Criterion Collection Announces February 2026 Releases: Network, 3:10 to Yuma, PlayTime, and a Rare New Film Addition

The Criterion Collection’s February 2026 slate includes Sidney Lumet’s Network, Delmer Daves’ 3:10 to Yuma, Jacques Tati’s PlayTime, Cassavetes’ A Woman Under the Influence, a restored Lubitsch musicals set, the Coens’ The Man Who Wasn’t There, and the rare inclusion of a 2024 film: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud. Here’s the full breakdown.

The Criterion Collection — long the gold standard for film preservation, restoration, and home-video curation — has announced its February 2026 lineup. And this month brings something unusual: a relatively new film joining the collection.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 2024 techno-revenge thriller Cloud arrives as part of Criterion Premieres, a collaboration between the physical media line and The Criterion Channel. Alongside it comes a stacked slate of classics, including Delmer Daves’ 3:10 to Yuma, Jacques Tati’s PlayTime, John Cassavetes’ A Woman Under the Influence, a new Eclipse Series box set of Ernst Lubitsch musicals, and a director-approved 4K edition of Joel Coen’s The Man Who Wasn’t There.

But the biggest headline? Sidney Lumet’s scorching media satire Network joins the Collection in a definitive 4K edition.

Here’s everything arriving on The Criterion Collection label in February 2026.

3:10 to Yuma — Delmer Daves’ Tense Western Masterpiece (1957)

Delmer Daves’ 3:10 to Yuma remains one of the great psychologically driven Westerns — lean, suspenseful, and sharply humane. Van Heflin stars as a mild-mannered rancher tasked with escorting Glenn Ford’s charismatic outlaw to the titular train. What begins as a straightforward assignment becomes a moral showdown under mounting pressure.

Film Info

United States · 1957 · 92 minutes · B&W · 1.85:1 · Spine #657

4K UHD + Blu-ray Highlights:

– New 4K restoration

– Uncompressed mono and alternate 5.1 soundtrack

– Interviews with Elmore Leonard and Peter Ford

– Essay by Kent Jones

– Cover art by Gregory Manchess

A Woman Under the Influence — Cassavetes’ Landmark Drama (1974)

John Cassavetes’ searing domestic epic is one of American cinema’s most emotionally raw achievements. Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk give career-defining performances as a married couple struggling to understand one another as mental distress pushes them toward collapse.

Film Info

United States · 1974 · 147 minutes · Color · 1.85:1 · Spine #253

Blu-ray Highlights:

– HD restoration

– Conversation between Rowlands and Falk

– Audio interview with Cassavetes

– Still gallery, trailer, and a Kent Jones essay

PlayTime — Jacques Tati’s Monumental Comic Vision (1967)

Tati’s grandest and most ambitious work returns in 4K. Nearly wordless yet endlessly expressive, PlayTime immerses the viewer in a meticulously designed, futuristic Paris where Monsieur Hulot wanders through a maze of modern absurdities. Every frame is alive with visual gags and architectural satire.

Film Info

France · 1967 · 123 minutes · Color · 1.78:1 · Spine #112

4K UHD Highlights:

– 4K restoration with 3.0 surround audio

– Introduction by Terry Jones

– Scene commentaries and visual essays

– “Tativille” TV program, documentaries, and shorts

– Essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Cloud — Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 2024 Digital-Age Nightmare (2024)

Criterion Premieres Selection

A rare contemporary addition, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud is a darkly comic, slow-burn thriller about digital alienation, petty capitalism, and moral collapse. Masaki Suda plays a factory worker who quits his job to flip dubious goods online — only to find his angered customers becoming a genuine threat. Kurosawa builds dread with surgical precision before letting the film explode into something startling and unpredictable.

Film Info

Japan · 2024 · 124 minutes · Color · 1.66:1

Special Features:

– Criterion Channel interview with Kurosawa

– Trailer

– Notes by Sean Gilman

Eclipse Series 8: Lubitsch Musicals — Early Hollywood at Its Wittiest

Ernst Lubitsch, best known for shaping the sophisticated romantic comedy, also helped invent the movie musical. This Eclipse set collects four pre-Code operetta-influenced musical comedies that showcase “the Lubitsch touch” at its most vibrant.

Films Included:

– The Love Parade (1929) — 4K restoration

– Monte Carlo (1930)

– The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) — 2K restoration

– One Hour with You (1932) — 4K restoration

Special Feature:

– Essay by Michael Koresky

The Man Who Wasn’t There — Coen Brothers Noir Elegy (2001)

Joel and Ethan Coen’s existential noir returns in a director-approved 4K restoration. Billy Bob Thornton stars as a quiet barber who drifts toward blackmail, violence, and cosmic despair in 1940s California. Shot in luminous black-and-white by Roger Deakins, the film is a melancholy meditation on fate and anonymity.

Film Info

United States/UK · 2001 · 116 minutes · B&W · 1.85:1 · Spine #1301

4K UHD + Blu-ray Highlights:

– 4K restoration approved by Roger Deakins

– Commentary by the Coens and Thornton

– New conversation with the Coens and Megan Abbott

– Deleted scenes, documentary, interviews

– Essay by Laura Lippman

Network — Sidney Lumet’s Furious Media Satire Joins Criterion (1976)

The biggest addition of the month is a long-awaited 4K restoration of Network, Sidney Lumet’s prophetic takedown of TV news as entertainment. Paddy Chayefsky’s screenplay predicted the modern outrage machine, social spectacle, and the commodification of human breakdown. Peter Finch’s “mad as hell” newscaster remains one of cinema’s most iconic performances.

Film Info

United States · 1976 · 121 minutes · Color · 1.85:1 · Spine #1300

4K UHD + Blu-ray Highlights:

– New 4K restoration

– Audio commentary by Sidney Lumet

– Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words (2025 documentary)

– The Making of Network (2006)

– Trailer and English subtitles

– Essay by Jamelle Bouie

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