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Evening viewing recommendation? On @criterionchannl, watch the exclusive streaming premiere of MAGELLAN (2025), Lav Diaz’s hypnotizing cinematic epic starring Gael García Bernal. bit.ly/47L8AeM A hypnotic journey engraved in images of staggering beauty and horror, this monumental achievement from Diaz boldly rewrites the imperialist mythmaking of the Age of Discovery.

PYTHON-APPROVED 4K-UHD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:

Featuring ribald Roman puns, sharp political commentary, and an audacious crucifixion-themed musical number, the Pythons’ most ambitious film is a hilarious satire of dogma and blind faith in which nothing is sacred.

Our new 4K edition of MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN (1979) has entered the collection! criterion.com/films/606-mont… The anarchic irreverence of British comedy legends Monty Python is at its most inspired in this brilliant send-up of the blockbuster biblical epic.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES: •Lynch and critic Kristine McKenna reading from Room to Dream, a 2018 book they coauthored •Archival interviews with Lynch, actor John Hurt, producers Mel Brooks and Jonathan Sanger, director of photography Freddie Francis, stills photographer Frank Connor, and makeup artist Christopher Tucker •A documentary about the film •Excerpts from an interview with Lynch from the 2005 edition of filmmaker and writer Chris Rodley’s book Lynch on Lynch, and an 1886 letter to the editor of the London Times concerning Merrick by Francis Culling Carr Gomm, chairman of the London Hospital

Shot in gorgeous black and white and boasting a stellar supporting cast that includes Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, and Wendy Hiller, THE ELEPHANT MAN was nominated for eight Academy Awards, cementing Lynch’s reputation as one of American cinema’s most visionary talents.

David Lynch's THE ELEPHANT MAN (1980) returns to the Criterion Collection in July! criterion.com/films/29677-th… With this poignant second feature, Lynch brought his atmospheric visual and sonic palette to a notorious true story set in Victorian England.

Juggling intimate scenes of adults at work and children at play with wild intrusions of surrealism, this strange and poignant film is a rare study of family life in all its beauty and confusion.

Moving unpredictably through four seasons in the lives of a separating couple—artist Anna (Saga Garðarsdóttir) and fisherman Magnus (Sverrir Guðnason)—and their three children, Pálmason’s fourth feature is as vibrantly attuned to the ebb and flow of domestic routine as it is to the stark, spectacular landscape of coastal Iceland.

Hlynur Pálmason’s THE LOVE THAT REMAINS (2025) comes to Criterion Premieres in July! criterion.com/films/35305-th… Suffused with tenderness and deadpan humor, Pálmason’s film asks: What happens when a relationship ends but the bonds of caring endure?

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES: • A TOWN OF LOVE AND HOPE (1959), Oshima’s first feature film •TOMORROW'S SUN (1959), a short film by Oshima •Interview with film scholar Tony Rayns •An essay by critic Chris Fujiwara and more!

Bursting with vivid color, this visually scintillating, furiously nihilistic film howls with rage at a society in which everything—love, sex, and youthful idealism—has been corrupted.

Nagisa Oshima’s CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH (1960) • Entering the Criterion Collection in July! criterion.com/films/27608-cr… A scorching tale of toxic love in a toxic world, Oshima’s second feature film marked the artistic breakthrough of one of the most radical voices in the history of Japanese cinema.

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES: •Audio excerpts from a 1974 American Film Institute seminar with director Martin Ritt •New interview with actor Sally Field, conducted by author Isaac Butler, on Ritt and HUD •New interview with cinematographer Roger Deakins on director of photography James Wong Howe •Episode of Inside the Actors Studio, hosted by James Lipton, featuring Paul Newman •An essay by author and film scholar Gabriel Miller and a 1963 American Cinematographer interview with Howe and more!

Winner of Academy Awards for Best Actress (Neal), Supporting Actor (Douglas), and Cinematography—courtesy of James Wong Howe, whose austere black-and-white lensing lends psychological dimension to the desolate western vistas—HUD daringly rewrites the image of the heroic cowboy for a disillusioned generation.

Martin Ritt's HUD (1963) • Entering the Criterion Collection in July! criterion.com/films/30203-hud A family’s downfall becomes a stark elegy for the ideals of the American frontier in this quietly subversive reimagining of western myths.