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Since 1984, we’ve dedicated ourselves to gathering and publishing the greatest films from around the world. For our streaming service follow @criterionchannl .

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Bill Hader, Criterion Closet 2011 🐈 🧡 😎
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We're proud to announce our first collaboration with @Pixar : WALL•E (2008), directed by Andrew Stanton, entering the Collection on 4K this November!
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✨Willem Dafoe’s Closet Picks ✨ The acclaimed actor—now starring in POOR THINGS—shares his deep connection to ONIBABA, praises Isabelle Huppert, recalls GATE OF FLESH's influence on the Wooster Group, and selects a few of his collaborations with Wes Anderson and Martin Scorsese.
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✨Willem Dafoe’s Closet Picks ✨ The acclaimed actor—now starring in POOR THINGS—shares his deep connection to ONIBABA, praises Isabelle Huppert, recalls GATE OF FLESH's influence on the Wooster Group, and selects a few of his collaborations with Wes Anderson and Martin Scorsese.
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An amazing visit from @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN ! ✨ Stay tuned…
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We are saddened to announce the passing of a giant of American cinema, Melvin Van Peebles, who died last night, at home with family, at the age of 89. In an unparalleled career, Van Peebles made an indelible mark on the international cultural landscape. He will be deeply missed.
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A delightful visit from Charlie Day! ✨ 📽️
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Black Lives Matter.
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Goodnight to the endlessly captivating French screen star and icon, Jean-Paul Belmondo ❤️💙❤️ (1933-2021)
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Happy birthday to the legendary, genius editor Thelma Schoonmaker! ❤️🎞️❤️
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If you've loved the adventurous, curated programming we've been doing with our friends at FilmStruck, we have good news for you!
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Happy birthday, Keanu Reeves ✨ Here he is in MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (1991)
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Remembering the truly peerless and beloved Philip Seymour Hoffman on his birthday ❤️ Here he is in Paul Thomas Anderson's giddily off-kilter masterpiece PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (2002).
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Goodnight, Dean Stockwell (1937-2021) 💙 Here's the legendary actor in two of his iconic performances: Walt Henderson in PARIS, TEXAS (1984) and Ben in BLUE VELVET (1986).
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A wonderful visit from the great Greta Gerwig! ✨💖
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🔥🖤 Mark your calendars: '80s HORROR—our 30-film collection featuring films by Dario Argento, Kathryn Bigelow, John Carpenter, Larry Cohen, David Cronenberg, Tobe Hooper, Michael Mann, Ken Russell, Paul Schrader, and more—is coming to the @criterionchannl on October 1! 🔥🖤
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A wonderful visit today from the great Willem Dafoe! ✨ You can see him in Yorgos Lanthimos's POOR THINGS — opening in theaters tomorrow, December 8!
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Remembering the peerless Philip Seymour Hoffman on his birthday ❤️ Here he is in Paul Thomas Anderson's giddily off-kilter masterpiece PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (2002).
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We're deeply saddened to hear that the incomparable Sidney Poitier has passed away at the age of 94. A transformative cultural icon, he continually forged new paths to become one of the greatest actors to ever grace the stage and screen.
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We're heartbroken to hear that truly singular performer Michael K. Williams has passed away. We're remembering him and his galvanizing spirit by revisiting his trip to our films closet back in March 2011. ❤️
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Good morning and happy birthday, John Goodman! ☕ 💘
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Happy birthday, Jason Schwartzman! 🎂 ❤️ 🎈
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"I’m most touched when I meet people in the streets who say, ‘Thank you, you gave me a lot of happiness.’ More than when they say ‘Bravo.’ I think it’s more touching to get a ‘Thank you,’ no?" Thank you, Agnès, our dear friend. ❤️
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"To sit and dream is a beautiful thing." Happy birthday, David Lynch! 🖤🥧🎬✨🎨🌹
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A great visit from Michael Shannon! ✨
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☕️ BEFORE SUNRISE (1995)
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Coming next March: a lavish box-set tribute to the most romantic filmmaker in the world, featuring new 4K digital restorations of AS TEARS GO BY, DAYS OF BEING WILD, CHUNGKING EXPRESS, FALLEN ANGELS, HAPPY TOGETHER, IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, and 2046! 💚✨
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Kyle Maclachlan’s Closet Picks! ☕ 🎞️ 💙 This summer, we were delighted to have the great actor @Kyle_MacLachlan stop by our office for a trip inside our films closet!
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Goodnight to Jean-Luc Godard, a titan of cinema whose work introduced the world to a new cinematic lexicon and exerted an incalculable influence on modern cinema that refused to wane in his more than six decades of filmmaking.
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We’re thrilled to announce that CITIZEN KANE will lead Criterion’s first slate of 4K Ultra HD releases along with MENACE II SOCIETY, THE PIANO, MULHOLLAND DR., THE RED SHOES, and A HARD DAY'S NIGHT!
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Agnès Varda's UNCLE YANCO (1968)
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Goodnight, Max von Sydow, one of the greatest actors to ever grace the stage and screen, whose vigorous performances in films like THE SEVENTH SEAL will forever be carved into cinema history. 🖤
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✨ Announcing our JULY 2022 Criterion titles! ✨
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All hail the King! Announcing #1000 : a monster edition! This October, we’re bringing you a collector’s set fit for the granddaddy of all movie monsters. Our landmark edition gathers for the first time all the Godzilla films from Japan’s Showa era! 🔥
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✨ Paul Giamatti’s Closet Picks✨ The award-winning actor talks about his childhood experience seeing CARNIVAL OF SOULS and his love for low-budget horror, shares how BLUE VELVET ignited his desire to become an actor and why RASHOMON always moves him to tears, and much more!
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A great visit today from Ethan Hawke and Vincent D'Onofrio! ✨
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Goodnight, Bruno Ganz, an actor whose empathy on-screen was always palpable & whose presence in such films as WINGS OF DESIRE will always live on in our hearts.
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The Criterion Channel is coming April 8! ✨
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The great Stan Lee has passed away at the age of 95. Last year, we were lucky enough to spend some time with him for a video by @danielraim in which Lee shares the experience of working on an ambitious sci-fi screenplay with his close friend and collaborator, Alain Resnais.
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✨Charlie Day's Closet Picks✨ With his feature directorial debut FOOL'S PARADISE in theaters this weekend, the writer-director-actor visited our films closet—where he shared the connection between IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA & Truffaut, his love for Hal Ashby, & much more!
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“For me, optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise – whatever appeals to you.” — Krzysztof Kieślowski ❤️
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Happy birthday, Wong Kar-wai! 🍍💗
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We were honored today to have a wonderful visit from legendary producer, director, distributor, and writer Roger Corman! ❤️
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A wonderful visit today from the great Isabella Rossellini! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
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Morning ☕
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While in town for the New York Film Festival premiere of their new film TÁR, we were thrilled to have the great Cate Blanchett and director Todd Field stop by our office fo a trip inside our films closet! ❤️ ✨
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Goodnight to the exquisite Ryuichi Sakamoto—legendary and beloved musician, composer, actor, and writer. ❤️
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Goodnight to beloved composer Angelo Badalamenti. 💔 We’re remembering his sonic genius with this beautiful moment from an interview on our release of TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (1992)—featuring a performance of "The Voice of Love" one of the film’s most memorable songs.
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✨💎 Announcing our OCTOBER 2021 titles! ✨💎
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An amazing visit from the great Paul Giamatti!✨ You can see his Oscar-nominated performance in Alexander Payne's THE HOLDOVERS in theaters now c/o @FocusFeatures .
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✨ Hideo Kojima’s Closet Picks ✨ The pioneering video game creator @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN throws a spotlight on treasures of 1950s and ’60s Japanese cinema—including Nobuo Nakagawa’s JIGOKU and Yasujiro Ozu’s TOKYO TWILIGHT, with a shout out to the beloved star Setsuko Hara.
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It's true! 💚
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'Parasite' and Bong Joon Ho's 'Memories of Murder' to Join Criterion Collection
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ANATOMY OF A FALL director Justine Triet recommends LA NOTTE (1961) 🖤 "The best thing to see when you want to breakup with somebody."
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Good morning 🍍 ☕ 💚
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Paul Dano in our films closet!
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✨Ari Aster's Closet Picks✨ With his new film BEAU IS AFRAID now in theaters, Aster visited our closet, where he shared one of the best experiences he’s had in a theater, the inspiration he’s taken from Karel Zeman, and the possibility that CURE is the greatest movie ever made.
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CLOSE-UP (1990)
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Entering the collection in November 🖤
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Now on the FLC podcast, watch/listen to Martin Scorsese discuss MEAN STREETS, the director's early-career masterpiece that was an #NYFF11 Main Slate selection in 1973:
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✨ Announcing our OCTOBER 2022 Criterion titles! ✨
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Good morning 💙☕️
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Good morning ☕🐈
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Announcing our NOVEMBER 2020 titles!
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The one and only River Phoenix was born on this day in 1970 🧡
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The dearly missed David Bowie, born on this day in 1947. Here he is in THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976):
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In NOTORIOUS, Alfred Hitchcock executed one of the most ambitious shots in his filmography. Watch a play-by-play analysis of these thirty-plus seconds of virtuosic filmmaking 🔑
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Jane forever. ❤️❤️❤️
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Wim Wenders and Kōji Yakusho ❤️
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"If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt."
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GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO ✨ Entering the collection this December! A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver @RealGDT , directing alongside Mark Gustafson.
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"I'll always be there / As frightened as you / To help us survive / Being alive." Goodnight to the renowned and truly matchless composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who forever changed the landscape of American theater. ❤️
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Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975 is a colossal set, and we’d have it no other way for our 1000th release! We can’t wait to share it with you when it roars into stores on Blu-ray on October 29. Take a look inside!
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New look, new date, new additional format! Our upcoming edition of UNCUT GEMS, previously announced as Blu-ray and DVD editions for October, will now arrive on November 23, with new cover art. Plus, we’ve added a 4K UHD+Blu-ray combo edition! 💎 Pre-order:
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Good morning ☕ 🐈
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🎶 In Dreams 🎶 The late Dean Stockwell in David Lynch’s BLUE VELVET (1986) 💙🎙
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Happy birthday, Noah Baumbach!
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Good morning ☕️❤️
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✨Charles Melton’s Closet Picks✨ The award-winning actor and star of Todd Haynes’s acclaimed MAY DECEMBER, champions the twisted pleasure of MEMORIES OF MURDER, selects favorites featuring his costar Julianne Moore, & talks about the subtle beauty of DRIVE MY CAR and AFTER LIFE.
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Good morning and happy birthday, John Goodman!
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✨Announcing our JULY 2020 titles! ✨
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Honored to have a visit today from the great Sofia Coppola and our latest visiting scholar Rocco ❤️✨
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Announcing our NOVEMBER 2022 Criterion titles! The most defiant provocation of the Czechoslovak New Wave, a psychologically piercing Western, a saga of rival moles in Hong Kong’s criminal underworld, & a visionary monument to an iconic civil rights leader!
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Today we're wishing a very happy birthday to the one and only Martin Scorsese, a director who has not only spent decades making some of the greatest films of all time, but an indefatigable cinephile dedicated to expanding the horizons of movie lovers around the world! ❤️🎞️📽️❤️
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We're going to be launching @criterionchannl as a freestanding streaming service in spring 2019! We’ll be starting from scratch, and we can use all the help we can get. Sign up now to become a Charter Subscriber! ✨
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✨ Announcing our OCTOBER 2020 releases! ✨
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