The Criterion Channel’s November Lineup Features Nicolas Cage, Jeremy Thomas, Roy Andersson & More

The Criterion Channel’s three big retrospectives for November are not director-centric, but each comprise entire film histories of their own. A Nicolas Cage series spans some of his earliest films (Fast Times, Rumble Fish) to auteurist favorites (Adaptation, Wild at Heart, Bringing Out the Dead) to later oddities (The Wicker Man, Bad Lieutenant). Meanwhile, a Gene Tierney program is a who’s-who of mid-century auteur: Jacques Tourneur, Jules Dassin, Otto Preminger, John M. Stahl, Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Proving that auteurs come in more shapes and sizes, the late, great Jeremy Thomas is celebrated through his finest producing work: The Shout, Bad Timing, The Hit, Sexy Beast, The Last Emperor, EO, and Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence among them.

There are a few director programs, still. With All of a Sudden opening on November 25, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car, Evil Does Not Exist, and Happy Hour (a good option for the Thanksgiving break) are newly packaged; Roy Andersson’s best-known films show alongside his lesser-seen 1970 feature A Swedish Love Story; and two features and three shorts from Mary Stephen are showcased, as are three documentaries by Bobbito García.

November is a major month fro Criterion Editions: The Last Waltz (surely timed to Thanksgiving), This Is Spinal Tap, Trainspotting, The Secret of the Grain, Welcome II the Terrordome, the aforementioned Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Rumble Fish, and Being John Malkovich. The latter is also featured in “From MTV to Hollywood,” which comprises films by David Fincher, Mark Romanek, Michel Gondry, recent Criterion anointee Mike Mills, Tamra Davis (with whom we recently had a massive conversation), Tarsem, and Hype Williams. In so doing, it offers something of an alt-history of Clinton-through-Bush Hollywood and, perhaps, roads not taken.

Meanwhile, Adventures In Moviegoing continues with music-video and TV director Hiro Murai. Restorations of Philip Hartman’s No Picnic and Geoff Murphy’s Utu Redux make streaming debuts

See the full list of films below and more at the Criterion Channel:

About Endlessness, Roy Andersson, 2019*

Adaptation., Spike Jonze, 2002

ATL, Chris Robinson, 2006

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Werner Herzog, 2009

Being John Malkovich, Spike Jonze, 1999*

Belly, Hype Williams, 1998

Birdy, Alan Parker, 1984

A Body to Live In, Angelo Madsen, 2025

Bringing Out the Dead, Martin Scorsese, 1999*

CB4, Tamra Davis, 1993*

The Cell, Tarsem Singh, 2000

City of Angels, Brad Silberling, 1998

CQ, Roman Coppola, 2001

Doin’ It in the Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC, Bobbito García and Kevin Couliau, 2012

Dragonwyck, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1946

Drunken Noodles, Lucio Castro, 2025

Duke of Groove, Griffin Dunne, 1995

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Michel Gondry, 2004*

Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Amy Heckerling, 1982*

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1947

The Great Canadian Puberty Rite, Mary Stephen, 1974

Guncrazy, Tamra Davis, 1992

Happy Hour, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2015

Home of the Brave, Laurie Anderson, 1986

Human Nature, Michel Gondry, 2001

Labyrinthe, Mary Stephen, 1973

The Last Waltz, Martin Scorsese, 1978

Laura, Otto Preminger, 1944

Leave Her to Heaven, John M. Stahl, 1945

Leaving Las Vegas, Mike Figgis, 1995

Manal Issa, 2024, Elisabeth Subrin, 2024

Maria Schneider, 1983, Elisabeth Subrin, 2022

Matchstick Men, Ridley Scott, 2003

Moonstruck, Norman Jewison, 1987

Never Let Me Go, Delmer Daves, 1953

Night and the City, Jules Dassin, 1950

No Picnic, Philip Hartman, 1986

Oh, Christmas Tree, Katie Aselton, 2024

One Hour Photo, Mark Romanek, 2002

Palimpsest: The Story of a Name, Mary Stephen, 2025

Peggy Sue Got Married, Francis Ford Coppola, 1986

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, Roy Andersson, 2014*

The President’s Analyst, Theodore J. Flicker, 1967*

Raising Arizona, Joel Coen, 1987

The Replacement Killers, Antoine Fuqua, 1998

Rings on Her Fingers, Rouben Mamoulian, 1942

Rock Rubber 45s, Bobbito García, 2018

Rumble Fish, Francis Ford Coppola, 1983*

The Secret of the Grain, Abdellatif Kechiche, 2007

Se7en, David Fincher, 1995

Sexy Beast, Jonathan Glazer, 2000

Shades of Silk, Mary Stephen, 1978

Snake Eyes, Brian De Palma, 1998*

Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives, Bobbito García, 2015

A Swedish Love Story, Roy Andersson, 1970

That Wonderful Urge, Robert B. Sinclair, 1948

This Is Spinal Tap, Rob Reiner, 1984*

Thumbsucker, Mike Mills, 2005*

Trainspotting, Danny Boyle, 1996*

Two Gods, Zeshawn Ali, 2020

Utu Redux, Geoff Murphy, 2013

Valley Girl, Martha Coolidge, 1983

Vampire’s Kiss, Robert Bierman, 1988

A Very Easy Death, Mary Stephen, 1975

Way of a Gaucho, Jacques Tourneur, 1952

Where the Sidewalk Ends, Otto Preminger, 1950

The Wicker Man, Neil LaBute, 2006

Wild at Heart, David Lynch, 1990*

You, the Living, Roy Andersson, 2007

*Available in the U.S. only