The Criterion Collection has announced five new titles to join the collection on 4K UHD and Blu-Ray in September: Repo Man (1984), All Of Us Strangers (2023), The Long Good Friday (1980), Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy (1993-1997), and Happiness (1998). These represent a quintessential 1980s cult comedy, a metaphysical exploration of queer love and loneliness, a landmark of British crime cinema, a trio of films from a New Queer Cinema renegade, and Todd Solondz’s disturbingly funny portrait of middle-class suburbia. Details on these films can be found below:

Repo Man (4K UHD Blu-Ray)

Street Date: September 3, 2024

Synopsis: A quintessential cult film of the 1980s, Alex Cox’s singular sci-fi comedy stars the always captivating Harry Dean Stanton as a weathered repo man in a desolate Los Angeles, and Emilio Estevez as the nihilistic middle-class punk he takes under his wing. The job becomes more than either of them bargained for when they get involved in repossessing a mysterious—and otherworldly—Chevy Malibu with a hefty reward attached to it. Featuring the ultimate early-eighties LA punk soundtrack, this grungily hilarious odyssey is also a politically trenchant take on President Reagan’s domestic and foreign policies.

All Of Us Strangers (4K UHD & Blu-Ray)

Street Date: September 10, 2024

Synopsis: A metaphysical exploration of queer love and loneliness, familial grief and healing, this delicate but audacious chamber drama confirms director Andrew Haigh’s gift for bringing complicated emotions to the screen. Isolated in a seemingly empty new high-rise, London screenwriter Adam (Andrew Scott) finds his solitary existence upended when he begins a passionate romance with the impulsive Harry (Paul Mescal), then reconnects with his parents (Jamie Bell and Claire Foy) in a reunion that pushes beyond the limits of time and space. Putting a deeply personal imprint on a novel by Japanese writer Taichi Yamada, Haigh reaches cosmic heights while never losing sight of the story’s achingly human heart.

The Long Good Friday (4K UHD & Blu-Ray)

Street Date: September 17, 2024

Synopsis: A combustible performance from Bob Hoskins is the fuse that lights this underworld saga, a landmark of British crime cinema. Hoskins plays Harold Shand, an ambitious London mobster who, just as he attempts to close a major real-estate deal with the American Mafia, finds his crime empire rocked by a string of attacks, sending him on a ruthless quest to find out who’s responsible. Abetted by an ice-cool performance from Helen Mirren as Shand’s in-command moll, The Long Good Friday is not only a gripping gangster thriller but also a vivid portrait of late-1970s Britain—a powder keg of cultural and political tensions on the verge of explosion.

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy (4K UHD & Blu-Ray)

Street Date: September 24, 2024

Synopsis: Take the conventions of the American teen movie, transpose them to Los Angeles’s freaky fringes, anchor them in an unapologetic vision of sexual fluidity, and top it all off with heavy doses of Gen X disillusionment, gonzo violence, and hallucinogenic surrealism, and you’ll end up with something like these audacious transgressions from New Queer Cinema renegade Gregg Araki. Gleefully mixing slacker irony with raw sincerity, Godardian cool with punk scuzz, the savagely subversive, hormone-fueled films that make up the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy pushed 1990s indie cinema into bold new aesthetic realms, while giving blistering expression to adolescent rage and libidinal desire.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 2K digital restoration of Totally F***ed Up and new 4K digital restorations of The Doom Generation and Nowhere, supervised and approved by director Gregg Araki, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks
• In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of The Doom Generation and Nowhere and two Blu-rays with all three films and the special features
• New conversation between director Gregg Araki and filmmaker Richard Linklater
• New audio commentary on Nowhere with Araki and actors James Duval, Rachel True, Nathan Bexton, Jordan Ladd, Sarah Lassez, Guillermo Diaz, and Jaason Simmons
• Audio commentary on Totally F***ed Up with Araki, Duval, and actor Gilbert Luna
• New documentary on the trilogy’s visual style featuring Araki, Duval, producer Andrea Sperling, cinematographer Jim Fealy, costume designers Cathy Cooper and SaraJane Slotnick, production designer Patti Podesta, art director Michael Krantz, and hair and makeup artist Jason Rail
• James Duval’s Teen Apocalypse Archive, a new conversation between Araki and Duval
• Q&As with Araki, moderated by filmmakers Gus Van Sant and Andrew Ahn
• The Doom Generation video comic book
• Trailers
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic Nathan Lee

Happiness (4K UHD & Blu-Ray)

Street Date: September 24, 2024

Synopsis: As disturbingly funny as it is audaciously empathetic, auteur of unease Todd Solondz’s portrait of damaged souls reaching out for connection reveals the existential void underneath middle-class suburban “normalcy.” An extraordinary ensemble cast—including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jane Adams, Lara Flynn Boyle, Ben Gazzara, and Dylan Baker—embodies an array of loosely connected New Jersey deviants, depressives, and misfits, among them a frustrated phone-sex pest, an all-American dad concealing his pedophilic urges, and a lonely woman with a grisly secret, all of whom want just one thing: to be loved. One of the most controversial films of the 1990s, the unflinching Happiness unnerves precisely because it dares to see the humanity in those most often denied it.

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