If you’re looking to dive into the best of independent and foreign filmmaking, The Criterion Channel has announced their August 2020 lineup. The impressive slate includes retrospectives dedicated to Mia Hansen-Lřve, Bill Gunn, Stephen Cone, Terry Gilliam, Wim Wenders, Alain Delon, Bill Plympton, Les Blank, and more.

In terms of new releases, they also have Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’ Bacurau, the fascinating documentary John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection, the Kenyan LGBTQ drama Rafiki, and more. There’s also a series on Australian New Wave with films by Gillian Armstrong, Bruce Beresford, David Gulpilil, and Peter Weir, as well as one on bad vacations with Joanna Hogg’s Unrelated, Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers, and more.

• 35 Shots of Rum, Claire Denis, 2008
• 4 Quarters, Ashley McKenzie, 2015
• Accident, Joseph Losey, 1967
• Acid Rain, Tomek Popakul, 2019
• Always Shine, Sophia Takal, 2016
• And Still I Rise, Ngozi Onwurah, 1993
• Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary, Sky Hopinka, 2017
• The Arbor, Clio Barnard, 2010 *
• The Bad Seed, Mervyn LeRoy, 1956
• The Barbershop, Arthur Ripley, 1933
• Beau travail, Claire Denis, 1999
• The Big Country, William Wyler, 1958
• The Black Cat, Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934
• Blind Alley, Charles Vidor, 1939
• The Body Beautiful, Ngozi Onwurah, 1991
• The Broken Butterfly, Maurice Tourneur, 1919
• Butley, Harold Pinter, 1974
• The Canterville Ghost, Jules Dassin, 1944
• The Chase, Arthur Ripley, 1946
• Chocolat, Claire Denis, 1988
• The Cobweb, Vincente Minnelli, 1955
• Coffee Colored Children, Ngozi Onwurah, 1988
• The Connection, Shirley Clarke, 1961
• Dadli, Shabier Kirchner, 2018
• Dark Days, Marc Singer, 2000
• The Dark Past, Rudolph Maté, 1948
• David and Lisa, Frank Perry, 1962
• The Desired Number, Ngozi Onwurah, 1995
• The Devil-Doll, Tod Browning, 1936
• Dislocation Blues, Sky Hopinka, 2017
• A Dream is What You Wake Up From, Larry Bullard and Carolyn Johnson, 1978
• Dressed to Kill, Brian De Palma, 1980
• The Elephant Man, David Lynch, 1980
• The Eloquent Peasant, Shadi Abdel Salam, 1970
• Exile, Rithy Panh, 2016**
• Fainting Spells, Sky Hopinka, 2018
• The Fatal Glass of Beer, Clyde Bruckman, 1933
• Flores, Jorge Jácome, 2017
• The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Karel Reisz, 1981
• The Go-Between, Joseph Losey, 1971
• The Golf Specialist, Monte Brice, 1930
• Gregory’s Girl, Bill Forsyth, 1980
• Guest of Honour, Atom Egoyan, 2019
• The Haunting, Robert Wise, 1963
• Hellraiser, Directed by Clive Barker, 1987
• The Homecoming, Peter Hall, 1973
• Housekeeping, Directed by Bill Forsyth, 1987
• I’ll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You’ll Become, Sky Hopinka, 2016
• It Happened One Night, Frank Capra, 1934
• Jáaji Approx., Sky Hopinka, 2015
• Jimi Could Have Fallen from the Sky, Terence Nance, 2017
• The Kindergarten Teacher, Nadav Lapid, 2014
• The King and the Mockingbird, Paul Grimault, 1980
• King of the Hill, Steven Soderbergh, 1993
• Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song, Sky Hopinka, 2014
• Local Hero, Bill Forsyth, 1983
• Lore, Sky Hopinka, 2019
