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Featuring not one but two essential “bonus” films: Carax’s wondrous Godard homage IT’S NOT ME and Mendonça Filho’s elegiac yet playful PICTURES OF GHOSTS!
✨Announcing our SEPTEMBER 2026 Criterion releases!✨ bit.ly/2ydpG4a
Coming this fall: three intoxicating tales of outsiders and doomed lovers from a French-cinema firebrand; an electrifying thriller set at the height of Brazil’s military dictatorship. . .
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Sergei Loznitsa's TWO PROSECUTORS (2025) • Coming to Criterion Premieres in September! criterion.com/films/35308-tw…
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The young attorney, determined to expose this miscarriage of justice to the authorities in Moscow, soon finds his efforts stymied as an ever-tightening net of suspicion encircles his investigation.
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Set at the height of the Great Purge and drenched in the paranoia of Stalin’s police state, the latest triumph from Loznitsa is a chilling, Kafkaesque thriller about the impunity of power and the matter-of-fact horrors of totalitarianism.
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Richard Linklater's NOUVELLE VAGUE (2025) 🖤 Coming to Criterion in September! criterion.com/films/35769-no…
It’s 1959, and a young Jean-Luc Godard (Guillaume Marbeck) is the only one among his film-critic peers at Cahiers du cinéma not to have made a feature film.
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With this enthralling love letter from one cinematic maverick to another, Linklater captures, with buoyant humor and effortless charm, the intoxicating joy of being young, breaking all the rules, and making art without boundaries.
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DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• A new commentary featuring Linklater
• Le making of “Nouvelle Vague” (2025), directed by Lucie Saada
• Interviews with Linklater and actors Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin, and Guillaume Marbeck
• An audiovisual dossier on the real-life figures depicted in the film, by @selfstyledsiren
• Linklater’s prerehearsal manifesto, read by Deutch
• Essays by critic Nick James and coscreenwriter Vince Palmo and an introduction by Linklater
and more!
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DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST (1970) 🖤 Coming to Criterion in September! criterion.com/films/34234-da…
One of director Satyajit Ray’s greatest achievements begins with the deceptively easy grace of a buddy comedy—only to give way to darker moral shading.
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Filmed luminously amid the sound-dappled splendor of the woodlands of India’s Palamu region, DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST deconstructs the masculine ego and India’s fraught class divisions with elegant complexity.
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4K BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• Introduction by Wes Anderson
• Making-of program featuring new and archival interviews with Ray, actors Sharmila Tagore and Rabi Ghosh, and cinematographer Soumendu Roy
• Conversation about Ray and the film’s restoration featuring Anderson, Tagore, and Film Heritage Foundation founder Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
• An essay by film critic Devika Girish
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DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• PICTURES OF GHOSTS (2023), a companion film by Mendonça Filho
• Making-of documentary featuring interviews with Mendonça Filho, Moura, and other members of the cast and crew
• New interviews with director of photography Evgenia Alexandrova and sound mixer Cyril Holtz
• New video essay featuring Mendonça Filho
• Deleted scenes
• Archival material that inspired the film, with
•An essay by film programmer and curator Dennis Lim
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THE SECRET AGENT (2025) 📽️Coming to Criterion in September! criterion.com/films/35607-th…
With an electrifying blend of kinetic punch and elegiac historical sweep, @kmendoncafilho connects life under Brazil’s twentieth-century military dictatorship to the living present, delivering a kaleidoscopic period thriller pulsing with resonance.
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In 1977, under the alias Armando, a man (Wagner Moura) arrives in the city of Recife to try to make a fresh start with his young son. However, the threat of violence immediately encroaches, while around him swirl corrupt cops, grimy hit men, haunted exiles, and a wild urban legend that ignites a public frenzy. Continually spinning off its temporal and narrative axes,
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THE SECRET AGENT unfurls an epic canvas teeming with life and love for those who refuse to submit to systems of oppression.
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THREE FILMS BY LEOS CARAX ❤️🔥 Coming to Criterion in September! criterion.com/boxsets/8999-t…
Burning with stylistic freedom, the first three features by Carax are cinema at its most ecstatically sensorial and deliriously romantic.
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Love letters to the city of Paris, with its streets transformed by cinematographer Jean-Yves Escoffier into expressive dreamscapes, these three films erupt in moments of anarchic euphoria that fuse sound and image to heart-stopping effect.
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DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• IT'S NOT ME (2024), a self-portrait film by Carax
• New interviews with Lavant and editor Nelly Quettier
• New video essay on the cinematography of Jean-Yves Escoffier
• Meet the Filmmakers: Leos Carax, a Criterion Channel original interview
• A documentary on the making of the main set for THE LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE
•Deleted scene, rushes, screen tests, behind-the-scenes footage, and trailers
• An essay by author Amina Cain
and more!
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