The Criterion Collection has announced nine new titles to join the collection on 4K UHD and Blu-Ray in June: Five Easy Pieces (1970), Charade (1963), West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty (1979), High Art (1998), Hairspray (1988), Desperate Living (1977), Magellan (2025), Eclipse Series 6: Carlos Saura’s Flamenco Trilogy (1981-1986), and It Was Just an Accident (2025).

These represent a masterpiece of early-1970s American alienation, a deliciously dark 1960s comedic thriller, a one-of-a-kind Pan-African musical spectacular, an essential 1990s NYC queer romance, a pair of unforgettable films from John Waters, a radically antiheroic portrait of a sixteenth-century explorer,  three colorful paeans to bodies in motion, and an urgent moral thriller from Iran. Details on these films can be found below:

Five Easy Pieces (4K UHD Blu-Ray)

Street Date: June 2, 2026

Synopsis: Following Jack Nicholson’s breakout supporting turn in Easy Rider, director Bob Rafelson devised a powerful leading role for the new star in the searing character study Five Easy Pieces. Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirtysomething oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of responsibility, who returns to his upper-middle-class childhood home, blue-collar girlfriend (Karen Black, in an Oscar-nominated role) in tow, to see his estranged, ailing father. Moving in its simplicity and gritty in its textures, Five Easy Pieces is a lasting example of early-1970s American alienation.

Charade (4K UHD Blu-Ray)

Street Date: June 2, 2026

Synopsis: In this comedic thriller, a trio of crooks relentlessly pursues a young American, played by Audrey Hepburn in gorgeous Givenchy, through Paris in an attempt to recover the fortune her dead husband stole from them. The only person she can trust is Cary Grant’s suave, mysterious stranger. Director Stanley Donen goes deliciously dark for Charade, a glittering emblem of 1960s style and macabre wit.

West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty (Blu-Ray)

Street Date: June 9, 2026

Synopsis: Mauritanian French firebrand Med Hondo puts colonialism itself on trial in this one-of-a-kind musical spectacular—a collective effort of unprecedented scale and ambition that proved a watershed event in African cinema. Aboard an enormous mock slave ship, Hondo stages a series of imaginative reenactments and intricately choreographed dance numbers that trace the devastating effects of French imperialism across centuries of enslavement and injustice. Beyond mere extravaganza, West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty is a stirring call to Pan-African independence and a dazzling yet critical reconception of an entire people’s history of oppression and rebellion.

High Art (Blu-Ray)

Street Date: June 16, 2026

Synopsis: In a revelatory performance, Ally Sheedy stars in writer-director Lisa Cholodenko’s debut feature, a wry and incisive look at the politics of the New York art scene wrapped in the guise of an emotionally spiky queer romance. When Lucy Berliner (Sheedy), a once prominent photographer who has retreated into a life of heroin abuse with her faded-actress lover (Patricia Clarkson), is rediscovered by Syd (Radha Mitchell), an up-and-coming editor at a photography magazine, professional ambition and personal attraction become dangerously entwined. Stripping away art-world glamour to tell a seductive yet troubling story of complicated human connection, High Art stands as an essential work of both queer and 1990s independent cinema

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Lisa Cholodenko, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• Audio commentary from 2004 featuring Cholodenko
• New conversation between Cholodenko and filmmaker Karyn Kusama
• New interviews with actors Ally Sheedy and Radha Mitchell and photographer JoJo Whilden
• Dinner Party (1997), a short film by Cholodenko
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic B. Ruby Rich

Street Date: June 23, 2026

Synopsis: After decades of pushing the boundaries of bad taste with his underground provocations, John Waters found surprising mainstream success with this infectiously irreverent rock-and-soul comedy. It’s 1962, and the only things bigger than the bouffant hairdos are the popular dance crazes sweeping the nation. When Baltimore teen Tracy Turnblad (Ricki Lake) shoots to stardom on a local TV dance party, her radical self-confidence and support for racial integration launch a movement that takes the city by storm. Costarring the inimitable Divine in a fiercely funny double role, Hairspray finds Waters marrying his wildly subversive sensibility with a newfound bubblegum sweetness for what may be his most irresistible film.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director John Waters, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• Alternate 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 film and special features
• Audio commentary featuring Waters and actor Ricki Lake
• New conversation between Waters and WFMU DJs Dave “the Spazz” Abramson and Gaylord Fields
• New interview with Lake and actor Colleen Fitzpatrick
• Reflections from actors Debbie Harry, Jo Ann Havrilla, Leslie Ann Powers, Clayton Prince, Shawn Thompson, and Pia Zadora
• Deleted scenes
• Behind-the-scenes documentary
• Get to Know John Waters (1987)
• Interview with production designer Vincent Peranio
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic Jessica Kiang

