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It's been a few days since Breaking The Waves is out of print

Not much of a surprise since MUBI acquired the rights to 11 of LvT's films, including this one. I would also expect the Europa trilogy to go OOP within the next couple of years.

With The Long Good Friday coming back, it might be a good time to also take Mona Lisa, Peeping Tom, and Le Corbeau off the Page One OOP list.

Done, plus a few others which have since been reissued.

Will Withnail & I be back in the collection or should I pull the trigger on Arrow's release?

The Arrow release is good but it’s a pretty safe bet this is coming from Criterion soon-ish if you’d rather wait

unless you're really pressed to own a Criterion edition I can't imagine them topping Arrow's, which is already available. but since Criterion has returned almost all other HandMade titles in print now, it's sure to happen. and since Time Bandits and The Long Good Friday got 4K releases, I'm sure Withnail and I will too

yoloswegmaster wrote: Fri Jun 14, 2024 1:57 pm Not much of a surprise since MUBI acquired the rights to 11 of LvT's films, including this one. I would also expect the Europa trilogy to go OOP within the next couple of years.

With that in mind, I'm actually surprised that Criterion even put out the Europa set around that time.

Do you think it's likely that MUBI will put out their own LvT set sometime in the future?

yoloswegmaster wrote: Thu Mar 11, 2021 1:45 am I'm not sure when this happened but The Complete Mr. Arkadin is now listed as OOP. I don't think there is anything to worry about since the page is still up on the Janus website, so let's just hope that an upgrade is announced soon.

Not OOP anymore, as the DVD is now back in-stock.

yoloswegmaster wrote: Fri Jun 14, 2024 1:57 pm Not much of a surprise since MUBI acquired the rights to 11 of LvT's films, including this one. I would also expect the Europa trilogy to go OOP within the next couple of years.

Curzon in the UK has released a massive boxset with pretty much everything except Dancer in the Dark, all restored from original elements.

Whit Stillman posted on Twitter that Criterion's rights to Metropolitan are expiring soon and he doesn't know if they are planning on renewing them.

Looks like the Jean Gremillon and Alexander Korda Eclipse sets are now OOP. I would say that they are prepping blu releases but that feels unlikely at the moment.

dwk wrote: Sat Aug 03, 2024 7:52 pm Whit Stillman posted on Twitter that Criterion's rights to Metropolitan are expiring soon and he doesn't know if they are planning on renewing them.

Has there been a new restoration of Metropolitan? I've seen "new restoration" advertised for some DCP screenings around NYC, but I think they've been using that term since at least 2015, and that was only a few years after Criterion upgraded the title to Blu-ray, so it's possible they're all from the same digital master.

Regardless, as Chris and other reviewers have pointed out, the transfer looks great. Things can always looked "better" but given that's it's a 16mm OCN, I'm not sure how much improvement can be had - maybe the film grain can look even finer, but colors and detail look pretty much as good as it can be without leaving one feeling a re-do is needed.

I love that Gremillon set, I would love to see all of those films get a deserving upgrade. FWIW, if I had to pick one, it would be Le ciel est à vous...

and a quick Google search reveals it did indeed get an upgrade in France back in October 2022 (albeit with no English subtitles)!

Looks like Carlotta also issued one for Remorques back in February too.

Von Trier's Europe Trilogy is out of print. I also don't see listings for the DVDs of Europa and Element of Crime (though maybe those were taken down earlier).

cdnchris wrote: Wed Feb 26, 2025 9:54 pm Von Trier's Europe Trilogy is out of print. I also don't see listings for the DVDs of Europa and Element of Crime (though maybe those were taken down earlier).

This has to be the shortest “in print” period for one of their BD releases.

nicolas wrote: Wed Feb 26, 2025 10:00 pmThis has to be the shortest “in print” period for one of their BD releases.

Léon Morin, Priest went OOP after 1 year and 8 months, so 5 months fewer than the Europe Trilogy had. There may be another shorter still that I am forgetting,

I was hoping one day Dogville would happen. Oh well, c'est la vie

FrauBlucher wrote: Thu Feb 27, 2025 12:21 am I was hoping one day Dogville would happen. Oh well, c'est la vie

Antichrist is still in-print (Breaking the Waves isn't either, which I was unaware of)

OrbitDVD has the OOP Curzon big Blu-ray boxed set in stock as well, if anyone wants to just snatch up most of his movies in one sweep

I wonder if MUBI is picking them all up for their own box

therewillbeblus wrote: Thu Feb 27, 2025 1:13 am I wonder if MUBI is picking them all up for their own box

Would be great but I’m not too confident right now. For some reason, MUBI considerably slowed down their physical media operations and multiple upcoming UK releases were in limbo until maybe a week ago. The Substance, Queer and Dahomey were all without dates and Tarsem Singh’s The Fall or the new restoration of The Sacrifice are yet to be announced, if they’re doing them physically at all. I don’t think they’ve got two different divisions in Europe and the US but hopefully they’re continuing regardless.

About 19 new entries on the OOP list including 2 Eclipse series and multiple DVD-only, Janus-owned titles.

nicolas wrote: Wed Feb 26, 2025 10:00 pm This has to be the shortest “in print” period for one of their BD releases.

If I recall, The Third Man and Pierrot Le Fou barely got a full year until their pressings went OOP. It's a shame though that the box set is OOP since the Mubi releases I have gotten, a majority of them are pretty bare bones on supplements. Hopefully they give von Trier's films the proper treatment.

As for the titles marked "Currently Unavailable" on the website, when I was at the Criterion Closet van in Austin this past weekend I did some sleuthing and they did have Elephant Man and Essential Fellini still in there (note: any title recently made OOP like Breaking the Waves was not in the van). I'm wondering if the reason they are "Currently Unavailable" is due to packaging/licensing updates. I could see Janus, in the wake of Lynch's passing, potentially picking up Elephant Man from Paramount. And, La Dolce Vita is a Janus title in UK only. Hopefully that means it will be a US Janus title soon.

m_montana wrote: Wed Mar 12, 2025 11:57 pm About 19 new entries on the OOP list including 2 Eclipse series and multiple DVD-only, Janus-owned titles.

Link?