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With STRAIGHT TIME (1978) now playing on the Criterion Channel in our Harry Dean Stanton retrospective, author Jonathan Lethem explores how HDS "catalyzes the second half of this great film." Read here 💚
Get Me Out of Here: Harry Dean Stanton in Straight Time
In one of his greatest performances, the celebrated actor shows off his range by fusing the two modes that defined his career: the misanthropic provocateur and the soulful survivor-witness.
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This week on The Take-Up Podcast, we're processing BLUE HERON, @sophyromvari.bsky.social 's tender, piercing, and revelatory feature debut. (Now streaming on @criterionchannl.bsky.social ) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Michelangelo Antonioni's ZABRISKIE POINT (1970) in our Desert Trips collection! The Italian art-cinema titan delivered a jolt of jarring modernist abstraction to Hollywood with this startling journey into the 1960s counterculture
Alex Cox on THE PRISONER: Watching the Episodes 📺 Immerse yourself in all 17 episodes of the landmark 1960s television series! This is the second in Criterion’s new YouTube-exclusive series of five introductions by Cox, writer, director and author of I AM (NOT) A NUMBER: DECODING THE PRISONER (2017)
Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Christopher Munch's THE HOURS AND TIMES (1991) in our Rock Biopics That Don't Suck collection! In April 1963, John Lennon and Beatles manager Brian Epstein, the mastermind behind the band’s meteoric rise, travelled to Barcelona for an extended weekend getaway.
excited to watch this and i just noticed it's streaming on @criterionchannl.bsky.social so if this movie isn't playing at a cool theater near you...
The Brattle Theatre@brattletheatre.bsky.social · 2d agoThis Weekend! Both a loving portrait of a larger-than-life personality & a vivid record of NYC’s 1970s downtown demimonde, this captivating documentary follows cabaret chanteuse Tally Brown as she takes filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim on a tour through the grit and glamour of the city that made her.
Check out some of Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein's great closet picks on the Criterion Channel! ✨ HOOP DREAMS AFTER HOURS INGMAR BERGMAN'S CINEMA
Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s Closet Picks
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If you are wanting to pair it with some books - beyond the obvious choices - I suggest Harry Crews - perhaps Feast of Snakes ?
Evening viewing recommendation? On the Criterion Channel, enjoy our Southern Gothic collection! ❤️🔥 Set against the decaying grandeur of the American South, these sweltering sagas of family secrets, repressed desires, and twisted love are steeped in the region’s vibrant folklore and haunted history.
The towering literary genius and fierce social critic James Baldwin opened up a new space for the frank discussion of race, sexuality, and identity in American society, as well as leaving behind a dynamic cinematic legacy.
🎟️ ❤️ Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s Adventures in Moviegoing 🎟️ ❤️ Now playing on the Criterion Channnel! In the new special episode of our original series Adventures in Moviegoing, Brownstein and Armisen–the pair behind the cult-favorite sketch show PORTLANDIA,
❤️🔥 🌵 DESERT TRIPS ❤️🔥 🌵 Now playing on the Criterion Channel! The vast, arid landscapes of the American Southwest become hallucinatory expanses of existential reckoning in these sun-blasted journeys into a harsh, unforgiving no-man’s land.
🎶 ❤️ ROCK BIOPICS THAT DON'T SUCK 🎶 ❤️ Now playing on the Criterion Channel!
FYI, Brian De Palma's CARRIE -- with the Laserdisc commentary by Laurent Bouzereau and screenwriter Lawrence D. Cohen -- is only going to be on the Criterion Channel for one month, so if you intend to check it out, you are advised to do so sooner rather than later. @criterionchannl.bsky.social
Carrie - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Brian De Palma • 1976 • United States Starring Sissy Spacek, John Travolta, Piper Laurie The very first film adaptation of a Stephen King novel remains one of the finest—a still-shocking ...
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Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Steven Feinartz's ARE WE GOOD (2025)? 📺 Frank, caustic, and fearlessly funny, comedian and podcast pioneer Marc Maron has built his career on holding nothing back.
Check out some of Cooper Hoffman's great closet picks on the Criterion Channel! ✨ HOOP DREAMS COME AND SEE GREGG ARAKI'S TEEN APOCALYPSE TRILOGY SALESMAN
Cooper Hoffman’s Closet Picks
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Ingmar Bergman's PERSONA (1966) 🖤 Now playing on the Channel!
On the Criterion Channel, don't miss QUEEN BEE (1955) in our Murderous Melodramas collection! 🖤 Joan Crawford delivers a ferocious performance in this scorching domestic drama.
Posting my face on the internet again, I guess. Enjoy this look into the process behind designing the upcoming COMPLETE KUBRICK box set for The Criterion Collection
Robyn- Looking For Work! 🏳️⚧️@thewobynfiasco.bsky.social · 7d agoOooooooo
Opening in theaters this weekend: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest genre-bending triumph THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER! Get tickets and see showtimes here samuraiandtheprisoner.film/buy-tickets
Possession is available to watch on the Criterion Channel 🐙
Possession - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Andrzej Żuławski • 1981 • France, West Germany Starring Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Heinz Bennent Andrzej Żuławski’s stunningly choreographed nightmare of a marriage unraveling is an expe...
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Heatherface Wixson@thehorrorchick.bsky.social · 6d agoI had already been planning on writing about POSSESSION for its 45th anniversary but the loss of Sam Neill changed my approach greatly. What I ❤️ about this film is that no 2 viewings are the same so I wrote about that here & so much more: from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/45-years-lat...
Southern Gothic ❤️🔥 Coming to the Criterion Channel on August 1! Set against the decaying grandeur of the American South, these sweltering sagas of family secrets, repressed desires, and twisted love are steeped in the region’s vibrant folklore and haunted history.
Happy birthday to our friend, the great Richard Linklater, one of contemporary cinema’s most restlessly innovative voices. ❤️ 📽️ Celebrate by watching our editions of SLACKER and BOYHOOD. And also enjoy the writer-director's amazing episode of ADVENTURES IN MOVIEGOING!
Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Sofia Coppola’s MARIE ANTOINETTE (2006) in our Weddings collection! 💘💘💘
Coming to the Criterion Channel in August ❤️🔥 📺 From a series of (actually good) rock biopics, a selection of great Southern Gothic sagas and 4 psychedelic journeys through the sun-scorched Southwest–alongside 2 1970s Hollywood classics and a new episode in our Adventures in Moviegoing original series
And remember.
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure: Be Excellent
Alt: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure: Be Excellent to each other
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Criterion Channel@criterionchannl.bsky.social · last wk.Evening viewing recommendation? Watch BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (1989)! It’s a totally bodacious odyssey when slacker SoCal teens Bill (@alexwinter.com) and Ted (Keanu Reeves)—in danger of failing their high school history report,
If you get a chance to watch Sophy Romvari's Blue Heron (now streaming on @criterionchannl.bsky.social), please do. It's a wrenching, exquisite film.
Blue Heron - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Sophy Romvari • 2025 • Canada, Hungary Starring Eylul Guven, Amy Zimmer, Iringó Réti A singular coming-of-age story, this revelatory feature debut by Sophy Romvari heralds the arrival of ...
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