Among the myriad reasons we could call the Criterion Channel the single greatest streaming service is its leveling of cinematic snobbery. Where a new World Cinema Project restoration plays, so too does Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight. I think about this looking at November’s lineup and being happiest about two new additions: a nine-film Robert Bresson retro including L’argent and The Devil, Probably; and a one-film Hype Williams retro including Belly and only Belly, but bringing as a bonus the direct-to-video Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club. Until recently such curation seemed impossible.
November will also feature a 20-film noir series boasting the obvious (The Third Man, Laura) and the not (The River’s Edge, The House on Telegraph Hill). Maybe the single tightest collection is “Women of the West,” with Johnny Guitar and The Beguiled and Rancho Notorious and The Furies only half of it. Lynch/Oz, Irradiated, and My Two Voices make streaming premieres; Drylongso gets a Criterion Edition; and joining the ’90s horror collection are Coppola’s Dracula and Abel Ferrara’s Body Snatchers, two supreme renditions of familiar tales.
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Nightmare Alley, Edmund Goulding, 1947
Panic in the Streets, Elia Kazan, 1950
The House on Telegraph Hill, Robert Wise, 1951
Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper, 1969
Streaming In November
21, Robert Luketic, 2008
Another Hayride, Matt Wolf, 2021
Ante mis ojos, Lina Rodriguez, 2018
Aquí y allá, Lina Rodriguez, 2019
Baby Face, Alfred E. Green, 1933
Back Street, John M. Stahl, 1932
Bayard & Me, 2017
The Beguiled, Don Siegel, 1971*
Belly, Hype Williams, 1998
Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club, Ivan Frank, 2008
Body Snatchers, Abel Ferrara, 1993
Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Francis Ford Coppola, 1992
The Cheat, George Abbott, 1931
Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (by Kelly Gabron), Cauleen Smith, 1992
Cinépistolaire (Episode 2), Lina Rodriguez and Jorge Lozano, 2022
Convergences and Reunions, Lina Rodriguez, 2008
Daughter of the Dragon, Lloyd Corrigan, 1931
Design for Living, Ernst Lubitsch, 1933*
Diary of a Country Priest, Robert Bresson, 1951
Dishonored, Josef von Sternberg, 1931
The Divorcee, Robert Z. Leonard, 1930
Drylongso, Cauleen Smith, 1998
Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper, 1969
Egungun (Ancestor Can’t Find Me), Cauleen Smith, 2017
Einschnitte, Lina Rodriguez, 2010
Exile, Rithy Panh, 2016*
The Face of AIDS, Matt Wolf, 2016
Forty Guns, Samuel Fuller, 1957
The Furies, Anthony Mann, 1950*
The Grifters, Stephen Frears, 1990
La guerre est finie, Alain Resnais, 1966
Hell’s Angels, Howard Hughes, 1930*
High Anxiety, Mel Brooks, 1977
The House on Telegraph Hill, Robert Wise, 1951
A Human Certainty, Morgan Quaintance, 2021
I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard, Matt Wolf, 2012
I’m No Angel, Wesley Ruggles, 1933
Irradiated, Rithy Panh, 2020*
Johnny Guitar, Nicholas Ray, 1954
The Lady Eve, Preston Sturges, 1941
Lessons in Semaphore, Cauleen Smith, 2015
The Lusty Men, Nicholas Ray, 1952
Matchstick Men, Ridley Scott, 2003
The Missing Picture, Rithy Panh, 2013*
My Two Voices, Lina Rodriguez, 2022
Night Nurse, William A. Wellman, 1931
Nightmare Alley, Edmund Goulding, 1947
Nine Queens, Fabián Bielinsky, 2000
No Man of Her Own, Wesley Ruggles, 1932
Panic in the Streets, Elia Kazan, 1950
Protocol, Lina Rodriguez, 2011
The Quick and the Dead, Sam Raimi, 1995
Rancho Notorious, Fritz Lang, 1952
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project, Matt Wolf, 2019
Remote Viewing, Cauleen Smith, 2011
Riki-Oh: The Story of Riki, Lam Nai-choi, 1991
Safe in Hell, William A. Wellman, 1931
Sam Now, Reed Harkness, 2022
Scarface, Howard Hawks, 1932
Señoritas, Lina Rodriguez, 2013
She Done Him Wrong, Lowell Sherman, 1933
So Much Tenderness, Lina Rodriguez, 2022*
Songs for Earth & Folk, Cauleen Smith, 2013
South, Morgan Quaintance, 2020
Spaceship Earth, Matt Wolf, 2020*
Station West, Sidney Lanfield, 1948
The Sting, George Roy Hill, 1973*
Suffolk, Cauleen Smith, 2021
Surviving You, Always, Morgan Quaintance, 2021
Teenage, Matt Wolf, 2013
This Is the Night, Frank Tuttle, 1932
This Time Tomorrow, Lina Rodriguez, 2016
Three on a Match, Mervyn LeRoy, 1932
Trash Humpers, Harmony Korine, 2009
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, Matt Wolf, 2008
*Available in the U.S. only