What to watch this weekend

Check out our latest news about the Criterion Channel, including what’s streaming this week! NEWSLETTER - JUNE 7, 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 1,600 titles and thousands of supplemental features available to stream. [Alec Guinness]( Heralded by Peter Ustinov as “the outstanding poet of anonymity” for his virtuosic ability to disappear into a role, British cinema icon Alec Guinness was the ultimate example of character actor as movie star, renowned for his nuanced performances and dazzling range. This extensive retrospective features fourteen highlights from his career, including the Charles Dickens adaptations he made with David Lean, beloved Ealing comedies like Kind Hearts and Coronets, and rarities such as The Scapegoat and The Prisoner. [Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul]( Watch a selection of this Thai innovator’s hallucinatory meditations on memory and mortality alongside a documentary profile made exclusively for the Channel. [A Pack of Hyenas]( Hyenas skulk through two award-winning works of African cinema: Jessica Beshir’s experimental documentary Hairat and Souleymane Cissé’s landmark spiritual odyssey Yeelen. [Dorothy Arzner x 3]( An openly gay woman director whose career spanned from the silent era into the 1940s, this underappreciated pioneer takes the spotlight in a Channel series introduced by critic B. Ruby Rich. [George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin]( This invaluable documentary gathers vivid footage shot by the great Hollywood director (A Place in the Sun, Giant) while in Europe during World War II. [Wild Things]( Featuring striking hand-drawn visuals and an uncompromising faithfulness to the classic novels of Richard Adams, these animal fables are searing reflections of our own turbulent world. [Saturday Matinee]( A resourceful young man makes his way through nineteenth-century London in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, a stylish adaptation of Charles Dickens’s sprawling novel. EDITION #975 [Funny Games]( With this controversial treatise on violence and entertainment, Michael Haneke issued a summation of his cinematic philosophy, implicating his audience in a spectacle of cruelty. SPECIAL FEATURES: Interviews with Haneke, actor Arno Frisch, and film historian Alexander Horwath; and the press conference from the film’s Cannes premiere. 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.