masculin féminin. Across fifteen jagged episodes, Totally F***ed Up plunges headlong into the lives of a group of queer, disaffected Los Angeles teenagers who form a kind of makeshift family as they navigate desire and heartbreak, societal and familial rejection, and the alienation of growing up gay in an era of relentless moralizing.…
As disturbingly funny as it is audaciously empathetic, auteur of unease Todd Solondz’s portrait of damaged souls reaching out for connection reveals the existential void underneath middle-class suburban “normalcy.” An extraordinary ensemble cast—including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jane Adams, Lara Flynn Boyle, Ben Gazzara, and Dylan Baker—embodies an array of loosely connected New Jersey deviants, depressives, and misfits, among them a frustrated phone-sex pest, an all-American dad concealing his pedophilic urges, and a lonely woman with a grisly secret, all of…
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In her hypnotic documentary feature, Ethiopian-Mexican filmmaker Jessica Beshir explores the coexistence of everyday life and its mythical undercurrents. Though a deeply personal project—Beshir was forced to leave her hometown of Harar with her family as a teenager due to growing political strife—the film she returned to make about the city, its rural Oromo community of farmers, and the harvesting of the country’s most sought-after export (the euphoria-inducing khat plant) is neither a straightforward work of nostalgia nor an issue-oriented…
that Patton, he sure was ornery
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This August, we’re celebrating the expansive, archetype-exploding films of Paul Thomas Anderson, as well as the career of his frequent collaborator Philip Seymour Hoffman, who, ten years after his tragic death, is widely recognized as one of the greatest, most versatile actors of his generation. A collection of Vacation Noir classics luxuriates in the dark side of late-summer getaways, while Photographer’s Gaze explores cinema’s connection to the shutterbug’s art. Plan a retrospective tour through the eclectic films of Egyptian master Youssef Chahine, the devastating melodramas of Mikio Naruse, or Preston Sturges’s gleefully iconoclastic comedies. There’s so much more to choose from this month, including a Brazilian love letter to movie theaters, a Hong Kong action spectacular, a restored treasure from Mexican cinema’s golden age, and a pair of documentary portraits of punk’s most legendary performers.