The Criterion Chanel has announced the titles arriving on its platform in April 2026, including the exclusive SVOD premiere of Bi Gan’s RESURRECTION(which actually arrives next week). Not yet announced, but still possible to launch in April, is Lav Diaz’s MAGELLAN, which just arrived for sale on digital this week. We’ll post with any news of a premiere date.
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*Indicates programming available only in the U.S.
TOP STORIES
Corporate Thrillers
Scandal, corruption, and high-stakes power struggles play out amid imposing high-rises and glassy boardrooms in these sleekly tailored tales of office intrigue and money-hungry machinations. In the years between 1987’s Black Monday stock-market crash and 2008’s global financial meltdown, Wall Street, white-shoe law firms, and Fortune 500 companies held a special fascination for Hollywood. In these poisonous portraits of “greed is good” excess (Wall Street, Arbitrage), morally shaded legal dramas (Primal Fear, The Devil’s Advocate), and globe-trotting conspiracy thrillers (Antitrust, The International), competing ambitions, ruthless backstabbing, and murky ethical politics rise to the realm of the Shakespearean.
FEATURING: Wall Street (1987), The Firm (1993)*, Disclosure (1994), Primal Fear(1996)*, The Devil’s Advocate (1997), Antitrust (2001), The Deal (2005), Michael Clayton (2007), The International (2009), Arbitrage (2012)*
COMING JUNE 1: The Game (1997)
Out-of-Print Criterion Collection Editions
Collectors rejoice! Not every film the Criterion Collection has released over the last four decades remains in print. Formats change, licenses expire, and catalogues evolve. But here on the Channel, we’re thrilled to showcase some of the special editions we once released on LaserDisc, DVD, and Blu-ray, along with the supplements that accompanied them. Among the first featured titles in this new ongoing series, you’ll find Paul Verhoeven’s sci-fi masterpiece RoboCop, the all-time classic western High Noon, and the monster-movie landmark King Kong—featuring the first commentary track ever recorded.
FEATURING: King Kong (1933), High Noon (1952), Bad Day at Black Rock(1955),* Harold and Maude (1971), The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), The Elephant Man (1980), RoboCop (1987)
Mary Bronstein’s Adventures in Moviegoing
Following her blistering debut feature, Yeast (featuring a breakthrough performance by a young Greta Gerwig), Mary Bronstein directed Rose Byrne to an Academy Award nomination in her emotionally stunning maternal maelstrom If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. In this edition of Adventures in Moviegoing, Bronstein sits down with Aliza Ma, head of programming for the Criterion Channel, to talk about her love of movies, from her early infatuation with Hollywood legends like Natalie Wood and Marilyn Monroe, whose blend of star power and fragility fascinated her, to discovering the possibilities of indie filmmaking through directors such as Richard Linklater and Todd Solondz. The films she has chosen to present—including Shirley Clarke’s vérité landmark Portrait of Jason, George A. Romero’s horror bombshell Night of the Living Dead, and Susan Seidelman’s punk classic Smithereens—reflect the same uncompromising DIY ethos she has brought to her own work.
FEATURING: Portrait of Jason (1967), Night of the Living Dead (1968), News from Home (1976), Smithereens (1982), Frownland (2007)
Tramps, Troublemakers, and Trailblazers: Trans Filmmakers
Boundary-breaking filmmakers reclaim their stories with these richly varied looks at the trans experience. Long misrepresented on-screen through disreputable and actively harmful images, trans characters have come into focus thanks to a pioneering generation of trans directors determined to capture their lives with nuance and hard-won insight. Curated by Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay, authors of the book Corpses, Fools, and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema, these revealing counterhistories of cultural trailblazers (Rupert Remembers, No Ordinary Man), intersectional portraits of everyday survival (Drunktown’s Finest, Lingua Franca), and bold explorations of identity in the online age (We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps) show that there is no single, common trans film image but rather a kaleidoscope of voices, forms, and lived realities.
