The Criterion Collection has announced eight new titles to join the collection on 4K UHD and Blu-Ray in November: Harold and Maude (1971), KPop Demon Hunters (2025), Marie Antoinette (2006), Shoot the Piano Player (1960), Blue Heron (2025), Wild at Heart (1990), Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965), and The Right Stuff (1983).

These represent an idiosyncratic American cult classic, a global animated phenomenon, a stylized anti-biopic from Sofia Coppola, a freewheeling nouvelle-vague take on the crime genre, a coming-of-age story heralding the arrival of a major new cinematic voice, a feverish and romantic vision of nightmarish Americana, a mythopoeic landmark of world cinema, and a monumental account of the space race. Details on these films can be found below:

Harold and Maude (4K UHD & Blu-Ray)

Street Date: November 3, 2026

Synopsis: With the idiosyncratic American fable Harold and Maude, countercultural director Hal Ashby fashioned what would become one of cinema’s most beloved comedies. Working from a script by Colin Higgins, Ashby tells the story of the emotional and romantic bond between a death-obsessed young man from a wealthy family (Bud Cort) and a devil-may-care bohemian sixty years his senior (Ruth Gordon). Equal parts gallows humor and beguiling sincerity, Harold and Maude dissolves the line between darkness and light—along with those that separate people by class, gender, and age—and features indelible performances and a remarkable soundtrack by Cat Stevens.

KPop Demon Hunters (4K UHD & Blu-Ray)

Street Date: November 3, 2026

Synopsis: Few films have taken the world by storm quite like KPop Demon Hunters, an Academy Award–winning sensation overflowing with dazzling animation, unforgettable characters, and tenaciously catchy songs. At the film’s center is the chart-topping girl group HUNTR/X, whose three members—Rumi, Mira, and Zoey—have been busy juggling the pressures of stardom with their secret duty to shield their fans from supernatural forces. When their demon enemies suddenly take the form of a rival boy band, the trio must overcome their deepest self-doubts and use their music to protect humanity. Richly layered with references to Korean culture both ancient and modern, this generation-bridging phenomenon has inspired millions of fans with its message of friendship and self-acceptance.

Marie Antoinette (4K UHD & Blu-Ray)

Street Date: November 10, 2026

Synopsis: 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.

Shoot the Piano Player (4K UHD & Blu-Ray)

Street Date: November 10, 2026

Synopsis: François Truffaut plays the crime genre like jazz with this freewheeling adaptation of a novel by pulp master David Goodis, a film that infuses noir fatalism with a nervy nouvelle-vague freshness. The tragicomic story follows the adventures of timid dance-hall pianist Charlie (Charles Aznavour), who gets caught up in a whirlwind love affair and is inadvertently drawn into a violent underworld by his gangster brothers. With the film’s dazzling mix of Raoul Coutard’s handheld camera work, a wistful score by Georges Delerue, and playfully jagged editing, Truffaut creates a rueful character study shot through with his signature obsessions: cinema, the elusive nature of creativity, and the sting of romantic regret.

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Audio commentary featuring film scholars Peter Brunette and Annette Insdorf
• Introduction by filmmaker Noah Baumbach
• Interviews with cinematographer Raoul Coutard, actors Charles Aznavour and Marie Dubois, and François Truffaut collaborator Suzanne Schiffman
• Archival interviews with Truffaut on the film and the source novel
• The Music of Georges Delerue, an illustrated audio essay
• Episode of the Criterion Channel series Observations on Film Art featuring scholar Jeff Smith
• Dubois’s screen test
• Trailer
• Plus: An essay by film critic Kent Jones, an interview with Truffaut, and reflections by the director on Aznavour and Dubois

Street Date: November 10, 2026

Synopsis: A singular coming-of-age story, this revelatory feature debut by Sophy Romvari heralds the arrival of a major new cinematic voice. In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha (Eylul Guven) and her Hungarian Canadian family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, but their fresh start is interrupted by the increasingly dangerous behavior of her eldest brother, Jeremy (Edik Beddoes). At wit’s end, the parents are presented with a shattering choice. Audaciously layering the past and the present until they converge in a moment of devastating emotional clarity, Blue Heron evokes the languid haze of a childhood summer and the hidden tensions rippling underneath.

INCLUDES

• Meet the Filmmakers: Sophy Romvari, a Criterion Channel original interview
• Still Processing (2020), a short film by Romvari
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Notes by critic Beatrice Loayza

Wild at Heart (4K UHD & Blu-Ray)

Street Date: November 17, 2026

Synopsis: “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.

4K UHD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration of the unrated international version, supervised by director of photography Frederick Elmes and approved by the David Lynch Estate, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• Alternate 5.1 surround mix newly created from the original 35 mm DME magnetic tracks by rerecording mixer Dean Hurley
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the special features
• New introduction by film programmer and critic Dennis Lim
• Archival documentaries featuring interviews with Elmes; director David Lynch; actors Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Diane Ladd, and Isabella Rossellini; novelist Barry Gifford; editor Duwayne Dunham; filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci; and other members of the cast and crew
• Deleted scenes and outtakes, with a new 5.1 surround mix by Hurley
• Readings from Room to Dream, a 2018 book coauthored by Lynch and critic Kristine McKenna
• Segments from a 1988 episode of Cinéma, de notre temps featuring Lynch
• Music video directed by Lynch for Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game”
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An excerpted interview with Lynch from filmmaker and writer Chris Rodley’s book Lynch on Lynch, and a new introduction by Rodley

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (4K UHD & Blu-Ray)

Street Date: November 17, 2026

Synopsis: 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.

The Right Stuff (4K UHD & Blu-Ray)

Street Date: November 24, 2026

Synopsis: 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.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director of photography Caleb Deschanel, with 70 mm 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• Alternate 2.0 surround and 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the special features
• Archival interview excerpts with director Philip Kaufman from the Academy Film Archive’s Visual History program
• New programs on the film’s visual effects, sound design, and editing
• Archival programs Realizing “The Right Stuff,” T-20 Years and Counting, and The Real Men with “The Right Stuff”
• Selected-scene commentaries featuring Kaufman and members of the cast and crew
• Deleted scenes
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Sragow

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