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Good morning! ☕ 🎄 🌈 🎭
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November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Check out the trailer for Nathan Silver’s touching short documentary CAROL & JOY. Coming to Criterion Channel on 12/1!
November 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Good night, sweet prince.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Wong Kar Wai’s BLOSSOMS SHANGHAI 🌹✨ Premiering exclusively on the Criterion Channel tomorrow at 8pm ET! From the director of IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE and CHUNGKING EXPRESS comes a dazzling new 30-episode series set against the rise of 1990s Shanghai.
November 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Watch Mathieu Kassovitz's landmark of contemporary French cinema LA HAINE (1995) starring Vincent Cassel (BOTD). A gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France.
November 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Friday morning recommendation? Eva Aridjis Fuentes's GOODBYE HORSES: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2025) — exclusively streaming on the Criterion Channel!
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Evening viewing recommendation? Watch our NATIVE NONFICTION program! Since the birth of cinema, Indigenous people have been staple subjects of documentary—until a new generation of Native American filmmakers emerged in the 1980s who insisted on becoming its authors too.
November 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Happy Noirvember to all who celebrate! On the Criterion Channel, enjoy a wide array of private eyes, femmes fatales, toughs, and fall guys in our British Noir, Blackout Noir and Japanese Noir collections, plus so much more! 🖤
November 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Wishing a very happy birthday to the formidable actor, director and producer Jodie Foster! Celebrate Foster's long and versatile career in front of and behind the camera with TAXI DRIVER, PANIC ROOM, LITTLE MAN TATE, THE BEAVER and more!
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November 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY CINEMA, ANIME, HOLLYWOOD HITS, SHORT FILMS, MUSIC FILMS, and more coming to Criterion channel in December! ❤️
MUSIC FILMS All I Can Say Assembled from the video diary shot by late Blind Melon singer Shannon Hoon, this kaleidoscopic collage is a journey through addiction and sudden fame in the world of nineties alternative rock. Scott Walker: 30 Century Man Discover the artistic journey and uncompromising creative vision of the most enigmatic figure in rock history as he returns to the studio to record his magnum opus. Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami Eye-popping musical performances and intimate personal footage come together in an electrifying journey through the public and private worlds of a musical icon. Tokyo Pop Take a breezy tour through the vibrant pop-culture playground of 1980s Tokyo as experienced by a wannabe American rocker vying for her shot at stardom. SHORT FILMS One Day This Kid Poignant impressions from more than a decade in the life of a young first-generation Afghan Canadian man show him in the process of coming into his queer identity. Carol & Joy Beloved actor Carol Kane and her ninety-eight-year-old mother, musician and former dancer Joy, invite you into their Upper West Side home for a lively afternoon of music and poignant reminiscences. DOCUMENTARIES The Taste of Mango* Sri Lankan British filmmaker Chloe Abrahams untangles painful knots in her family's unspoken past, revealing the complicated ties that bind three generations of extraordinary women. And, Towards Happy Alleys This illuminating journey through Iranian cinema celebrates the fearless filmmakers and activists who have defied censorship and repression to make their voices heard. TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY CINEMA Meeting with Pol Pot Three journalists invited to Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge begin to discover the hidden horrors lurking beneath the idyllic image that has been manufactured for them. Crosscurrent Fantasy, poetry, and history flow into one another as a sailor embarks on a sublime metaphysical odyssey along China's Yangtze River. ANIME Tokyo Godfathers On Christmas Eve on the margins of Tokyo, the lives of three lost souls are changed forever when they rescue an abandoned baby. HOLLYWOOD HITS American Psycho Christian Bale is iconically unhinged as a sociopathic uber-yuppie whose high-powered Wall Street lifestyle conceals murderous impulses.
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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DIRECTOR'S SPOTLIGHTS❤️📺Coming to criterion channel in December!
