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You know that Shimizu release would have been exciting if they had done it a year ago... ](*,)

Goddamn it (twitch), can't you guys plainly see that (tic) this is clearly the German silent (hic) version of Danton from 1921 with Jannings and Krauss?

Excuse me while I crawl back into my walnut shell.

I really like the Rossellini cover (can the Ingrids and the war trilogy be far behind?). The Kurosawa is appropriate (I'm not a great fan of the film). The Last Metro cover is a mere 'so what' (but so's the film for me).

For once, I actually do like all the covers. Good to see The Last Metro coming into the collection

I have a question about the packaging of [House of Games] DVD. When I got my copy (which I purchased new, with the Criterion sticker on the shrink wrap), the insert was put in the slipcase so that when you open the case, the disc is on the left side and the booklet was upside-down on the right. I assumed this was intentional (it seems very clever, and fitting with the film's theme of trickery), but when I told some other people about it, they were convinced it was a packaging glitch.

Does anybody else have a copy with the reversed/upside down packaging?

I agree, great covers this month.
Dodes'ka-den fits the movie to a T, Il Generale Della Rovere is good enough that I think I'll buy it sight unseen and The Last Metro almost had me forgetting that I actually don't like the movie behind the curtain.
Excellent job, Criterion. Carry on.

h_double wrote:I have a question about the packaging of [House of Games] DVD. When I got my copy (which I purchased new, with the Criterion sticker on the shrink wrap), the insert was put in the slipcase so that when you open the case, the disc is on the left side and the booklet was upside-down on the right. I assumed this was intentional (it seems very clever, and fitting with the film's theme of trickery), but when I told some other people about it, they were convinced it was a packaging glitch.

Does anybody else have a copy with the reversed/upside down packaging?

It's a packaging glitch. It would only be some kind of Mamet-ian trick if the DVD case arrived with nothing in it at all

zedz wrote:I really like the Rossellini cover (can the Ingrids and the war trilogy be far behind?).

Has it been confirmed Criterion is releasing the Ingrids?

GringoTex wrote:

zedz wrote:I really like the Rossellini cover (can the Ingrids and the war trilogy be far behind?).

Has it been confirmed Criterion is releasing the Ingrids?

Aren't some of the Ingrids Warner properties?

justeleblanc wrote:

GringoTex wrote:

zedz wrote:I really like the Rossellini cover (can the Ingrids and the war trilogy be far behind?).

Has it been confirmed Criterion is releasing the Ingrids?

Aren't some of the Ingrids Warner properties?

I have no idea, and as far as I know the films are rights minefields. I'm sure Criterion have explored the possibility, but whether anybody could pull this off has yet to be proved. This was wishful thinking on my part.

I'm really diggin' all the covers.

cdnchris wrote:

I didn't know Danton was an Ophuls film

Dan7on?

Dan Ion, the story of a Button Gwinnett's twin brother Daniel who, after being exposed to radiation during a freak inkwell accident, became a super-charged superhero

LQ wrote:Dan7on?

Actually, I think it's the beginnings of a rousing game of hangman.

Don't tell the Serious Horror Thread but he looks like a crossdresser

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Oh... oh my... OH MY GOD. That can't be real, can it? It serves me right for making jokes about what was in fact not a bad cover. But that... that... THAT is the most amateur drawing ever to grace a Criterion cover. What a complete embarrassment, both for the company and for anyone who passes by it on a shelf

domino harvey wrote:Oh... oh my... OH MY GOD. That can't be real, can it? It serves me right for making jokes about what was in fact not a bad cover. But that... that... THAT is the most amateur drawing ever to grace a Criterion cover. What a complete embarrassment, both for the company and for anyone who passes by it on a shelf

Much better I think.

Cinephrenic wrote:

domino harvey wrote:Oh... oh my... OH MY GOD. That can't be real, can it? It serves me right for making jokes about what was in fact not a bad cover. But that... that... THAT is the most amateur drawing ever to grace a Criterion cover. What a complete embarrassment, both for the company and for anyone who passes by it on a shelf

Much better I think.

I agree. Much better.

domino harvey wrote:Oh... oh my... OH MY GOD. That can't be real, can it? It serves me right for making jokes about what was in fact not a bad cover. But that... that... THAT is the most amateur drawing ever to grace a Criterion cover. What a complete embarrassment, both for the company and for anyone who passes by it on a shelf

Dude, what's your problem? I think this is a fantastic cover.

Are you guys seriously not looking in the top corner? Fifth grade art classes have turned out better drawings than that

Um, I believe that's actually a photo of Depardieu.

I like it more for it's conceptual and compositional (both colorwise and layoutwise) originality than for it's personal effect or drawing style.

But suffice to say the rendering is not meant to be realistic.. there's almost a touch of Cocteau there.