Announcing Criterion’s November 2020 New Releases…

Our November Titles

We may not be able to gather around a table this November, but our latest releases are sure to unite film lovers far and wide. Martin Scorsese’s aging-gangster opus, Jim Jarmusch’s offbeat samurai cult classic, Claudia Weill’s trailblazing tale of female friendship, and Cher’s Oscar-winning romantic-comedy turn all join the collection this fall. Plus, our previously announced 15-Blu-ray Essential Fellini box set brings together fourteen films from one of art-house cinema’s most legendary showmen.

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Thinking about a getaway? Think again . . . Plus: Robert Siodmak and Dr. Seuss

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Bad Vacations

Wishing you could get away this summer? This collection of some of cinema’s most memorably disastrous trips will have you reconsidering the comforts of home. Shining an unsettling light on destinations as lovely as the French Riviera and the canals of Venice, filmmakers such as Catherine Breillat, Paul Schrader, Joanna Hogg, Lucrecia Martel, and Otto Preminger catalog an array of holiday horrors ranging from existential ennui to full-throttle terror.

Looking for a place to start?
Begin with the gentler disquiet of Joanna Hogg’s Unrelated before venturing out into wilder territory: the nature’s-revenge nightmare of Long Weekend, or the haunting desert journey of Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Sheltering Sky.

Rafiki

Initially banned in Kenya for its positive portrayal of queer romance, Wanuri Kahiu’s tender love story bursts with the colorful street style and music of Nairobi’s youth culture.

Three by Robert Siodmak

With his expressionist style and hard-bitten sensibility, Robert Siodmak directed some of the greatest classic noirs ever made.

Bacurau

Exclusive streaming premiere: a furiously entertaining model of genre art as a vehicle for political resistance, this sci-fi thriller from Brazil is streaked with antiracist and anticolonialist rage.

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T

The only film written by Theodor Seuss Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss) is a one-of-a-kind children’s film that doubles as a triumph of genuine avant-garde imagination.

Art of Darkness

Wim Wenders and Joseph Losey paint sinister portraits of moral corruption in a pair of spellbinding, coolly stylized tales of unscrupulous art dealers embroiled in dangerous underworlds.

August releases from the Criterion Collection

Our August Releases

The Complete Films of Agnès Varda

A founder of the French New Wave who became an international art-house icon, Agnès Varda was a fiercely independent, restlessly curious visionary whose work was at once personal and passionately committed to the world around her. This landmark collection brings together her entire body of work for the first time.

Special Features: Introductions by Varda, hours of archival programs and interviews, rare footage, and more.

Town Bloody Hall

In 1971, D. A. Pennebaker captured a no-holds-barred debate on the women’s movement between Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer, Jacqueline Ceballos, Jill Johnston, and Diana Trilling. Several years later, Chris Hegedus turned the footage into this riveting snapshot of a singular cultural moment.

Special Features: Audio commentary by Hegedus and Greer, archival footage of Greer and Mailer, and more.

The Comfort of Strangers

Director Paul Schrader and screenwriter Harold Pinter craft a spellbinding atmosphere of sumptuous dread in this Venice-set erotic thriller starring Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson, Christopher Walken, and Helen Mirren.

Special Features: Interviews with Schrader, Walken, Richardson, cinematographer Dante Spinotti, editor Bill Pankow, and novelist Ian McEwan.

Toni

Set in a community of immigrants working on the margins of society in the South of France, this marvel of poetic feeling by Jean Renoir became a precursor to Italian neorealism and a favorite of the directors of the French New Wave.

Special Features: An introduction by Renoir, audio commentary by critics Kent Jones and Phillip Lopate, a television profile of Renoir directed by Jacques Rivette, and more.

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

Based on the novel by Heinrich Böll, this political thriller by Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta is a stinging commentary on state power, individual freedom, and media manipulation that is as relevant today as when it was released.

Special Features: Interviews with Schlöndorff, von Trotta, and director of photography Jost Vacano and a documentary on Böll.

The King of Indie Animation . . . Plus: Amy Seimetz and Stephen Cone

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Films by Bill Plympton

Bill Plympton’s wonderfully weird creations are unmistakable: the wriggly, hand-sketched style, warped humor, and endlessly shape-shifting, transmogrifying images are the hallmarks of a singularly bizarre and brilliant imagination. A self-described “blend of Magritte and R. Crumb,” Plympton is a one-of-a-kind auteur of the absurd, an underground-animation hero whose films hold a funhouse mirror up to the innate strangeness of everyday reality.

Looking for a place to start?
Begin with Your Face, the Oscar-nominated musical short that introduced many to Plympton’s surreal sensibility. Then join a lovestruck songwriter on his quest to compose from the heart in the kaleidoscopic The Tune, considered by many to be the first animated feature entirely hand-drawn by a single artist.

Sun Don’t Shine

Director Amy Seimetz (She Dies Tomorrow) introduces her feature debut, a simmering work of pulp poetry that tracks a tense and mysterious road trip through central Florida.

Directed by Kathleen Collins

Held over by popular demand: Trailblazing writer-filmmaker Kathleen Collins left behind a cinematic legacy rich in insight, humor, and warmth.

Poetry in Motion

Filmmakers Michael Almereyda and Billy Woodberry bring the words of visionary poets John Ashbery and Bob Kaufman to life in these richly cinematic odes to American genius.

Three by Stephen Cone

Accompanied by a new interview with the director, these triumphs of subtle, empathetic storytelling showcase one of independent cinema’s most thoughtful and compassionate artists.

John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection

Far from a traditional sports film, this innovative documentary narrated by Mathieu Amalric is a study of a “man who played on the edge of his senses.”

Leaving August 31

The clock is ticking on a number of great movies we’ve programmed on the Criterion Channel. Here are some of the most popular titles:

Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti, 1971)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols, 1966)
Husbands (John Cassavetes, 1970)
A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
The Last House on the Left (Wes Craven, 1972)
Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010)

Click here for a full list of films leaving the service August 31.

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Bad Vacations

We’re Here to Help

Rafiki

Three by Robert Siodmak

Bacurau

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T

Art of Darkness

Our August Releases

The Complete Films of Agnès Varda

Town Bloody Hall

The Comfort of Strangers

Toni

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

What’s Playing

A guide to the Criterion Channel. If you haven’t already subscribed, click here for a 14-day free trial and explore the more than 2,000 titles and thousands of supplemental features available to stream.

Films by Bill Plympton

We’re Here to Help

Sun Don’t Shine

Directed by Kathleen Collins

Poetry in Motion

Three by Stephen Cone

John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection

Leaving August 31