Criterion Collection on Instagram: "THE '90s DO THE '70s 🪩 Coming to the Criterion Channel January 1! In the 1990s, the twenty-year cultural cycle—in which each generation rediscovers and reinterprets the youth culture of the last—saw Gen X filmmakers turn to the 1970s for inspiration. But with more in mind than mere nostalgia, directors like Richard Linklater, Sofia Coppola, Spike Lee, and Paul Thomas Anderson used this much-mythologized decade as a lens through which to examine contemporary s

Criterion Collection on Instagram: "Evening viewing recommendation? Stay in with Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING (1980) on the Criterion Channel!"

Criterion Collection on Instagram: "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 only feature from the radical Afro-Cuban filmmaker (who also worked as an assistant director with Agnès Varda and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea before her untimely death at age 31) is an extraordinary portrait of postrevolution Cuba. Blendin

Criterion Collection on Instagram: "Evening viewing recommendation? On the Criterion Channel, watch Arnaud Desplechin's beguiling A CHRISTMAS TALE (2008). 🎄🍷 Catherine Deneuve brings her legendary poise to the role of Junon, matriarch of the troubled Vuillard family, who come together at Christmas after she learns she needs a bone marrow transplant from a blood relative. That simple family reunion setup, however, can't begin to describe the unpredictable, emotionally volatile experience of thi

Exploring My Favorite Criterion Collection Films

Criterion Collection on Instagram: "On the Criterion Channel, watch our TWO BY JESSIE MAPLE program featuring a new introduction to the pioneering filmmaker's work by curator and author Terri Simone Francis. ❤️ 🎥 Maple was a trailblazing artist: an editor, cinematographer, director, and all-around Renaissance woman whose remarkable pair of feature films — WILL (1981) and TWICE AS NICE (1989) — are striking for their unflinching honesty and raw emotion. Though she directed two films, Maple blaze

Criterion Collection on Instagram: "NORDIC NOIR 🖤 🎞️ Coming to the Criterion Channel on January 1! The dark cloud of disillusionment that spread across international screens in the wake of World War II didn’t spare the land of the midnight sun, as evidenced by this selection of stylishly shadowy, ripe-for-discovery crime dramas from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Precursors to the Scandinavian crime-fiction boom, these moody thrillers imbue noir fatalism with a stark social realism