• Lovers and Lollipops, Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin, 1956
• Mad Love, Karl Freund, 1935 *
• Make Way for Tomorrow, Leo McCarey, 1993
• The Mark, Guy Green, 1961
• The Masque of the Red Death, Roger Corman, 1964
• The Mattei Affair, Francesco Rosi, 1972
• The Missing Picture, Rithy Panh, 2013 *
• Moulin Rouge, John Huston, 1952
• Native Sun, Terence Nance, 2011
• Nenette and Boni, Claire Denis, 1996
• The Night of Counting the Years, Shadi Abdel Salam, 1969
• The Ninth Configuration, William Peter Blatty, 1980
• No Fear, No Die, Claire Denis, 1990
• No Ward, Terence Nance, 2009
• Old Boyfriends, Joan Tewkesbury, 1979
• The Old Dark House, James Whale, 1932
• Once Upon a Time in the West, Sergio Leone, 1968
• Ordinary People, Robert Redford, 1980
• An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, Terence Nance, 2012
• The Pharmacist, Arthur Ripley, 1933
• The Picture of Dorian Gray, Albert Lewin, 1945
• Policeman, Nadav Lapid, 2011
• Pool Sharks, Edwin Middleton, 1915
• The President’s Analyst, Ted Flicker, 1967
• Pressure Point, Hubert Cornfield, 1962
• The Pumpkin Eater, Jack Clayton, 1964
• Rita, Sue and Bob Too, Alan Clarke, 1987
• The Servant, Joseph Losey, 1963
• The Seventh Victim, Mark Robson, 1943
• A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness, Ben Rivers and Ben Russell, 2013
• Stand Up, Joseph Pierce, 2008
• Stranger by the Lake, Alain Guiraudie, 2013 *
• Stray, Ashley McKenzie, 2013
• Sunset Song, Terence Davies, 2015
• Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome, 1974
• Swimming in Your Skin Again, Terence Nance, 2014
• The Tenant, Roman Polanski, 1976
• Their Fall Our All, Terence Nance, 2014
• Towards Mathilde, Claire Denis, 2005 *
• The Uninvited, Lewis Allen, 1944
• Univitellin, Terence Nance, 2016
• Venite et Loquamur, Sky Hopinka, 2015
• Victoria, Sebastian Schipper, 2015
• Village of the Damned, Wolf Rilla, 1960
• Visions of an Island, Sky Hopinka, 2016
• Wawa, Sky Hopinka, 2014
• Welcome II the Terrordome, Ngozi Onwurah, 1995
• Werewolf, Ashley McKenzie, 2016
• When you’re lost in the rain, Sky Hopinka, 2019
• Xiao Wu, Jia Zhangke, 1997
• You and I and You, Terence Nance, 2015
• *Available in the US only

• Shampoo (1975)
• Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman (1997)
• Coma (1978)
• Variety (1983)
• Michigan Avenue (1973)
• When It Rains (1995)
• The Owls (2010)
• The Final Insult (1997)
• The Living End (1992)
• Alice (1988)
• The Watermelon Woman (1996)
• Mildred Pierce (1945)
• Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
• Dames (1934)
• Union Depot (1932)
• Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)
• I-94 (1974)
• Ganja & Hess (1973)
• Election (1999)
• Spellbound (2002)
• Greetings from Africa (1996)
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
• The United States of America (1975)
• Museum Hours (2012)
• Blonde Crazy (1931)
• Janine (1990)
• One Day Pina Asked... (1983)
• Almayer's Folly (2011)
• Millie (1931)
• Footlight Parade (1933)
• Trog (1970)
• Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017)
• Big City Blues (1932)
• Lawyer Man (1932)
• Water Lilies (2007)
• It's Alive (1974)
• Ornette: Made in America (1985)
• Modern America (1981)
• Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1992)
• The Phantom Tollbooth (1970)
