When I read the notice from Criterion, posted on their blog yesterday morning, that another chunk of their collection of films is about to go Out Of Print (O.O.P. as we home video enthusiasts refer to it) I damn near shed a tear. Sad as I am to see Nicolas Roeg‘s The Man Who Fell To Earth fall OOP (ironically, mere days after his brilliant film Walkabout was released), at least I had a chance to grab up Criterion’s gorgeous Blu-ray edition of the film. At least Criterion had the opportunity to offer us a Blu-ray edition of the film! The same can’t be said for the rest of the titles on this list, all fantastic films in their own right. Films that we may now never see in a Criterion Blu-ray edition. Buñuel!! Godard!! ARGH!! Say it ain’t so…
From Criterion.com:
Dear Criterion collectors,
The following titles are going out of print effective June 30:
Billy Liar
Bob le flambeur
Diary of A Chambermaid
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Man Who Fell to Earth (DVD and Blu-ray editions)
The Milky Way
The Phantom of Liberty
That Obscure Object of Desire
Touchez pas au grisbi
A Woman Is a Woman
We will be selling copies only while supplies last, so order yours soon. As ever, we will try to relicense the films so that they can rejoin the collection sometime in the future.
This sucks! I’m going to order A Woman Is a Woman and That Obscure Object of Desire today. Already have The Man Who Fell to Earth bluray in my collection.