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Arrow wrote:

domino harvey wrote:I received four digipaks and Zatoichi rumbling around inside a 3/4 empty box big enough to be used to bury a medium sized dog and all five items were in perfect condition, not even a scuff or crumple. Truly I must be the son of God

Can you please bless my yet to arrive order then?

It is so. Go with Godard, my son

I am glad to inform that all my digipaks arrived without any casualties. \:D/

What happened to the back cover of the Mr. Fox set? Now the packaging shot makes sense. Same thing happened to The Darjeeling Limited back cover. Why does somebody forget to print (or mess up) the back cover for Anderson releases?

Clearly it's intentional, so that the package looks "cleaner" after you purchase it and remove all the back cover clutter.

The Hidden Fortress
George Washington
A Brief History of Time

chatterjees wrote:What happened to the back cover of the Mr. Fox set? Now the packaging shot makes sense. Same thing happened to The Darjeeling Limited back cover. Why does somebody forget to print (or mess up) the back cover for Anderson releases?

This doesn't bother me, but is it just me, or is the "front" of the slipcover on the wrong side? The disc package slips out right-to-left, not the intuitive left-to-right.

Bando wrote:

chatterjees wrote:What happened to the back cover of the Mr. Fox set? Now the packaging shot makes sense. Same thing happened to The Darjeeling Limited back cover. Why does somebody forget to print (or mess up) the back cover for Anderson releases?

This doesn't bother me, but is it just me, or is the "front" of the slipcover on the wrong side? The disc package slips out right-to-left, not the intuitive left-to-right.

It's just you. The packaging shots show that the slipcover is normal as any other release.

As for the disposable back, it's probably (as swo17 said) to make things look cleaner. A full wraparound cover, if you will.

Will Criterion replace a damaged case and cover art even if not purchased from their website? I recently bought a Blu-ray copy of Seconds from Amazon, and the plastic on the case is torn in front and the cover bent and wrinkled (it was this way inside the shrinkwrap, so nothing to do with how it was shipped). As the disc and booklet are fine, I see no point in seeking a replacement from Amazon.

Feego wrote:Will Criterion replace a damaged case and cover art even if not purchased from their website? I recently bought a Blu-ray copy of Seconds from Amazon, and the plastic on the case is torn in front and the cover bent and wrinkled (it was this way inside the shrinkwrap, so nothing to do with how it was shipped). As the disc and booklet are fine, I see no point in seeking a replacement from Amazon.

Send an email to Mulvaney and he'll probably hook you up with a replacement.
From what I've heard, it generally doesn't matter if you bought the release through Criterion.com directly or not, as they'll still help you.

Though they may charge you $5 per replacement item.

WOW. So far this is an A+ month for covers. Picnic at Hanging Rock (a gap for me personally) is gorgeous, and really makes me want to catch up with that film. All That Heaven Allows was going to be a day-one purchase anyway, but that cover seals it. Beautiful.

Holy shit, all of these covers are great! Did they finally start listening to our bitching?

Of all the iconic Beatles imagery over the years... that's what the Hard Day's Night cover looks like? Huge disappointment, and frankly a little baffling.

Oh sweet Jesus!

I don't know who Ron Wimberly is, but congrats on making one of the best Criterion covers ever

All That Heaven Allows is nice, but I've got to say I prefer the older cover. I do love the 70s paperback design of Picnic at Hanging Rock.

Ron Wimberly did the Zatoichi box.

Feego wrote:All That Heaven Allows is nice, but I've got to say I prefer the older cover. I do love the 70s paperback design of Picnic at Hanging Rock.

It pairs quite nicely with the Magnificent Obsession cover, too.

That Hard Day's Night cover is ugly, thoughtless and cheap, and that makes me so sad.

Home runs on all of the rest, though.

The more I look at it, the more I think it might be on my list of worst covers in Criterion history - it's just such a slam dunk source material-wise, and to fuck it up like this...

Solid month for cover art! I think Judex and Picnic at Hanging Rock are the real winners. The Hard Days Night cover seems uninspired though, which is a shame.

domino harvey wrote:Holy shit, all of these covers are great! Did they finally start listening to our bitching?

Well, apart from the hideous Hard Day's Night cover.

My impression is that the cover for A Hard Day's Night may be one of those that is better in person than on the picture.

captveg wrote:My impression that the cover for A Hard Day's Night may be one of those that is better in person than on the picture.

I'm thinking the same thing. There might be something unique planned for this one in the printing process that can't be faithfully displayed in a simple jpg image. Let's hope that's the case because on its own... meh.