• The Horse (1973)
• Parting Glances (1986)
• Olivia (1951)
• The Heiress (1949)
• Mysterious Skin (2004)
• Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling (1986)
• My Brother's Wedding (1983)
• An Untitled Portrait (1993)
• Down There (2006)
• Empty Suitcases (1980)
• Working Girls (1931)
• Tarnation (2003)
• Three on a Match (1932)
• Portrait of Jason (1967)
• Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
• Several Friends (1969)
• Night Nurse (1931)
• The Crowd Roars (1932)
• And When I Die, I Won't Stay Dead (2015)
• Tomboy (2011)
• From the Other Side (2002)
• From the East (1993)
• Duck Soup (1933)
• Lenny (1974)
• South (1999)
• Blondie Johnson (1933)
• Another Country (1984)
• Anybody's Woman (1981)
• A Woman's Face (1941)
• Vanilla Sex (1992)
• Quiet as Kept (2007)
• He Was Her Man (1934)
• She Don't Fade (1991)
• Red Road (2006)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
• The Potluck and the Passion (1993)
• Totally F***d Up (1993)
• Girlhood (2014)
• Luminous Motion (1998)

• 1968 < 2018 > 2068, Keisha Rae Witherspoon, 2018
• 20 Million Miles to Earth, Nathan Juran, 1957
• Afronauts, Nuotama Bodomo, 2014
• Alan Vega: Just a Million Dreams, Marie Losier, 2014
• August at Akiko’s, Christopher Makoto Yogi, 2018
• The Awful Truth, Leo McCarey, 1937
• The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, Irving Reis, 1947
• The Baker’s Wife, Marcel Pagnol, 1938
• Bad Day at Black Rock, John Sturges, 1955 *
• Badlands, Terrence Malick, 1973
• The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, Marie Losier, 2011
• The Becoming Box, Monique Walton, 2011
• Bell, Book and Candle, Richard Quine, 1958
• Belle of the Nineties, Leo McCarey, 1934
• Bim, Bam, Boom, las Luchas Morenas, Marie Losier, 2014
• Bird, Bath and Beyond, Marie Losier, 2003
• Black and Blue, Hugh King and Lamar Williams, 1987
• The Brother from Another Planet, John Sayles, 1984
• Byun, objet trouvé, Marie Losier, 2012
• Cassandro, the Exotico!, Marie Losier, 2018
• Cet Air La, Marie Losier, 2010
• The Changing Same, Cauleen Smith, 2001
• Christmas Inventory, Miguel Gomes, 2000
• The Comedy, Rick Alverson, 2012
• Crumbs, Miguel Llansó, 2015
• Dark Matters, Monique Walton, 2010
• Dawson City: Frozen Time, Bill Morrison, 2016 *
• Days of Heaven, Terrence Malick, 1978
• Diary of an African Nun, Julie Dash, 1977
• Draw Me Now, Marie Losier, 2018
• Eat My Makeup!, Marie Losier, 2005
• Electrocute Your Stars, Marie Losier, 2004
• Entertainment, Rick Alverson, 2015
• Every Day’s a Holiday, A. Edward Sutherland, 1937
• The Family Album, Alan Berliner, 1986
• Father Goose, Ralph Nelson, 1964
• Finding Christa, Camille Billops and James Hatch, 1991
• La flor, Mariano Llinás, 2018 *
• Flying Saucey!, Marie Losier, 2006
• Four Women, Julie Dash, 1975
• Go West Young Man, Henry Hathaway, 1936
• The Golden Chain, Adebukola Bodunrin and Ezra Claytan Daniels, 2014
• Goin’ to Town, Alexander Hall, 1935
• The Grass Is Greener, Stanley Donen, 1960
• Hannah Arendt, Margarethe von Trotta, 2012**
• Harold and Maude, Hal Ashby, 1971
• Hasaki Ya Suda, Cédric Ido, 2011
• Holiday, George Cukor, 1938
• House of Games, David Mamet, 1987
• I Snuck off the Slave Ship, Lonnie Holley and Cyrus Moussavi, 2019
• I’m No Angel, Wesley Ruggles, 1933
