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I don't think I have either, but I'll see what they come up with first.

I'm discovering the reversible sleeve for 40 Guns, nice one though I prefer the first artwork.

As for Stalag, I also thought "no reason to double dip, but very nice effort cover-wise !"

I won't be buying the MoC either. I like Stalag 17 well enough to want to own it but Paramount got there first and I'd rather save my money for other titles.

Nice covers there!

Alex Ross Perry, a "master of cinema".

Re: Alex Ross Perry

I'm hoping this or another release includes Impolex (2009) -- his loose adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Paul Thomas Anderson was not the first to adapt Pynchon to the screen. I don't think there has been any home video release of this one, and I'm very curious to see it.

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/impolex

DeprongMori wrote:Re: Alex Ross Perry

I'm hoping this or another release includes Impolex (2009) -- his loose adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Paul Thomas Anderson was not the first to adapt Pynchon to the screen. I don't think there has been any home video release of this one, and I'm very curious to see it.

Loose adaptation is itself a loose phrase in this instance.

Great cover but surely that wayward lower-case y could have been shortened

I particularly like how on the right-hand side they give a literal translation of the Japanese title: A Tale of the Cruelties of Youth, which seems to satisfy a few complaints we had a while back over how best to balance well-known but misleading translations of title with literal ones (although that doesn't seem to be an issue in this case).

Fortunately, all these alternative titles are together in a small corner, but god, do we need again 4 different titles on the cover ?

I would rather something more deserving take the place of Listen Up Phillip and I could say the same about Criterion's The Rose & Tootsie. It seems that none of the labels are taking any chances to unearth true gems any longer. There is so much more left but everyone is looking in the wrong places and underestimating their advantages to hype anything to a new audience instead of going with what is already economically viable. Meanwhile A Page of Madness, Gardiens de phare, L'inhumaine & El Sexto Sentido (Nemesio Sobrevila) are still collecting dust.

This isn't the right thread for this, but they are at the mercy, often, of existing masters/new restorations (with rare exceptions being The Apu Trilogy and Boro Box and Mizoguchi Box, where it seems the labels took on the financial burden primarily themselves to deliver). Blu-rays are very expensive to produce. While I, too, wish that everything was the forthcoming Oshima release from MOC, it's not going to happen. And it's pretty safe to say that releases like you've mentioned are what help underwrite World Cinema Project, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, and others.

I appreciate them giving us some King Hu blu and I've already pre-ordered and all but... that's not a very good cover, is it?

Yeah really, that is one bad cover if there ever was one

I'm not one to chime in very often about cover art, but out of all the possible images they could have chosen from this film, that's the one they chose (not to mention the title font and design)? Do they have no interest in enticing people to buy this? Could they have been forced to use this picture for some kind of contractual reason? That's the only explanation I can come up with.

This one gets the rat's arsehole award out of the whole catalogue.

- What should we do ? Take a still pic from the movie or something more photoshopped ?
- Let's meet halfway.

The Seconds cover gives the game away a little bit.

Coming soon: Masters of Cinema's edition of Citizen Kane, with a screen grab of a burning sled named Rosebud on the cover.

To be fair, the artwork is based on the original theatrical poster.