Criterion Channel's May lineup includes David Chase, Magellan, ’80s remakes, and additional offerings.

      You might have overlooked (or completely missed) that David Chase has written and directed only one feature film, and its black-and-white version is exclusively available for streaming on the Criterion Channel. To accompany his excellent Not Fade Away, the creator of The Sopranos has programmed and participated in an interview for a new Adventures in Moviegoing that premieres this May, featuring Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante, Louis Malle’s Elevator to the Gallows and Lacombe, Lucien, Luis Buñuel’s Viridiana, and Dino Risi’s Il sorpasso. Beyond looking forward to the interview, I will hold (some) hope that this generates (just enough) energy for another film from one of the great minds of American cinema.

      The main program for May focuses on ’80s Remakes (and Their Originals!), which delivers exactly what it promises: Breathless and Breathless, The Thing and The Thing, The Man Who Loved Women and the closest Burt Reynolds has come to Truffaut. Additionally, Office Romances offers a selection that includes Dorothy Arzner’s Working Girls, His Girl Friday, The Apartment, and John Ford’s often-overlooked The Whole Town’s Talking. Jonathan Ali has curated You Don’t Get Freedom, You Take Freedom: Caribbean Activist Cinema, showcasing films like Bitter Cane and Med Hondo’s West Indies. In terms of premieres, Debra Granik’s Conbody vs Everybody launches on the Channel, along with Lav Diaz’s Magellan, Thierry Fremaux’s Lumière, le cinéma!, and a restoration of Ken Loach’s The Spirit of ’45.

      Criterion Editions of Buñuel’s Él, Woman of the Year, Cat People, and His Girl Friday will begin streaming. Films from the Ross Brothers, Kimi Takesue, and Bill Douglas are also available, including the COVID-era hit Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets. Special mentions go to Kathryn Bigelow’s Point Break and Sean Baker’s Four Letter Words, which are being added to Stunts and Directed by Sean Baker, respectively (as if it could be the other way around).

      For a complete list of May additions, you can explore more on the Criterion Channel:

      95 and 6 to Go, Kimi Takesue, 2016

      Against All Odds, Taylor Hackford, 1984

      An Unfinished Film, Lou Ye, 2024

      The Apartment, Billy Wilder, 1960

      The Big Clock, John Farrow, 1948*

      Bitter Cane, Ben Dupuy and Kim Ives, 1983

      Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, Turner Ross and Bill Ross IV, 2020

      Bound, Kimi Takesue, 1995

      Breathless, Jim McBride, 1983

      Cat People, Jacques Tourneur, 1942

      Cat People, Paul Schrader, 1982

      A Chinese Ghost Story, Ching Siu-tung, 1987

      A Chinese Ghost Story II, Ching Siu-tung, 1990

      A Chinese Ghost Story III, Ching Siu-tung, 1991

      Clockwatchers, Jill Sprecher, 1997

      Conbody vs Everybody, Debra Granik, 2024

      D.O.A., Rudolph Maté, 1949

      D.O.A., Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton, 1988

      Daughter’s Daughter, Huang Xi, 2024

      Desk Set, Walter Lang, 1957

      E=NYC2, Kimi Takesue, 2005

      Él, Luis Buñuel, 1953

      Four Letter Words, Sean Baker, 2000

      Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us, Carmen Ashhurst, Samori Marksman, and John Douglas, 1983

      Haiti: The Way to Freedom, Arnold Antonin, 1973

      Heaven’s Crossroad, Kimi Takesue, 2002

      His Girl Friday, Howard Hawks, 1940

      House of Cardin, P. David Ebersole and Todd Hughes, 2019

      K-On! The Movie, Naoko Yamada, 2011*

      Looking for Adventure, Kimi Takesue, 2013

      Lumière, le cinéma!, Thierry Frémaux, 2025

      Man Wanted, William Dieterle, 1932

      The Man Who Loved Women, François Truffaut, 1977

      The Man Who Loved Women, Blake Edwards, 1983

      Maya, Give Me a Title, Michel Gondry, 2024

      More Than a Secretary, Alfred E. Green, 1936

      My Ain Folk, Bill Douglas, 1973

      My Childhood, Bill Douglas, 1972

      My Way Home, Bill Douglas, 1978

      No Way Out, Roger Donaldson, 1987

      The Office Wife, Lloyd Bacon,