FEATURES: Maggots and Men (2009), Drunktown’s Finest (2014), So Pretty(2019), Lingua Franca (2019), No Ordinary Man (2020), We’re All Going To The World’s Fair (2021), Dog Movie (2023), Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps(2024), Queens of Drama (2024)
SHORTS: Gender Troublemakers (1993), Rupert Remembers (2000)
EXCLUSIVE PREMIERES
Resurrection
Featuring a new introduction by director Bi Gan, part of Criterion’s Meet the Filmmakers Series
With his ravishing third feature, visionary director Bi Gan takes his deepest plunge yet into the realm of pure dreamscape. In a world where humans have forsaken dreams in exchange for immortality, a dreaming monster (Jackson Yee) embarks on a shape-shifting odyssey through illusion, beauty, and terror that takes him across a century of cinema and to the end of time. Unfolding in five dazzlingly imagined chapters that encompass everything from silent-era expressionism to film noir to a delirious vampire love story shot in one of Bi’s signature long takes, Resurrection is a work of breathtaking imagination in which cinema is the ultimate portal to the unconscious mind.
Flickering Ghosts of Loves Gone By
An epic, lyrical ode to amateur filmmakers who raise the quotidian to the highest levels of art, Flickering Ghosts of Loves Gone By is a personal and historical exploration of the home movie in all its unvarnished glory. Upon inheriting an enormous collection of amateur films, André Bonzel (codirector of Man Bites Dog) incorporated the work of complete strangers into a narrated montage of his own family’s century-long moving-image scrapbook. In tracing his own conflation of sex and cinema through his family history, Bonzel plumbs his—as well as hundreds of others’—attempts to both preserve and reshape reality on celluloid, while in the process uncovering buried secrets, forgotten legacies, and some of the deepest motivations for capturing fleeting, everyday moments through the magic of a camera.
REDISCOVERIES AND RESTORATIONS
Stella Dallas
One of the silent era’s most popular and moving melodramas, the beautifully mounted original screen version of Olive Higgins Prouty’s oft-filmed novel was adapted by Frances Marion and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. An extraordinarily touching Belle Bennett stars as the everywoman heroine Stella, a small-town girl who moves up in the world when she marries the upper-crust Stephen Dallas (Ronald Colman), with whom she soon has a daughter. But a blue-blood marriage can’t change Stella’s coarse ways, leading to a wrenching choice between her daughter’s happiness and her own.
CRITERION COLLECTION EDITIONS
Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray (Man Ray, 2023)
Criterion Collection Edition #1291
Cryptic narrative, dark eroticism, and playful abstraction come together in the swirling surrealist dreams of an avant-garde visionary.
SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Scores by the avant-rock band SQÜRL; an interview with its members, Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan; and more.
DIRECTOR SPOTLIGHTS
Three Noirs by Jacques Tourneur
A master of mood, shadow, and dreamy ambiguity, French-born director Jacques Tourneur brought a sophisticated subtlety to his celebrated work in Hollywood. His command of atmosphere and darkly poetic sensibility were particularly suited to film noir, as seen in this trio of stylish, chiaroscuro-engraved favorites, including the stone-cold classic Out of the Past, a reverie of romantic doom starring genre icon Robert Mitchum in one of his definitive roles.
FEATURING: Out of the Past (1947), Berlin Express (1948), Nightfall (1956)
Emile de Antonio’s Cold War Counterculture
A self-described “Marxist among capitalists,” documentarian Emile de Antonio wielded the camera as a weapon in his fight against America’s corrupt power structures and the Cold War establishment elite. Unabashedly aligning himself with the leftist movements of the 1960s and ’70s in contrast to the “objective” style of the then-dominant cinema verité movement, he made his films with raw, blunt force, deploying impactfully edited archival footage to examine everything from the assassination of John F. Kennedy (Rush to Judgment) to the horror of America’s war in Vietnam (In the Year of the Pig) to the radical ideology of the Weather Underground (Underground). Stark, uncompromising, and timely, de Antonio’s films question everything, digging into official narratives to reveal the hidden agendas and systemic rot lurking below.
