This November, Criterion celebrate three of cinema's rule-breakers with the DVD and Blu-ray release Charles Chaplin's celebrated masterpiece Modern Times, Charles Laughton's brilliant and terrifying Night of the Hunter and Lars von Trier's controversial Antichrist. All three discs will be released on 16th November 2010 in the US.

Modern Times (1936) – DVD ($29.95) and Blu-ray ($39.95)

Charlie Chaplin's last outing as the Little Tramp puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette Goddard). With its barrage of unforgettable gags and sly commentary on class struggle during the Great Depression, Modern Times – though made almost a decade into the talkie era and containing moments of sound (even song!) – is a timeless showcase of Chaplin's genius as a director of silent comedy.

• Both desks have a new, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition, and the following special features:
• New audio commentary by Chaplin biographer David Robinson;
• Two new visual essays, by Chaplin historians John Bengtson and Jeffrey Vance;
• New program on the film's visual and sound effects, with experts Craig Barron and Ben Burtt;
• Interview from 1992 with Modern Times music arranger David Raksin;
• Chaplin Today: "Modern Times" (2004), a half-hour program with filmmakers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne;
• Two segments removed from the film;
• Three theatrical trailers;
• All at Sea (1933), a home movie by Alistair Cooke featuring Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, and Cooke, plus a new score by Donald Sosin and a new interview with Cooke's daughter, Susan Cooke Kittredge;
• The Rink (1916), a Chaplin two-reeler highlighting his skill on wheels;
• For the First Time (1967), a Cuban documentary short about a projectionist who shows Modern Times to first-time moviegoers;
• A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Saul Austerlitz and a piece by film scholar Lisa Stein that includes excerpts from Chaplin's writing about his travels in 1931 and 1932;
• And more!

The Night of the Hunter (1955) – DVD ($39.95) and Blu-ray ($49.95)

The Night of the Hunter – incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed – is truly a standalone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell (he of the tattooed knuckles), whose nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow, played by Shelley Winters are uncovered by her terrified young children. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this ethereal, expressionistic American classic – also featuring the contributions of actress Lillian Gish and writer James Agee – is cinema's quirkiest rendering of the battle between good and evil.

Featuring a new, restored high-definition digital 1.66:1 transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition, and the following extras:

• Audio commentary featuring assistant director Terry Sanders, film critic F. X. Feeney, archivist Robert Gitt, and author Preston Neal Jones;
• Charles Laughton Directs 'The Night of the Hunter', a two-and-a-half-hour archival treasure trove of outtakes from the film;
• New documentary featuring interviews with producer Paul Gregory, Sanders, Jones, and author Jeffrey Couchman;
• New video interview with Simon Callow, author of Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor;
• Clip from the The Ed Sullivan Show, in which cast members perform live a scene that was deleted from the film;
• Fifteen-minute episode of the BBC show Moving Pictures about the film;
• Archival interview with cinematographer Stanley Cortez;
• Gallery of sketches by author Davis Grubb;
• New video conversation between Gitt and film critic Leonard Maltin about Charles Laughton Directs 'The Night of the Hunter';
• Original theatrical trailer;
• A booklet featuring essays by critics Terrence Rafferty and Michael Sragow.

Antichrist (2009) – DVD ($29.95) and Blu-ray ($39.95)

Lars von Trier shook up the film world when he premiered Antichrist at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. In this graphic psychodrama, a grief-stricken man and woman – a searing Willem Dafoe and Cannes best actress Charlotte Gainsbourg – retreat to a cabin deep in the woods after the accidental death of their infant son, only to find terror and violence at the hands of nature and, ultimately, each other. But this most confrontational work yet from one of contemporary cinema's most controversial artists is no mere provocation. It is a visually sublime, emotionally ravaging journey to the darkest corners of the possessed human mind; a disturbing battle of the sexes that pits rational psychology against age-old superstition; and a profoundly effective horror film.

Featuring a new, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Lars von Trier and supervised by director of photography Anthony Dod Mantle, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition, and the following extras:

• Audio commentary by von Trier and professor Murray Smith;
• Video interviews with von Trier and actors Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg;
• A collection of video pieces delving into the production of Antichrist, including interviews with von Trier and key members of his filmmaking team as well as behind-the-scenes footage;
• Chaos Reigns at the Cannes Film Festival 2009, a documentary on the film's world premiere, plus press interviews with Dafoe and Gainsbourg;
• Three theatrical trailers;
• A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Ian Christie.