The Criterion Collection has announced six new titles to join the collection on 4K UHD and Blu-Ray in December: Nashville (1975), Divorce Italian Style (1961), The English Patient (1996), Grizzly Man (2005), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), and Eclipse Series 50: Sara Gómez’s Revolutionary Cuba (1964 – 1977). These represent a rollicking triumph of 1970s American moviemaking, a diabolically subversive Italian satire, one of the most breathtaking romances ever put on-screen, a profound meditation on humanity’s relationship to nature, an irresistible touchstone of romantic comedy, and a slate of films from an Afro-Cuban cinematic pioneer. Details on these films can be found below:

Nashville (4K UHD Blu-Ray)

Street Date: December 1, 2026

Synopsis: This cornerstone of 1970s American moviemaking from Robert Altman is a panoramic view of the country’s political and cultural landscapes, set in the nation’s music capital. Nashville weaves the stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—into a cinematic tapestry that is equal parts comedy, tragedy, and musical. Many members of the astonishing cast wrote their own songs and performed them live on location, which lends another layer to the film’s quirky authenticity. Altman’s ability to get to the heart of American life via its eccentric byways was never put to better use than in this grand, rollicking triumph, which barrels forward to an unforgettable conclusion.

Divorce Italian Style (4K UHD & Blu-Ray)

Street Date: December 1, 2026

Synopsis: In this black-comic masterpiece, director Pietro Germi delivers a diabolically subversive satire of the Italian family structure, Catholic piety, and male chauvinism. Sending up his own suave image, Marcello Mastroianni stars as the middle-aged scion of a faded aristocratic Sicilian family who pines after his younger cousin (Stefania Sandrelli). The problem: he’s married, in a country where divorce is illegal. Cue the murderous fantasies that drive him down an increasingly deranged path of self-delusion and self-destruction. Laying bare the absurd contradictions of bourgeois morality with each audacious twist, Germi serves up an acerbic portrait of a tradition-bound culture colliding with the unstoppable force of modernity.

The English Patient (4K UHD & Blu-Ray)

Street Date: December 8, 2026

Synopsis: 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.

4K UHD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director of photography John Seale, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the special features
• New program featuring Seale and script supervisor Dianne Dreyer
• Two audio commentaries, featuring director Anthony Minghella, producer Saul Zaentz, and author Michael Ondaatje
• Documentary on the making of the film
• Interviews with Minghella, Ondaatje, Zaentz, editor Walter Murch, production designer Stuart Craig, stills photographer Phil Bray, and historians Robert Collins and David Hall
• Deleted scenes with commentary by Minghella
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic Bilal Qureshi

Grizzly Man (Blu-Ray)

Street Date: December 8, 2026

Synopsis: 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.

Street Date: December 15, 2026

Synopsis: 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.

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• New audio commentary featuring Joseph McBride, author of How Did Lubitsch Do It?
• New appreciation by actor-writer Noah Wyle
• Two radio adaptations of the film, one featuring the original cast and one featuring Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by author Sam Wasson

Eclipse Series 50: Sara Gómez’s Revolutionary Cuba (Blu-Ray)

Street Date: December 15, 2026

Synopsis: A true cinematic revolutionary who used the camera as her tool in the fight against oppression in all forms, the Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez brought the stories of ordinary Cubans to the screen with a bracing immediacy and insight. Drawing on her background in ethnography, Gómez became her country’s first woman director, exploring issues of class, race, labor, women’s health, and Afro-Cuban culture in a string of intimate, illuminating shorts that reveal the complex realities of life in a postrevolutionary society rocked by seismic change. Though she directed only one feature—the formally innovative landmark of radical feminist cinema One Way or Another—before her death from an asthma attack at age thirty-one, Gómez left behind a vital legacy as a pioneer whose inquisitive work continues to offer lessons in what an engaged anticolonial cinema can be.

Films In This Set:

• One Way or Another
• I’ll Go to Santiago
• Excursion to Vueltabajo
• Guanabacoa: Chronicle of My Family
• And . . . We’ve Got Sabor
• On the Other Island
• An Island for Miguel
• Treasure Island
• Local Power, Popular Power
• A Documentary About Transit
• On Sugar Workers’ Quarters
• My Contribution
• Year One
• Prenatal Care
• About Extra Hours and Volunteer Work

Special Features

• An essay by scholar Odette Casamayor-Cisneros

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