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Greathinker wrote:What's so lazy about Mochette's cover? It's typical Bresson minimalism, just like all his other covers in the criterion collection, save Balthazar.

Balthazar is much more minimalistic than Les Dames du Bois

I just have to say that the Mouchette cover is very similar to the Pickpocket cover (the font and tone of the lettering, the texture of the jackets)

Criterion's recent Kurosawa covers have been some of their best ever. These new ones are propbably the best in the entire collection.

Alonzo the Armless wrote:For those interested, I found out that the cover for MONSTERS AND MADMEN was done by Darwyn Cooke.

Wow, it's totally obvious when you look at some of his other work. Nice job, Darwyn!

Yeah, Cooke is a very good illustrator. Criterion should use him more.

jmj713 wrote:Criterion's recent Kurosawa covers have been some of their best ever. These new ones are propbably the best in the entire collection.

Wow big call. I agree they are pretty great, though better than Kagemusha and Ran? I don't know.

I love the abstract expressionism of the cover on Ran. Perfect dripage and colors.

The Lower Depths, Throne of Blood, Ran, Kagemusha, Seven Samurai, and basically every other Kurosawa cover in the collection is pretty amazing. The new Yojimbo and Sanjuro covers are pretty sexy, but looking back on some of the others, they don't seem quite as impressive (still love them though). But I guess they are among the top Kurosawa covers.

Lower Depths cover is one of my favorites, and probably one of the more forgotten:

I never noticed how the title is in two different fonts and then there is the "brush script" version of the title on each side of it. The treatment of the still is nice, but the typography is a hot mess.

wow, i didnt even notice that the one on the outside said "Lower Depths" also, thought it was the original japanese, never studied it closely i guess...

yah the titles are a bit off, but the rest of the cover is beautiful.

Ran, Kagemusha, and Throne of Blood are my very favorites. Too bad this one is a little sloppy. And the Yojimbo and Sanjuro ones are executed as cleanly as the other great ones. Still like Lower Depths more though.

Is The Lower Depths the only CC with the spine title facing the wrong way?

An idle mind is the devil's playground.

Matango wrote:Is The Lower Depths the only CC with the spine title facing the wrong way?

it's because it's a double disc with Renoir's Lower Depths as disc 2.
The packaging is designed to face either way with one side being the cover for Renior's and the other for Kurosawa's.

Still doesn't work. If you have the title facing the normal way, the spine number is at the top and the CC name/logo is facing the wrong way. Just looks off balance next to all the other Kurosawas, or Renoirs. To me anyway.

Matango wrote:Is The Lower Depths the only CC with the spine title facing the wrong way?

The Killers, too, is like this

has anyone gotten Sweetie yet? I was just wondering how it was packaged

Clear plastic, similar to MoC's releases and, apparently, a few earlier single disc Criterions.

My booklet for Hands Over the City was not stapled. I am incensed. I want my m#@%$r f#*&$n' staples. I encourage all those who did not receive staples to write Criterion and get their m$^#%r f&$*&n' staples.

you know, it might be easier just to type "mother fucking". just a thought.

Ah, yes, 'fuckin.' And to think I was this close to calling out your uncouthness, Ives. Honestly, fisting someone's mother? There's a line, sir.

-Toilet Dcuk

Ives wrote:My booklet for Hands Over the City was not stapled. I am incensed. I want my m#@%$r f#*&$n' staples.

Jeff wrote:

Ives wrote:My booklet for Hands Over the City was not stapled. I am incensed. I want my m#@%$r f#*&$n' staples.

That looks like the SALVATORE GIULIANO stapler...

I'm surprised that no one is bitching about the disc-on-disc figure-eight style case that Hands comes in.

Theodore R. Stockton wrote:I'm surprised that no one is bitching about the disc-on-disc figure-eight style case that Hands comes in.

Scroll down 3/4 of the way

Digipaks it seems for The Double Life of Veronique (which is crushed a little on top even in the display picture!) and Pandora's Box, as seen on Barnes & Noble's site:

Well, they sort of had to be digipaks, just given the book that come with each one. Crushed tops and frayed edges aside though, they both look incredible. As long as nothing happens in shipping, that Veronique will look stunning on my shelf.