February on the Criterion Channel with Argentine Noir, Joan Micklin Silver, Chantal Akerman and more

I look at myself something I was a student of cinema, whether self-taught or not, and, although I must confess, had never understood the concept of Argentine noir. Thanks to Criterion Channel for broadening my horizons with February’s show (succinctly titled “Argentine Noir”), which features a familiar title – Pierre Chenals Native sonan Argentinian film from a French director that adapts an American novel about the African-American experience in Chicago – and five that I’m excited to discover. In retrospect, her wide-ranging Claudette Colbert program could serve as a lesson in old Hollywood between Capra, Stahl, DeMille, Lubitsch, Sirk and Sturges. February, of course, brings Black History Month And Valentine’s Day: The former brings out a series of films like Nothing but a man, Portrait of JasonAnd Lose ground; The latter produces “New York Love Stories.” Carol To Cross Delancey um, strangely enough, Annie Hallthat probably wouldn’t have been streaming a few years ago.

Cross Delancey also receives a Criterion Edition Cool winter scenes; Both can be seen in a new Joan Micklin Silver program starring Carol Kane Hester Street and Shelley Duvall-led Bernice wears her hair in a bob. Chantal Akermans Today is a nightJean Grémillions Remorquesand Sara Gomez’s In a way (itself part of a larger director’s retrospective) are all available in new restorations. Phantom thread streams too, but I would really recommend you buy the incredible looking 4K if you have the means.

For the full list of movies streaming in February and more, check out the Criterion Channel:

About overtime and volunteer work, Sara Gomez, 1973

Everything will be fine, Ray Yeung, 2024

An island for Miguel, Sara Gomez, 1968

And . . . We have Sabor, Sara Gomez, 1967

And when I die, I won’t stay dead, Billy Woodberry, 2015

Annie Hall, Woody Allen, 1977

The apple of my eye, Axelle Ropert, 2016

Arthur, Steve Gordon, 1981

Fighting butler, Buster Keaton, 1926

The beast must die, Roman Viñoly Barreto, 1952

Bernice wears her hair in a bob, Joan Micklin Silver, 1976

Between the lines, Joan Micklin Silver, 1977

The bitter stalks, Fernando Ayala, 1956

The black vampire, Roman Viñoly Barreto, 1953

Bluebeard’s eighth wife, Ernst Lubitsch, 1938

Carol, Todd Haynes, 2015*

Cool winter scenes, Joan Micklin Silver, 1979

Cleopatra, Cecil B. DeMille, 1934

Delancey intersection, Joan Micklin Silver, 1988

A documentary about transit, Sara Gomez, 1971

Down with love, Peyton Reed, 2003

The egg and me Chester Erskine, 1947

The pillar of eternity, Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, 1985–8

Trip to Vueltabajo, 1965

Fall in love, Ulu Grosbard, 1984

A fish in the bathtub, Joan Micklin Silver, 1999

downside, Christopher Wilcha, 2023

Frankie and Johnny, Garry Marshall, 1991*

The general, Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman, 1926

The gilded lily, Wesley Ruggles, 1935

The farewell girl, Herbert Ross, 1977

Go west, Buster Keaton, 1925

The Great Buster: A Celebration Peter Bogdanovich, 2018

Guanabacoa: Chronicle of my family, Sara Gomez, 1966

Hester Street, Joan Micklin Silver, 1975

honor among lovers, Dorothy Arzner, 1931

I like it that way, Darnell Martin, 1994

I met him in Paris, Wesley Ruggles, 1937

I’m going to Santiago, Sara Gomez, 1964

If I should die before I wake up, Carlos Hugo Christensen, 1952

imitation of life, John M. Stahl, 1934

It could happen to you Andrew Bergman, 1994

It happened one night Frank Capra, 1934

It’s my turn, Claudia Weill, 1980

I kiss Jessica Stein, Charles Herman-Wurmfeld, 2001

Local power, people power, Sara Gomez, 1970

Maid of Salem, Frank Lloyd, 1937

Mario, Billy Woodberry, 2024

Marseille after the war, Billy Woodberry, 2005

Miss and the doctors, Axelle Ropert, 2013

moonstruck, Norman Jewison, 1987

My contribution, Sara Gomez, 1972

nation time, William Greaves, 1972

Native son, Pierre Chenal, 1951

The navigator, Buster Keaton and Donald Crisp, 1924

Never open that door, Carlos Hugo Christensen, 1952

No time for love, Mitchell Leisen, 1943

In the sugar workers’ quarters, Sara Gomez, 1971

On the other island, Sara Gomez, 1968

In a way, Sara Gomez, 1977

The Palm Beach Story, Preston Sturges, 1942

Petite Solange, Axelle Ropert, 2021

phantom thread, Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017

The paperback, Billy Woodberry, 1980

prenatal care, Sara Gomez, 1972

Raising Victor Vargas, Peter Sollett, 2002

A season with Isabella Rossellini, Marian Lacombe, 2023

Seven chances Buster Keaton, 1925

Sherlock Jr., Buster Keaton, 1924

skylark, Mark Sandrich, 1941

Something wild, Jonathan Demme, 1986

Steamboat Bill, Jr., Buster Keaton, 1928

A story from Africa, Billy Woodberry, 2019

Thunder on the hill, Douglas Sirk, 1951

torch singer, Alexander Hall and George Somnes, 1933

Today is a night, Chantal Akerman, 1982

treasure island, Sara Gomez, 1969

The Wolberg family, Axelle Ropert, 2009

year one, Sara Gomez, 1972

*Available in USA only