Desperate Living (4K UHD & Blu-Ray)

Street Date: June 23, 2026

Synopsis: Following the unrepentant outrageousness of Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble, director John Waters brought his notorious trash trilogy to a fittingly twisted close with this antifascist fairy tale. After hysterical housewife Peggy Gravel (Mink Stole) murders her husband with the help of her fed-up housekeeper (Jean Hill), the newfound “sisters in crime” escape to the bizarro shantytown of Mortville, a depraved penal colony presided over by a despotic queen (Edith Massey) whose tyranny pushes her subjects to shocking revolt. Deviant cops, death by dog food, DIY surgery—Waters unleashes all this and more in an at once relentlessly warped and oddly moral vision of queer rebellion.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director John Waters, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Audio commentary featuring Waters and actor Liz Renay
• Optional Italian dub track
• New conversation between Waters and film programmer Cristina Cacioppo
• Back to Mortville, a tour of the film’s main Baltimore location, led by Waters
• New interview with actors Susan Lowe, Mary Vivian Pearce, and Mink Stole
• Interview with production designer Vincent Peranio
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic Grace Byron

Magellan (Blu-Ray) (Criterion Presents)

Street Date: June 23, 2026

Synopsis: A hypnotic journey engraved in images of staggering beauty and horror, this monumental achievement from Lav Diaz boldly rewrites the imperialist mythmaking of the Age of Discovery. Elegantly minimalist yet overpowering in its scale and impact, Magellan follows the sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (Gael García Bernal) as he embarks on his epochal quest to cross the Pacific—a voyage that spirals into zealotry and violence when he attempts to impose Christianity upon the people of the Philippines. Abetted by García Bernal’s radically antiheroic portrayal, Diaz composes a stark vision of the brutality at the heart of European conquest and a haunting elegy for a lost precolonial past.

Eclipse Series 6: Carlos Saura’s Flamenco Trilogy (Blu-Ray)

Street Date: June 30, 2026

Synopsis: One of Spanish cinema’s great auteurs, Carlos Saura brought international audiences closer to the art of his country’s dance than any other filmmaker, before or since. In his Flamenco Trilogy—Blood Wedding, Carmen, and El amor brujo—Saura merged his passion for music with his exploration of national identity. All starring and choreographed by legendary dancer Antonio Gades, the films feature thrilling physicality and electrifying cinematography and editing—colorful paeans to bodies in motion as well as to cinema itself.

Blood Wedding

Carlos Saura began what would become his Flamenco Trilogy with this depiction of a single dress rehearsal for choreographer Antonio Gades’s adaptation of poet and playwright Federico García Lorca’s tale of passionate revenge. No mere recording of a ballet, Blood Wedding (Bodas de sangre) uses gripping camera work and heart-pounding rhythmic editing to evoke the experience of moving with the dancers every step of the way.

Carmen

Carlos Saura’s biggest international box-office success was this self-reflexive meditation on both Georges Bizet’s popular opera Carmen and the original novella by Prosper Mérimée. Antonio Gades plays a choreographer who gets involved with his neophyte lead dancer (Laura del Sol), and grows dangerously jealous. Depicting the ups and downs of their affair in between rehearsals for Gades’s ballet, Carmen is a visually hypnotic hall of mirrors in which the dancers become inseparable from their personas.

El amor brujo

The Flamenco Trilogy’s most straightforward narrative is also its most forthrightly theatrical, a modern take on composer Manuel de Falla’s Roma ballet, dressed up in pink sunsets and hellishly red fires. Set in a dusty Andalusian village, El amor brujo (Love, the Magician) is a seductive melodrama of a man (Antonio Gades) whose beloved is haunted by the ghost of another.

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

An essay by author and film critic Michael Koresky

It Was Just an Accident (4K UHD & Blu-Ray)

Street Date: June 30, 2026

Synopsis: In this Palme d’Or winner from the Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi, a chance encounter sets in motion an urgent moral thriller. When a stranded driver (Ebrahim Azizi) walks into his shop, mechanic Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri) believes he has come face-to-face with Eghbal, a notoriously brutal guard who tortured him during his political imprisonment. Gathering a band of fellow former inmates and other allies, Vahid sets out to take justice into his own hands—but does he have the right man? Shot in secret after Panahi’s longtime ban from filmmaking in his home country, It Was Just an Accident is a tour de force of sustained tension and mordant humor, provocatively shifting perspectives to examine vital questions of trauma and revenge..

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New digital master, approved by director Jafar Panahi, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• New conversation between Panahi and filmmaker Ramin Bahrani
• Cannes Film Festival press conference from 2025 featuring Panahi and members of the cast and crew
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation

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