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So, Am I the only one disappointed that they didn't take a try at something new and illustrated for Rosemary's Baby.
Where did the Passolini image come from, that looks great.

Also, am I the only one bothered by In the Mood having the same cover but different content? Usually, they change the cover.

"So, am I the only one disappointed by..."

mteller wrote:I saw on another forum that 630-633 is this:



I don't know where that info or picture came from though.

They really did hire swimminghorses, didn't they?

Oh please, that cover is much better than anything swimminghorses (or anyone else in fan cover threads) could come up with. It's terrific, and I hope the month delay doesn't result in it being changed.

To turn that into a swimminghorses cover all you'd need to do is replace the writing with some bargain-basement and totally inappropriate font (probably something Gothic); misspell Pasolini's name and at least one of the film titles; and add approximately 30 pieces of thematically barely related clipart, nested all on top of one another to leave as little open space as possible and each coloured a different shade of lurid. Oh, and you'd have to remove those figures in the circle, since they directly refer to the actual film.

Whatever happened to swimminghorses? Did he drown?

We scared him away and so now he cries on Facebook about how mean we are.

To be scrupulously correct, we scared him away more than once in different guises. That guy was tenacious as a cockroach.

Yeah, in the first wave of commentaries I did on Schreckbabble, he kept popping on with comments as "pictomat". He was pretty civil and nice but his odd psychological aroma eventually did out. He's disappeared into the ether well over a year or two ago.

I miss him.

i am very happy for the IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE bluray upgrade! i thought it would have been cool if they released the simi trilogy.. days of being wild, in the mood, 2046… & i really like these posters for it!

nickoberg wrote:i am very happy for the IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE bluray upgrade!

yes, this was my first thought as well. Excellent to see that!
Also wonderful to finally see Rosemary`s Baby being released.

A quick jump back to the very tight-fitting GODZILLA pack (if still appropriate for this thread)... and a solution.

Finally purchased this title last week, and was really disappointed to find how ill-fitting it was. I nearly thought I was going to be compromising or blatantly defacing the outer box just in getting the contents out the first time. Somehow or other my patience and care paid off and I finally released it without harming anything, for which I was extremely grateful. Second time was slightly easier, due to reinserting the digipack backwards for smoother entry. But I don't like putting things back together "wrong", and the ease in use still wasn't there.

And then some kind of divine inspiration intervened and I reinserted the digipack without the booklet, sliding it easily into the outer box, and then just as easily slid the booklet in alongside it. Incredibly, this fixed everything. My copy, at least, totally works this way, and looks again like new on the shelf and in the hand. I'm one happy camper, and I hope this might be of help to others.

nickoberg wrote:i am very happy for the IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE bluray upgrade! i thought it would have been cool if they released the simi trilogy.. days of being wild, in the mood, 2046… & i really like these posters for it!

Jesus, are those available to purchase?

kaujot wrote:

nickoberg wrote:i am very happy for the IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE bluray upgrade! i thought it would have been cool if they released the simi trilogy.. days of being wild, in the mood, 2046… & i really like these posters for it!

Jesus, are those available to purchase?

Yes

That looks great. Love the jaunty text on the back cover.

mfunk9786 wrote:

[b]Lost Highway[/b] Criterion producers wrote:What are we gonna do now?!

Reverse the colors.

Now that is great portrait of the actor.

Hmm...

Wtf?!

That is hilarious.

Even better than Kino's retro CC design for the Sacrifice blu, love it.

I had previously owned the Playtime DVD, but sold it to buy the Bluray. I remember it being a digipack.
Wanted to get it again since it will be going OOP, so I had a friend who's traveling through Oklahoma stop and get one that they had in stock there (sorry to the rest of the forum who's in OK), and they bought it and reported back that it's in a clear plastic case. I could only see some small cell phone pictures, but was Playtime re-issued as such? I'm fairly certain they didn't buy the bluray edition (says DVD on back). Is my memory wrong or was it re-issued or what?