• Illusions, Julie Dash, 1982
• Indiscreet, Stanley Donen, 1958
• Intimate Stranger, Alan Berliner, 1991
• Jonah, Kibwe Tavares, 2013
• Kapaemahu, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Joe Wilson, and Dean Hamer, 2020
• The KKK Boutique Ain’t Just Rednecks, Camille Billops, James Hatch, 1994
• Klondike Annie, Raoul Walsh, 1936
• The Last Angel of History, John Akomfrah, 1996
• Like a Mighty Wave, Mikey Inouye, 2020
• The Lusty Men, Nicholas Ray, 1952
• Manuelle Labor, Marie Losier, 2007
• March of the Wooden Soldiers, 1934
• Marianne and Juliane, Margarethe von Trotta, 1981
• Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege, Joan Lander and Puhipau, 2005
• The Mirror Has Two Faces, Barbra Streisand, 1996 *
• Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, H.C. Potter, 1948
• Mutts, Halima Ouardiri, 2019
• My Favorite Wife, Garson Kanin, 1940 *
• My Golden Days, Arnaud Desplechin, 2015
• My Little Chickadee, Edward F. Cline, 1940
• My Sex Life … or How I Got into an Argument, Arnaud Desplechin, 1996
• Mystery of the Wax Museum, Michael Curtiz, 1933
• National Velvet, Clarence Brown, 1944 *
• New Jerusalem, Rick Alverson, 2011
• The New World, Terrence Malick, 2005 *
• The Night of the Hunter, Charles Laughton, 1955
• Nobody’s Business, Alan Berliner, 1997
• Now, Voyager, Irving Rapper, 1942
• Older Women and Love, Camille Billops and James Hatch, 1987
• Once There Was Brasilia, Adirley Queirós, 2017
• The Ontological Cowboy, Marie Losier, 2005
• Operation Petticoat, Blake Edwards, 1959
• Out of State, Ciara Lacy, 2017
• Papal Broken-Dance, Marie Losier, 2008
• Paris Is Burning, Jennie Livingston, 1990
• The Passion of Joan of Arc, Marie Losier, 2002
• Paths of Glory, Stanley Kubrick, 1957
• The People United, Alonzo Speight, 1985
• Praise House, Julie Dash, 1991
• The Prince of Tides, Barbra Streisand, 1991
• Quadrophenia, Franc Roddam, 1979
• The Railway Children, Lionel Jeffries, 1970
• The Reflecting Skin, Philip Ridley, 1990
• Robots of Brixton, Kibwe Tavares, 2011
• Rosa Luxemburg, Margarethe von Trotta, 1986
• Les saignantes, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, 2005
• The Sand Island Story, Victoria Keith, 1981
• She Done Him Wrong, Lowell Sherman, 1933
• The Silent Partner, Daryl Duke, 1978
• Sorry We Missed You, Ken Loach, 2019
• Space Is the Place, John Coney, 1974
• Standing Above the Clouds, Jalena Keane-Lee, 2020
• Standing at the Scratch Line, Julie Dash, 2016
• Stones, Ty Sanga, 2009
• A String of Pearls, Camille Billops and James Hatch, 2002
• Supa Modo, Likarion Wainaina, 2018
• The Sweetest Sound, Alan Berliner, 2001
• T, Keisha Rae Witherspoon, 2019
• Take Your Bags, Camille Billops, 1998
• That Touch of Mink, Delbert Mann, 1962
• Tony Conrad, DreaMinimalist, Marie Losier, 2008
• Touch, Shola Amoo, 2013
• The Touch Retouched, Marie Losier, 2002
• Twaaga, Cédric Ido, 2013
• Uncovering Naked City, Bruce Goldstein, 2020
• Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen, Margarethe von Trotta, 2009 *
• White God, Kornél Mundruczó, 2014
• White Out, Black In, Adirley Queirós, 2014
• A Woman Under the Influence, John Cassavetes, 1974
• Yeelen, Souleymane Cissé, 1987
• Yentl, Barbra Streisand, 1983
• Zombies, Baloji, 2019

*Available in the U.S. only