I have the Italian 4-DVD version of the 280-minute extended cut, but it lacks English subtitles on the few bits where characters speak other languages. So I too would like a proper BluRay for the US market, of the 280-minute extended cut.
But people have been begging for this for years. Heck people were begging for it on DVD, before BluRay even existed. I don't think it is ever going to happen.
In 2011, Wim Wenders said this:
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Do you feel like that film is underappreciated, or that there's a way you might try to revive that director's cut somehow -- particularly considering what you just mentioned?
I hope that one day that the long version comes out on Blu-ray. I'm not really into reviving the Reader's Digest because of the way I feel about it. I had to do it myself. If I hadn't cut it down to two and a half hours myself, somebody else would have done that. I thought I'd rather kill my own baby then let somebody else slaughter it. I never saw that short version after that. I didn't even go to any screenings when the film was released. I didn't want to see it. It was too painful. So I made the director's cut two years later, but it was hard to impose it because the distributors had the rights to the other one, and there was no director's cut foreseen in the contract. So I could only really release it in the two territories I controlled, which at the time was Germany and Italy. But I hope eventually the film will see the light of day in other territories -- at least on Blu-ray. I don't think a film of five hours realistically has any chance to have theatrical distribution. There's a beautiful print of it at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. They have the only print of mine, and I'm very grateful that they have it. It's there, and anybody who would want to screen it could get it from the Academy. But realistically a film like this doesn't have any chance to be seen on the screen. But I hope one day for a Blu-ray.
http://movieline.com/2011/11/15/wim-...d-loving-lulu/
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And, it is worth noting that the original negatives were never cut. Every version of this film - and there have been three - were made without touching the original negatives. So conceivably, the 280-minute extended cut could be remade if someone wanted to make it in better visual quality than it has ever been seen before:
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Wenders cut the various versions of Until the End of the World from successive internegative copies, instead of letting his original negative be cut into any particular version. He never surrendered control of his original elements. Knowing it might take years for the film to find its 'final' form, he completely avoided the kinds of disasters that occur when the negative falls into hostile editorial hands...
http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s53until1.html
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