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Eastern Condors: Collective Action
Eastern Condors: Collective Action

A remarkable breakthrough in Hong Kong action cinema, this rip-roaring spectacle represents the peak of Hung’s commitment to ensemble-oriented filmmaking.

By Sean Gilman

The Criterion Channel’s January 2025 Lineup

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The Criterion Channel’s January 2025 Lineup

Next year’s programming kicks off with some of our favorite actors, including Nicole Kidman, Ethan Hawke, and David Bowie.

8½: The Beautiful Confusion
8½: The Beautiful Confusion

In this semiautobiographical meditation on the fickle nature of creative genius, Federico Fellini opens his arms wide to the enigmas of childhood, religion, art, sex, and love—mysteries with no solution.

By Stephanie Zacharek

No Country for Old Men: All Hell Breaks Loose
No Country for Old Men: All Hell Breaks Loose

In this brilliant adaptation, Joel and Ethan Coen find a kindred spirit in novelist Cormac McCarthy, whose abiding themes—including destiny, the American West, and the contest between our better natures and our survival instinct—mirror their own.

By Francine Prose

Joao Rosa’s Experimental Approach to Designing Gummo

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Joao Rosa’s Experimental Approach to Designing Gummo

The creative director of Miami-based studio EDGLRD, which he cofounded with filmmaker Harmony Korine, describes the process of creating the cover artwork for Criterion’s recently released Gummo edition.

Starring Ida Lupino
Starring Ida Lupino

Before she won acclaim as a pioneering director, the Hollywood icon made her name as a powerfully vivid actor who brought grit and toughness to films by such masters as Raoul Walsh, Nicholas Ray, and Michael Curtiz.

By Farran Smith Nehme

Paper Moon: Partners in Crime
Paper Moon: Partners in Crime

In this tragicomic road movie about a Bible-selling con man and his precocious young charge, Peter Bogdanovich brings Depression-era America to vivid life without sentimentality or nostalgia.

By Mark Harris

The Shape of Water: A Touch of the Unknown
The Shape of Water: A Touch of the Unknown

Combining sci-fi magic and a distinctly human sense of intimacy, Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar-winning film reimagines an oppressive era in American history through a tale of romantic fate.

By Carlos Aguilar

Out of the Blue’s Teenage Wasteland
Out of the Blue’s Teenage Wasteland

Dennis Hopper’s bleakly nihilistic drama struggled to find an audience after it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1980, but time has revealed it to be one of the most hardcore films about disaffected youth ever made.

By Rebecca Bengal

Funny Girl: A Feeling Deep in Your Soul
Funny Girl: A Feeling Deep in Your Soul

William Wyler’s adaptation of the Broadway musical celebrates the indomitability of vaudeville legend Fanny Brice, embodied by Barbra Streisand in an incandescent and remarkably vulnerable performance.

By Michael Koresky

Ray Yeung’s Top 10
Ray Yeung’s Top 10

The director of All Shall Be Well chooses a selection of films that reflect the joys and sorrows of life and explore themes of love, grief, ambition, and sacrifice.

The Criterion Channel’s December 2024 Lineup

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The Criterion Channel’s December 2024 Lineup

Spend the holiday season with the Pope of Trash, the Master of Suspense, MTV Productions’s turn-of-the-century thrills, and Columbia Pictures’s pre-Code button-pushers.

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Room Tone 2023
On Film  – 25 Dec 2023