John Hughes, the Coen Brothers and Delmer Daves from Criterion UK in March
Spirit Entertainment has announced the UK UHD and Blu-ray titles from the Criterion Collection that are coming to the UK in March 2026. This month we have Coen brothers’ coolly riveting, drolly profound noir thriller, The Man Who Wasn’t There, John Hughes’ celebrated exploration of the trials of adolescence, The Breakfast Club, and Delmer Daves’ the thrilling and psychologically complex western 3:10 to Yuma. Full details of each release below.
THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE (USA 2001)
4K UHD + Blu-ray | 2 March 2026
The Coen brothers peer into the existential abyss of the atomic age in this coolly riveting, drolly profound noir thriller. In a performance of masterfully calibrated understatement, Billy Bob Thornton stars as a disaffected barber in 1940s California whose suspicion that his wife (Frances McDormand) is cheating on him leads him down a crooked path of blackmail and murder. Fusing the expressionistic black and white.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director of photography Roger Deakins, with 5.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary featuring filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen and actor Billy Bob Thornton
- New conversation between the Coens and author Megan Abbott
- Archival interview with Deakins
- Short making-of documentary and deleted scenes
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by author Laura Lippman
THE BREAKFAST CLUB (USA 1985)
4K UHD + Blu-ray | 9 March 2026
What happens when five strangers end up together in Saturday detention? Badass posturing, gleeful misbehavior, and a potent dose of angst. With this exuberant, disarmingly candid film, writer-director John Hughes established himself as the bard of American youth, vividly and empathetically capturing how teenagers hang out, act up, and goof off.
The Breakfast Club brings together an assortment of adolescent archetypes—the uptight popular girl (Molly Ringwald), the stoic jock (Emilio Estevez), the foulmouthed rebel (Judd Nelson), the virginal bookworm (Anthony Michael Hall), and the kooky recluse (Ally Sheedy)—and watches them shed their personae and emerge into unlikely friendships. With its highly quotable dialogue and star-making performances, this exploration of the trials of adolescence became an era-defining pop-culture phenomenon, one whose influence now spans generations.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Alternate 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary featuring actors Anthony Michael Hall and Judd Nelson
- Interviews with actors Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy and other members of the cast and crew
- Video essay featuring director John Hughes’s production notes, read by Nelson
- Fifty minutes of deleted and extended scenes
- Promotional and archival interviews
- Excerpts from a 1985 American Film Institute seminar with Hughes
- Radio interview with Hughes
- Audio interview with Ringwald from an episode of This American Life
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by author and critic David Kamp
3:10 TO YUMA (Hong Kong 2012)
4K UHD + Blu-ray | 9 March 2026
In this beautifully shot, psychologically complex western, Van Heflin is a mild-mannered cattle rancher who takes on the task of shepherding a captured outlaw (played with cucumber-cool charisma by Glenn Ford) to the train that will deliver him to prison.
This apparently simple mission turns into a nerve-racking cat-and-mouse game that tests each man’s particular brand of honor. Based on a story by Elmore Leonard,3:10 to Yuma is a thrilling, humane action movie, directed by the supremely talented studio filmmaker Delmer Daves with intense feeling and precision.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Interviews with author Elmore Leonard and actor Glenn Ford’s son and biographer, Peter Ford
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Kent Jones