July on the Criterion Channel includes Miami Vice, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Jacques Rozier, and more.
Our choice to designate Miami Vice as the greatest action film of this century about eight years ago was not made lightly or received by everyone, but fortune favors the audacious. As part of its recognition, Michael Mann’s classic will be available on Criterion this July as a part of Miami Neonoir, which also includes Larry Clark’s Bully, the recently deceased George Armitage’s Miami Blues, Out of Sight, Body Heat, and John Bailey’s lesser-known China Moon. In terms of series, films focusing on David Lynch, Picasso, and Basquiat are included in Portraits of Artists, while Summer Romances provides an opportunity to envision a more fulfilling experience than watching movies on a laptop.
July is a month rich in retrospectives: it features the recently restored, essential films of Jacques Rozier, works directed and filmed by D.A. Pennebaker, shorts by Suzan Pitt, along with programs highlighted by Lino Brocka, Moustapha Alassane, Michael Haneke, and Hou Hsiao-hsien, alongside an exhibition on the Rolling Stones in film. Killer of Sheep, the five-film Antoine Doinel series, Basquiat, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch will stream in Criterion Editions, while restorations of Susan Streitfeld’s Female Perversions, Ann Hui’s July Rhapsody, Brocka’s Bona, and Thomas McGuire’s 92 in the Shade will debut for streaming. A nod to Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers, a film I adored at 22 and now hesitate to revisit, fearing either disappointment or longing for the life I wish I had.
Check out the complete lineup for July below and more at the Criterion Channel:
65 Revisited, D. A. Pennebaker, 2007
92 in the Shade, Thomas McGuane, 1975
Adieu Philippine, Jacques Rozier, 1962
Bad Day at Black Rock, John Sturges, 1955*
Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, 1996
Beyond the Visible – Hilma af Klint, Halina Dyrschka, 2019
Blue Jeans, Jacques Rozier, 1958
Bon voyage, Sim, Moustapha Alassane, 1966
Bona, Lino Brocka, 1980
Bully, Larry Clark, 2001
Cain and Abel, Lino Brocka, 1982
Caring Cabin, Chelsea McMullan and Douglas Nayler Jr., 2025
The Castaways of Turtle Island, Jacques Rozier, 1976
Charlie Is My Darling, Peter Whitehead, 1966
China Moon, John Bailey, 1994
Concerning Violence, Göran Olsson, 2014
The Cowboys Are Black, Serge Moati, 1966
Crumb, Terry Zwigoff, 1995
The Death of Gandji, Moustapha Alassane, 1965
Delirious, Tom DiCillo, 2006
The Dreamers, Bernardo Bertolucci, 2003
The Endless Summer, Bruce Brown, 1966
The Escapist, Rupert Wyatt, 2008*
Female Perversions, Susan Streitfeld, 1996
Fifi Martingale, Jacques Rozier, 2001
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask, Isaac Julien, 1995
Funny Games, Michael Haneke, 2007*
Gidget, Paul Wendkos, 1959
Heat, Michael Mann, 1995
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, John Cameron Mitchell, 2001
In Celebration, Lindsay Anderson, 1975
It Couldn’t Happen Here, Jack Bond, 1987
It Felt Like Love, Eliza Hittman, 2013*
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, Tamra Davis, 2010
Joséphine en tournée, Jacques Rozier, 1990
July Rhapsody, Ann Hui, 2002
Kokoa, Moustapha Alassane, 2001
Lemmings, Part 1: Arcadia, Michael Haneke, 1979
Lemmings, Part 2: Injuries, Michael Haneke, 1979
Let’s Get Lost, Bruce Weber, 1988
Lettre de la Sierra Morena, Jacques Rozier, 1983
Maine-Océan Express, Jacques Rozier, 1986
Miami Blues, George Armitage, 1990
Miami Vice, Michael Mann, 2006*
Millennium Mambo, Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2001*
Near Orouët, Jacques Rozier, 1971
Nono Nénesse, Jacques Rozier, 1976
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