Two Films by Jessie Maple Featuring a new introduction by scholar Terri Simone Francis, part of Criterion's Spotlight series With her landmark debut feature Will, pioneering cameraperson turned filmmaker (and all- around Renaissance woman) Jessie Maple became one of the first Black American women to direct an independent feature film, bringing unflinching honesty and stirring emotion to an endearingly tough and tender portrait of a Harlem heroin addict striving to turn his life around. Though she directed only one other feature-Twice as Nice, a vibrant tale of twin sisters competing in college basketball to become the first professional draft pick-Maple blazed a trail that would allow a rising generation of Black women filmmakers to tell their own community's stories on-screen. FEATURING: Will (1981), Twice as Nice (1989) Two Films by Bi Gan On the occasion of the theatrical release of his highly anticipated third feature Resurrection, journey into the mesmerizing world of Bi Gan, the Chinese auteur whose labyrinthine, dreamlike narratives and immersive, mind-bogglingly epic long takes have rapidly established him as one of contemporary cinema's most exciting voices. His dazzling ambition is already on full display in his debut feature, Kaili Blues, an audacious time- slipping odyssey through rural China's past, present, and future built around an astonishing forty-one-minute outdoor tracking shot. It's surpassed only by the fifty-nine-minute unbroken take that concludes Long Day's Journey into Night, a hallucinatory neonoir voyage into the unconscious mind. FEATURING: Kaili Blues (2015), Long Day's Journey into Night (2018) DIRECTOR SPOTLIGHTS Three by Todd Haynes Emerging from the creative rebellion of the New Queer Cinema movement, Todd Haynes has remained one of American independent cinema's most daring and subversive voices, a master stylist who uses his command of the language of classic melodrama to reveal the hidden fears, anxieties, and hypocrisies lurking beneath the surface of American society. Establishing his fiercely transgressive sensibility with his visually intoxicating, Jean Genet- inspired provocation Poison, he reached ever greater heights of critical acclaim with the disturbing psychological drama Safe and the lush, Sirkian melodrama Far from Heaven, both featuring riveting performances from Julianne Moore as suburban housewives whose picture-perfect worlds crumble around them. FEATURING: Poison (1991), Safe (1995), Far from Heaven (2002) Med Hondo's Anticolonial Agitations Among the politically committed African filmmakers who emerged in the postcolonial era, Mauritanian-French firebrand Med Hondo stood as one of the boldest and most provocative voices, forging a fiercely experimental style all his own to examine the historical toll of colonial oppression on generations of African people. Employing radical agit-prop, freewheeling avant-garde experimentation, and incisive satire, his films-including the explosive portrait of immigrant alienation Soleil Ô, the innovative musical West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty, and the feminist historical epic Sarraounia-point the way toward a truly decolonized cinema of liberation. FEATURING: Soleil Ô (1970), West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty (1979), Sarraounia (1986)
November 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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REDISCOVERIES AND RESTORATIONS ❤️📺Coming to criterion channel in December!
REDISCOVERIES AND RESTORATIONS Duet for Cannibals Essayist, novelist, critic, cinephile, and all-around intellectual dynamo Susan Sontag made her directorial debut with this definition-defying, dryly funny psychological serio-comedy, a project that began when a Swedish studio invited her to make a film in Stockholm. The result, revolving around the quadrangular relationship between an arrogant ex-revolutionist German intellectual exile, his elegant wife, their Swedish student secretary, and the earnest secretary's bride-to-be, is a roundelay of partner-swapping that gradually drifts into gamesmanship that broaches the surreal and violent. Defying literal-minded interpretation, Duet for Cannibals is both an illustrative companion to Sontag's criticism and an introduction to a startlingly original filmmaker. Faithless Scripted by Ingmar Bergman with the fearlessness of an artist taking stock of his life and masterfully directed one of his greatest collaborators, the actor Liv Ullmann, Faithless is a wrenching, intensely psychological examination of infidelity in which the late Swedish auteur channels his personal demons into the character of "Bergman" (Erland Josephson), an aging director who summons the imaginary actress Marianne (an extraordinary Lena Endre) to help him write his latest script. With riveting emotional honesty, Marianne recounts the story of how she fell into an extramarital affair with a close family friend, a relationship that has devastating consequences not only for her and her husband, but their daughter as well.
November 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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QUEERSIGHTED: SICK & DIRTY — GAY CINEMA DURING THE CODE 💙 Coming to criterion channel in December!
