{"id":819255,"date":"2026-08-19T23:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/819255\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T23:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:08:09","slug":"the-criterion-channels-september-lineup-includes-neon-genesis-evangelion-kiyoshi-kurosawas-penance-abel-ferrara-girl-bands-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/819255\/","title":{"rendered":"The Criterion Channel\u2019s September Lineup Includes Neon Genesis Evangelion, Kiyoshi Kurosawa\u2019s Penance, Abel Ferrara, Girl Bands & More"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Criterion Channel has long been a key source for streaming Japanese cinema. Those credentials increase a fair amount with September 2026: Hideaki Anno\u2019s magnum opus Neon Genesis Evangelion, its little-seen film version Evangelion Death (True)\u00b2, and The End of Evangelion (another magnum opus of a whole different order) all arrive; while everybody has Kiyoshi Kurosawa<\/a> in mind, his excellent 2012 series Penance becomes available; the newly restored Linda Linda Linda is featured in \u201cGirl Bands!,\u201d a series that also includes Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Streets of Fire, and Olivier Assayas\u2019 Clean; and an eleven-film Shohei Imamura program has been arranged.<\/p>\n

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 Sim\u00f3n<\/a> are also highlighted. The latter set includes the recent Romer\u00eda<\/a>, which makes a streaming premiere alongside Lucrecia Martel<\/a>\u2018s Our Land<\/a> and the recently restored director\u2019s cut of Michael Almereyda\u2019s Nadja<\/a>, itself part of a set comprising Terence Nance\u2019s An Oversimplification of Her Beauty and Alfr\u00e9d Radok\u2019s Distant Journey.<\/p>\n

For Criterion Editions, Michael Mann\u2019s Thief, Gints Zilbalodis\u2019s Flow, Joan Micklin Silver\u2019s Chilly Scenes of Winter, Satyajit Ray\u2019s recently restored Days and Nights in the Forest, Blue Vevet, and Paul Dano\u2019s Wildlife (the director is also subject of a Craft of Acting masterlcass) all land; the out-of-print section gets Paul Morrissey\u2019s Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula, The Man Who Fell to Earth, and Hiroshi Teshigahara\u2019s Pitall, Woman in the Dunes, and The Face of Another. I will also note the appearance of Don Siegel\u2019s The Beguiled, about as good as Hollywood movies get, in Southern Gothic.<\/p>\n

See the full lineup below and more at\u00a0the Criterion Channel<\/a>:<\/p>\n

4:44 Last Day on Earth,\u00a0Abel Ferrara, 2011*<\/p>\n

The Addiction,\u00a0Abel Ferrara, 1995<\/p>\n

Aqua,\u00a0Gints Zilbalodis, 2012<\/p>\n

Away,\u00a0Gints Zilbalodis, 2019<\/p>\n

Bad Lieutenant,\u00a0Abel Ferrara, 1992<\/p>\n

The Ballad of Narayama,\u00a0Shohei Imamura, 1983<\/p>\n

The Beguiled,\u00a0Sofia Coppola, 2017*<\/p>\n

Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story,\u00a0Steve Sullivan, 2018<\/p>\n

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls,\u00a0Russ Meyer, 1970<\/p>\n

The Blackout,\u00a0Abel Ferrara, 1997<\/p>\n

Blood for Dracula,\u00a0Paul Morrissey, 1974<\/p>\n

Blue Velvet,\u00a0David Lynch, 1986<\/p>\n

Blur,\u00a0Darol Olu Kae, 2025<\/p>\n

Body of Evidence,\u00a0Uli Edel, 1993<\/p>\n

Body Snatchers,\u00a0Abel Ferrara, 1993<\/p>\n

Boogie Nights,\u00a0Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997<\/p>\n

