The May lineup on the Criterion Channel features The Ghost Writer, along with works by Spike Lee, Kathryn Bigelow, Jia Zhangke, and others.
At The Film Stage, we have a longstanding passion for setting trends, so we’re quite pleased that, nine months after screening a 35mm print at the Roxy, Roman Polanski’s late-career masterpiece The Ghost Writer will be available on the Criterion Channel next month as part of the Coastal Thrillers series. This collection features exactly what the title implies: The Lady from Shanghai, Key Largo, The Long Goodbye, The Fog, and those best films from 2010, including Scorsese’s Shutter Island. It complements the Noir and the Blacklist collection, which showcases postwar realism and left-leaning artists, featuring works by Joseph Losey, Fritz Lang, Jules Dassin, and others. There will also be retrospectives dedicated to Terry Southern, Kathryn Bigelow, Jem Cohen, and just in time for Caught By the Tides, Jia Zhangke, while Spike Lee hosts his own Adventures In Moviegoing segment.
Recent restorations include Antonioni’s Il Grido and Anthony Harvey’s Dutchman. Criterion Editions will feature The Runner, Touchez pas au grisbi, Godzilla vs. Biollante, Paper Moon, and Chaplin’s A Woman of Paris. Additionally, Abel Ferrara’s documentary on Ukraine/Patti Smith, Turn in the Wound, will have its streaming debut, marking the first time for many viewers.
You can find the complete list of May releases and more on the Criterion Channel:
24 City, Jia Zhangke, 2008
Aerie, Jem Cohen, 2024
Anesthesia, Tim Blake Nelson, 2016
August Visitor, Ifeyinwa Arinze, 2023
Ballad of Philip Guston, Jem Cohen, 2022
Barbarella, Roger Vadim, 1968
The Beach, Danny Boyle, 2000
Benjamin Smoke, Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen, 2000
The Big Night, Joseph Losey, 1951
Birth of a Nation, Jem Cohen, 2017
Blue Steel, Kathryn Bigelow, 1990
Body Heat, Lawrence Kasdan, 1981
The Breaking Point, Michael Curtiz, 1950
Chain, Jem Cohen, 2004
Copycat, Jon Amiel, 1995
Counting, Jem Cohen, 2015
Crossfire, Edward Dmytryk, 1947
Crossing Paths with Luce Vigo, Jem Cohen, 2010
The Deep, Peter Yates, 1977
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Stanley Kubrick, 1964
Dutchman, Anthony Harvey, 1966
Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper, 1969
End of the Road, Aram Avakian, 1970
Eye of God, Tim Blake Nelson, 1997
The Fog, John Carpenter, 1980
Free, Jem Cohen, 2007
Gerhard Richter Painting, Corinna Belz, 2011
The Ghost Writer, Roman Polanski, 2010
The Grey Zone, Tim Blake Nelson, 2001*
Gun Crazy, Joseph H. Lewis, 1950
Hangmen Also Die!, Fritz Lang, 1943
The Hedonists, Jia Zhangke, 2016
He Ran All the Way, John Berry, 1951
Hero, Sylvia Chang, Joan Chen, and Li Shaohong, 2022
The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived, Heiny Srour, 1974
Il grido, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1957
Insomnia, Christopher Nolan, 2002
Instrument, Jem Cohen, 1999
Intruder in the Dust, Clarence Brown, 1949
Joonam, Sierra Urich, 2023
The Keep, Michael Mann, 1983
The Lady from Shanghai, Orson Welles, 1947
The Lawless, Joseph Losey, 1950
Leaves of Grass, Tim Blake Nelson, 2009*
Leila and the Wolves, Heiny Srour, 1984
Little Flags, Jem Cohen, 2000
Long for the City, Jem Cohen, 2008
The Long Goodbye, Robert Altman, 1973
Lost Book Found, Jem Cohen, 1996
The Loveless, Kathryn Bigelow and Monty Montgomery, 1981
Lucky Three, Jem Cohen, 1997
The Magic Christian, Joseph McGrath, 1969*
Makeshift (for Mekas), Jem Cohen, 2019
Mountains May Depart, Jia Zhangke, 2015
Museum Hours, Jem Cohen, 2012
Nice Evening, Transmission Down, Jem Cohen, 2001
None Shall Escape, André De Toth, 1944
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