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Broadcast News: Nice. Not very memorable, but it serves the movie well.

The Fullers: Gross. Those covers do not convey pulp cinema. The original covers did. And why is Constance Towers about to be hit in the head with a football on the Naked Kiss cover? They should have just slapped a screenshot of her with her bald head on the cover and called it a day. That would have been at once fascinating and disturbing, just like the film.

Dearden Eclipse: Terrific.

I've never cared for Clowes' uglification style of drawing, and it is a real detriment for the Naked Kiss when he can't even draw a moderately-attractive woman for the cover

Broadcast News' cover is terrific.

I think the Fuller covers are very appropriate. Crap covers by an overrated artist for crap movies by an overrated director.

Real Talk

Great to see the blu-ray releases of Naked Kiss and Shock Corridor!

I can sort of see the logic for choosing Clowes, in the sense that the perfect artist for a Fuller cover would probably be Bernie Krigstein but, Bernie being dead, they had to settle for somebody whose work is substantially derived from Krigstein's - a pale imitation that long ago calcified into a style. Unfortunately, many of the most Fullerish elements of Krigstein's style, such as dynamic framing and shadow placement, eluded Clowes, so what's left just looks sort of jokey.

Which makes me think: imagine a Pickup on South Street cover in the style of this:

Mr. Ned wrote:When I first saw Shock Corridor, I had recently broken up with a girl I was in love with: I remember going "I'm heartbroken, but this movie was mad, insane genius." Bubblegum Pink and Honeysuckle Yellow are not the first things I think of when I think of heartbrokenness or insanity: I think deep reds, angry greens, and pictures that don't look like a shitty comic book. Sam Fuller deserves more than cartoons.

I apologize for this drunken and poorly thought out post. MyNameCriterionForum, I have watched a great deal of Fuller, not everything, but I paid particular attention to his westerns (Forty Guns, Baron, I Shot Jesse James, etc.) so those are the images I first sift through when I think of him, along with a rather elegiac write-up Tag Gallagher did on Fuller around the release of the White Dog Criterion. None of the westerns are as bombastic and overwrought as Shock, White Dogs and others, so my understanding of Fuller doesn't veer into "cartoony" territory, although that element is definitely there sometimes. Just a personal outlook, no harm!

That being said, while I may make smarmy posts on message boards after a night of heavy drinking, the next morning I will be sober and those Fuller covers will still be ugly.

Mr. Ned wrote:That being said, while I may make smarmy posts on message boards after a night of heavy drinking, the next morning I will be sober and those Fuller covers will still be ugly.

Like the Army Of Shadows cover, the Eclipse covers, and borderline ok with the Broadcast News cover. The Fuller covers, agree, and the Mars one never did much for me either.

(Just dawned on me that All Night Long is the one with Mingus and Brubeck. Been wanting to check that one out for some time (since about the time I cut way back on my import habit).)

CSM126 wrote:

D50 wrote:For two disc set packaging, could the fixed two disc overlap securing harm or damage the top disc? The other type of two disc packaging with one disc per plastic circular "page" seems more secure, excepting of course when they arrive with the disc loose in package - hate when that happens.

Considering that Criterion have been using the overlapping style for years without issue, I'm guessing it's fine.

Ordered Criterion Bottle Rocket and both discs were loose in the case, back of both discs scratched of course. Got a return label from amazon and replacement is on the way.

D50 wrote:

CSM126 wrote:

D50 wrote:For two disc set packaging, could the fixed two disc overlap securing harm or damage the top disc? The other type of two disc packaging with one disc per plastic circular "page" seems more secure, excepting of course when they arrive with the disc loose in package - hate when that happens.

Considering that Criterion have been using the overlapping style for years without issue, I'm guessing it's fine.

Ordered Criterion Bottle Rocket and both discs were loose in the case, back of both discs scratched of course. Got a return label from amazon and replacement is on the way.

Yeah, even though they have been using them for years, I still don't like them. When I picked up "Rules of the Game" during the last sale, the case happened to be warped and the first disc was loose. I do like that 'page' format, although I also liked the cases that Paramount was using for the Centennial discs - although that wouldn't be very good for the size of booklets Criterion likes to include.

Got the Seven Samurai blu yesterday. The booklet is packaged in between the gatefold that house the two discs. I tried to repackage the set like Man Who Fell to Earth or any other dvd with a big booklet but the package gets too tight.

The Breathless DVD was packaged that way (with the booklet in the middle), I thought it was quite a sharp way of doing things, it kept the spine facing into the shelf nice and clean-looking.

Concerning the cover art for the Jigoku dvd who did it and what's that style called?

Crab Society North wrote:Concerning the cover art for the Jigoku dvd who did it and what's that style called?

Photoshopism.

cdnchris wrote:Antichrist Blu-ray

Gross. :-&

And that's not a criticism.

I'm going to turn the cover inside out and ask friends if they want to watch my mutilated deer movie.

looks like a digi.

I only mention this because I read a rumor saying that this would be the first 2-disc BD with a plastic case... meaning Criterion designed a new case to be mass produced.

I joked however many pages back that is exactly what Criterion were doing for this release. Maybe I'm the source of this nonsense rumor!

That, thankfully, does look like a digi. Can`t wait to see more pictures of it.

Today I received my copy of the House blu-ray and I like the overall design of it. The flashy back cover, the gorgeous booklet: lovely.

Yes! the comeback of the digipack. There were more than a few titles released this year I wish would have benefited from this. Though in all honesty I couldn't picture Night of the Hunter being one of them

Hunter is going to be on digipack. Great news!