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The DVD version does indeed contain both the traditional insert and the novella.

This is also true of the blu. (I picked up a copy in the recent B&N sale.) There are two inserts: one is the leaflet with the essay and production credits, and the other is the 44-page novella.

Thanks guys for clearing up my curiosity about the DVD vs Blu inserts. The more I think of the supplements inside, the more its influencing my decision to purchase.

acroyear wrote: Sun Aug 05, 2018 5:53 pm Thanks guys for clearing up my curiosity about the DVD vs Blu inserts. The more I think of the supplements inside, the more its influencing my decision to purchase.

It is a terrific film and the supplements do an excellent job of diving into it and its troubled history.

Tremendous overall release.

The incomplete art for Ambersons is clever

The Ambersons cover looks very nice. The Some Like It Hot cover does not look even slightly nice.

I like all of them especially the Mizoguchi.

Brian C wrote: Wed Aug 15, 2018 9:12 pm The Ambersons cover looks very nice. The Some Like It Hot cover does not look even slightly nice.

Marilyn Monroe got the fuzzy end of the lollipop again

I like the cover for The Magnificent Ambersons. It looks a little bit dreamlike, like a faded memory, and the unfinished coloring is a nice nod to the missing/lost footage. I also like the vulgarity of Some Like it Hot's cover.

domino harvey wrote:Marilyn Monroe got the fuzzy end of the lollipop again

It’s been awhile since I’ve watched it so maybe I’m being unfair ... I just don’t remember it being a one-woman stage show about a broken-down drunk.

Not a single atrocious cover this month. Kudos, Criterion. The Mizoguchi one is particularly appealing in its simplicity.

Ambersons and Chikamatsu look great; I don't hate SLIH, but it's certainly not ideal.

Yellow and black is always gross, why do they keep doing that

Maybe it will make sense after watching the movie, but that True Stories cover is reverse selling me.

Brian C wrote: Wed Aug 15, 2018 9:17 pm It’s been awhile since I’ve watched it so maybe I’m being unfair ... I just don’t remember it being a one-woman stage show about a broken-down drunk.

You're forgetting the infamous delirium tremens scene where she hallucinates miniature rubber puppets of Curtis and Lemmon first flying around the room, then posing lazily on her. Or am I confusing it with another movie?...

Wow, Some Like It Hot is all kinds of awful. It's bad enough that tiny Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon were photoshopped onto an unflattering photo of Monroe, but they weren't even photoshopped well!

Ambersons on the other hand is beautiful. A happy addition to my collection (although I'd buy it even if they photoshopped tiny Tim Holt on a drunk Dolores Costello).

Oh yikes, I didn't initially notice them. Horrifying.

swo17 wrote: Wed Aug 15, 2018 9:46 pm Oh yikes, I didn't initially notice them. Horrifying.

Oh, no no no. I was initially not too disparaging because giving Monroe the full cover can't be all bad, but that was a terrible choice.

Haha I didn’t notice them either. Now it’s both ugly AND stupid.

It reminds of the music video for "Miserable" by Lit, with a blonde sex symbol blown up to King Kong size towering over miniature men. If only she was chasing and devouring them.

Yes, I also did not notice this at first. Ack.

I sort of like it now, at least in concept. It’s the bizarrely flat angle of her that sinks it

To be fair, the typeface is the only thing the designer did take from the original key art