Lars von Trier’s Europe Trilogy The Criterion Collection Blu-Ray Box Set [NEW]

“You will now listen to my voice . . . On the count of ten you will be in Europa.” Max von Sydow’s ominous, hypnotic induction inaugurates the entrancing final installment of Lars von Trier’s Europe Trilogy. An idealistic American (Jean-Marc Barr) travels to postwar Germany to take a job as a sleeping-car conductor for the Zentropa railways—and finds himself plunged into a murky, Kafkaesque world of intrigue and betrayal where the shadow of Nazism hovers menacingly over everything. With its ravishing cinematography (in black and white, color, and at times a stunning mix of both), dreamlike use of rear projections, and lush fusion of melodrama and noir conventions, Europa is a sublimely stylized cinematic fugue.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED THREE-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• 4K digital restoration of Europa and 3K digital restorations of The Element of Crime and Epidemic, all approved by director Lars von Trier, with uncompressed stereo or monaural soundtracks
• Audio commentaries featuring 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
• Making-of documentaries for all three films
• 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 1991
• Trailers
• English subtitle translations for Epidemic and Europa and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for all three films
• PLUS: An essay by critic Howard Hampton
  
  New cover by Fred Davis