Raymond Carverography on IMDB, which is the first, most basic device for a barebones (though caveat as often far from complete) search mechanism.

There was talk of this possibly going out of print, with New Line folding into WB, so I ordered it from DVDPlanet. A week later, I got an email with two paragraphs of gibberish and then it said that my order had been canceled. I checked my account on dvdplanet.com, and sure enough it has been canceled. I reordered from Amazon. Weird situation, though. I've fired off an email to Criterion to see if Short Cuts is going OOP or if it was just DVDPlanet weirdness.

I just checked to see if this was on moratorium through our Baker & Taylor account at work. It is still available but inventory numbers are unusually low. Something to ponder.

I just saw that Short Cuts is going to be re-released in October at a lower price. I think that it it will be the same release minus the book.

Out of stock at Amazon.com, buy.com, overstock.com, bestprices.com, very few under $30 at amazon marketplace and half.com. Doesn't show up at DVDPlanet or DD; on order at DVDPacific, etc.

I guess that is another confirmation that the book edition is going/has gone out of print.

For those that were burned by the short-notice OOP of Tokyo Olympiad, now appears to be the time to score the bigger edition of Short Cuts for anywhere sub-$40.

Unless you are a person with a fetishism for all things OOP or remotely rare, there's really no need to rush out and grab a copy of the old set because the book is still available.

Well, that, and the packaging is a lot nicer for the original version than it likely will be for the re-release.

While it's pretty much been figured out by now, I will just reiterate a confirmation I received that the older release of Short Cuts with the book is out of print. (The wording actually states the book is out-of-print.)

Since both versions of this DVD are still available on many online marketplaces, any suggestions as to whether I should purchase the new release or Criterions original release?

Do you want the book of short stories with the set? If yes, then get the set with the book. If you don't care then perhaps get the set without the book. You can also buy the CC and then buy the book separately from Amazon.

This printing was released a while ago. The book that accompanied it before went out of print so Criterion could no longer include it and redid the packaging in the clear case.

A new member signed up to answer a benign question from two years ago that was already answered. Weird.

very weird.

Actually, sadly, that's the least weird thing a newly registered member has done lately.

This is half my fault. When I approved that post I didn't bother to look at the dates for the posts it was responding to. I just looked to see if it was responding to an actual discussion, which it seemed to be, and approved away.

Well, don't let it happen again.

I've spent nine hours of my life watching this movie and I would gladly devote another nine.

I've spent six hours, but would gladly devote another twelve.

For some reason, I'm really glad the Luck, Trust And Ketchup doc was shot on cheap VHS. Somehow, seeing the actors in character or waiting to be filmed dressed in character enhances that real life quality expressed in the stories and ultimately on film, in a quality similar to home movies I remember.