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I believe it was Andrea Pazienza, not Milos Manara

Where does the art for Fear and Desire come from?

imhotep wrote:Where does the art for Fear and Desire come from?

Kino. I think they just cooked it up on their own for the US release.

CSM126 wrote:

imhotep wrote:Where does the art for Fear and Desire come from?

Kino. I think they just cooked it up on their own for the US release.

Surely there must have been something more exciting to choose from?

From what I understand, there was basically zero extent advertising imagery for the film, so something had to be fabricated. Short of either a generic screen grab job or the expense of hiring an artist, I'd say they did the best they could.

I doubt there were too many official production stills either.

Here is Italian DVD cover.



I prefer Kino / Eureka graphic design.

To return to the J-card "discussion" we had a few days ago: I tried folding up the ones from Cleopatra and Dr. Mabuse and putting them inside the steelbook: it`s just a bit too big, the steelbooks don`t close now. So I just leave them out...

TheGodfather wrote:To return to the J-card "discussion" we had a few days ago: I tried folding up the ones from Cleopatra and Dr. Mabuse and putting them inside the steelbook: it`s just a bit too big, the steelbooks don`t close now. So I just leave them out...

Unless those ones are different from earlier steelbooks, you should be able to fit them under the plastic tray in the steelbook. This does entail dismantling and reassembling the steelbook (and may be difficult if you bite your nails!)

zedz wrote:

TheGodfather wrote:To return to the J-card "discussion" we had a few days ago: I tried folding up the ones from Cleopatra and Dr. Mabuse and putting them inside the steelbook: it`s just a bit too big, the steelbooks don`t close now. So I just leave them out...

Unless those ones are different from earlier steelbooks, you should be able to fit them under the plastic tray in the steelbook. This does entail dismantling and reassembling the steelbook (and may be difficult if you bite your nails!)

ah ok. thanks for the info. don`t know if I`m gonna do that :-k

That looks fantastic.

Superb cover!

I prefer the typography of the DVD cover but that's a much more striking cover overall.

This is what I would have done:

Even better!

I agree with Calvin about the typography of the original DVD cover for the new dual cover - but I DO like perpee's alternative cover too!

Definitely not enough tit-grabbing cover art in my movie collection.

Now I wish I had gone for the steelbook after seeing that lamentable cover for the Blu-ray. Why?!

If you just a film by the cover
Then you judge a look by the lover
I hope you'll soon recover
Me I'll go from one MoC to another...

Seriously though, I really like the box art and the sleeve seems ok enough.

MoC does wonderful covers, as evidenced by the slipcase, but for some reason they often mess around with their wonderful front cover layout when it comes to slipcovered or box set releases. The Lubitsch sleeves are easily the worst I have in my entire DVD collection (they surely had to have been slapped together at the very last minute), the sleeve for the Blu-ray of Metropolis loses it's standard MoC layout and so does Joan now it seems. I don't think anyone would argue, that in any of these cases, the sleeves with the non-standard layout have been an improvement. Why deviate from a formula that works so well and is so asthetically pleasing?

TMDaines wrote:...Why deviate from a formula that works so well and is so asthetically pleasing?

I do know what you mean (those Lubitsch individual covers are pretty basic) but in MoC's defence I'd say the Lubitsch box cover is the cover, and in the case of Metropolis and Joan I'd guess that they just really wanted to use those excellent images which happen to be "landscape" rather than "portrait" and trying to re-jig them into a portrait style Amaray cover would have been messy and had a poor result.

Sure, the outer boxes and slips in all these cases are beautiful, but it's just a pity that the whole product doesn't have the uniformity and the covers of the cases themselves look like they've been slapped together last minute.

TMDaines wrote:Sure, the outer boxes and slips in all these cases are beautiful, but it's just a pity that the whole product doesn't have the uniformity and the covers of the cases themselves look like they've been slapped together last minute.

Remember that a number of MoC covers have been reversible - the DVD Mizoguchis and the Naruse box, for example. Possibly Jeanne can be reversed to something more appealing, although you could do worse that a still from the film. It could be an Olive cover or the new Blu of Easter Parade.