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✨Announcing our NOVEMBER 2024 Criterion Channel lineup!✨
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We're so excited! The Criterion Channel, our new streaming service for movie lovers, will launch April 8 in the U.S. & Canada! As a Charter Subscriber, you can start watching *right now* with our Movie of the Week series! Come join us! ✨📺
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On the Criterion Channel, we're highlighting films that focus on Black Lives, and have taken down the paywall on as many of these titles as we can, so even if you aren’t a subscriber you can watch them for free.
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HEISEI-ERA GODZILLA ❤️🔥 Coming to the Criterion Channel in July!
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Announcing our OCTOBER '24 Criterion Channel lineup! ✨
With special-effects showcases, iconic witches, chilling Japanese horror classics, & spine-tingling Stephen King adaptations all on deck, there’s plenty to choose from for your spooky-season viewing.
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"So far, I have only signed up for one streaming platform, and that’s Criterion. They have hundreds of films, and every one of them is great." We ❤️you too, Werner!
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AND THE RAZZIE GOES TO. . . ✨ Coming to the Criterion Channel on March 1!
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Directed by David Lynch ☕️ Coming to the Channel April 1!
📺 Streaming for the first time, newly restored masterpieces LOST HIGHWAY and INLAND EMPIRE
📺 DUNE
📺 ERASERHEAD
📺 TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME
📺 MULHOLLAND DR.
and more!
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Happy birthday, Faye Wong! 🍍💚🍍💚
You can watch our edition of CHUNGKING EXPRESS (1994) now on the Channel!
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Status update! The Channel is now in full swing on apps for Apple TV, Amazon Fire, iOS, Android devices. Roku is on its way! Thank you for your support—we can't wait to start watching with you!
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Over on the Channel, we're celebrating the life and work of Agnès Varda with 14 of her groundbreaking films, accompanied by 8 programs featuring the beloved filmmaker and artist in her own words. 💜💜💜
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Watch the Oscar-winning director's visit the Criterion closet back in 2014!
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🔥 Michael Mann's HEAT (1995) joins our Hollywood Hits collection on the Criterion Channel in April! 🔥
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STARRING PARKER POSEY 💖 On the Channel 12/1!
All hail the indie queen who has captivated audiences with her offbeat magnetism, deadpan comic timing, & effortless cool.
THE HOUSE OF YES
JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS
PARTY GIRL
CLOCKWATCHERS
SUBURBIA
& more!
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Today is the 4th anniversary of the Criterion Channel—the movie lover's streaming service with the best new films, your favorite classics, & your next new discovery! ❤️ We're celebrating with a day of amazing giveaways, Channel highlights, and much more. Join us! 🎂 🎉
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Missing your weekly dose of Brian Cox on SUCCESSION? Enjoy his brilliant & chilling performance as the charismatic & psychopathic Hannibal Lecktor in Michael Mann’s hypnotic MANHUNTER (1986)—the first film to introduce audiences to the infamous Hannibal!
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✨ANNIVERSARY GIVEAWAY✨
Tell us the craziest movie you've watched on the Criterion Channel for a chance to win a HOUSE T-shirt and a book of Criterion postcards! Comment with your answer below — we'll be selecting two winners at random by 8PM tonight.
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We will! ❤️ 💪
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Remembering Max von Sydow's illustrious, unmatched career with his iconic performances over the last seven decades in THE VIRGIN SPRING, THE SEVENTH SEAL, HOUR OF THE WOLF, THE MAGICIAN, THE PASSION OF ANNA, SHAME, UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD, BRINK OF LIFE, and so many more. 🖤
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This sleeper cult classic from director Karyn Kusama and screenwriter Diablo Cody infuses the teen horror movie with a dark wit and a subversive feminist sting.
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🎂💖 BIRTHDAY GIVEAWAY🎂💖 To celebrate 4 amazing years as the movie lover's dream streaming service, we're giving away tons of great Criterion prizes (see below). Enter to win: Reply or QT this post with a movie you love + tag someone you'd love to watch it with +
#criterion4you
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Wes Anderson writes us occasional letters to let us know what he’s been enjoying on the Criterion Channel. We thought we’d share this one, featuring some of his favorite recent discoveries, in case you’re looking for something surprising to watch! ❤️
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After two wonderful years, today
@filmstruck
must come to a close. Through our heartbreak, we’d like to celebrate some of the heroic programming done by the
@filmstruck
team. Let’s take a look back—and please share with us some of your favorites 💜
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PRE-CODE HORROR 🖤 Coming to the Channel 10/1!
With their startlingly perverse themes, lurid psychosexual undertones, & often-grisly violence, the horror films made in the early '30s still have the power to shock.
DOCTOR X
FREAKS
THE BLACK CAT
and more!
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ART-HOUSE HORROR 👻 Coming to the Criterion Channel 10/1!
Images of terror and beauty exist side by side in these darkly imaginative works that fuse genre chills with formal innovation.
