I posted earlier on how much I loved the cover art for the Bad Sleep Well when I first saw it online. Now this is my fav Kurrosawa film, and I have 75% of the collection so I would of bought this title regardless of the cover art. After I got my copy and I looked over it my feelings for the cover have changed. It still looks better on a computer screen then in a DVD case for some reason. I can't put my finger on the exact reason. Part of the reason is that the back to me looks homemade. I have bootleg concert dvd art that is better. I think that simple is better alot of the time, I think that in this case it is worse.
backstreetsbackalright wrote:I think we can take a break from the whole "Why are you putting out these titles when I really want Ozu and Mizoguchi!" bit, no?
not really, its 1 fucking film.
What we should be getting is 2 box sets for Ozu and Mizoguchi, with 3-5 films in each.
I can't figure out the font choice. Not unduly impressed by the cover myself -- but cover design will hardly be a major factor in my decision as to how many copies I will be buying of this.
Cherry blossom twigs would not be Ozu-esque. Perhaps alone, of all the major golden age Japanese film makers, Ozu never really uses any cherry blossom imagery.
The embedded Noh play involves pines in some way (but I forget the details).
This cover just seems a bit overly fussy -- I would have thought something simpler would have been better.
Maybe I'm alone, but I would prefer no images at the bottom. They look somewhat like lobby cards from the film. Of course, I'm going to snap this up anyway, so this is inconsequential to my love for the film itself.
"Late Spring" looks great, except -- am I the only one who, due to typographical oddness with the "L-A", initially mis-scanned the title as "Hate Spring"?
