The official website for The Criterion Collection announced last week that it will be adding an anime section to its Criterion Channel streaming service this coming August.
The service will add the following anime films next month:
- • Ghost in the Shell
- • Redline
- • Paprika (available only in the U.S.)
- • Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space
The Criterion Channel is currently streaming Naoko Yamada‘s Liz and the Blue Bird and five Makoto Shinkai films: 5 Centimeters Per Second, Children Who Chase Lost Voices, The Place Promised in Our Early Days, She and Her Cat, and Voices of a Distant Star.
The Criterion Channel describes itself on its website as an “independent streaming service” run by The Criterion Collection that hosts several classic and contemporary films from Hollywood and around the world. Subscribers have access to more than 500 shorts and 5,000 feature films, along with trailers, introductions, behind-the-scenes documentaries, interviews, video essays, commentary tracks, and archival footage.
Sources: Criterion Collection Official Twitter, Official Website
