Criterion’s CC40 Collection Features 40 Films + Extras On Blu-ray

Criterion Collection has curated 40 films to celebrate the founding of the company in 1984 in “CC40” – a curation of landmark films such as 8½ (1963), Tokyo Story 1953), All That Jazz (1979), Persona (1966), and Night of the Living Dead (1968) to name a few.

As far as bonus features, the collection includes hundreds of hours of supplemental features, alternate soundtracks and dubbed tracks, audio commentaries, extensive documentaries, making-of programs, interviews with casts and crews, outtakes, deleted scenes, and more. A lavishly illustrated 216-page book featuring essays on the films by critics, scholars, and authors is also part of the bonus materials.

“CC40” 40-Film Blu-ray Collection is priced $399.98 (List: $799.99) on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The Criterion shop has the set priced $639.99.

49-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION COLLECTOR’S SET 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!
• PLUS: Deluxe packaging with a lavishly illustrated 216-page book featuring essays on the films by critics, scholars, and authors
• Cover by Eric Skillman

See details of each title included in this collection.

1. 8½
2. Tokyo Story
3. All That Jazz
4. Bicycle Thieves
5. Repo Man
6. Naked
7. Jules and Jim
8. Being There
9. Weekend
10. Yi Yi
11. The Night of the Hunter
12. Pickpocket
13. Sweet Smell of Success
14. On the Waterfront
15. Do the Right Thing
16. Ratcatcher
17. Sunday Bloody Sunday
18. Mirror
19. Barry Lyndon
20. Safe
21. Seconds
22. His Girl Friday
23. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
24. Y tu mamá también
25. My Own Private Idaho
26. Love & Basketball
27. Night of the Living Dead
28. Ace in the Hole
29. 3 Women
30. The Red Shoes
31. Down by Law
32. La Ciénaga
33. Wanda
34. House
35. Sullivan’s Travels
36. The Battle of Algiers
37. A Woman Under the Influence
38. Cléo from 5 to 7
39. Persona
40. In the Mood for Love

Description: This monumental forty-film box set 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. CC40’s 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 our 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.

Original publish date Aug. 9, 2024. Article and pricing updated. Original MSRP was $799.95.