itself. Later critics – some responding to Wenders' director's cut – were more favorable toward it. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an 88% approval rating based on 17 reviews. Versions The initial cut of the film was, reportedly, 20 hours long. 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" 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, 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. 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. 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 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. 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. Soundtrack Until The End of the World: Music From the Motion Picture Soundtrack was released on 10 December 1991, and includes the following tracks: "Opening Title" – Graeme Revell "Sax and Violins" – Talking Heads "Summer Kisses, Winter Tears" – Julee Cruise "Move with Me (Dub)" – Neneh Cherry "The Adversary" – Crime & the City Solution "What's Good" – Lou Reed "Last Night Sleep" – Can "Fretless" – R.E.M.