I'm The Guy Who Always Recommends The Criterion Channel, in part because: 1. The series are amazing 2. The interface is simple, no-nonsense, not cluttered with algorithm BS, and it always works 3. They send emails with recommendations & notifications for which films are leaving 4. They're the best!

A great visit from Lee Byung-hun! You can see him in Park Chan-wook's new film NO OTHER CHOICE - now playing in theaters c/o @neon-rated.bsky.social Lee Byung-hun's Picks: PRINCE OF BROADWAY PURPLE NOON MULHOLLAND DR. CURE RASHOMON. Except for Mulholland Dr. you can watch his picks on the Channel

The Criterion Channel is a great gift in and of itself. Additionally, it's a great gift if you want the recipient and everyone else to know that you have the best taste, which, after all, is the true spirit of Christmas.

🎁 Still hunting for the perfect present? 🎁 Give a year of the world’s best movies with a Criterion Channel subscription! It’s every movie lover’s dream, featuring the finest new films, beloved classics, international discoveries, and our library of eye-opening supplemental features.

Check out some of Lucy's great Closet Picks on the Criterion Channel! ✨ JACKIE CHAN: EMERGENCE OF A SUPERSTAR (SIX FILMS) IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE

Where are you checking in this week?🏩 Watch our HOTELS ON FILM collection!

Good morning! ☕ 💕 🎞️ On Ralph Fiennes's birthday, we're revisiting his performance as the debonair concierge M. Gustave in Wes Anderson's exquisite caper THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (2014).

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch WE DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE (2004) starring Laura Dern, Mark Ruffalo, Naomi Watts, and Peter Krause.

Happy birthday to the brilliant, passionate, and singular star @janefonda.com Here she is giving her revelatory performance as Bree Daniels in Alan J. Pakula’s KLUTE (1971) ❤️

Breakfast à la Elle Fanning 🍽️☕💕 Sofia Coppola's SOMEWHERE (2010) Now playing on the Criterion Channel!

Watch Sreemoyee Singh's AND, TOWARDS HAPPY ALLEYS (2023) — a passionate declaration of love for the cinema and poetry of Iran. Fascinated by Iran’s film culture and the works of the feminist poet Forough Farrokhzad, the Indian filmmaker sets out in search of the protagonists of Iranian cinema.

Check out some of Vince's great Closet Picks on the Criterion Channel! ✨ THE OTHERS ECLIPSE SERIES 31: THREE POPULAR FILMS BY JEAN-PIERRE GORIN MELVIN VAN PEBBLES: ESSENTIAL FILMS LYNCH/OZ

HOTELS ON FILM THROUGH THE LENS OF ROBBY MÜLLER • With our HOTELS ON FILM collection now playing on the Criterion Channel, we’re sharing a selection of luminous photographs from the new book ROBBY MÜLLER — L.A. POLAROIDS.

🩷 Luca Guadagnino's BONES AND ALL (2022) Now playing on the Channel as part of our Soundtracks by Trent Reznor collection!

Morning ☕ ❣️

Check out some of Tom's great Closet Picks *on the Criterion Channel! ✨ DOWN BY LAW TO BE OR NOT BE HARLAN COUNTY USA TO SLEEP WITH ANGER *THE ICE STORM, coming January 1st.

We Were the Scenery is on the @criterionchannl.bsky.social

Wishing a very happy birthday to the one and only Gregg Araki! Celebrate the New Queer Cinema renegade by watching his TEEN APOCALYPSE TRILOGY on the Channel. Feat. TOTALLY F***ED UP, NOWHERE, and THE DOOM GENERATION alongside a wealth of new interviews, behind the scenes, and so much more!

Evening viewing recommendation? On the Criterion Channel, watch Sara Gómez's ONE WAY OR ANOTHER (1977) in our Black Debutantes collection—a celebration of pioneering Black women who made an impact with their very first feature.

The real treasure is hidden near the bottom. #filmsky

Spotlights women directors, is friends with women, shoutout to his wife and her expertise. Happy birthday to @rianjohnson.bsky.social, feminist king in word and deed.

✨Announcing our JANUARY 2026 Criterion Channel lineup! ✨ Start the year off by savoring multiple levels of nostalgia with a survey of '90s cinema's riffs on the '70s, or turn a new page with a collection of films about dreamers seeking fresh starts in life.

