thethirdman wrote:Wow, those are two horrible looking sets.
I had hopes that Bicycle Thieves would be packaged like Hands over the City.
The color scheme is very unappealing.
How can you call that horrible? isn`t Hands over the city packed in one of those slim case plastic type-of-cases? I really don`t like them, so I`m uber glad they made it the way they did!
If they aren't going to use the poster (which I quite like) they could definitely find some better stills. I'd love to see the title look like it does but slightly reddish, on a black and white still of the gun sticking out of vinz' pants.
In fairness to backstreetbackalright, the desolate cover of criterion's version nicely underlines the theme of a banlieue society abandoned by 'legitimate' French society, but I just think the Optimum cover is super hot(ter).
It might be better if the title on the La Haine cover was moved up into the white space. The actual dead space doesn't bother me, but the title over the faces does, for some reason.
CSM126 wrote:It might be better if the title on the La Haine cover was moved up into the white space. The actual dead space doesn't bother me, but the title over the faces does, for some reason.
But that's the whole point of the design. The faces are obscured, to generalize the characters. These are not three singular young men, but actually anybody raised in a problematic neighborhood as shown in the movie. Plus using a stencil to create the title connects the cover even more to a story from the streets. And the void in the upper half of the cover? The future of these people is just as empty as the depicted sky. I really like the cover.
I thought the Monsters/Madmen set was nicely packaged when I picked it up Friday, but the Yojimbo/Sanjuro set blows it away. The packaging is sturdy, simple, elegant, and appropriate.
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