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I'm gonna assume this is just a packaging change given Eureka still has theirs available

Someone on the Criterion subreddit posted that they emailed Criterion about Shoah and were told that it will be coming back into print sometime later this year. I assume IFC rights expired and Criterion re-acquired it directly from mk2. Curious to see if it is a straight re-release or if they go 4K or add anything (I'm pretty sure they have the rights to Guillaume Ribot's All I Had Was Nothingness)

I’m a bit confused about the re-release of Shoah.

The previous release was touted as “New, restored 4K digital film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition”. (The Eureka on their web specs don’t mention its source. Maybe in the book?)

This re-issue is touted as “2K digital restoration with uncompressed monaural soundtrack”.

What’s going on here?

DeprongMori wrote: Mon Jun 15, 2026 5:15 pm I’m a bit confused about the re-release of Shoah.

The previous release was touted as “New, restored 4K digital film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition”. (The Eureka on their web specs don’t mention its source. Maybe in the book?)

This re-issue is touted as “2K digital restoration with uncompressed monaural soundtrack”.

What’s going on here?

Shoah was scanned in 4K and restored in 2K. Criterion mistakenly mentioned the scan resolution and only now corrected it. It seems to be the exact same master.

The 2013 Blu-ray release was 3 discs, and this is 4. This release includes the 2025 documentary All I Had Was Nothingness . What I fear is that this is exactly the same edition as the 2013 but with an additional disc added for that documentary.

But they've taken the opportunity to upgrade transfers/encodes with re-releases before. They just did it with Trainspotting. I guess we won't know until reviews start to appear.