Queersighted: Sick & Dirty-Gay Cinema During the Code Featuring a conversation between authors Michael Koresky and Mark Harris "Sexual perversion, and any inference to it, is strictly forbidden." Thus spoke the Hollywood Production Code, the system of censorship that defined the limits of the permissible during the studio system's golden age from the 1930s to the '60s. According to such dictates, queer people simply didn't exist. Nevertheless, during the decades of the Code at its most draconian, movies with gay y and and lesbian themes, undercurrents, and unmistakable desire made it to the screen. The new book Sick and Dirty: Hollywood's Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness, by Queersighted series programmer Michael Koresky, takes a close look at this history. In this conversation, Koresky invites author Mark Harris (Pictures at a Revolution) to discuss a selection of classic films from this rich, complicated period in American cinema, in which writers like Tennessee Williams (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Suddenly, Last Summer), and directors such as Dorothy Arzner (Dance, Girl, Dance) and Vincente Minnelli (Tea and Sympathy) left a subversive, unmistakably queer mark on their films despite the Code. FEATURING: These Three (1936), Dance, Girl, Dance (1940), Crossfire (1947), A Star Is Born (1954), Tea and Sympathy (1956), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), The Children's Hour (1961)
November 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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DIRECTED BY JOACHIM TRIER 📽️ Coming to criterion channel in December!
Directed by Joachim Trier Featuring a new interview with Trier, part of Criterion's Meet the Filmmakers series With six features-including his acclaimed latest, Sentimental Value-to his name, Norwegian auteur Joachim Trier has established himself as one of the most virtuosic directors working today, a humanist who brings novelistic depth and insight to his intimate portraits of people grappling with everyday existential crises. Particularly attuned to the messy emotional realities of young people navigating the turbulence of early adulthood, his films-including the haunting portrait of a day in the life of an addict Oslo, August 31st; the quietly powerful family drama Louder Than Bombs; and the spellbinding supernatural thriller/queer love story Thelma-vividly capture the full spectrum of the human experience, from the crushing lows to the exhilarating highs. FEATURING: Oslo, August 31st (2011)*, Louder Than Bombs (2015), Thelma (2017) COMING JANUARY 1: Reprise (2006)
November 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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BLACK DEBUTANTES: FIRST FEATURES BY BLACK WOMEN DIRECTORS 💜 Coming to criterion channel in December!
Black Debutantes: First Features by Black Women Directors Though their voices have historically been marginalized, innovative Black women filmmakers have long broken barriers to tell urgent, powerful, and perceptive stories on- screen. This celebration of pioneering Black women who made an impact with first-and in some cases only-feature film reveals a rich lineage of artists whose works open up into fascinating dialogue with one another. Exploring themes of revolutionary and anticolonialist struggle (Sarah Maldoror's Sambizanga, Sara Gómez's One Way or Another), the experience of coming of age as a young Black woman (Cauleen Smith's Drylongso, Dee Rees's Pariah), and the meaning of heritage and history (Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust, Zeinabu irene Davis's Compensation), these uniquely insightful, formally imaginative works are each an act of courageous dedication and vision. Programmed by Rógan Graham, who presented a version of Black Debutantes at London's BFI Southbank in Mav 2025. FEATURING: Sambizanga (1972), One Way or Another (1977), Will (1981), Losing Ground (1982), Daughters of the Dust (1991), Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992), Welcome II the Terrordome (1995), Naked Acts (1996), The Watermelon Woman (1996), Eve's Bayou (1997), Drylongso (1998), Compensation (1999), Pariah (2011), I Am Not a Witch (2017)*, Pretty Red Dress (2022)
November 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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WONG KAR WAI'S CINEMA ✨Coming to Criterion channel in December!
Wong Kar Wai's Cinema As his unmissable television epic Blossoms Shanghai comes to the Criterion Channel, immerse yourself in the woozy world of Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar Wai, whose lush visuals, swooning soundtracks, and wistful romanticism have made him one of contemporary cinema's defining artists. Working with key collaborators like actors Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Maggie Cheung Man Yuk, celebrated cinematographer Christopher Doyle, and virtuoso editor and production and costume designer William Chang Suk Ping, Wong has created some of cinema's most rapturous, stylistically daring explorations of alienation, memory, and longing. From the soulful science-fiction romance 2046 to the dazzlingly stylized kung fu epic The Grandmaster, the films collected here are an invitation to the sublime cinematic cosmos of a true visionary. FEATURING: As Tears Go By (1988), Days of Being Wild (1990), Chungking Express (1994), Fallen Angels (1995), Happy Together (1997), In the Mood for Love (2000), The Hand (2004), 2046 (2004), My Blueberry Nights (2007)*, The Grandmaster (2013)
November 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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STARRING JULIANNE MOORE ❤️ Coming to criterion channel in December!
