Blu-ray Release: CC40 (The Criterion Collection)

Blu-ray Release Date: Nov. 19, 2024
Price: Blu-ray $399.98
Studio: Criterion Collection


CC40 has arrived!

CC40 is the monumental, much-discussed forty-film box set that celebrates forty years of the Criterion Collection by gathering an electrifying mix of classic and contemporary films, and presenting them with all their special features and essays in a deluxe clothbound, slipcased edition.

This eclectic selection includes the releases most frequently chosen by the hundreds of filmmakers, actors, writers, and other movie-loving luminaries who have visited Criterion over the years, as documented in the luxury label’s popular Closet Picks video series.

Neither a historical survey nor a top-forty compilation, this exciting, personal, unpredictable anthology reflects the cinematic joys and inspirations of the creative community that makes the Criterion Collection possible.

More importantly, here’s a list of the film included, followed by a breakdown of the bonus features:

 (1963), Tokyo Story (1953), All That Jazz (1979), Bicycle Thieves (1948), Repo Man (1984), Naked (1993), Jules and Jim (1962), Being There (1979), Weekend (1967), Yi Yi (2000), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Pickpocket (1959), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), On the Waterfront (1954), Do the Right Thing (1989), Ratcatcher (1999), Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), Mirror (1975), Barry Lyndon (1975), Safe (1995), Seconds (1966), His Girl Friday (1940), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), Y tu mamá también (2001), My Own Private Idaho (1991), Love & Basketball (2000), Night of the Living Dead (1968), Ace in the Hole (1951), 3 Women (1977), The Red Shoes (1948), Down by Law (1986), La Ciénaga (2001), Wanda (1970), House (1977), Sullivan’s Travels (1941), The Battle of Algiers (1966), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), Persona (1966), In the Mood for Love (2000)

Bonus Features:

  • Digital restorations of all forty films
  • Hundreds of hours of supplemental features
  • Alternate soundtracks and dubbed tracks
  • Audio commentaries
  • Extensive documentaries and making-of programs
  • Interviews with casts and crews
  • Outtakes and deleted scenes
  • Trailers and TV spots
  • English subtitles and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Selection of Criterion Closet Picks videos
  • And more!
  • Deluxe packaging with a lavishly illustrated 216-page book featuring essays on the films by critics, scholars, and authors
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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.