Don’t wanna alarm you but all three of William Lustig’s Maniac Cop movies are leaving the @criterionchannl.bsky.social at the end of the month

BTW you can preorder @criterionchannl.bsky.social’s upcoming MIKE MILLS boxset at 50% off right now which is literally the most important information on earth at this moment

Thread hijack for a PSA: There's a bunch of Buster dropping off Criterion at the end of June. The General Steamboat Bill Jr Sherlock Jr Battling Butlers Go West Seven Chances

Check out some of Carla Simon's great closet picks on the Criterion Channel! ✨ EL SUR WANDA WALKABOUT UMBERTO D. THE TREE OF WOODEN CLOGS VERMIGLIO BEAU TRAVAIL THREE FILMS BY MAI ZETTERLING

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Karim Aïnouz's feverish tropical noir MOTEL DESTINO (2024)—a ravishingly shot blend of high-art stylization and lurid pulp with the hothouse eroticism dialed up to sweltering.

With PINK NARCISSUS (1971) now playing on the Criterion Channel, read Mayukh Sen on the hallucinatory power of this underground classic.

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Derek Jarman's JUBILEE (1978)! 🖤 The legendary British filmmaker channeled political dissent and artistic daring into a revolutionary blend of history and fantasy, musical and cinematic experimentation, satire and anger, fashion and philosophy.

Remembering the legendary director Sidney Lumet, born on this day in 1924! 🎥🖤 Which Criterion editions of his work are in your collection?

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch the exclusive streaming premiere of TWO PROSECUTORS, Sergei Loznitsa’s riveting parable of totalitarianism.

Evening viewing recommendation? Celebrate the great Billy Wilder (BOTD in 1906) with THE APARTMENT (1960)—one of his most beloved films.

Check out some of Noah's great closet picks on the Criterion Channel! ✨ REPO MAN EATING RAOUL THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP F FOR FAKE THIS SPORTING LIFE METROPOLITAN SHADOWS

"In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.” ❤️ Beloved Iranian filmmaker and poet Abbas Kiarostami, who created some of cinema’s most transcendent works of all time, was born on this day in 1940.

❤️ PARIS, TEXAS (1984)

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch MURIEL'S WEDDING (1994). 💐 The perfect marriage of feel-good comedy and heartfelt drama, P. J. Hogan's beloved Australian hit launched the careers of Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths and put ABBA back on the charts years before “Mamma Mia” was a musical.

Check out some of Hannah's great closet picks on the Criterion Channel! ✨ TAMPOPO HIS GIRL FRIDAY VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS LOST HIGHWAY

This Juneteenth, spend time with films that celebrate Black joy, resilience and liberation. Streaming on the Channel: COMPENSATION (1999) DRYLONGSO (1998) LOSING GROUND (1982) MEETING THE MAN: JAMES BALDWIN IN PARIS (1970) SAY AMEN SOMEBODY (1982) SPACE IS THE PLACE (1974) KILLER OF SHEEP (1977)

"Love is a stream, it's continuous, it doesn't stop." Remembering Gena Rowlands (BOTD) always and forever. 💛 💫 One of the most breathtakingly fearless and extraordinary performers of all time, she was a singular presence both luminous and ferocious—and a beacon for so many that followed in her path.

Wishing a very happy birthday to our friend, the extraordinary Isabella Rossellini ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ Celebrate with an exploration into her work as a filmmaker! On the Criterion Channel, you can enjoy her trio of acclaimed works—GREEN PORNO, SEDUCE ME, and MAMMAS—for a surreal biology course unlike any other.

With our Tramps, Troublemakers, and Trailblazers: Trans Filmmakers collection now playing on the Criterion Channel, the program's curators spoke with Andrew Chan about the wide-ranging selections in the lineup, as well as the innovative methods of production

Find out what to blaze with Ninón Sevilla’s rumberera masterpiece VICTIMS OF SIN in our Valentine’s episode before @criterionchannl.bsky.social’s Sevilla collection in July. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Gosh, I wish someone had recently reviewed the entire series in the optimal running order for @popheist.com — oh wait!

Starring in "Paris, Texas" and "Repo Man" in the same year (1984) is one of the greatest acting achievements I've ever seen. We don't give Harry Dean Stanton enough flowers.

✨Announcing our JULY 2026 Criterion Channel lineup! ✨ bit.ly/43D8PWX July on the Channel, celebrate the 100th birthday of the great Harry Dean Stanton, delight in the twists & thrills of our Murderous Melodramas collection, binge the surreal cult-favorite TV series THE PRISONER, and so much more.

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch the exclusive streaming premiere of ENO—Gary Hustwit’s shape-shifting portrait of the legendary musician!

❣️🗓️ ❣️ Happy Celine and Jesse day to all who celebrate. BEFORE SUNRISE (1995)

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch David Lynch's THE STRAIGHT STORY (1999)! Between the dark surrealism of his LA-set neonoirs, Lynch took a detour to America's heartland for this surprisingly down-to-earth and heartfelt road movie- the film he described as "my most experimental."