HOUSE
CARNIVAL OF SOULS
BLOOD FOR DRACULA
SUSPIRIA
THE BROOD
& more!
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DIRECTED BY PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON 📽️ Coming to the Criterion Channel in August!
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TECHNOTHRILLERS ⚡️14 FILMS ⚡️Coming to the Channel 10/1!
These nightmare fantasies are science fiction at its most propulsive and entertaining.
MINORITY REPORT
SNEAKERS
VIDEODROME
THE NET
DARK CITY
NEW ROSE HOTEL
EXISTENZ
WESTWORLD
PAPRIKA
and more!
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🐈CAT MOVIES🐈 Coming to the Channel 1/1!
Bringing together mischievous cats, magical cats, supernatural cats, killer cats, extraterrestrial cats, and even a cat that owns a baseball team, enjoy this salute to some of the screen’s most entrancing felines.
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Now playing on the Criterion Channel alongside a commentary by Wim Wenders; excerpts from a doc on Wenders, ft. interviews with Robby Müller, Ry Cooder, & Harry Dean Stanton; interviews with Allison Anders & Claire Denis; deleted scenes; & much more! 💘
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GIALLO!❤️🔥 Coming to the Criterion Channel in September!
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Jonathan Demme captured lightning in a bottle with this ecstatic record of a 1983 Talking Heads concert, STOP MAKING SENSE, what may just be the most joyous concert documentary ever made. 🎶
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Out of respect for the voices that need to be heard, we're postponing tonight's Criterion Movie Club.
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RIP Anna Karina, a truly peerless star whose presence enlivened the screen like no one else. ❤️
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THE SWIMMER (1968) // THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (1999)
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HOLLYWOOD HITS ❤️📺 Coming to the Criterion Channel on October 1!
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA gets an outrageous glam-rock reimagining courtesy of Brian De Palma at his most deliriously inspired.
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MASC 📺 Coming to the Channel in June!
Curated by
@JenniOlsonSF
and Caden Mark Gardner, this decade-spanning collection spotlights the rich stories and courageous lives of trans men, butch lesbians, and gender-nonconforming heroes.
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STARRING PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN ❤️ Coming to the Criterion Channel in August!
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Celebrate the singular life & work of Ryuichi Sakamoto by revisiting his stirring performance alongside David Bowie in Nagisa Oshima's MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE ('83). This was not only the first film he acted in but the first film score he composed. 🖤
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How to describe Nobuhiko Ōbayashi's indescribable 1977 movie HOUSE (HAUSU)? A psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava? ✨ Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip.
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Happy
#Pride
Month! We’re celebrating the month with our new and ever-growing LGBTQ+ collection.
Let’s discuss all the LGBTQ+ films on the Criterion Channel, shall we?
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Happy Black History Month! Black Lives Matter and art has a role to play in centering and celebrating the experiences of Black people.
Starting this month, and then on an ongoing basis, we will list everything that’s Black and streaming on the Criterion Channel.
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It's our 2nd birthday! 🎂💓 We’re so thankful for our Charter subscribers, subscribers, fans, producers, directors, and collaborators. We’re excited to share what some of our friends are looking forward to watching on the Channel this April!
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Roger Ebert wrote that Buster Keaton was, "one of the most gifted stuntmen in the movies. Even when there is fakery, the result is daring." There's something so timeless about the tension between his stoic face & the lithe acrobatics of his stunt work.
Let's take a closer look!
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THREE BY JONATHAN GLAZER 🖤 Coming to the Criterion Channel in February!
Glazer has directed just four feature films in 23 years, but each is the work of a major artist—marked by his coolly hypnotic visual style, sense of dark surrealism, and provocative themes.
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Watch a 1999 documentary that details the making of Wong Kar-wai's HAPPY TOGETHER.
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"If you want love, then this is it. This is real life."
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Bill Hader x Wim Wenders's THE AMERICAN FRIEND (1977) 🤠 🖤
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Agnès Varda turns her camera on an Oakland demonstration against the imprisonment of activist and Black Panthers cofounder Huey P. Newton.
Watch BLACK PANTHERS (1970) for free now on the Channel:
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STARRING WINONA RYDER ❤️❤️❤️ Coming to the Criterion Channel in October!
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The most celebrated Japanese filmmaker of all time, Akira Kurosawa produced a staggering body of work that stands as a monument of artistic achievement. On the Channel, watch 25 of his films, plus an in-depth look at his filmmaking process.
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A classic in its own right, John Carpenter’s terrifying, Kurt Russell-led THE THING (1982)—a remake of THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD—boasts some of the most impressively gory special effects in all of horror cinema.
Now playing in our Morricone series!
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The new restoration of Gregg Araki's THE DOOM GENERATION (1995)!⚡️🖤 Coming the Channel in June!
Swirling Godardian cool with a queer, punk defiance, Araki issues a sexy and shocking vision of Gen X nihilism careening toward oblivion.
