For offbeat films, try the Criterion Collection

Above : Seijun Suzuki’s 1967 film “Branded to Kill” is streaming on the Criterion Channel. (Photo/Criterion Collection)

When you can’t find anything you want to watch in theaters, it’s more and more common to resort to a streaming service. For some movie fans, streaming is a first choice.

And for fans of non-mainstream cinema, the Criterion Channel is a dependable source of films that you’re not apt to find many other places.

In its “New Collections” section, for example, Criterion has a number of interesting choices. One offers the films of Jennifer Jason Leigh, another the films of Jimmy Stewart as directed by Anthony Mann, still another Asian-American films of the 1980s.

The various “New Collections” offerings:

“Starring Jennifer Jason Leigh” : Eleven films trace Leigh’s career from 1985’s “Flesh + Blood” to 2008’s “Synecdoche, New York.”

“Anthony Mann Directs James Stewart” : Beginning with 1950’s “Winchester ’73” and proceeding through 1955’s “Strategic Air Command,” the Mann-Stewart partnership tackles Westerns, a biography of band leader Glenn Miller and that final military study.

“Asian American ’80s” : An even dozen films are included in this collection, beginning with 1982’s “Chan Is Missing” to 1990’s “Two Lies.”

“Seijun Suzuki: The Chaos of Cool” : Fourteen films directed by Japanese filmmaker Seijun Suzuk i range from 1957’s “Eight Hours of Terror” to 1991’s “Yumeji.”

“Austin Film Society” : When it was founded in 1985 by Richard Linklater , the Austin Film Society specialized in showing experimental cinema – something new to Austin. Thirteen films range from “1986’s “Working Girls” to 2017’s “The Rabbit Hole.” (Don’t ignore Linklater’s classic 1991 film “Slacker.”)

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