Starring Julianne Moore Boasting one of the most compelling and adventurous filmographies of any actor working in Hollywood today, Julianne Moore has made consistently bold choices in a career that has moved easily between blockbuster hits and art-house passion projects. Working with auteurs like Todd Haynes, David Cronenberg, and Alfonso Cuarón, Moore brings psychological nuance and fascinatingly layered ambiguity to her celebrated portrayals of women on the edge: a suburban housewife confronting the pervasive dread of modern existence in Safe; a wife and mother struggling to keep up appearances under the stifling pressures of 1950s domesticity in both The Hours and Far from Heaven; a fading actress clinging desperately to fame in Maps to the Stars. Moore imbues them all with a deep human longing that registers with precision across her infinitely expressive face. FEATURING: The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), Body of Evidence (1993), Vanya on 42nd Street (1994), Nine Months (1995), Safe (1995), Psycho (1998), The End of the Affair (1999), Far from Heaven (2002), The Hours (2002), Children of Men (2006). A Single Man (2009), Maps to the Stars (2014), Maggie's Plan (2015)
November 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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HOTELS ON FILM 🏩 Coming to criterion channel in December!
Hotels on Film Check in and stay a while in some of cinema's most iconic hotels, where souls in transit meet, identities shift, and the by turns liberating and lonely experience of being far from home heightens every interaction. From the gilded art deco glamour of Grand Hotel to the haunted corridors of The Shining's surreally sinister Overlook Hotel to the moody, lamplit luxury of Lost in Translation's sleek Tokyo high-rise, these films make unforgettable use of the liminal spaces where disparate lives intersect and every door opens onto another story. FEATURING: Grand Hotel (1932), Hôtel du Nord (1938), The Palm Beach Story (1942), The Bellboy (1960)*, 81/2 (1963), Hotel Monterey (1972), What's Up, Doc? (1972), The Night Porter (1974), The Shining (1980), Nightshift (1981), Insignificance (1985), Mystery Train (1989), Barton Fink (1991), Four Rooms (1995)*, New Rose Hotel (1998), The Million Dollar Hotel (2000), Lost in Translation (2003), Somewhere (2010), Anomalisa (2015)*
November 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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✨Announcing our December 2025 Criterion Channel lineup! ✨

Next month, make yourself at home in some of cinema’s most memorable hotels, celebrate Julianne Moore’s bracingly human performances, or explore the trailblazing debuts of Black women filmmakers.

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A promotional poster for the Criterion Channel’s December lineup featuring films, director spotlights, and themed collections.
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Werner Herzog's NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE (1979) 🕯️ Now playing on the Criterion Channel!
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November 18, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Wishing a very happy birthday to the matchless Martin Scorsese. ❤️❤️❤️ A director who has not only spent decades making some of the greatest films of all time, but has been an indefatigable cinephile dedicated to expanding the horizons of movie lovers around the world! ❤️❤️❤️
A black-and-white portrait of Martin Scorsese, seated in a director's chair. He has long, dark hair and a full beard, wearing sunglasses and a white shirt, with a serious expression. Martin Scorsese in a light-colored suit and tie, sitting in a film editing room. He is gesturing with his right hand, speaking directly to the camera, with film reels and equipment visible in the background. Martin Scorsese lounging on a couch, wearing a white striped shirt. He has a full beard and is engaging in conversation, pointing with his right hand. There are casual furnishings and other individuals in the background. Martin Scorsese smiling broadly while sitting in a chair. He is wearing a navy blue suit with a red pocket square, and a watch on his wrist. The background features soft, blurred interior decor.
November 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Noirvember Sunday Evening Viewing Recommendation? Watch the twisty British whodunit twisty British whodunit BLACKOUT (1954)— also known as MURDER BY PROXY—helmed by future Hammer-horror legend Terence Fisher.
November 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Oliver Stone’s NATURAL BORN KILLERS (1994). One of the most audacious auteur statements of its era, in our Soundtracks by Trent Reznor collection!
November 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Evening viewing recommendation? Watch HOUSEHOLD SAINTS (1993) now playing in our Directed by Nancy Savoca collection!
Based on the novel by Francine Prose, Savoca’s wonderfully warm chronicle of a spirited Italian American New York family gracefully balances humor, tragedy, and pathos.
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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SABLE (2025) • Now playing on the Criterion Channel.
Directed by Erinn Springer, this previously unreleased three-screen triptych film serves as a sublimely meditative visual accompaniment to Bon Iver's acclaimed 2024 EP of the same name.
November 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM