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✨✨Announcing our MAY 2024 Criterion Channel lineup!✨✨

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She's here 🩸

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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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"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!

Werner Herzog on Why He Didn’t Need to See ‘Star Wars’ Films for ‘The Mandalorian’ Role

Werner Herzog explains why he didn't need to see the "Star Wars" films for his "The Mandalorian" role on Disney Plus.

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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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✨ The Criterion Channel launches tomorrow! ✨

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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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We will! ❤️ 💪

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We will find a way to bring it back- 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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Morning!🐰🖤

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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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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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On the set of MULHOLLAND DR.

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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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THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS (2008)

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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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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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THE SWIMMER (1968) // THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (1999)

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RIP Anna Karina, a truly peerless star whose presence enlivened the screen like no one else. ❤️

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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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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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Noir titles 🖤

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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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Good morning 💙 SOLARIS (1972)

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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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Morning light courtesy of Andrei Tarkovsky

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Polaroids by Apichatpong Weerasethakul 💚

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A Message from Andrei Tarkovsky:

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"If you want love, then this is it. This is real life."

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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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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.

Directed by Akira Kurosawa - The Criterion Channel

The most celebrated Japanese filmmaker of all time, Akira Kurosawa produced a staggering body of work that stands as a monument of artistic achievement. Though best known for samurai epics like SEVEN...

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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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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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❤️‍🔥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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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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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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FALLEN ANGELS (1995) 💚

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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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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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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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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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Morning ☕ 🐰🖤

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😍😍😍

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😍 Now playing 😍

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Krzysztof Kieślowski playing ping-pong 🖤

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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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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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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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ONE NIGHT 🌃 Coming to the Criterion Channel April 1!

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Is there a film you find yourself returning to again and again?

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😍Now on the Channel 😍

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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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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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Talking Heads burn down the house in one of the all-time great concert documentaries.

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Celebrate the life and work of the late Jean-Luc Godard, an incomparable visionary who forever changed the the history of cinema, with some of his most beloved films—from BREATHLESS and VIVRE SA VIE to CONTEMPT and EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF. 🖤📽️

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JENNIFER'S BODY (2009), now playing in our weekly Channel spotlight on Women Filmmakers! 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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😍Now playing on the Criterion Channel! 😍

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Happy birthday to the brilliant and dashing Tony Leung Chiu Wai, one of modern cinema's greatest actors. 💙 💙 💙

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One of the definitive queer classics of the late 90s, Jamie Babbit's cult favorite starring is a subversive send-up of traditional gender stereotypes that, while largely overlooked on its release, now seems positively ahead of its time.

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Which haunting David Lynch film will you be watching in celebration of his birthday? 🦉🌲🚦

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📺❤️📽️

30 Essential Movies to Stream on the Criterion Channel

Renoir, Lynch, Tarkovsky, and other treats for film buffs.

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Watch PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974)—an outrageous glam-rock reimagining of “The Phantom of the Opera” courtesy of Brian De Palma at his most deliriously inspired! 🖤 ✨ 🎹

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The first feature directed by former Disney animator Don Bluth is one of the most unique and imaginative children’s movies of the 1980s—a beautifully detailed, dark-tinged fable.

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To mark the release of her acclaimed new film PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE, we’re revisiting the revelatory first three features by Céline Sciamma—a series of evocative coming-of-age tales lit from within by a raw, heart-pounding emotional honesty.

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Gena 💙📺

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