New on Blu-ray: LARS VON TRIER'S EUROPE TRILOGY (The Element of Crime/Epidemic/Europa) - Criterion Collection

Lars Von Triers Europe Trilogy New On Bluray Criterion

Product Description: With his dazzling first three features, Lars von Trier sought nothing less than to map the soul of Europe—its troubled past, anxious present, and uncertain future. Linked by a fascination with hypnotic states and the mesmeric possibilities of cinema, the films that make up the Europe Trilogy—The Element of Crime, Epidemic, and Europa—filter the continent’s turbulent history, guilt, and traumas through the Danish provocateur’s audacious deconstructions of genres including film noir, melodrama, horror, and science fiction. Above all, they are bravura showcases for von Trier’s hallucinatory visuals, with each shot a tour de force of technical invention and dark imagination.

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Director: Lars von Trier

Starring: Michael Elphick, Lars von Trier, Max von Sydow, Jean-Marc Barr

Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Crime, Drama

Runtime: 222 min

Rating: Criterion

Language: English

Studio: Criterion

Home Video Release Date: January 17, 2023

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1
Region: Region A/1

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Blu-ray: LPCM 2.0

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Blu-ray: English SDH

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4K digital restoration of Europa, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack, and 3K digital restorations of The Element of Crime and Epidemic, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
Audio commentaries featuring director Lars von Trier and others
Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier (1997), a documentary by Stig Björkman
Interview from 2005 with von Trier about the Europe Trilogy
Programs on the films featuring interviews with many of von Trier’s collaborators
Two short student films by von Trier: Nocturne (1980) and Images of Liberation (1982)
Danish television interview with von Trier from 1994
Trailers
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by critic Howard Hampton