Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.5

[TheGodfather]

Love that cover for The Game!! and the Carné covers are beautiful as well

[tenia]

Following the melted plastic wrap issue, I just received a copy of Harold & Maudre, and god, that's the worst melted plastic issue I had so far : it is so melted the plastic turned brown / black. Fortunately, the cover arts, as the other ones, is undamaged.

Being in France, it would have cost me a fortune in shipping fees to send back the cover arts, so I asked if pictures would be sufficent. Turned out it is, but then, I'm not eligible for the $10 gift certificate (so your cover arts are worth $10 a piece).

[eerik]

For some reason they have changed the order of Gordon's and Cort's names.

Old cover:


Updated cover:

And now they've added more credits to the cover.

[cdnchris]

Samurai Trilogy
The 39 Steps

[Cinephrenic]

Nice!

[TheGodfather]

Smart design on The Samurai Trilogy. Like it

[mfunk9786]

Certainly underwhelming for a $70 set, though

[knives]

You paid $70 for it?

[mfunk9786]

You know what I meannnnnnnn

[The Narrator Returns]

You started typing, but fell asleep on the keyboard before you finished?

[mfunk9786]

Just exasperation

[felipe]

Certainly underwhelming for a $70 set, though

Definitely underwhelming. Would've been a sure buy in digipack, now I'm not so sure.

I'm quite bummed they've come up with a two-disc blu-ray plastic case, meaning they'll probably want to use it more often...

[knives]

I love it. Saves room on my shelf. It's a must double dip now.

[felipe]

I'm not really worried about shelf space. If I were, then regular blue cases would save even more space than Criterion thicker cases.

[Jeff]

That's a pretty ingenious design. I had assumed that Blu-sized figure eights were impossible, and that seems like a pretty elegant solution. I haven't seen any other companies use it either. I bet they wish they'd come up with it a couple of years ago.

[tenia]

That's a pretty ingenious design. I had assumed that Blu-sized figure eights were impossible, and that seems like a pretty elegant solution. I haven't seen any other companies use it either. I bet they wish they'd come up with it a couple of years ago.

Considering all the BD-sized figure-8 steelbooks (Arrow for instance), it was just a matter of time until Criterion would use some.

I admit that it looks much cheaper than a Digipack, especially since they haven't created any inside artwork (other bummer).
On the other hand, the PQ upgrade is sufficient enough to tempt me. Will see when I find it at a good price (currently, the set is at $45 on Amazon, but I would clearly buy the Lean / Coward set instead, since it is at $53).

[Gregory]

I'm not really worried about shelf space. If I were, then regular blue cases would save even more space than Criterion thicker cases.

Huge numbers of Criterion's customer base live in apartments, where shelf-space limitations lead directly to hesitation to buy more releases, especially for all those less fanatical than those of us around here. (I'm in a house and still have to keep most of the movies in the basement.) And one of the problems with the slimmer blue cases is that they won't accommodate many of Criterion's booklets and other extras such as the folded-up art school test facsimile in the Crumb blu.

[felipe]

The dvd edition has 3 discs. How is it packed? Is it a digipack?

[mfunk9786]

If I had to guess I'd say it's in the same case as Science is Fiction, but if you would buy a DVD over a Blu-ray because it's in a digipak, I am worried about you.

[felipe]

but if you would buy a DVD over a Blu-ray because it's in a digipak, I am worried about you.

The packaging is what I'll be looking at most of the time, so I might buy a dvd in digipack and whenever I want to watch the movie I might just rent it. It's not like I'll be watching the film a dozen times.

[mfunk9786]

That is officially insane.

[TMDaines]

Especially as there are, surely, many better ways to decorate your home, even with movie memorabilia.

[The Narrator Returns]

Packaging doesn't mean jack shit to me. If it's good, then that's an extra bonus, but if it's bad, I'm not going to keep another edition and rent the Blu-Ray when I want to watch it. Being John Malkovich had one of the worst covers I've ever seen, but I still bought it Day 1. The Double Life of Veronique Blu-Ray was missing some essays from the booklet, but I bought it, because it looked better than the DVD and it's a great film.

[mfunk9786]

Just the idea that you'd buy something for $40+ just because a bit of cardboard about a half foot tall and an inch wide can be somewhere in your abode is baffling to me.

Reminds me of when I was a kid, we'd be taken to Blockbuster by my parents every few weeks and get to pick out two movies to rent. We owned an old-school clamshell VHS copy of The Return of Jafar (my brother's favorite movie to revisit), but he (about five at the time) would always start to cry if one of those two rentals couldn't be The Return of Jafar, regardless of how we tried to explain to him that we already owned it. Turned out he just didn't want to watch anything that didn't come in that hearty black plastic Blockbuster case, since he associated it with his joy over the trip there to rent a movie - but felipe's suggestion that he'd buy the Samurai Trilogy to put it on his shelf and let it collect dust and then rent it whenever he wanted to watch it certainly brings back a fond but frustrating memory from my childhood. So thanks?

[domino harvey]

This is what happens when we aren't allowed to direct people to the Dot Com Forum