Check out some of Matthew's great closet picks on the Criterion Channel! ✨ GREY GARDENS WITHNAIL AND I

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Miloš Forman's THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT in our Starring Courtney Love collection! Forman brings his slyly subversive sensibility to this wickedly entertaining, stranger-than-fiction look at one man's notorious public persona and unconventional private life

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch our edition of Martin Scosese's Kafkaesque cult classic AFTER HOURS (1985). ❤️ 🌃 Alongside the film, enjoy a conversation between Scorsese and Fran Lebowitz; a commentary featuring Scorsese, Thelma Schoonmaker, Michael Ballhaus, Griffin Dunne, and Amy Robinson.

Weekend plans 💛 c/o Agnès Varda's DU CÔTE DE LA CÔTE (1958) • Now playing on the Criterion Channel!

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch MELANCHOLIA (2011)—Lars von Trier's beautiful and haunting psychological disaster film about the end of the world. Now playing our Weddings collection! 🖤

Watch some of John's great Closet Picks on the Criterion Channel!✨ DOWN BY LAW THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE THE BROOD

Goodnight to the brilliant and beloved David Hockney. ❤️ Here he is in Jack Hazan’s A BIGGER SPLASH (1975), an intimate documentary portrait of Hockney and a moving record of his artistic creation.

Name that film. . .

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch our edition of THE GAME (1997) — David Fincher's multilayered, noirish descent into one man’s personal hell.

John Waters’ ADVENTURES IN MOVIEGOING 🎟️ With Criterion Editions of HAIRSPRAY and DESPERATE LIVING coming to home video this month, there’s no better time to watch the Pope of Trash discuss his formative moviegoing memories and introduce a selection of favorites in conversation with Michael Koresky.

Wishing a very happy birthday to the great Gina Prince-Bythewood! Seen here with Sanaa Lathan on the set of her groundbreaking feature debut LOVE & BASKETBALL (2000).

ALERT: Robert Altman's A WEDDING is playing on @criterionchannl.bsky.social. Jordan and I programmed its 4K restoration in 2016 for Cultivate Cinema Circle and it never got a release for home consumption afterwards. I loved it. Can't wait to watch again. www.criterionchannel.com/a-wedding

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Robert Altman's A WEDDING (1978)! 💐 The director's penchant for sprawling ensemble play and genre revisionism led him naturally to put his own iconoclastic spin on the wedding comedy.

LGBTQ+ FAVORITES 📺❤️ Now playing on the Criterion Channel! Proud, rebellious, colorful, intimate, and frank, these visions of LGBTQ+ life include beloved modern classics as well as hidden gems.

Your old pal Travis wrote an exploration of WILD AT HEART, as well as the works of director David Lynch and writer Barry Gifford, that you can read at @southwestreview.bsky.social as soon as you finish the movie. southwestreview.com/volume-109-n...

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch David Lynch's WILD AT HEART (1990)! ❤️‍🔥 Lynch throws pulp melodrama, THE WIZARD OF OZ, surreal-kinky violence, and Elvis into a cauldron and brews this nightmarish soap opera in which outlaw lovers Sailor and Lula go on the run through a menacing

This is still one of my favorite film pieces I wrote, this one still means a lot to me, in showing awe and the numinous didn't solely belong to religion, and could be in art made by humans too. sugarbang.blogspot.com/2015/09/i-do...

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Steven Spielberg's CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977). Pure movie magic of the highest order, this beloved science-fiction landmark from Spielberg gazes, with awe-inspiring wonder, into the infinite unknown.

On the Criterion Channel, watch our Out-Of-Print editions of DR. NO, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE and GOLDFINGER! The legend of cinema’s most iconic superspy begins here, with the trio of films that turned writer Ian Fleming’s suave secret agent James Bond into a global phenomenon.

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Sofia Coppola’s MARIE ANTOINETTE (2006) in our Weddings collection! 💘💘💘 Coppola brings Converse sneakers and a dreamy synth-pop soundtrack to eighteenth-century Versailles for this exuberantly subversive, extravagantly stylized anti-biopic of one of history’s

On her birthday, we're celebrating the singular cinematic force of Chantal Akerman, whose landmarks of 20th-century cinema continue to reveal new ways of experiencing film and framing reality.

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (2000) in our Odysseys collection! The Coen brothers’ (extremely loose) take on Homer’s “Odyssey” is a marvelously freewheeling journey through the Depression-era South overflowing with comic adventure, irresistible period folk music

CRITERION EDITIONS ❤️ 💿 Now streaming on the Criterion Channel alongside a wealth of amazing supplements, including new and archival documentaries, behind the scenes footage and documentaries, outtakes and deleted scenes, and so much more!