What to watch this weekend

Check out our latest news about the Criterion Channel, including what’s streaming this week! NEWSLETTER - MAY 24, 2019 Criterion Channel News A guide to the latest from the Criterion Channel. If you haven’t already subscribed, [click here]( for a 14-day free trial and explore the more than 1,500 titles and thousands of supplemental features available to stream. [Adventures in Moviegoing with Sofia Coppola]( In the latest installment of the Criterion Channel’s guest-curator series, the director of such acclaimed films as The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation discusses some of her most memorable viewing experiences—from falling in love with Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless at the age of twelve to discovering Rainer Werner Fassbinder deep cut Fear of Fear during a recent retrospective. You can watch both of those movies, along with five more of Coppola’s favorites, in the series accompanying our new interview. [Games of Vision in Street of Shame]( Professor David Bordwell presents this in-depth look at the intricate mise-en-scène in Kenji Mizoguchi’s final masterpiece. [Pierced to the Bone]( Two teenage girls navigate the adult world in these heartrending, stylistically kindred portraits of young women forced to grow up too soon. [Girlfriends]( Director Claudia Weill introduces this touchstone of independent cinema, which captures the complexities of women’s lives with wry humor and refreshing frankness. [Hong Sang-soo x 3]( Sex, cinema, and soju provide the magic formula for the work of this prolific South Korean auteur. Dive into a trio of his films, introduced by critic Phillip Lopate. Available only in the U.S. [Dream Girls]( Though set worlds apart, these tantalizing tales about the riddles of female adolescence share the same perfumed air of hazy, hypnotic languor. [Saturday Matinee]( Producer Alexander Korda’s The Thief of Bagdad, inspired by The Arabian Nights, is one of the most spectacular fantasy films ever made. Watch it on the Channel with supplements from our edition. EDITION #868 [Tampopo]( Juzo Itami’s lavishly inclusive paean to the sensual joys of nourishment is one of the most mouthwatering examples of food on film ever made. SPECIAL FEATURES: A making-of documentary, interviews with ramen chefs, a video essay, and more. For further information on Criterion and our products, please visit our website at [criterion.com.]( If you are not already on our mailing list and would like to be added, please [click here]( to register at [criterion.com](. To unsubscribe, [click here.]( © 2019 The Criterion Collection.