With it being 1st April, The Criterion Channel has announced its April 2024 lineup and it’s a scorcher. Amongst the many titles available to watch, we have:
- A tribute to William Friedkin
- “Come Back, Africa” a Lionel Rogosin a film made in secret in South Africa about
a young Zulu man’s struggles to provide for his family under the crushing burden of apartheid
- Martin Scorsese’s After Hours
- A collection of anime films by Makoto Shinkai
- Three movies from Cameroonian director Rosine Mbakam
- A candid documentary on the late great Maurice Hines
- Michael Mann’s crime classic Heat (hence the puns)
Criterion related: Ashley Clark’s Afrofuturist film series on Criterion Channel and Black titles from a Criterion Collection line-up in 2021