The Criterion Channel has unveiled its streaming lineup for August 2024, which features an eclectic mix of independent films showcasing the work of auteurs from around the world.
The boutique service will become the exclusive streaming home of Paul Thomas Anderson‘s 2021 comedy “Licorice Pizza,” and will celebrate the occasion by adding four more of his films to the channel: “The Master,” “There Will Be Blood,” “Punch-Drunk Love,” and “Magnolia.” Anderson’s frequent collaborator Philip Seymour Hoffman (who appears in “Magnolia,” “Punch-Drunk Love,” and “The Master”) will additionally be celebrated on the streaming service as part of a larger retrospective. Many of the late actor’s most iconic roles, including “Capote” and “Synecdoche, New York,” will be included, along with his sole directorial outing “Jack Goes Boating.”
The channel will also highlight several other prominent filmmakers including Preston Sturges, who helped pioneer the modern rom-com through films like “The Lady Eve” and “The Palm Beach Story,” and prolific Egyptian auteur Youssef Chahine.
The August slate also features several curated collections including “Vacation Noir,” which includes travel-centric film noir like the Marilyn Monroe star vehicle “Niagara” and Orson Welles’ “The Lady from Shanghai.” The “Photographer’s Gaze” collection features films featuring photographer protagonists, including classics such as Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” and Michelangelo Antonioni “Blow-Up.”
Keep reading for a complete list of films coming to the Criterion Channel in August 2024. Titles marked with an asterisk are not available outside the United States.
“25th Hour,” Spike Lee, 2002
“Adieu Bonaparte,“ Youssef Chahine, 1985
“Alexandria . . . Why?,” Youssef Chahine, 1979
“Alexandria: Again and Forever,” Youssef Chahine, 1989
“Alphabet City,” Amos Poe, 1984
“An Egyptian Story,” Youssef Chahine, 1982
“Baba Yaga,” Corrado Farina, 1973
“The Blazing Sun,” Youssef Chahine, 1954
“Blow-Up,” Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966
“Brighton Rock, “John Boulting, 1948
“Caballerango,” Juan Pablo González, 2018
“Cairo Station,” Youssef Chahine, 1958
“Capote,” Bennett Miller, 2005
“Christmas in July,” Preston Sturges, 1940
“D.O.A.: A Right of Passage,” Lech Kowalski, 1980
“Dangerous Crossing,” Joseph M. Newman, 1953
“Dark Waters,” Youssef Chahine, 1956
“Dawn of a New Day,” Youssef Chahine, 1965
“Delirious,” Tom DiCillo, 2006
“Desert Fury,” Lewis Allen, 1947
“Destiny,” Youssef Chahine, 1997
“The Devil of the Desert,” Youssef Chahine, 1954
“The Emigrant,” Youssef Chahine, 1994
“La espera,” Juan Pablo González, 2016
“Eyes of Laura Mars,” Irvin Kershner, 1978
“Farewell My Love,” Youssef Chahine, 1956
“Father Amin,” Youssef Chahine, 1950
“Female on the Beach,” Joseph Pevney, 1955*
“The Great McGinty,” Preston Sturges, 1940
“Hail the Conquering Hero,” Preston Sturges, 1944
“Haywire,” Steven Soderbergh, 2011*
“His Kind of Woman,” John Farrow, 1951
“Inferno,” Roy Ward Baker, 1953
“Jack Goes Boating,” Philip Seymour Hoffman, 2010*
“Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten,” Julien Temple, 2007
“Kansas City Confidential,” Phil Karlson, 1952
“The Lady Eve,” Preston Sturges, 1941
“The Lady from Shanghai,” Orson Welles, 1947
“Lady of the Train,” Youssef Chahine, 1952
“The Land, “Youssef Chahine, 1969
“The Last of Sheila,” Herbert Ross, 1973
“Leave Her to Heaven,” John M. Stahl, 1945
“Licorice Pizza, “Paul Thomas Anderson, 2021
“Love Liza,” Todd Louiso, 2002*
“Lumumba: Death of a Prophet,” Raoul Peck, 1991
“Magnolia,” Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999
“My Heart Is That Eternal Rose,” Patrick Tam, 1989
“My One and Only Love,” Youssef Chahine, 1957
“Niagara,” Henry Hathaway, 1953
“Las nubes,” Juan Pablo González, 2017
“One Hour Photo,” Mark Romanek, 2002
“The Other,” Youssef Chahine, 1999
“The Palm Beach Story,” Preston Sturges, 1942
“Pecker,” John Waters, 1998
“Pictures of Ghosts,” Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2023
“La prisonnière,” Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1968
“The Public Eye,” Howard Franklin, 1992*
“Punch-Drunk Love,” Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002
“Rear Window,” Alfred Hitchcock, 1954
“Return of the Prodigal Son,” Youssef Chahine, 1976
“Saladin the Victorious,” Youssef Chahine, 1963
“The Savages,” Tamara Jenkins, 2007
“The Sixth Day, “Youssef Chahine, 1986
“Smoke,” Wayne Wang, 1995*
“The Solitude of Memory,” Juan Pablo González, 2014
“The Story of O,” Just Jaeckin, 1975
“Synecdoche, New York,” Charlie Kaufman, 2008*
“There Will Be Blood,” Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007*
“Victims of Sin,” Emilio Fernández, 1951
