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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
Top Closet Picks | Criterion Collection 55 films
Shop popular films from our Closet Picks series. Explore more here!
March 2024 Leaving Soon | Criterion Channel 78 films
Here's every film leaving the Criterion Channel on March 31. Explore more here!
Living the Part | Criterion Channel 9 films
Extreme diets, elaborate prosthetics, uncannily convincing (and sometimes less so) accents: the late twentieth century witnessed the rise of a…
March 2024 Newly Added | Criterion Channel 60 films
This March, get ready to say, “I can’t believe that’s on Criterion!” Our salute to the Golden Raspberry Awards collects…
Starring Jane Russell | Criterion Channel 4 films
Jane Russell belongs to Hollywood’s golden age, but there remains something startlingly modern and subversive about her persona—maybe it’s her…
And the Razzie Goes to... | Criterion Channel 14 films
Every year, the Golden Raspberry Awards (a.k.a. the Razzies) honor the “worst” in contemporary cinema. Yet in doing so, they…
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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
Bullied by her father at home and feeling adrift at school, Diana Guzman (Michelle Rodriguez) finds refuge in an unexpected pocket of her native Brooklyn—a timeworn boxing gym, where she learns to channel her strength, discovers a sense of community, and falls for a rival fighter. In Karyn Kusama’s raw, understated feature debut, Rodriguez commands the screen with both tightly coiled intensity and deep wells of vulnerability as a young woman hitting back at society’s expectations and her own personal…
The closer we look, the less we know in Justine Triet’s masterful Palme d’Or–winning Anatomy of a Fall, an eerily riveting courtroom thriller that examines the line where truth becomes fiction and fiction becomes truth. When Sandra Voyter (a transfixing Sandra Hüller), a writer who turns the material of her life into autofiction, is put on trial for the suspicious death by defenestration—or was it suicide?—of her husband, it opens up an inquiry that will turn a troubled home inside…
In precolonial Senegal, members of the Ceddo (or “outsiders”) kidnap Princess Dior Yacine (Tabata Ndiaye) after her father, the king, pledges loyalty to an ascendant Islamic faction that plans to convert the entire clan to its faith. Attempts to recapture her fail, provoking further division and eventual war between the animistic Ceddo and the fundamentalist Muslims, with Christian missionaries and slave traders from Europe also playing a role in the conflict. Banned in Senegal upon its release, Ceddo is an…
An adaptation of Ousmane Sembène’s own 1973 novel, Xala is a hilarious, caustic satire of political corruption under an inept patriarchy. On the night of his wedding to his third bride, government official El Hadji (Thierno Leye) is rendered impotent and begins to suspect that one of his other wives has placed a curse on him. After seeking a cure from a local marabout, El Hadji must face the possibility that he deserves the infliction for his part in embezzling…
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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 March, get ready to say, “I can’t believe that’s on Criterion!” Our salute to the Golden Raspberry Awards collects some of the most notorious films singled out by Razzie voters as the worst of their respective years—including both camp delights and unjustly pilloried bombs now reclaimed as modern classics. In Living the Part, we trace an influential style of acting that evolved out of the Method and saw stars seek to transform themselves into their characters. Isabella Rossellini undergoes some outlandish transformations herself in Green Porno, a brilliantly bonkers series of biology lessons and the first in an array of the actor-turned-filmmaker’s resourceful and curious inquiries into the animal world. There’s so much more to choose from this month, including a spotlight on snarling starlet Jane Russell, bold experimental work by the Sankofa Film and Video Collective, the exclusive premiere of Claire Simon’s acclaimed documentary Our Body, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Oscar-winning Drive My Car, and the complete directorial work of Japanese screen legend Kinuyo Tanaka. Explore more here!