Excellent news. I'll definitely be picking this one up.

-AC

That's what I was wondering. I revived this thread earlier this month (after it had been lying dead for 6 months) and was hoping that somebody had more info. Unfortunately it looks like most people read the first post (from Sept 2003) and assumed it was recent info.

So yeah, since I couldn't find any info on Anchor Bay's site about it, should we just assume that this isn't gonna' happen in the near future?

Just wondering if I should try and pick up the Italian 3 disc set.

I emailed Anchor Bay and heard back that there is a rights issue and it isn't going to be released this spring. They didn't say if it was still in the works, just that there is a rights issue.

And Wim Wender's official site (where he once in a while stops by the message boards) isn't available at the moment (changing servers). So, no news there.

Please, please, please still be in the works. Until then I still have my LD to tide me over.

Any updates on this?

AB's not releasing it.

If you've got a region free player this has already been released in Italy as a 4 disc set. 3 films as a trilogy and a 4th bonus disc. I'd suggest it highly for any Wenders' fan. It's excellent.

glad I have it on my nicheflix queue.

Unfortunately, the Italian disc does not offer any English subtitles for those portions of the movie in foreign languages (there's some extensive French and Japanese sections in it, as I recall).

I think we might be waiting a while for a region 1 or 2 release.

Just though I would mention that I have the 3 disc directors cut imported from Italy and apart from the opening scene which is in French (no english subtitles) the remainder of the movie is all in English 5.1. All the extras are in english as well. It's definiately worth picking it up.

D.

When I watched the short version on tv, the French dialogue was subtitled but the Japanese was not. Is it supposed to be?

If you're familiar with the movie it's not that big of a deal, you already know what is happening. Also, most of the time anything that happens in subtitles gets explained later in the film in English. It's still a very watchable movie. You're talking about 10 minutes of subtitles total spread over 3 movies.

There's also a website that has the english translations available for the curious, so that's always and option too.