Cemetery Man,\u00a0Michele Soavi, 1994<\/p>\n

Chilly Scenes of Winter,\u00a0Joan Micklin Silver, 1979<\/p>\n

China Girl,\u00a0Abel Ferrara, 1987<\/p>\n

Clean,\u00a0Olivier Assayas, 2004*<\/p>\n

Dangerous Game,\u00a0Abel Ferrara, 1993<\/p>\n

Days and Nights in the Forest,\u00a0Satyajit Ray, 1970<\/p>\n

Desperate Teenage Lovedolls,\u00a0David Markey, 1984<\/p>\n

Desperately Seeking Susan,\u00a0Susan Seidelman, 1985<\/p>\n

Detention,\u00a0John Hsu, 2019<\/p>\n

Distant Journey,\u00a0Alfr\u00e9d Radok, 1949<\/p>\n

The Doors,\u00a0Oliver Stone, 1991<\/p>\n

The Driller Killer,\u00a0Abel Ferrara, 1979<\/p>\n

The Eel,\u00a0Shohei Imamura, 1997<\/p>\n

Evangelion Death (True)\u00b2,\u00a0Hideaki Anno, 1998<\/p>\n

Fear City,\u00a0Abel Ferrara, 1984<\/p>\n

Flesh for Frankenstein,\u00a0Paul Morrissey, 1973<\/p>\n

Flow,\u00a0Gints Zilbalodis, 2024<\/p>\n

Grace of My Heart,\u00a0Allison Anders, 1996*<\/p>\n

Head,\u00a0Bob Rafelson, 1968<\/p>\n

Hito Hata: Raise the Banner,\u00a0Robert A. Nakamura and Duane Kubo, 1980<\/p>\n

I Ran from It and Was Still In It,\u00a0Darol Olu Kae, 2021<\/p>\n

Josie and the Pussycats,\u00a0Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, 2001*<\/p>\n

King of New York,\u00a0Abel Ferrara, 1990<\/p>\n

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains,\u00a0Lou Adler, 1982\u00a0<\/p>\n

Linda Linda Linda,\u00a0Nobuhiro Yamashita, 2005<\/p>\n

The Little Sister,\u00a0Hafsia Herzi, 2025*<\/p>\n

Los Sures,\u00a0Diego Echeverria, 1984<\/p>\n

Lovedolls Superstar,\u00a0Dave Markey, 1986<\/p>\n

The Love Witch,\u00a0Anna Biller, 2016<\/p>\n

Making Mr. Right,\u00a0Susan Seidelman, 1987<\/p>\n

Manzanar,\u00a0Robert Nakamura, 1972<\/p>\n

Marighella,\u00a0Wagner Moura, 2019<\/p>\n

Ms .45,\u00a0Abel Ferrara, 1981<\/p>\n

Nadja,\u00a0Michael Almereyda, 1994<\/p>\n

Napoli, Napoli, Napoli,\u00a0Abel Ferrara, 2009<\/p>\n

Neon Genesis Evangelion,\u00a0Hideaki Anno, 1995\u20131996<\/p>\n

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion,\u00a0Hideaki Anno and Kazuya Tsurumaki, 1997<\/p>\n

New Wave,\u00a0Elizabeth Ai, 2024<\/p>\n

Our Land,\u00a0Lucrecia Martel, 2025<\/p>\n

Padre Pio,\u00a0Abel Ferrara, 2022*<\/p>\n

Penance,\u00a0Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2012<\/p>\n

Prey for Rock & Roll,\u00a0Alex Steyermark, 2003<\/p>\n

Priorities,\u00a0Gints Zilbalodis, 2014<\/p>\n

The Projectionist,\u00a0Abel Ferrara, 2019<\/p>\n

\u2019R Xmas,\u00a0Abel Ferrara, 2001<\/p>\n

Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars,\u00a0Howard Brookner, 1987<\/p>\n

Romer\u00eda,\u00a0Carla Sim\u00f3n, 2025<\/p>\n

Streets of Fire,\u00a0Walter Hill, 1984*<\/p>\n

Summer 1993,\u00a0Carla Sim\u00f3n, 2017<\/p>\n

Thief,\u00a0Michael Mann, 1981<\/p>\n

Third Act,\u00a0Tadashi Nakamura, 2025<\/p>\n

Times Square,\u00a0Alan Moyle, 1980<\/p>\n

Tommaso,\u00a0Abel Ferrara, 2019<\/p>\n

Uncle Howard,\u00a0Aaron Brookner, 2016<\/p>\n

Wataridori: Birds of Passage,\u00a0Robert Nakamura, 1976<\/p>\n

Welcome to New York,\u00a0Abel Ferrara, 2014*<\/p>\n

Wildlife,\u00a0Paul Dano, 2018*<\/p>\n

Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Hidden in Pieces,\u00a0Barnaby Clay, 2025<\/p>\n

Zegen,\u00a0Shohei Imamura, 1987<\/p>\n

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