The Criterion Collection Complete

LUBITSCH, Ernst (United States) The Shop Around the Corner [1940] Spine #1340 4K With this touchstone of romantic comedy, master of high-society sophistication Ernst Lubitsch applied his famously elegant style to a new subject: the everyday hopes, fears, and heartbreaks animating the lives of the employees at a humble leather-goods shop in Budapest. As Christmas approaches, battling coworkers Alfred Kralik (James Stewart) and Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan) grow increasingly exasperated with each other—unaware that, all the while, they have been exchanging anonymous love letters as pen pals. Graced with an irresistible ensemble cast, The Shop Around the Corner is a poignant, warmhearted look at the difference between romantic expectation and reality. 99 minutes Monaural Black and White 1:37:1 Criterion Release 2026 Director/Writer Ernst Lubitsch  was 48 when he directed The Shop Around the Corner . Screenplay by Samson Raphaelson . Based on a play by Miklós László . Other Lubitsc...

HERZOG, Werner (United States) Grizzly Man [2005] Spine #1339 4K Forever drawn to dreamers living on their own uncompromising terms, Werner Herzog journeyed, with this film, into the quixotic world of one of his most unforgettable subjects: Timothy Treadwell, a self-styled environmentalist who, for thirteen summers, lived among grizzly bears in the Alaskan wilderness, forging an intense bond with the animals and ultimately losing his life to one of them. Drawing on more than one hundred hours of video shot by Treadwell, Herzog searches for meaning within the tragedy, offering a mesmerizing meditation on humanity’s relationship to nature, and our drive to find purpose in an often indifferent world. One of the most profound documentaries ever made, Grizzly Man is a gripping investigation into the ecstatic life of a seeker who dared to live beyond the boundaries of civilization. 104 minutes 5.1 Surround Color 1:78:1 Criterion Release 2026 Director Werner Herzog  was 63 when he direc...

MINGHELLA, Anthony (United States) The English Patient [1996] Spine #1338 4K Anthony Minghella transforms Michael Ondaatje’s prizewinning novel into one of the most breathtaking romances ever put on-screen, a film that captured both the cultural imagination and the Academy Awards (winning nine Oscars, including Best Picture). Rescued from a crashed plane in the Sahara during World War II, a badly burned, unidentified man (Ralph Fiennes) comes under the care of a compassionate nurse (Juliette Binoche), as he pieces together the memories of an affair that led him to a life-shaking reckoning. The English Patient is epic filmmaking of rare intelligence and delicacy, and a piercing reflection on the barriers that war creates and love transcends. 162 minutes 5.1 Surround Color 1:85:1 Criterion Release 2026 Director/Writer Anthony Minghella  was 42 when he wrote and directed The English Patient . Based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje . The Film The Extras The Booklet Commentary Video t...

KAUFMAN, Philip (United States) The Right Stuff [1983] Spine #1337 4K An awe-inspiring salute to human achievement and the wonder of the unknown, this monumental account of the space race celebrates the pioneering pilots who took mankind beyond the bounds of Earth. From the quest that test pilot Chuck Yeager (Sam Shepard) undertakes to break the sound barrier to the epochal voyages of the seven Mercury astronauts, including Alan Shepard (Scott Glenn) and John Glenn (Ed Harris), The Right Stuff vividly details the triumphs, setbacks, and clashes of personality in America’s burgeoning space program. Fusing astonishing practical effects with NASA archival footage to yield images of cosmic majesty, director Philip Kaufman reveals the combination of courage, competition, and fallibility behind America’s launch into orbit. 193 minutes 5.1 Surround Color 1:85:1 Criterion Release 2026 Director/Writer Philip Kaufman  was 47 when he wrote and directed The Right Stuff . Based on the book by ...

PARAJANOV, Sergei (Ukraine) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors [1965] Spine #1336 4K A towering achievement of world cinema, Sergei Parajanov’s modernist landmark fuses folkloric traditions, animistic mysticism, and hallucinatory visual invention. Adapted from a 1911 novella by Ukrainian writer Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors follows Ivanko (Ivan Mykolaichuk), a young Hutsul peasant who experiences both the depths of grief and glimmers of hope as he attempts to move beyond his first love, Marichka (an ethereal Larysa Kadochnykova). Steeped in the earthy atmosphere of the Carpathian Mountains, and featuring kinetic, radiantly colorful cinematography by Yuri Illienko and a collagelike experimental soundtrack, Parajanov’s film is a singularly mythopoeic work of art. 96 minutes Monaural Color/Black and White in Ukrainian 1:37:1 Criterion Release 2026 Director/Writer Sergei Parajanov  was 41 when he directed Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors . Screenplay by Parajanov a...

COPPOLA, Sofia (United States) Marie Antoinette [2006] Spine #1335 4K Sofia Coppola brings a candy-colored palette, a dreamy synth-pop soundtrack, and Converse high-tops to eighteenth-century Versailles for this exuberantly subversive, extravagantly stylized anti-biopic of one of history’s most infamous (and perhaps misunderstood) figures. Kirsten Dunst portrays Marie Antoinette as a rebellious teenage princess, who marries the awkward young dauphin of France (Jason Schwartzman), soon to be crowned King Louis XVI. Feeling isolated in a royal court rife with scandal and intrigue, Marie Antoinette defies both royalty and commoner by living like a rock star—which can work for only so long. 123 minutes 5.1 Surround Color 1:85:1 Criterion Release 2026 Director/Writer Sofia Coppola  was 35 when she wrote and directed Marie Antoinette . Based on the book Marie Antoinette: The Journey  by Antonia Fraser . Other Coppola films in the Collection: #920: The Virgin Suicides (1999) The Fil...

LYNCH, David (United States) Wild at Heart [1990] Spine #1334 4K “This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.” With this torrid adaptation of the novel by Barry Gifford, David Lynch pushed his vision of nightmarish Americana into new realms of delirious excess and feverish romanticism. Burning with libidinal abandon, Laura Dern and Nicolas Cage are Lula and Sailor, outlaw lovers whose reckless passion sends them on the run through a menacing South, where their dream of freedom collides with a vortex of violence and depravity. Blending all-American iconography ranging from Elvis to The Wizard of Oz into a twisted southern-gothic soap opera, and featuring memorable supporting turns by Willem Dafoe and Diane Ladd, the film conjures a dark dreamscape of danger, desire, and fantasy that stands as perhaps the most transcendently perverse love story of the 1990s. 125 minutes 2.0 Surround Color 2:39:1 Criterion Release 2026 Director/Writer David Lynch  was 44 when he wrote and di...