Dear Criterion collectors,

Our three least favorite initials: OOP. Since we launched the Criterion Collection more than twenty-five years ago, we’ve endeavored to keep everything we’ve published in print. But despite our efforts to renew rights, we are losing a large group of titles from StudioCanal at the end of March, and we wanted to give you advance notice that our editions will be going out of print. Until we’re out of stock, we will be offering these titles at an additional $5 off on our website. The titles are going to Lionsgate, and we don’t know when they may be rereleased. As ever, we will continue to try to relicense the films so that they can rejoin the collection sometime in the future.

Here are the titles that will soon be out of print:

Alphaville

Carlos Saura’s Flamenco Trilogy (Eclipse Series 6)

Le corbeau

Coup de torchon

Diary of a Country Priest

The Fallen Idol

Forbidden Games (Criterion and Essential Art House editions)

Gervaise (Essential Art House edition)

Grand Illusion (Criterion and Essential Art House editions)

Le jour se lève (Essential Art House edition)

Last Holiday (Essential Art House edition)

Mayerling (Essential Art House edition)

The Orphic Trilogy

Peeping Tom

Pierrot le fou (DVD and Blu-ray editions)

Port of Shadows

Quai des Orfèvres

The Small Back Room

The Tales of Hoffmann (Criterion and Essential Art House editions)

Trafic

Le trou

Variety Lights (Essential Art House edition)

The White Sheik

Take note: this may be your last chance to pick up spine number 1 from the collection.

Happy viewing!

The Criterion Collection