The Criterion faithful are very happy — standing out in the rain on a cold Saturday morning, hundreds of them, waiting in a line that stretches several blocks. Three fans, Daniel Solis, Marco ...

“By and large about 40 percent of our revenues come from foreign, and in some cases more,” he added. A few weeks later, Platoon took home the Oscar for best picture and Stone won best director.

The Criterion Channel has likely surpassed this—it has over 100,000 downloads on the Google Play store alone. But that’s still small compared with other specialty streamers like Mubi, which ...

Based on Stone's own wartime experiences in Vietnam, Platoon stars Dafoe as Sgt. Elias, whose level-headed manner distinguishes him from his violence-prone fellow officer, Staff Sgt. Barnes (Tom ...