The Criterion Channel has long been a key source for streaming Japanese cinema. Those credentials increase a fair amount with September 2026: Hideaki Anno’s magnum opus Neon Genesis Evangelion, its little-seen film version Evangelion Death (True)², and The End of Evangelion (another magnum opus of a whole different order) all arrive; while everybody has Kiyoshi Kurosawa in mind, his excellent 2012 series Penance becomes available; the newly restored Linda Linda Linda is featured in “Girl Bands!,” a series that also includes Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Streets of Fire, and Olivier Assayas’ Clean; and an eleven-film Shohei Imamura program has been arranged.
The biggest restrospective is devoted to Abel Ferrara: 19 films, the profile spanning Bad Lieutenant and King of New York to New Rose Hotel (his masterpiece), Tommaso, and Napoli, Napoli, Napoli. Dangerous Game appears both there and in a Madonna series filled out by Body of Evidence and Desperately Seeking Susan, the latter of which crops up in a Susan Seidelman program; Robert A. Nakamura and Carla Simón are also highlighted. The latter set includes the recent Romería, which makes a streaming premiere alongside Lucrecia Martel‘s Our Land and the recently restored director’s cut of Michael Almereyda’s Nadja, itself part of a set comprising Terence Nance’s An Oversimplification of Her Beauty and Alfréd Radok’s Distant Journey.
For Criterion Editions, Michael Mann’s Thief, Gints Zilbalodis’s Flow, Joan Micklin Silver’s Chilly Scenes of Winter, Satyajit Ray’s recently restored Days and Nights in the Forest, Blue Vevet, and Paul Dano’s Wildlife (the director is also subject of a Craft of Acting masterlcass) all land; the out-of-print section gets Paul Morrissey’s Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula, The Man Who Fell to Earth, and Hiroshi Teshigahara’s Pitall, Woman in the Dunes, and The Face of Another. I will also note the appearance of Don Siegel’s The Beguiled, about as good as Hollywood movies get, in Southern Gothic.
See the full lineup below and more at the Criterion Channel:
4:44 Last Day on Earth, Abel Ferrara, 2011*
The Addiction, Abel Ferrara, 1995
Aqua, Gints Zilbalodis, 2012
Away, Gints Zilbalodis, 2019
Bad Lieutenant, Abel Ferrara, 1992
The Ballad of Narayama, Shohei Imamura, 1983
The Beguiled, Sofia Coppola, 2017*
Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story, Steve Sullivan, 2018
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Russ Meyer, 1970
The Blackout, Abel Ferrara, 1997
Blood for Dracula, Paul Morrissey, 1974
Blue Velvet, David Lynch, 1986
Blur, Darol Olu Kae, 2025
Body of Evidence, Uli Edel, 1993
Body Snatchers, Abel Ferrara, 1993
Boogie Nights, Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997
Cemetery Man, Michele Soavi, 1994
Chilly Scenes of Winter, Joan Micklin Silver, 1979
China Girl, Abel Ferrara, 1987
Clean, Olivier Assayas, 2004*
Dangerous Game, Abel Ferrara, 1993
Days and Nights in the Forest, Satyajit Ray, 1970
Desperate Teenage Lovedolls, David Markey, 1984
Desperately Seeking Susan, Susan Seidelman, 1985
Detention, John Hsu, 2019
Distant Journey, Alfréd Radok, 1949
The Doors, Oliver Stone, 1991
The Driller Killer, Abel Ferrara, 1979
The Eel, Shohei Imamura, 1997
Evangelion Death (True)², Hideaki Anno, 1998
Fear City, Abel Ferrara, 1984
Flesh for Frankenstein, Paul Morrissey, 1973
Flow, Gints Zilbalodis, 2024
Grace of My Heart, Allison Anders, 1996*
Head, Bob Rafelson, 1968
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner, Robert A. Nakamura and Duane Kubo, 1980
I Ran from It and Was Still In It, Darol Olu Kae, 2021
Josie and the Pussycats, Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, 2001*
King of New York, Abel Ferrara, 1990
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains, Lou Adler, 1982
Linda Linda Linda, Nobuhiro Yamashita, 2005
The Little Sister, Hafsia Herzi, 2025*
Los Sures, Diego Echeverria, 1984
Lovedolls Superstar, Dave Markey, 1986
The Love Witch, Anna Biller, 2016
Making Mr. Right, Susan Seidelman, 1987
Manzanar, Robert Nakamura, 1972
Marighella, Wagner Moura, 2019
Ms .45, Abel Ferrara, 1981
Nadja, Michael Almereyda, 1994
Napoli, Napoli, Napoli, Abel Ferrara, 2009
Neon Genesis Evangelion, Hideaki Anno, 1995–1996
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion, Hideaki Anno and Kazuya Tsurumaki, 1997
New Wave, Elizabeth Ai, 2024
Our Land, Lucrecia Martel, 2025
Padre Pio, Abel Ferrara, 2022*
Penance, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2012
Prey for Rock & Roll, Alex Steyermark, 2003
Priorities, Gints Zilbalodis, 2014
The Projectionist, Abel Ferrara, 2019
’R Xmas, Abel Ferrara, 2001
Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars, Howard Brookner, 1987
Romería, Carla Simón, 2025
Streets of Fire, Walter Hill, 1984*
Summer 1993, Carla Simón, 2017
Thief, Michael Mann, 1981
Third Act, Tadashi Nakamura, 2025
Times Square, Alan Moyle, 1980
Tommaso, Abel Ferrara, 2019
Uncle Howard, Aaron Brookner, 2016
Wataridori: Birds of Passage, Robert Nakamura, 1976
Welcome to New York, Abel Ferrara, 2014*
Wildlife, Paul Dano, 2018*
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Hidden in Pieces, Barnaby Clay, 2025
Zegen, Shohei Imamura, 1987
*Available in the U.S. only
The post The Criterion Channel’s September Lineup Includes Neon Genesis Evangelion, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Penance, Abel Ferrara, Girl Bands & More first appeared on The Film Stage.
from The Film Stage https://ift.tt/QDF39Xr
0 Comments