“King of Indie Animation” Bill Plympton’s wonderfully weird creations are unmistakable: the wriggly, hand-sketched style, warped humor, and endlessly shape-shifting, transmogrifying images are the hallmarks of a singularly bizarre and brilliant imagination. A self-described “blend of Magritte and R. Crumb,” Plympton is a one-of-a-kind auteur of the absurd, an underground-animation hero whose films hold a funhouse mirror up to the innate strangeness of everyday reality. Now on the Criterion Chann

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As Korean pop culture continues its worldwide ascent, now is a perfect time to catch up with the wild, eclectic pleasures of the seemingly unstoppable movement known as the New Korean Cinema. Characterized by an ingenious mixing and subversion of genre conventions and an effortless blending of art-house and commercial sensibilities, these visceral, audaciously constructed films deliver both high-octane thrills and biting social and political critiques of contemporary Korean life. Bringing togeth