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Thank you all for giving
@FilmStruck
&
@criterionchannl
a chance in its first two years. Without you we would never have gotten this far. The lights may go out at midnight, but we will still be carrying the torch. We hope you'll join us.
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❤️🔥KEN RUSSELL'S SHOCKING RHAPSODIES❤️🔥 Coming Jan 1!
The British iconoclast's films have rarely been surpassed in their feverish visual imagination & sheer audaciousness.
THE BOY FRIEND
GOTHIC
THE DEVILS
ALTERED STATES
THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM
& more!
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We've announced our first month's lineup! ✨📺 The April calendar highlights an eclectic mix of classic & contemporary films from Hollywood & around the world, many not streaming anywhere else. We cannot wait to share the new Criterion Channel with you!
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🎟️GRETA GERWIG'S ADVENTURES IN MOVIEGOING • Coming to the Channel Feb 1 🎟️ The director sits to discuss her formative love of classic MGM musicals, the first director’s filmography she ever binge-watched, the movie she considers “perfect,” & introduces a selection of favorites!
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DIRECTED BY PAUL SCHRADER 📽️ Coming to the Criterion Channel in June!
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On Abbas Kiarostami's birthday, you can spend the day with THE KOKER TRILOGY (WHERE IS THE FRIEND'S HOUSE, AND LIFE GOES ON, THROUGH THE OLIVE TREES), CLOSE-UP, CERTIFIED COPY, TASTE OF CHERRY, HOMEWORK, THE TRAVELER, and 24 FRAMES, alongside a wealth of interviews & supplements!
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Hey you! Tell us your favorite film and we’re give you a recommendation for something to watch on the Criterion Channel.
We’ll be giving recommendations for the next two hours.
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✨ Announcing our FEBRUARY 2024 Criterion Channel lineup! ✨
💗Interdimensional Romance
💗GRETA GERWIG'S ADVENTURES IN MOVIEGOING
💗 Gothic Noir
💗 Celebrate Black History
💗 Hong Kong Hits
and more!
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In 1974, a low-budget nightmare filmed in Toronto was unleashed upon theaters and revolutionized horror cinema: Bob Clark's BLACK CHRISTMAS.
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Good morning ☕
THE LONG GOODBYE (1973) has returned to the Criterion Channel! 🐈 🖤 Elliott Gould stars as private eye Philip Marlowe in Robert Altman's brilliantly idiosyncratic Raymond Chandler adaptation.
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Now on the Channel, you can watch ORIGINAL CAST ALBUM: "COMPANY" (1970), the legendary, long-unavailable documentary from D. A. Pennebaker that captures the behind-the-scenes drama that went into the making of a classic Broadway recording.
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"I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me." 🖤
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How to describe Nobuhiko Ōbayashi's indescribable 1977 movie HOUSE (HAUSU)? A psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava?
Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip.
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Spanning the full breadth of the Japanese master’s five-decade career, this retrospective features 27 films along with an in-depth documentary on the his working process and dozens of hours of supplemental material from our editions. Start watching now! ⚡️
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Hi, friends 🤠 It's recommendations time. Tell us a film you love and we'll suggest something to watch on the Criterion Channel!
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Share your all-time favorite film on the Criterion Channel and tag your favorite person to watch movies with to be entered to win a t-shirt and an All-Time Favorite Criterion Blu-ray release!
We’ll be selecting a winner at random within the next hour. 🎂♥️
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JAPANESE HORROR 👻 Coming to the Criterion Channel in October!
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✨✨Announcing our MAY 2024 Criterion Channel lineup!✨✨
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On the exquisite Maggie Cheung's birthday, watch her in CENTER STAGE, AS TEARS GO BY, IRMVA VEP, IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, and much more. ❣️🌹❣️
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On the Channel, watch Béla Tarr’s newly restored magnum opus SÁTÁNTANGÓ (1994), one of the towering achievements of modern cinema.
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Is there a film you find yourself returning to again and again?
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Looking for more time with Ethan Hawke after enjoying our episode of ADVENTURES IN MOVIEGOING? To celebrate our birthday, we’re giving away a BEFORE TRILOGY box set! Reply by tagging someone you love for a chance to win before 7pm. We'll be selecting a winner at random. 💗
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Happy birthday to the giallo master himself, Dario Argento! 🖤 ✨ Watch our Exclusive Premiere of his restored uncut version of SUSPIRIA (1977)—his Goblin-scored spectacle of outrageously stylized violence and eye-popping art direction.
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ONE NIGHT 🌃 Coming to the Criterion Channel April 1!
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Cheryl Dunye’s bitingly funny, deeply personal feature debut THE WATERMELON WOMAN (1996) is a landmark look at the black lesbian experience, starring the director as an artist struggling to make a documentary about Fae Richards, a beautiful and elusive 1930s black film actress.
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Hey you! Yes, you! Tell us your favorite film and we’ll give you a recommendation for something to watch on the Channel. 🎂
#CriterionChannel
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