The Criterion Channel Lineup for January 2024

A complete list with everything coming to The Criterion Channel in January 2024

It’s time ring in the new year with a handful of new playlists streaming on The Criterion Channel in January 2024. As always, there’s a good variety of different offerings, including a director deep dive, a science fiction exploration, and a selection of titles solely focused on mankind’s furry little friends.

Here’s everything coming to The Criterion Channel streaming service in January 2024:

Cat Movies

A 19 movie collection dedicated to felines taking over the big screen, Cat Movies will star many of cinema’s most unique and endearing critters. This playlist includes:

Cat People (1942)
The Cat Creeps (1946)
Rhubarb (1951)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
The Shadow of the Cat (1961)
Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
The Cassandra Cat (1963)
That Darn Cat (1965)
Kuroneko (1968)
Eye of the Cat (1969)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
House (1977)
The Cat from Outer Space (1978)
Inferno (1980)
Cat’s Eye (1985)
Two Evil Eyes (1990)
The Cat (1991)
Sleepwalkers (1992)
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

Shorts included:

The Perils of Priscilla (1969)
To the Unknown (2017)

Starring Ava Gardner

An 8 film collection headlining of of cinema’s most influential stars of the 1940s and 50s, this playlist centered on Ava Gardner is a great way to dive into one of the medium’s lasting greats. This playlist includes:

The Killers (1946)
The Hucksters (1947)
The Great Sinner (1949)
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
Mogambo (1953)
The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
The Night of the Iguana (1964)

James Gray’s New York

Following James Gray’s Adventures in Moviegoing playlist on The Criterion Channel in October 2023, the streaming service is diving even farther into his roots in July. This 5 movie playlist for James Gray includes:

Little Odessa (1994)
The Yards (2000)
We Own the Night (2007)
Two Lovers (2008)
The Immigrant (2013)

Postapocalyptic Sci-Fi

A 14 movie collection expanding on one of cinema’s longest standing genres. A playlist with handful of postapocalyptic science fiction movies that headlined the second half of the 20th century. Includes:

The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
Panic in Year Zero (1962)
The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
No Blade of Grass (1970)
Mad Max (1979)
Escape from New York (1981)
1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982)
Escape from the Bronx (1983)
The New Barbarians (1983)
Testament (1983)
Night of the Comet (1984)
Threads (1984)
The Quiet Earth (1985)
Dead End Drive-In (1986)

HandMade Films

A dense 18 film collection chronicling the hugely influential British studio that took the industry by storm starting in the 1980s. HandMade Films boasts some classics by titans in filmmaking since the studio began operations. This playlist includes:

The Long Good Friday (1980)
Time Bandits (1981)
Scrubbers (1982)
Bullshot (1983)
Privates on Parade (1983)
A Private Function (1984)
Water (1985)
Mona Lisa (1986)
Withnail and I (1986)
Five Corners (1987)
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1988)
The Raggedy Rawney (1988)
Track 29 (1988)
Checking Out (1989)
Powwow Highway (1989)
Cold Dog Soup (1990)
Intimate Relations (1996)
An Accidental Studio (2019)

Roots & Revolution: Reggae on Film

Ahead of Bob Marley: One Love releasing in February of 2024, catch up on Reggae’s representation in film history with this 6 movie collection. This playlist includes:

The Harder They Come (1972)
Blacks Britannica (1978)
Rockers (1978)
Babylon (1980)
Omega Rising Women of Rastafari (1988)
The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry (2008)

Sundance Favorites

This remarkably dense 29 film collection highlights many Sundance darlings throughout the years before it returns once again in 2024. Get a glimpse of the history of the film festival with many of the classics sprouting from their first screenings years ago. This playlist includes:

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)
Style Wars (1983)
Blood Simple (1984)
In Heaven There Is No Beer? (1984)
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
Streetwise (1984)
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
Desert Hearts (1985)
Smooth Talk (1985)
Working Girls (1986)
Chameleon Street (1989)
For All Mankind (1989)
Christo in Paris (1990)
Metropolitan (1990)
Paris Is Burning (1990)
Trust (1990)
A Brief History of Time (1991)
Mississippi Masala (1991)
Slacker (1991)
Thank You and Good Night (1991)
My Crasy Life (1992)
Before the Rain (1994)
Hoop Dreams (1994)
The Doom Generation (1995)
When We Were Kings (1996)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
Old Joy (2006)
Hive (2021)

Other Movies Coming to The Criterion Channel in January 2024

This upcoming month also includes a handful a restorations, rediscoveries, and streaming premieres. Tod Browning’s The Unknown (1927) is coming to the streaming service following its recent release in The Criterion Collection. A few more director deep dives will also premiere on the streamers, including the films of Bertrand Tavernier and Juleen Compton. Chie Hayakawa’s Plan 75 will also have its streaming service premiere in the month of January. Read the entire lineup here.