The Criterion Channel has unveiled their March 2021 lineup, which includes no shortage of remarkable programming. Highlights from the slate include eight gems from Preston Sturges, Elaine May’s brilliant A New Leaf, a series featuring Black Westerns, Ann Hui’s Boat People, the new restoration of Ousmane Sembène’s Mandabi.
They will also add films from their Essential Fellini boxset, series on Dirk Bogarde and Nelly Kaplan, and Luchino Visconti’s The Damned and Death in Venice, and more. In terms of recent releases, there’s also Matthew Rankin’s The Twentieth Century and Claire Denis’ Let the Sunshine In.
Check out the lineup below, along with the teaser for the Black Westerns series. For weekly streaming updates across all services, bookmark this page.
The Adventurer, Charles Chaplin, 1917
Bandini, Bimal Roy, 1963
Behind the Screen, Charles Chaplin, 1916
Black Jack, Ken Loach, 1979
Black Rodeo, Jeff Kanew, 1972
Blood Simple, Joel and Ethan Coen, 1984
Boat People, Ann Hui, 1982
Boneshaker, Nuotama Frances Bodomo, 2013
Brother to Brother, Rodney Evans, 2004
Buffalo Soldiers, Charles Haid, 1997**
Cast a Dark Shadow, Lewis Gilbert, 1955
Charles and Lucie, Nelly Kaplan, 1979
Christmas in July, Preston Sturges, 1940
City of Women, Federico Fellini, 1980
Cooley High, Michael Schultz, 1975
The Count, Charles Chaplin, 1916
The Cure, Charles Chaplin, 1917
The Damned, Luchino Visconti, 1969
Darling, John Schlesinger, 1965
Death in Venice, Luchino Visconti, 1971
Dementia, John Parker, 1955
Despair, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978
Devdas, Bimal Roy, 1955
The Diabolic Tenant, Georges Méliès, 1909
Do bigha zamin, Bimal Roy, 1953
Don’t Blink – Robert Frank, Laura Israel, 2015
Down on the Sidewalk in Waikīkī, Justyn Ah Chong, 2019
Duel at Diablo, Ralph Nelson, 1966
Easy Street, Charles Chaplin, 1917
Edge of the City, Martin Ritt, 1957
Everybody Dies!, Nuotama Bodomo, 2016
The Fireman, Charles Chaplin, 1916
The Floorwalker, Charles Chaplin, 1916
Giuseppe Makes a Movie, Adam Rifkin, 2014
Good Bye, Lenin!, Wolfgang Becker, 2003
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, Sophie Fiennes, 2017
The Great McGinty, Preston Sturges, 1940
Gun Crazy, Joseph H. Lewis, 1950
Hail the Conquering Hero, Preston Sturges, 1944
Home, Ursula Meier, 2008**
The Immigrant, Charles Chaplin, 1917
The Impossible Voyage, Georges Méliès, 1904
The In-Laws, Arthur Hiller, 1979
The Infernal Cauldron, Georges Méliès, 1903
Intervista, Federico Fellini, 1987
The Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship, Georges Méliès, 1906
Joan of Arc, Georges Méliès, 1900
Kalewa, Mitchel Viernes, 2018
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, John Cassavetes, 1976
The Kingdom of the Fairies, Georges Méliès, 1903
The Lady Eve, Preston Sturges, 1941
Lāhainā Noon, Christopher Kahunahana, 2014
The Last Tree, Shola Amoo, 2019
The Legend of Black Charley, Martin Goldman, 1972
Let the Sunshine In, Claire Denis, 2017**
Madhumati, Bimal Roy, 1958
Mandabi, Ousmane Sembène, 1968
Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember, Anna Maria Tatò, 1997
Mary Last Seen, Sean Durkin, 2010
The Merry Frolics of Satan, Georges Méliès, 1906
Miracle of Morgan’s Creek, Preston Sturges, 1943
Moloka‘i Bound, Alika Maikau, 2019
The Moon and the Night, Erin Lau, 2018
Naal, Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti, 2018
A New Leaf, Elaine May, 1971
Nights of Cabiria, Federico Fellini, 1957
One A.M., Charles Chaplin, 1916
Opening Night, John Cassavetes, 1977
Other People, Bryson Chun, 2018
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, Albert Lewin, 1951
Papa the Little Boats, Nelly Kaplan, 1971
The Palm Beach Story, Preston Sturges, 1942
The Pawnshop, Charles Chaplin, 1916
The Pillar of Fire, Georges Méliès, 1899
The Pit Where We Were Born, Alexander Bocchieri, 2018
The Pleasure of Love, Nelly Kaplan, 1991
Posse, Mario Van Peebles, 1993
Relic 0, Larry Achiampong, 2017
Relic 1, Larry Achiampong, 2017
Relic 2, Larry Achiampong, 2019
Relic 3, Larry Achiampong, 2019
Rip’s Dream, Georges Méliès, 1905
Robinson Crusoe, Georges Méliès, 1903
Rock ’n’ Roll High School, Allan Arkush, 1979
Rosewood, John Singleton, 1997
The Sea Shall Not Have Them, Lewis Gilbert, 1954
Sergeant Rutledge, John Ford, 1960
Shane, George Stevens, 1953
Sister, Ursula Meier, 2012**
Skin Game, Paul Bogart and Gordon Douglas, 1971
Song of Freedom, J. Elder Wills, 1936
Sujata, Bimal Roy, 1959
Sullivan’s Travels, Preston Sturges, 1941
A Trip to the Moon, Georges Méliès, 1902
The Twentieth Century, Matthew Rankin, 2019**
Unfaithfully Yours, Preston Sturges, 1948
The Vagabond, Charles Chaplin, 1916
Variety Lights, Federico Fellini, 1950
A Very Curious Girl, Nelly Kaplan, 1969
Vision Portraits, Rodney Evans, 2019
The Visitor, Antonio Pietrangeli, 1965
The White Sheik, Federico Fellini, 1952
Whimsical Illusions, Georges Méliès, 1910
The Witch, Georges Méliès, 1906
Women Make Film, Mark Cousins, 2018
**Available in the U.S. only