✨Tonight's the night: Mike Figgis' MEGADOC — the epic true story of the making of Francis Ford Coppola's MEGALOPOLIS — it's streaming now on the Criterion Channel ✨

Didn't realize movies that happen in hotels was one of my favourite genres until the @criterionchannl.bsky.social new collection

Peak knows peak. If you haven't seen the best Christmas movie you gotta go see it nowww.

Looking for something to watch this week? Don't miss these films! Head to the links below to see everything leaving at the end of the month. boxd.it/QqRak www.criterionchannel.com/leaving-dece...

Check out some of @rianjohnson.bsky.social great Closet Picks on the Criterion Channel! ✨ And also bringing his own copy of a movie 👀 GIRLFIGHT TOPSY-TURVY

🖤 ❄️ MY WINNIPEG (2007) 🖤 ❄️ Watch Guy Maddin entrancing “docu-fantasia” on the Criterion Channel or buy our edition of the film for 30% OFF during our Holiday sale at criterion.com

Tokyo Godfathers is now available to watch on the Criterion Channel ❤️

MEGADOC is coming to @criterionchannl.bsky.social tomorrow and there WILL be a @junkfilterpod.bsky.social about it over the holidays, I highly recommend it whether or not you liked the movie itself but were still fascinated by its mere existence

The documentary about the making of Megalopolis comes to the @criterionchannl.bsky.social tomorrow! Please, if you are in the US and not subscribed to Criterion yet, do it. As all this studio consolidation continues, it’s important to support these smaller distributors putting out important films.

Thanks for everything. Your legend goes to 11 🖤

Rob Reiner (1947–2025)

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch FAR FROM HEAVEN (2002), Todd Haynes's masterpiece modeled on Douglas Sirk’s exquisite melodramas of the 1950s, now playing in our Julianne Moore collection! ❤️

☕❄️ OSLO, AUGUST 31ST (2011) ❄️ ☕ Now playing in our Directed by Joachim Trier collection!

He had the opportunity to do the funniest thing with Deep Crimson 😑 You failed us.

A perfect Saturday movie on the Criterion Channel 💕 Sofia Coppola’s wonderfully woozy, mood-drenched LOST IN TRANSLATION (2003) — now playing in our Hotels on Film collection! 🏩

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Tis the season! 🌲 Not only the first slasher film, but one of the most terrifying, Bob Clark's BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974) is now playing on the Channel!

Check out some of Bi Gan's great Closet Picks on the Criterion Channel! ✨ YOUTH OF THE BEAST TAMPOPO THE COMPLETE JACQUES TATI MASTER OF THE HOUSE 8½

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch NEW ROSE HOTEL (1998) in our Hotels on Film Collection! 🏩 Abel Ferrara’s slick, sexy adaptation of a story by cyberpunk godfather William Gibson journeys deep into the world of corporate espionage.

Long Day's Journey Into Night is a truly mesmerizing thing. Can't recommend it enough.

❤️ 🎟️ To celebrate the release of RESURRECTION, we're showing two of Bi Gan's early audacious odysseys, LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT and KAILI BLUES, on the Criterion Channel!

Here's me on EYES WIDE SHUT In honor of the recent Criterion 4k release of the film & our presentation of it this week for my little movie club in my hometown. curtsiesandhandgrenades.com/index.php/20...

Remembering the quietly captivating French film star Jean-Louis Trintignant, born on this day in 1930. Here he is, playing one of the great conflicted figures of 1960s cinema in MY NIGHT AT MAUD'S (1969), the brilliantly accomplished centerpiece of Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales series..

Morning snack: Enjoy these amazing short works by Agnès Varda, Chantal Akerman, Alain Resnais, Richard Lester, Hal Roach, and more! ☕️💖

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Leslie Harris’s indie touchstone JUST ANOTHER GIRL ON THE I.R.T. on our Black Debutantes collection! ❤️ Harris’s film made a splash when it won a special jury prize at Sundance, offering a window into a world still sorely underrepresented in mainstream cinema

Check out some of David's great Closet Picks on the Criterion Channel! ✨ A MAN ESCAPED BURDEN OF DREAMS SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch SLIDING DOORS (1998)—a wonderfully fresh, existential twist on the romantic comedy starring Gwyneth Paltrow. ❤️

Celebrating the one and only John Cassavetes (BOTD in 1929) a pioneer of American independent cinema who changed the way we experience emotion on-screen.