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November 2023 Newly Added | Criterion Channel
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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.
Lists
Women of the West | Criterion Channel 8 films
High-riding, sharpshooting, empire-building women take on the frontier in these westerns that boldly subvert classical tradition. The new strain of…
November 2023 Leaving Soon | Criterion Channel 85 films
Here's every film leaving the Criterion Channel on November 30. Explore more here!
Directed by Robert Bresson | Criterion Channel 9 films
A singular, iconoclastic artist, Robert Bresson left behind an astonishing body of work, defined by the search for what he…
November Noir | Criterion Channel 20 films
Shadowy atmosphere, seedy characters, pulp philosophy, and cynicism as thick as smoke: there’s nothing like film noir. As America returned…
Pre-Code Divas | Criterion Channel 16 films
Women undoubtedly had more fun in the pre-Code era—the early-thirties moment before the Hays Office brought censorship to Hollywood—when sex…
Con Games | Criterion Channel 8 films
Con artists build elaborate webs of deception, preying on human psychology to turn their marks’ own trust, vanity, and greed…
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Kinuyo Tanaka Retrospective
Janus Films 12 films
David Lynch @ Janus
Janus Films 9 films
Banned!
Janus Films 10 films
Contemporary Masterpieces
Janus Films 30 films
The Letterboxd Show: Isabel Sandoval's Four Favorites
Letterboxd 23 films
LE CRITERION CLUB
Justin Lee 9 films
Recent reviews
A Roaring Twenties gangster saga that only the Coen brothers could concoct, Miller’s Crossing marries the hard-boiled sensibility of classic noir fiction with the filmmakers’ trademark savory dialogue, colorful characters, and finely calibrated set pieces. Gabriel Byrne brings a wry gravitas to the role of Tom Reagan, the quick-thinking right-hand man to a powerful crime boss (Albert Finney), whose unflappable cool is tested when he begins offering his services to a rival outfit—setting off a cascade of betrayals, reprisals, and…
Golden-age Hollywood’s humanist master Leo McCarey brings his graceful touch and relaxed naturalism to this sublime romance, one of cinema’s most intoxicating tear-wringers. Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer are chic strangers who meet and fall in love aboard an ocean liner bound for New York. Though they are both involved with other people, they make a pact to reconnect six months later at the top of the Empire State Building—until the hand of fate throws their star-crossed affair tragically off…
One of the preeminent works of the Hong Kong New Wave, Boat People is a shattering look at the circumstances that drove hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese refugees to flee their homeland in the wake of the Vietnam War, told through images of haunting, unforgettable power. Three years after the Communist takeover, a Japanese photojournalist (George Lam) travels to Vietnam to document the country’s seemingly triumphant rebirth. When he befriends a teenage girl (Season Ma) and her destitute family, however,…
Douglas Sirk’s Technicolor expressionism reached a fever pitch with this operatic tragedy, which finds the director pushing his florid visuals and his critiques of American culture to their subversive extremes. Alcoholism, nymphomania, impotence, and deadly jealousy—these are just some of the toxins coursing through a massively wealthy, degenerate Texan oil family. When a sensible secretary (Lauren Bacall) has the misfortune of marrying the clan’s neurotic scion (Robert Stack), it drives a wedge between him and his lifelong best friend (Rock Hudson) that unleashes a maelstrom of psychosexual angst and fury.
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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
This November, learn the art of the con from some of cinema’s craftiest swindlers, or saddle up alongside some of the most complex and determined female characters in the history of the western. You won’t want to miss the scandalous charm of the early-thirties starlets in our Pre-Code Divas collection, or the shadow-drenched atmosphere of a special Noirvember sampler we’ve prepared. There’s so much more to choose from this month, including a gore-splattered Hong Kong cult classic, a newly restored Alain Resnais masterpiece, Harmony Korine’s most radical scuzzfest, and Hype Williams’s hallucinatory hip-hop classic Belly. Explore more here!