The Criterion Collection Complete

RAY, Satyajit (India) Days and Nights in the Forest [1970] Spine #1328 4K One of director Satyajit Ray’s greatest achievements begins with the deceptively easy grace of a buddy comedy—only to give way to darker moral shading. Seeking a weekend escape from the city, four friends from Kolkata embark on a driving trip to the countryside, where their urban entitlement and prejudices are gradually exposed. Among these young bachelors is the overconfident Ashim (Soumitra Chatterjee), who finds his self-assurance shaken by Aparna (the radiant Sharmila Tagore), an enigmatic young woman whose cool intellect conceals turbulent emotional depths. Filmed luminously amid the sound-dappled splendor of the woodlands of India’s Palamu region, Days and Nights in the Forest deconstructs the masculine ego and India’s fraught class divisions with elegant complexity. 116 minutes Monaural Black and White in Bengali 1:37:1 Criterion Release 2026 Director/Writer Satyajit Ray  was 49 when he wrote and dir...

LINKLATER, Richard (France) Nouvelle Vague [2025] Spine #1327 4K It’s 1959, and a young Jean-Luc Godard (Guillaume Marbeck) is the only one among his film-critic peers at Cahiers du cinéma not to have made a feature film. Determined to put his revolutionary cinematic ideas into practice, he brings his small crew and two stars—an eager unknown named Jean-Paul Belmondo (Aubry Dullin) and wary Hollywood expat Jean Seberg (Zoey Deutch)—onto the streets of Paris to shoot Breathless, an adventure in unfettered creativity that would soon upend the way movies are made. With this enthralling love letter from one cinematic maverick to another, director Richard Linklater captures, with buoyant humor and effortless charm, the intoxicating joy of being young, breaking all the rules, and making art without boundaries. 106 minutes 5.1 Surround Black and White in French and English 1:37:1 Criterion Release 2026 Director/Writer Richard Linklater was 65 when he directed Nouvelle Vague . Screenplay b...

CARAX, Leos (France) The Lovers at the Bridge [1991] Spine #1326c 4K With this feverish saga of amour fou, Leos Carax pushed his ambitions to glorious new heights. Michèle (Juliette Binoche), an artist who is losing her sight, meets Alex (Denis Lavant), a homeless street performer, while sleeping rough on Paris’s centuries-old Pont-Neuf, beginning an obsessive affair that soon collides with crushing reality. The result of an infamously lengthy, arduous production, The Lovers on the Bridge is a bracing plunge into life on the city’s turbulent margins—a visually arresting, musically intoxicating film that is never more dazzling than when the lovers water-ski madly across the Seine amid a shower of fireworks. 125 minutes 5.1 Surround Color in French 1:66:1 Criterion Release 2026 Director/Writer Leos Carax was 31 when he wrote and directed The Lovers at the Bridge . The Film The Extras The Booklet Commentary Video tribute Documentary 1 Documentary 2 Documentary 3 Controversial altered e...

CARAX, Leos (France) Mauvais Sang [1986] Spine #1326b 4K With his exhilarating second feature, Leos Carax infuses a neonoir scenario with a delirious strain of doomed romanticism for a tour de force of avant-pop invention. Amid the spread of STBO—a sexually transmitted disease acquired by having sex without emotion—a young ex-con (Denis Lavant) is recruited by a veteran criminal (Michel Piccoli) to steal the antidote, only to find himself entangled in a dangerous affair with his new associate’s lover (Juliette Binoche). Constructed with the kinetic verve of a musical, Mauvais sang explodes in moments of pure cinematic adrenaline, from a dizzying skydive to Lavant’s heart-pounding nighttime sprint set to David Bowie’s “Modern Love.” 120 minutes 5.1 Surround Color in French 1:66:1 Criterion Release 2026 Director/Writer Leos Carax was 26 when he wrote and directed Mauvais Sang . The Film The Extras The Booklet Commentary Video tribute Documentary 1 Documentary 2 Documentary 3 Controver...

CARAX, Leos (France) Boy Meets Girl [1984] Spine #1326a 4K Made when he was just twenty-three years old, Leos Carax’s rapturous debut feature returns French cinema to the unfettered experimentation of the New Wave while updating it for the punk 1980s. In velvety black and white, Boy Meets Girl evokes a surreal nocturnal Paris populated by lost souls and wandering misfits, including Alex (Denis Lavant), a disaffected would-be filmmaker whose girlfriend has just left him for his best friend, and Mireille (Mireille Perrier), an aspiring actress nursing her own heartbreak. Drawn together by fate, they share a moment of intense, fleeting connection as bright-burning and ephemeral as youth itself. 104 minutes 5.1 Surround Black and White in French 1:66:1 Criterion Release 2026 Director/Writer Leos Carax was 24 when he wrote and directed Boy Meets Girl . The Film The Extras The Booklet Commentary Video tribute Documentary 1 Documentary 2 Documentary 3 Controversial altered ending Theatrica...

CARAX, Leos (France) Three Films by Leos Carax [1984-1991] Spine #1326 4K Burning with stylistic freedom, the first three features by Leos Carax are cinema at its most ecstatically sensorial and deliriously romantic. Built around virtuosic, intensely physical performances from Denis Lavant as three different characters named Alex, these tales of outsiders, criminals, and doomed lovers living on the edge blaze with the whirlwind abandon of youth and the thrilling highs and torturous lows of all-consuming passion. Love letters to the city of Paris, with its streets transformed by cinematographer Jean-Yves Escoffier into expressive dreamscapes, these three films erupt in moments of anarchic euphoria that fuse sound and image to heart-stopping effect. 1326a: Boy Meets Girl (1984) 1326b: Mauvais Sang (1986) 1326c: The Lovers at the Bridge (1991) Criterion Release 2026 By Director By Spine #

FILHO, Kleber Mendonça (Brazil) The Secret Agent [2025] Spine #1325 4K With an electrifying blend of kinetic punch and elegiac historical sweep, Kleber Mendonça Filho connects life under Brazil’s twentieth-century military dictatorship to the living present, delivering a kaleidoscopic period thriller pulsing with resonance. In 1977, under the alias Armando, a man (Wagner Moura) arrives in the city of Recife to try to make a fresh start with his young son. However, the threat of violence immediately encroaches, while around him swirl corrupt cops, grimy hit men, haunted exiles, and a wild urban legend that ignites a public frenzy. Continually spinning off its temporal and narrative axes, The Secret Agent unfurls an epic canvas teeming with life and love for those who refuse to submit to systems of oppression. 161 minutes 5.1 Surround Color in Portuguese 2:39:1 Criterion Release 2026 Director/Writer Kleber Mendonça Filho  was 57 when he wrote and directed The Secret Agent . The Fil...