There have been over 1,000 Netflix Original movies released since 2015, and some of them have even been chosen to get included in the prestigious Criterion Collection. Here is a list of all Netflix Originals released on Criterion. Netflix first entered the movie business back in 2015 with its first Netflix Original movie, Beasts of No Nation. While Netflix still offers DVD rentals, it has largely restricted its original movies to streaming. Exceptions are Netflix Originals that appear in the Criterion Collection. Criterion Collection is a distribution company dedicated to licensing, restoring, and distributing classic movies and films they consider historic. Since its founding in 1984, the company has distributed more than 1,000 special editions of various films. Below is the list of netflix originals that are in the Criterion Collection
Beasts of No Nation
- Netflix Release: October 16th, 2015
- Criterion Release: August 2021
Cary Joji Fukunaga wrote, co-produced, filmed, and directed Beasts of No Nation, a 2015 American military drama film. It tells the storey of a young kid who becomes a child soldier during his country's brutal civil war. The film, which was shot in Ghana and stars Idris Elba, Abraham Attah, Ama K. Based on Uzodinma Iweala's 2005 novel of the same name, this film stars Abebrese, Nortey, Dontoh, and Fagbohungbe. Netflix's first Netflix Original was honored years after its original release on Netflix.
Roma
- Netflix Release: December 14th, 2018
- Criterion Release: February 2020
Netflix's Roma has won many awards, including three Oscars. The film by Alfonso Cuarón depicts a middle-class family's maid's life during the early 1970s. During the 1970s, Antonio and Sofia employed CLEO as one of two domestic workers to look after their four children. When Antonio leaves with his mistress, Cleo learns she is pregnant, and Antonio runs away with her. In order to relieve Cleo's stress and help her bond with her family, Sofia invites her on vacation with the kids.
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
- Netflix Release: June 12th 2019
- Criterion Release: January 2021
In fact, this is the first of two Martin Scorsese Netflix projects in 2019 that are available on Criterion and have been released on Netflix as well. Scorsese also made a second documentary on Bob Dylan after his 2005 entry. Martin Scorsese's Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story covers Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue concert tour in a 2019 pseudo-documentary film combining fictional and non-fictional material. The film is directed by Martin Scorsese, who previously directed No Direction Home in 2005. In the majority of Rolling Thunder Revue, Dylan uses outtakes from the film Renaldo and Clara he filmed in conjunction with the tour. Dylan, Joan Baez, Sam Shepard, Ronee Blakley, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Roger McGuinn, Ronnie Hawkins, Larry Sloman, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and Allen Ginsberg feature in the documentary. A fictional version of the tour was also featured, including Martin Von Haselberg portraying a fictional filmmaker Stefan Van Dorp, Sharon Stone as a fictionalized version of herself, and Michael Murphy from Tanner '88 reprising his role. Although Dylan himself refers to the fictional characters in his interviews, Rolling Thunder Revue does not determine which parts of the film are factual and which are fiction. The audience is left to speculate about which parts of the film are real and which are fabrications.
The Irishman
- Netflix Release: November 27th, 2019
- Criterion Release: November 2020
In Martin Scorsese's Oscar-nominated Netflix film, featuring Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino, the length was questioned by many, but it's one of Scorsese's best films. Martin Scorsese directed and produced the 2019 epic crime film I Heard You Paint Houses and Steven Zaillian wrote the screenplay, adapted from Charles Brandt's nonfiction book I Heard You Paint Houses. Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci appear in the film, along with Ray Romano, Bobby Cannavale, Anna Paquin, Stephen Graham, and Harvey Keitel in supporting roles. As a truck driver turned hitman, Frank Sheeran (De Niro) became affiliated with mobster Russell Bufalino (Pesci) and his crime family, including working for the powerful labor leader Jimmy Hoffa (Pacino). The film marks the ninth collaboration between Scorsese and De Niro, the first partnership between Scorsese and Pacino, and the fourth movie in which both De Niro and Pacino star together (after The Godfather Part II, Heat, and Righteous Kill).
Marriage Story
- Netflix Release: December 6th, 2019
- Criterion Release: July 2020
A 2019 drama film, Marriage Story is written and directed by Noah Baumbach, with David Heyman producing. The movie stars Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver, along with Laura Dern, Alan Alda, Ray Liotta, Julie Hagerty, and Merritt Wever in supporting roles. Johansson and Driver play an actress and a stage director who are going through a coast-to-coast divorce. The movie premiered at the Venice Film Festival on August 29, 2019, and is set for a limited theatrical release on November 6 followed by a digital release on December 6. Baumbach's screenplay and direction, Driver, and Dern's performances, as well as Randy Newman's music, garnered acclaim for Marriage Story. Aside from its many accolades, the film received six nominations at the 92nd Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor (Driver), and Best Actress (Johansson). Moreover, it received six nominations at the 77th Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture - Drama, as well as five at the 73rd British Academy Film Awards. Dern won the Academy Award, the Golden Globe, the Screen Actors Guild Award, the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress, and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for her performance in the film.
Dick Johnson is Dead
- Netflix Release: October 2nd, 2020
- Criterion Release:January 2022
Johnson and Bangerter co-wrote the script for Dick Johnson Is Dead, a documentary film based in 2020. It is directed by Kirsten Johnson. In the story, retired psychiatrist Richard Johnson (known as "Dick") is suffering from dementia. Kirsten Johnson encourages him to enact his impending death in various ways, including "falling down a flight of stairs, being struck in the neck and bleeding". Furthermore, she makes him perform his own funeral and fantasize about entering the gates of heaven. In one scene, Dick amiably plays along with her black humor; he says, "You can euthanize me." At the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, the film won the Special Jury Award for Innovation in Non-Fiction Storytelling. Netflix released it on October 2, 2020 and it will be released on Criterion in January 2022.
- By Rashmi Goel
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