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Aug 7, 2025 — After wildly successful stops in multiple cities across the U.S., we’re taking the Mobile Closet outside the country for the first time this September.

Aug 5, 2025 — From Grosse Pointe Blank to Singles to Trainspotting, some of the decade’s most memorable fusions of music and cinema brought underground culture to new heights of pop consciousness.

Jul 17, 2025 — Among this month’s highlights are a spotlight on ’90s soundtracks, a celebration of Hong Kong icon Sammo Hung, and a retrospective of the work of Spanish auteur Bigas Luna.

Jul 15, 2025 — Much of the program upends assumptions about the postwar years as a period of relative calm and conformity.

May 27, 2025 — Suffused with slapstick humor and slightly surreal wit, Richard Lester’s beloved take on a frequently adapted adventure epic embodies a style of extravagant filmmaking that didn’t survive long past the 1970s.

May 27, 2025 — A landmark of independent cinema, Charles Burnett’s debut feature captures daily life in Watts, Los Angeles, with a depth and precision that evokes the history of Black American music.

Apr 18, 2025 — When Mayor John Lindsay made it easier for filmmakers to shoot on location in New York City, he paved the way for a string of movies that captured the troubled metropolis in the late sixties and early seventies.

Apr 17, 2025 — After a wildly successful stop at SXSW, where we welcomed over a thousand film fans, the Mobile Closet is making its way to Vidiots and American Cinematheque in LA.

Feb 19, 2025 — Following its wildly successful launch at the New York Film Festival and a Brooklyn stop at St. Ann’s Warehouse, the Criterion Mobile Closet is making its first trip outside of New York City this March.

Jan 21, 2025 — Lynchian may be impossible to define, but you know it when you see it.