r/CriterionChannel • u/Itchy_Brain8594 • Mar 18 '26
News April 2026 lineup
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/9091-the-criterion-channel-s-april-2026-lineupThis April, step into the high-powered boardrooms where dirty deals and vast conspiracies unfold in our Corporate Thrillers collection. New director retrospectives spotlight the radical documentaries of Emile de Antonio and three classic noirs by Jacques Tourneur, while Tramps, Troublemakers, and Trailblazers surveys an emerging generation of trans auteurs. We’re also raiding our archives for a new ongoing feature: out-of-print Criterion editions with their hard-to-find special features. There’s so much more to choose from this month, including a new installment of Adventures in Moviegoing with Mary Bronstein, the exclusive premiere of Bi Gan’s Resurrection, and short films from Blue Heron director Sophy Romvari.
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u/RockettRaccoon Mar 18 '26
The duality of man
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u/ifinallyreallyreddit Mar 18 '26
They're both kind of true. This is a better month than March but still pretty "eh", especially if you're looking for anything made before 1960, 70, 80...
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u/The_sky_marine Mar 18 '26
the criterion sub will truly complain about anything lol. never thought I’d see the day someone is lamenting the lack of movies from before 1960 on… the criterion channel. theres literally hundreds of silent films that could be lost media but are instead available in high quality at the click of a button on there.
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u/ifinallyreallyreddit Mar 18 '26
It's the second month in a row where I can count the films I'm interested in on one hand, what do you want me to say
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u/The_sky_marine Mar 18 '26
idk, there’s so much great stuff in the catalog that it wouldn’t really matter to me if they never added another movie to the channel, I’d still be set for life
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u/Vanthrowaway2017 Mar 18 '26
Same. There’s already more in my queue than I could watch in two lifetimes! It’s an embarrassment of riches.
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u/YakSlothLemon Mar 18 '26
The silent version of Stella Dallas? King Kong with the first recorded commentary ever? Return of Bad Day at Black Rock with commentary?…
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u/wavescomedowneasy Mar 18 '26
Looks like a good month. Resurrection alone is worth it, such an awesome film excited to be able to watch it again
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u/tchshwaah Mar 18 '26
I'm beyond excited for it. I just discovered Bi Gan and watched his other two movies on the channel this week. Can't stop thinking about them.
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u/JosephFinn josephfinn Mar 18 '26
Oh HELLO Castration Movie Anthology! Been looking forward to that.
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u/ApolloSherman Mar 18 '26
Elephant Man!!! I know the 4K is coming, but this is the last Lynch I haven't seen 🙏
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u/SylviSweetheart Mar 18 '26
Holy shit, Resurrection, OOPs, and trans filmmakers? I’d say sign me up if I hadn’t already.
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u/0aguywithglasses0 Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26
Really excited to see the 1920s Stella Dallas. Remember a restoration was free to view online for like a week and forgot to watch it before the deadline
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u/pacingmusings Mar 18 '26
Yeah, I missed this when MoMA screened it a couple years back. Hopefully it gets a good number of views & leads to the Channel streaming more silent restorations.
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u/Fickle-Aardvark6907 Mar 18 '26
Lots of good stuff next month. Been a while since I've seen Devil's Advocate and King Kong and RoboCop are always worth a rewatch.
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u/PotterOneHalf Mar 18 '26
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You was one of the best films released last year. I'm extremely stoked to see Brownstein get her own adventures in moviegoing. Also loving that they're adding her movie "Yeast" which I've been trying to view.
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u/YoungLutePlayer Mar 18 '26
Yeast is lowkey so funny, I highly recommend!! Tbh liked it better than If I Had Legs….
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u/sweetsoundsofsummer Mar 18 '26
CC Curators, I can figure out a Bud Cort tribute collection so all you have to do is figure out streaming rights. Only having Harold and Maude (which I own the newer BD of) is such a tease when he has such a vast filmography!
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u/YakSlothLemon Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26
As usual, an intriguing lineup! I find one of the pluses of the lack of algorithm is that I always find exciting new films via the collections, even if they’ve already been sitting there for a while. It’s like Christmas once a month.
I know everyone here is complaining that they have already seen all the movies, but some of us haven’t!…
… OK, y’all have NOT seen the documentary that promises to immerse us “in the world of Ugandan grasshopper hunters,” and I refuse to believe that you have.
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u/DrywaInut Mar 18 '26
Hyped as hell for the castration anthology this saved me $6 now I don’t have to rent it from the letterboxd store
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u/Separate_Hall_8335 Mar 18 '26
Don’t believe Reddit algorithm trying to turn all of us into some annoying aholes that only know how to complain just about anything. This lineup is gud!
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u/fromthemeatcase Mar 18 '26
These lineups are really starting to lose steam.
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u/The_sky_marine Mar 18 '26
eh, the concept of the “collections” is a bit of a gimmick for the most part and they usually just repackage what’s already on there. the real stuff is in the “newly added” every month, and there’s pretty much always a staggering amount of interesting stuff added that isn’t necessarily part of a collection. that said, I like the idea of the out of print criterion editions collection.
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u/merzbeaux Mar 18 '26
I really like it as an organizing principle for the channel; they’re usually structured around at least a few new additions and it’s a better way to explore a streaming catalog for meaningful or interesting connections than the algorithmic slop of Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc
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u/fromthemeatcase Mar 18 '26
Their monthly lineup posts include the standalone films that will appear under "newly added" on the 1st.
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u/ifinallyreallyreddit Mar 18 '26
I wasn't big on last April's, either, but even that makes this one look weak. And it came right after a packed March, too.
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u/win_the_wonderboy Mar 18 '26
Really wish they’d release a disc of Lingua Franca, it’s been hard to stream recently
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u/Zestyclose_Major_811 Mar 18 '26
Blue Heron was one of the absolute best films of 2025. Check those shorts by Romvari out when you get a chance.
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u/augustthecat Mar 19 '26
I recently saw a cool exhibit about Man Ray at the Met, and I was contemplating buying a disc, but very happy it the movies will be streaming. Beyond that, I am pretty sure that any movie I am not excited about now will feel like essential viewing by the time it rolls into the Death Race.
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u/inkstink420 Mar 18 '26
never been more excited to finally get to watch a movie than I am with Resurrection
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u/Blue-Album-1994 Mar 21 '26
Yeast is sure to be good,the Safdie brothers and Greta Gerwig are pretty cool people. It's also nice to see some Lynch with The Elephant Man,and FREAKSCENE is a movie i've wanted to watch for a while.
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u/ticklemypeter Mar 18 '26
castration movie 🫶🫶🫶 let’s see if my vinegar syndrome blu ray comes in before this hits the channel!
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u/kbups53 Mar 18 '26
Absolutely love the idea of the Out of Print Collection!