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    Criterion Collection Announces September Titles Including Works From Akira Kurosawa, Rob Reiner & More

    • By Dillon Gonzales
    • June 23, 2025
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    The Criterion Collection has announced six new titles to join the collection on 4K UHD and Blu-Ray in September: High and Low (1963), This Is Spinal Tap (1984), Born in Flames (1983), Flow (2024), Read My Lips (2001), and The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005). These represent Akira Kurosawa’s highly influential police procedural, a legendary mock rockumentary, a DIY fantasia of female rebellion, an Academy Award–winning animated international sensation, and two tour-de-force thrillers from modern French master Jacques Audiard. These titles join the previously announced Wes Anderson 4K UHD Collection, along with the individual releases of Isle of Dogs and The French Dispatch. Details on these films can be found below:

    This Is Spinal Tap - 41st Anniversary | Official Trailer

    High and Low (4K UHD Blu-Ray)

    Street Date: September 9, 2025

    Black-and-white poster for "High and Low," showing a man holding a telephone and a concerned woman, with concentric circles and Japanese text in the background.Synopsis: Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in High and Low, the highly influential domestic drama and police procedural from director Akira Kurosawa. Adapting Ed McBain’s detective novel King’s Ransom, Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a diabolical treatise on class and contemporary Japanese society.

     

     

    4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

    • New 4K digital restoration, with 4.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
    • One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
    • Audio commentary featuring Akira Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
    • Documentary on the making of High and Low, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
    • Interviews with actors Toshiro Mifune and Tsutomu Yamazaki
    • Trailers and teaser
    • PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and an on-set account by Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie

     

    This Is Spinal Tap (4K UHD & Blu-Ray)

    Street Date: September 16, 2025

    Three men with long hair are shown under dramatic lighting with the text "This Is Spinal Tap" above them; Criterion Collection branding appears on the side.Synopsis: Spinal Tap has come to be recognized as England’s loudest and most punctual band. In the legendary rockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, now beautifully restored, Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) embark on their final American tour, with filmmaker Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner) capturing all the mishaps, creative tensions, dwindling crowds, and ill-fated drummers. This Is Spinal Tap takes DiBergi’s brilliant vérité style and turns it up to eleven!

     

     

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

    • New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Rob Reiner, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
    • Alternate 2.0 uncompressed stereo soundtrack
    • One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film and special features
    • Three audio commentaries: one with actors Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer; one with Reiner, producer Karen Murphy, and editors Robert Leighton and Kent Beyda; and one with band members Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins, and Derek Smalls
    • New conversation between Reiner and actor Patton Oswalt
    • The Cutting Room Floor, featuring outtakes, alternate takes, and abandoned subplots
    • Spinal Tap: The Final Tour (1982)
    • Trailers, promotional spots, media appearances, music videos, and commercials
    • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
    • PLUS: An essay by critic Alex Pappademas

     

    Born in Flames (Blu-Ray)

    Street Date: September 16, 2025

    Close-up of a person’s face in black and white with red graffiti-style text reading "Born in Flames." The Criterion Collection spine label is on the left. "A film by Lizzie Borden" is written below.Synopsis: A blistering rallying cry issued loud, clear, and unapologetically queer, Lizzie Borden’s explosive postpunk provocation is a DIY fantasia of female rebellion set in America ten years after a revolution that supposedly transformed the country into a democratic socialist utopia. In reality, racism, sexism, and economic inequality are as virulent as ever, and a band of radicals—led by Black, lesbian, and working-class women—join forces to fight back. Told through a furiously fractured, kinetically edited flurry of television news broadcasts, pirate radio transmissions, agitprop, and protests shot guerrilla-style on the streets of New York City, Born in Flames is a shock wave of feminist futurism that’s both an essential document of its time and radically ahead of it.

    DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

    • 2K digital restoration—preserved by Anthology Film Archives, with restoration funding from the Golden Globe Foundation and The Film Foundation, and supervised and approved by director Lizzie Borden—with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
    • Introduction by Borden
    • New audio commentary featuring Borden; cast members Adele Bertei, Hillary Hurst, Sheila McLaughlin, Pat Murphy, Marty Pottenger, and Jeanne Satterfield; and camerapeople DeeDee Halleck and Chris Hegedus
    • Regrouping (1976), Borden’s directorial debut, an experimental documentary about a New York City women’s group
    • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
    • PLUS: Essays by film scholar Yasmina Price and author So Mayer

     

    Flow (4K UHD & Blu-Ray)

    Street Date: September 23, 2025

    An animated black cat with large eyes floats underwater surrounded by colorful fish; text reads "Flow, a film by Gints Zilbalodis.Synopsis: A thrilling tale of friendship and survival that took indie animation to ecstatic new heights of ambition and imagination, this Academy Award–winning international sensation follows a courageous cat after its home is devastated by a great flood. As the cat teams up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog to navigate a boat in search of dry land, the crew must rely on trust, courage, and their wits to survive the perils of a newly aquatic planet. Working with a small team using open-source software, visionary DIY animator Gints Zilbalodis conjures a sublime sensory odyssey and a profound meditation on the fragility of the environment and the spirit of community.

     

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

    • 4K digital transfer, with 7.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack, approved by director Gints Zilbalodis
    • 4K digital master of Away (2019), Zilbalodis’s debut feature
    • One 4K UHD disc of Flow and Away and two Blu-rays with Flow, Away, and the special features
    • New audio commentary featuring Zilbalodis
    • Full feature-length animatic
    • New interviews with Zilbalodis and cowriter-coproducer Matīss Kaža
    • Dream Cat (2025), a making-of documentary produced for Latvian Television
    • Aqua (2012) and Priorities (2014), short films by Zilbalodis with new commentaries by the director
    • Unused-shot reel, with new commentary by Zilbalodis
    • Trailers, TV spots, and proof-of-concept teasers
    • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing and English descriptive audio
    • PLUS: An essay by critic Nicolas Rapold and collectible stickers

     

    Read My Lips (4K UHD & Blu-Ray)

    Street Date: September 23, 2025

    Criterion Collection cover for the film "Read My Lips," featuring close-up images of a man's bruised face and a woman touching her nose, overlaid with red gridlines and film credits.Synopsis: Two outcasts are drawn together by crime and passion in this early tour de force from director Jacques Audiard. Carla (Emmanuelle Devos, who won a César Award for her performance) is an unappreciated, hard-of-hearing employee at a nondescript construction company. Her lonely life gets a jolt of excitement when she hires a new assistant: Paul (Vincent Cassel), an ex-con who soon enlists her (and her lip-reading ability) in a risky scheme. With visceral camera work and sound design, Audiard immerses viewers in the duo’s increasingly turbulent world, blending noir conventions with complex character development for a thriller of unique depth and emotion.

     

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

    • New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Jacques Audiard and director of photography Mathieu Vadepied, 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 film and special features
    • New afterword by Audiard
    • Audio commentary with actors Vincent Cassel and Emmanuelle Devos
    • Program about the making of the film featuring interviews with Audiard, Vadepied, and coscreenwriter Tonino Benacquista
    • Interview with composer Alexandre Desplat
    • Deleted scenes featuring commentary by Audiard
    • Trailer
    • New English subtitle translation
    • PLUS: An essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau

     

    The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Blu-Ray)

    Street Date: September 23, 2025

    Film cover for "The Beat That My Heart Skipped," featuring a nine-panel collage of close-up photos, red text, and the Criterion Collection label on the side.Synopsis: A riveting character study in the guise of a gritty underworld thriller, Jacques Audiard’s international breakthrough features an explosive performance from Romain Duris as a real-estate broker torn between the dirty dealings of his slumlord father (Niels Arestrup) and his recently rekindled love for classical piano. Can music offer salvation from a life of sin? Winner of eight César Awards, including Best Film, this bold reimagining of the New Hollywood cult classic Fingers showcases Audiard’s gift for balancing breathtaking tension with galvanic human drama.

     

     

    DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

    • High-definition digital master, approved by director Jacques Audiard, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
    • New interview with Audiard
    • Interviews with coscreenwriter Tonino Benacquista and composer Alexandre Desplat
    • Press conference from the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival, featuring members of the cast and crew
    • Deleted scenes featuring commentary by Audiard
    • Rehearsal footage
    • Trailer
    • New English subtitle translation
    • PLUS: An essay by film critic Jonathan Romney

     

    Dillon Gonzales
    Dillon Gonzales

    Dillon is most comfortable sitting around in a theatre all day watching both big budget and independent movies.

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