4K UHD, Blu-ray Release: Little Odessa

4K UHD, Blu-ray Release Date: Aug. 25, 2026
Price: 4K UHD/Blu-ray $49.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion Collection

A Dostoevskian family tragedy in the form of a gangster drama, 1994’s Little Odessa, the darkly elegant debut feature by James Gray (The Lost City of Z), heralded the arrival of a singular voice in contemporary American cinema.

Cloaked in the shadows of New York’s underworld, Little Odessa follows Joshua (Tim Roth, Pulp Fiction), a volatile hit man whose latest assignment takes him back to the Brooklyn neighborhood where he grew up. After his return home, his criminal life collides with the grim domestic world of his abusive father (Maximilian Schell, Judgment at Nuremberg), ailing mother (Vanessa Redgrave, Julia), and loyal teenage brother (Edward Furlong, Night of the Demons).

Channeling the brooding fatalism of classic noir, Gray—who won the Venice Film Festival’s Silver Lion at just twenty-five—composes a haunting reflection on violence that begins at home and ripples ever outward.

Criterion’s new director-approved editions of the film contain the following features:

• New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director James Gray, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Audio commentary from 2000 featuring Gray
• Once Upon a Time . . . “Little Odessa,” a making-of documentary by David Thompson produced for French television
• New conversation between Gray and critic and podcaster Sean Fennessey
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• An essay by film critic Glenn Kenny