November on the Criterion Channel leans into holiday get-togethers, fog-shrouded noir, and deep-dive director spotlights – plus Native nonfiction, a Vicky Krieps showcase, and more. Highlights below, with the full November calendar linked at the end.
Family Reunions
All-too-relatable portraits of holiday chaos, tenderness, and hilarity – from Huston to Demme to Desplechin. This 12 film playlist includes:
- My Brother’s Wedding (1983)
- Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
- The Dead (1987)
- The Celebration (1998)
- You Can Count on Me (2000)
- Pieces of April (2003)
- Garden State (2004)
- Margot at the Wedding (2007)
- The Savages (2007)
- A Christmas Tale (2008)
- Rachel Getting Married (2008)
- Nebraska (2013)
Blackout Noir
Amnesia, memory holes, and drunken blackouts fuel these twisty whodunits and existential nightmares. This 9 film playlist includes:
- Remember Last Night? (1935)
- Black Angel (1946)
- Deadline at Dawn (1946)
- Crossfire (1947)
- Framed (1947)
- Guilty Bystander (1950)
- In a Lonely Place (1950)
- The Blue Gardenia (1953)
- Blackout (1954)
Soundtracks by Trent Reznor
From Natural Born Killers to The Social Network, a survey of Reznor’s icy, electrifying film scores. This 4 movie playlist includes:
- Natural Born Killers (1994)
- Lost Highway (1997)
- The Social Network (2010)
- Bones and All (2022)
Directed by Werner Herzog
Feverish fiction, extreme landscapes, and “ecstatic truth” – a career-spanning tribute. This 29 film playlist includes:
- Signs of Life (1968)
- Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
- Fata Morgana (1971)
- Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
- The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)
- Heart of Glass (1976)
- How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck? (1976)
- Stroszek (1977)
- Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
- Woyzeck (1979)
- God’s Angry Man (1981)
- Huie’s Sermon (1981)
- Fitzcarraldo (1982)
- Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984)
- Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
- The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1985)
- Cobra Verde (1987)
- Herdsmen of the Sun (1989)
- Echoes from a Somber Empire (1990)
- Lessons of Darkness (1992)
- Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
- My Best Fiend (1999)
- Wheel of Time (2003)
- Grizzly Man (2005)
- The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
- Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
- My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
Directed by Howard Hawks
From newsroom banter to cattle drives, Hawks does it all. This 14 movie playlist includes:
- The Criminal Code (1931)
- Scarface (1932)
- Twentieth Century (1934)
- Barbary Coast (1935)
- Bringing Up Baby (1938)
- Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
- His Girl Friday (1940)
- Ball of Fire (1941)
- To Have and Have Not (1944)
- The Big Sleep (1946)
- Red River (1948)
- The Big Sky (1952)
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
- Rio Bravo (1959)
Josh Brolin’s Adventures in Moviegoing
Brolin talks formative films with Criterion’s Peter Becker; his 6 selections include:
- It Happened One Night (1934)
- A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
- Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
- Paris, Texas (1984)
- Following (1998)
- The Piano Teacher (2001)
Starring Vicky Krieps
A three-film showcase for one of today’s most quietly magnetic performers:
- Bergman Island (2021)
- Hold Me Tight (2021)
- More Than Ever (2022)
What Else Is Coming to The Criterion Channel in November?
View the entire list of The Criterion Channel’s November 2025 programming here.
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