Lars Von Trier's Europe Trilogy (1984-1991) [3 Criterion DVD9s & 2 UK PAL DVD9s]

Lars von Trier’s stunning debut film is the story of Fisher, an exiled ex-cop who returns to his old beat to catch a serial killer with a taste for young girls. Influenced equally by Hitchcock and science fiction, von Trier (Europa, Breaking the Waves, The Idiots) boldly reinvents expressionist style for his own cinematic vision of a post-apocalyptic world. Shot in shades of sepia, with occasional, startling flashes of bright blue, The Element of Crime (Forbrydelsens Element) combines dark mystery and operatic sweep to yield a pure celluloid nightmare.

Disc Features:
* New widescreen digital transfer, enhanced for 16×9 televisions
* Stig Björkman’s critically acclaimed 52-minute documentary Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier (1997), with optional English subtitles
* Trailer
* In English, with optional subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
* Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

DVD:
DVD RELEASE: 2000
STUDIO: Criterion
CATALOG: 80
SYSTEM: NTSC
SCREEN: 1.85:1
COLOUR: Colour
AUDIO: English Dolby Digital Mono
SUBTITLES: English SDH

Previously unreleased in the UK, this brilliant and experimental film prefigures the director’s later works, The Idiots and Dogville. Starring the director in the lead and filmed without a conventional camera crew, the story concerns itself with a doctor attempting to stop the spread of a plague but only making matters worse.

Disc Features:
• Audio commentary by Lars von Trier and Niels Vørsel
• Anecdotes from 'Epidemic' (17:08/ 4:3)
• Trailer (0:50 / 16x9)
• Easter Egg: Befrielsesbilleder (52:06 / 4:3)

DVD:
DVD RELEASE: 2005
STUDIO: Tartan
CATALOG: TVD 3593
SYSTEM: Pal
SCREEN: 1.63:1
COLOUR: Black & White
AUDIO: English & Danish 2.0/5.1 Dolby Digital
SUBTITLES: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, English, German, French, Dutch

Extras Disc:
• Documentaries (3:41:22)
• - A conversation with Lars von Trier (43:48 / 4:3)
• - Trier's Element (43:54 / 4:3)
• - Portrait of Lars von Trier (31:59 / 4:3)
• - One day with Peter (15:00 / 4:3)
• - Im Laboratorium des Doktors von Trier (1:04:50 / 4:3)
• - Lars von Trier anecdotes (16:51 / 4:3)
• Interviews (46:46)
• - Europa - The Faecal Location (10:13 / 4:3)
• - Tom Elling: Storyboarding 'Element of Crime' (11:05 / 4:3)
• - Joachim Holbek: The emotional music script for 'Europa' (11:56 / 4:3)
• - Henning Bendtsen: From Dreyer to von Trier (13:32 / 16x9)
• Trailers (15:34)
• - Trailers to films by Lars von Trier (11:52 / 4:3)
• - 'Europa' promo (3:42 / 4:3)
• 16 page booklet: Introduction to Lars von Trier and the Europa trilogy by Peter Schepelern

“You will now listen to my voice . . . On the count of ten you will be in Europa . . .” So begins Max von Sydow’s opening narration to Lars von Trier’s hypnotic Europa (known in the U.S. as Zentropa), a fever dream in which American pacifist Leopold Kessler (Jean-Marc Barr) stumbles into a job as a sleeping-car conductor for the Zentropa railways in a Kafkaesque 1945 postwar Frankfurt. With its gorgeous black-and-white and color imagery and meticulously recreated (if then nightmarishly deconstructed) costumes and sets, Europa is one of the great Danish filmmaker’s weirdest and most wonderful works, a runaway-train ride to an oddly futuristic past.

Disc Features:
* New, restored high-definition digital transfer
* Audio commentary featuring director Lars von Trier and producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen (in Danish, with English subtitles)
* The Making of “Europa” (1991), a documentary following the film from storyboarding to production
* Trier’s Element (1991), a documentary featuring an interview with von Trier, and footage from the set and Europa’s Cannes premiere and press conference
* Anecdotes from Europa (2005), a short documentary featuring interviews with film historian Peter Schepelern, actor Jean-Marc Barr, producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen, assistant director Tómas Gislason, co-writer Niels Vørsel, and prop master Peter Grant
* 2005 interviews with cinematographer Henning Bendtsen, composer Joachim Holbek, costume designer Manon Rasmussen, film-school teacher Mogens Rukov, editor/director Tómas Gislason, producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen, art director Peter Grant, actor Michael Simpson, production manager Per Arman, actor Ole Ernst
* A conversation with Lars von Trier from 2005, in which the director speaks about the “Europa” trilogy
* Europa—The Faecal Location (2005), a short film by Gislason
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Howard Hampton

DVD:
DVD RELEASE: 2008
STUDIO: Criterion
CATALOG: 454
SYSTEM: NTSC
SCREEN: 2.35:1
COLOUR: Black & White/Colour
AUDIO: English & German Dolby Digital 2.0
SUBTITLES: English (soft)

Extraction:
ENGINE: DVD Decrypter
DVD: 5 Full Dual-Layer DVDs
FILE EXTENSION: .ISO (Image)
FILE SIZE: 7.83/7.68/7.56/7.06/7.05GBs
SCANS FILE SIZE (400 DPI): 44MBs
TOTAL FILE SIZE: 37.22GBs

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