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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 7d
👻❤️‍🔥 October has arrived. Now playing on the criterion channel 👻❤️‍🔥

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A promotional poster for the Criterion Channel featuring film categories for October, including horror, Hong Kong action classics, body horror, and films by John Woo and Jean Rollin.
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Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 2h
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s CLOUD is now streaming on @criterionchannl.bsky.social Back when it played theaters I wrote a piece for NYT on the philosophical questions and concerns that permeate his films: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/m...
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 17m
Once you've watched CLOUD, check out our edition of Kurosawa's horror masterpiece CURE (1997) - featuring interviews, a video essay, and more!
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Cure - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa • 1997 • Japan Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s arresting international breakthrough established him as one of the leaders of an emerging new wave of Japanese horror while pushing the ...
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 17m
☁️ Now streaming exclusively on the Criterion Channel: Kiyoshi Kurosawa's wild new thriller CLOUD! ☁️
Japan's master of suspense strikes again with this hypnotic, darkly funny action-thriller about a young black-market reseller whose online price gouging earns him dangerous enemies.
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 2h
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 2h
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 2h
Next friday!
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 4h
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 4h
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 4h
Revel in its dazzling color, playful Freudian excess, and the opera of the inner life. A perfect companion to “Lady in the Dark” musical dreamscapes.
Juliet of the Spirits - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Federico Fellini • 1965 • Italy Starring Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu Cinematographer Gianni di Venanzo’s masterful use of Technicolor transforms JULIET OF THE SPIRITS, Felli...
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 4h
Sweet and also bittersweet.
Smooth Talk - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Joyce Chopra • 1985 • United States Starring Laura Dern, Treat Williams, Mary Kay Place Suspended between carefree youth and the harsh realities of the adult world, a teenage girl experie...
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 4h
Lucrecia Martel’s debut simmers with the kind of claustrophobic family tensions Fassbinder mined so relentlessly—here transported to the damp, decaying splendor of provincial Argentina.
La Ciénaga - The Criterion Channel
Criterion Collection Edition #743 Directed by Lucrecia Martel • 2001 • Argentina Starring Martín Adjemián, Diego Baenas, Leonora Balcarce The release of Lucrecia Martel’s LA CIÉNAGA heralded the arr...
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 4h
Lady Snowblood - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Toshiya Fujita • 1973 • Japan Starring Meiko Kaji, Ko Nishimura, Toshio Kurosawa Gory revenge is raised to the level of visual poetry in Toshiya Fujita’s stunning LADY SNOWBLOOD. A major ...
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 4h
This irreverent documentary channels similar fascination with british eccentricity, visual wit and the avant-garde.
The World of Gilbert & George - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Gilbert Prousch and George Passmore • 1981 • United Kingdom Starring Gilbert Prousch, George Passmore See the world through the beautiful, humorous, shocking, and absurd lens of British “...
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 4h
Davies’s autobiographical film shares Leigh’s sensitivity to the textures of working-class life and his gift for finding resonance in the mundane.
The Long Day Closes - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Terence Davies • 1992 • United Kingdom Starring Leigh McCormack, Marjorie Yates, Anthony Watson THE LONG DAY CLOSES is the most gloriously cinematic expression of the unique sensibility o...
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 4h
Myths, friendship, and dazzlingly designed creatures collide as a boy discovers that the world around him is teeming with hidden life and cosmic secrets.
Jellyfish Eyes - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Takashi Murakami • 2013 • Japan Starring Takuto Sueoka, Himeka Asami, Mayu Tsuruta The world-famous artist Takashi Murakami made his directorial debut with JELLYFISH EYES, taking his boun...
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 4h
If “Can’t Stop the Music” is disco exuberance and queer spectacle, “Paris Is Burning” is the lived, glittering heart of the ballroom ♥️🔥
Paris Is Burning - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Jennie Livingston • 1990 • United States Starring Dorian Corey, Pepper LaBeija, Angie Xtravaganza Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documen...
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 4h
And that's all for today's recommendations ✨
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 4h
Fellini’s “Toby Dammit” segment in particular, delivers wild, hallucinatory set-pieces echoing Suspiria’s surreality and nightmarish visual style.
Spirits of the Dead - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, and Roger Vadim • 1968 • France, Italy Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, and Roger Vadim each direct a tale from Edgar Allan Poe in this haunting anthology fil...
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 4h
Cure
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa • 1997 • Japan Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s arresting international breakthrough established him as one of the leaders of an emerging new wave of Japanese horror while pushing the ...
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 4h
Ingmar Bergman’s most explicitly surreal—and arguably most harrowing—odyssey into paranoia and artistic breakdown.
Hour of the Wolf - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Ingmar Bergman • 1968 • Sweden Johan Borg (Max Von Sydow), an artist battling repressed desires, starts to lose his grip on reality while vacationing on a remote Scandinavian island with ...
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 4h
Less cerebral than Ikarie XB-1, but brims with the same playful retro-futurism and anxiety about humanity’s place in the universe—albeit with a rampaging monster center stage.
The X from Outer Space - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Kazui Nihonmatsu • 1967 • Japan When a crew of scientists returns from Mars with a sample of the space spores that contaminated their ship, they inadvertently bring about a nightmarish ea...
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 4h
Chantal Akerman explodes into full glorious Technicolor musical mode in this dazzling, subversive romp set inside a shopping mall.
Golden Eighties - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1986 • Belgium, France Starring Delphine Seyrig, Fanny Cottençon, Pascale Salkin The exuberant enchantments of the singing, dancing musical meet the feminist, formalist ...
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 4h
The Dardenne brothers breakthrough shares Bresson's unadorned realism and compassion for the marginalized.
La promesse - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne • 1996 • Belgium Starring Jérémie Renier, Olivier Gourmet, Assita Ouédraogo LA PROMESSE is the breakthrough feature from Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne...
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 4h
Jigoku - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Nobuo Nakagawa • 1960 • Japan Starring Shigeru Amachi, Utako Mitsuya, Yoichi Numata Shocking, outrageous, and poetic, JIGOKU (HELL, a.k.a. THE SINNERS OF HELL) is the most innovative crea...
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 4h
This bravura comedy finds Carole Lombard and Jack Benny dodging Nazis and egos in a whirlwind mix of theatricality, fast-paced farce, and pointed satire. Like Sturges, Lubitsch dances along a razor's edge between sophisticated wit and utter absurdity-never wasting a laugh.
To Be or Not to Be - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch • 1942 • United States As nervy as it is hilarious, this screwball masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch stars Jack Benny and, in her final screen appearance, Carole Lombard as h...
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