Exploring the Criterion Closet Collection

Criterion Collection on Instagram: "DIRECTED BY ROBERT ALTMAN • Coming to the Criterion Channel September 1! Born 100 years ago, Robert Altman made movies that play like the cinematic equivalent of jazz—elastic, improvisational, and thrillingly alive to chance and happenstance. A master of the ensemble epic whose maverick sensibility stood out even in the auteur-driven New Hollywood era, Altman put his subversive, stylistically freewheeling spin on everything from the war movie to the western to

Criterion Collection on Instagram: "Friday evening viewing recommendation? On the Criterion Channel, watch VELVET GOLDMINE (1998)! Todd Haynes’s deliriously glittering, hedonistic glam rock film follows journalist Arthur Stuart (Christian Bale) as he launches an investigation into the mystery of Bowie-esque rocker Brian Slade. It’s kaleidoscopic portrait of an era of unbridled excess and sexual libertinism, buoyed by a soundtrack that rocks Brian Eno, T. Rex, Lou Reed, Pulp, and more."