The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, In the Heat of the Night, The Wind Will Carry Us, Withnail and I, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, The Three Musketeers / The Four Musketeers: Two Films by Richard Lester, and Killer of Sheep
THE CRITERION COLLECTION
MAY 27, 2025 | | | |
| Catherine Deneuve was launched to stardom by this dazzling musical heart-tugger from Jacques Demy—one of the most revered and unorthodox movie musicals of all time, told entirely through lilting songs composed by Michel Legrand.
Special Features: 4K UHD release; a documentary featuring Demy, Deneuve, Legrand, actor Marc Michel, and filmmaker Agnès Varda; an interview with film scholar Rodney Hill; and more | | | | One of Hollywood's most enduring films of the civil rights era, Norman Jewison's five-time Oscar-winning police procedural splices incisive social commentary with career-defining lead performances from Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger.
Special Features: 4K UHD release; interviews with Jewison, Poitier, actor Lee Grant, and author Aram Goudsouzian; audio commentary featuring Jewison, Grant, Steiger, and cinematographer Haskell Wexler; and more | | | | The mysteries of everyday life come into astonishing focus in Abbas Kiarostami's meditative masterpiece, which follows an undercover documentarian whose assignment to cover a small village's funeral rites is continually frustrated by an elderly woman's refusal to die.
Special Features: An interview with Kiarostami; a new video essay presenting Kiarostami's poetry, narrated by Massoumeh Lahiji; a making-of documentary; and more | | | | The ultimate cult British comedy, Bruce Robinson's beloved end-of-youth tale stars Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann as a pair of perpetually soused, unemployed actors in 1960s London who embark on a hilariously misbegotten country getaway.
Special Features: 4K UHD release; audio commentaries featuring Robinson, McGann, and actor Ralph Brown; new interviews with Robinson and Grant; a documentary on the making of the film; and more | | | | Richard E. Grant gives a virtuostically crazed performance as an ambitious advertising exec on the edge of a nervous breakdown in Bruce Robinson's diabolically dark satire of runaway capitalism, a caustic Jekyll-and-Hyde tale for the greed-is-good 1980s.
Special Features: A new documentary featuring interviews with Robinson and Grant, a new essay by critic David Cairns, and more | | | | This all-star, two-part swashbuckling spectacular from Richard Lester breathes new life into Alexandre Dumas's immortal tale of adventure and camaraderie.
Special Features: 4K UHD release; a new documentary by critic David Cairns; programs featuring Lester and the cast and crew members; and more | | | | A quiet revelation of American independent filmmaking, Charles Burnett's lyrical debut feature—a mosaic of life in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles—is a masterpiece that brought Black American lives to the screen with an aching intimacy like no film before.
Special Features: 4K UHD release, a new appreciation by filmmaker Barry Jenkins, new interviews with Burnett and actor Henry Gayle Sanders, two short films by Burnett, and more | | | | | | |
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