Editing Until the End of the World (section)

==Versions==
The initial cut of the film was, reportedly, 20 hours long.<ref name="IW-20220815">{{cite news |last=Ehrlich |first=David |title=The 100 Best Movies of the '90s - '90s Week: From "Close-Up" to "Clueless," and from "The Thin Red Line" to "Perfect Blue," these timeless movies prove that the '90s never went away. |url=https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/best-90s-movies/until-the-end-of-the-world-5/ |date=15 August 2022 |work=[[IndieWire]] |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20231119134722/https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/best-90s-movies/ghost-dog-4/ |archivedate=19 November 2023 |accessdate=19 November 2023 }}</ref><ref name="DVDB-2019">{{cite web |author=<!--Not stated--> |title=Until the End of the World |url=https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dvd-until-the-end-of-the-world-william-hurt/3630737?ean=0715515239110&st=AFF&SID=www.barnesandnoble.com |website=Barnes & Noble|access-date=30 October 2022}}</ref> Several shortened versions of the film have been commercially distributed or publicly screened. Wenders was contractually obligated by his backers to deliver a standard feature-length film, so he edited it down to the 158- and 179-minute American and European cuts, which he refers to as the "''[[Reader's Digest Condensed Books|Reader's Digest]]''" versions of the film. Meanwhile, he and his editor Peter Przygodda secretly made a complete copy of the film negatives for themselves at their own expense,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://boingboing.net/2015/10/20/wim-wenders-looking-back-on-t.html|title=Wim Wenders: Looking back on the road ahead|last=Stewart-Ahn|first=Aaron|date=2015-10-20|website=Boing Boing|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.talkhouse.com/aaron-stewart-ahn-talks-his-25-year-relationship-with-wim-wenders-until-the-end-of-the-world/|title=Aaron Stewart-Ahn Talks His 25-Year Relationship with Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World|website=Talkhouse|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-10}}</ref> and over the next year they worked on a 5-hour version of the film, which they then screened at events over the next decade. A version similar to the one shown at these screenings was released at one point as a 280-minute trilogy of films.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hortn |first1=Robert |title=Wim Wenders: On the Road Again |journal=Film Comment |date=1997 |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=3–7 |jstor=43455258 }}</ref>

There is also a 239-minute letter-boxed and subtitled laserdisc release from Japan, and there are several unauthorized fan edits that combine portions of the aforementioned releases.<ref>{{cite web |title=Until the End of the World (Bis ans Ende der Welt) (1991) (Uncut) [PILF-7271] |url=https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/12199/PILF-7271/Until-the-End-of-the-World-(Bis-ans-Ende-der-Welt) |website=LaserDisc Database |access-date=22 June 2019}}</ref>

A 4K digital restoration from the original Super 35mm camera negative of the 287-minute director's cut was commissioned by the Wim Wenders Foundation in 2014. The restoration, which was supervised by the director and his wife Donata, was undertaken by [[ARRI]] Film & TV Services Berlin, with the support of the [[Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée|CNC]]. This version was screened for the first time in the U.S. at several art house theaters in the fall of 2015 as part of a retrospective tour of Wenders' filmography by [[Janus Films]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road |url=http://www.janusfilms.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/wenders/index.html |website=[[Janus Films]] |access-date=1 December 2019}}</ref> It was in two parts, with an intermission at 2 hours, 11 minutes, and debuted on television in the U.S. on [[Turner Classic Movies]] in July 2017.

In September 2019, [[The Criterion Collection]] announced a special-edition Blu-ray and DVD of the 4K restoration of the 287-minute director's cut of the film, which was released on 10 December 2019.<ref>{{cite tweet |author=Criterion Collection |author-link=Criterion Collection |user=Criterion |number=1173636372810424322 |date=16 September 2019 |title=✨Announcing our December 2019 releases! http://bit.ly/CriterionDecember19✨ |access-date=18 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.criterion.com/films/28767-until-the-end-of-the-world |title=Until the End of the World |website=[[Criterion Collection]] |access-date=18 September 2019}}</ref>