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

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