FEATURING: Point of Order! (1964), Rush to Judgment (1967), In the Year of the Pig (1968), Millhouse (1971), Painters Painting (1972), Underground (1976), In the King of Prussia (1983), Mr. Hoover and I (1989)
AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS
Yeast
A girls’ trip goes to hell in this defiantly raw, warts-and-all portrait of toxic friendship from the director of If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. A young Greta Gerwig stars, with Josh and Benny Safdie in supporting roles.
ANIME
Gatchaman: The Movie*
Fans of classic anime will delight in this awesomely retro sci-fi extravaganza teeming with pop-psychedelic visuals and whiz-bang-pow action.
DOCUMENTARIES
Jane by Charlotte
See actor, musician, and fashion icon Jane Birkin as never before: through the intimate, revealing lens of her daughter, Charlotte Gainsbourg.
SHORT FILMS
Prismatic Ground Presents
One of the most exciting and adventurous film festivals to emerge in recent years, Prismatic Ground brings together aesthetically innovative, politically radical work at the intersection of experimental and documentary cinema. This selection of shorts from the festival’s first five editions offers an eclectic cross section of vital works by filmmakers whose approach to image-making eschews traditional narrative in favor of abstraction and sensation, showing how avant-garde techniques can be deployed to illuminate profound personal experiences as well as violent histories of colonialism, oppression, and dispossession. The latest additions from the festival’s 2025 edition confront topics as varied as class, labor, family, memory, landscape, history, consciousness, and resistance with rigorous attention to form and galvanizing emotional power. The sixth edition of Prismatic Ground runs from April 29–May 3, 2026.
NEWLY ADDED SHORTS: Kalighat Fetish (1999), Buseok (2024), endings(2024), Hemel (2024), typhoon diary 风球日记 (2024), Winter Portrait (2024),Concrete Resources (Thank you for keeping me a company of images) (2024), All Said Done (2025), Remote Views (2025), Tuktuit (2025)
Short Films by Sophy Romvari
With her acclaimed debut feature, the heartbreaking family portrait Blue Heron(in theaters this April), Canadian filmmaker Sophy Romvari builds on her early short works to reveal an astonishing cinematic sensibility exquisitely attuned to the delicate, sensory details that shape experience. Frequently incorporating her own family’s history and photographs, these intimate, essayistic shorts—including Still Processing, a cathartic precursor to Blue Heron—muse on memory, grief, femininity, and the human-animal bond, often with touching vulnerability. Following in the self-reflexive footsteps of filmmakers like Agnès Varda and Chantal Akerman while evincing a modern generational sensibility all her own, they find a major artist in the process of forging her singular voice.
FEATURING: Nine Behind (2016), It’s Him (2017), Pumpkin Movie (2017), Grandma’s House (2018), Norman Norman (2018), In Dog Years (2019), Remembrance of József Romvári (2020), Still Processing (2020)
The Water Murmurs
Winner of the Cannes Palme d’Or for Best Short Film, this dreamily poetic vision of aqueous apocalypse is a mesmerizing meditation on the fragility of both human connection and life on Earth.
MUSIC FILMS
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
Discover the behind-the-scenes story of the turbulent creative partnership that fueled the ferocious sound of one of the most influential rock bands of all time.
Tokyo Melody: A Film About Ryuichi Sakamoto
Experience time, music, and Tokyo through the eyes and ears of visionary composer Ryuichi Sakamoto with this collage-like immersion into his world.
TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY CINEMA
Stranger Eyes
A couple is drawn into a disturbing mystery when they begin receiving DVDs containing footage of their own lives in this gripping surveillance thriller for the digital age.
NEW ADDITIONS TO PREVIOUS PROGRAMS
Premiering April 1 in Surreal Nature Documentaries: Grasshopper Republic
This strangely beautiful nature documentary with a science-fiction twist immerses the viewer into the world of Ugandan grasshopper hunters.