This November, Orson Welles’s dazzling debut Citizen Kane will appear in a deluxe edition, 80 years after it changed the course of cinema history and 37 after it launched Criterion’s laserdisc line. The raw and riveting first feature by Albert and Allen Hughes, Menace II Society sent shock waves through American cinema and hip-hop culture with its searing portrait of life and death in Watts, Los Angeles. The box set Once Upon a Time in China: The Complete Films collects one of the pinnacles of Hong Kong cinema’s golden age, a series that launched Jet Li to international fame and set a new standard for martial-arts spectacle thanks to brilliant director Tsui Hark. Appearing on standalone Blu-ray for the first time, Federico Fellini’s heart-wrenching fable La strada cemented its director’s poetic vision of life as a bittersweet carnival. And David Lynch’s surreal, enthralling masterpiece Mulholland Dr. will debut in 4K Ultra HD, marking Criterion’s entry into the format along with Citizen Kane and Menace II Society.

November 2:  La Strada
November 16:  Mulholland Dr.
November 16:  Once Upon a Time in China: The Complete Films
November 23:  Citizen Kane
November 23:  Menace II Society

November 23:  Uncut Gems (originally scheduled for Oct. 26)