criterionforum.org

Could The Graduate cover be any more... predictable? The Jan Troell double release is beautiful though.

I think The Graduate cover is perfect. Happy they didn't do some kind of interpretation.

A bit odd the Kid calls him Charlie rather than Charles. Is he billed differently in the film?

perfect covers all around. I Knew Her Well is a favorite of mine and I couldn't be happier with its look and release.

Ribs wrote:A bit odd the Kid calls him Charlie rather than Charles. Is he billed differently in the film?

According to IMDb, Chaplin was billed as Charlie Chaplin for Modern Times, The Circus, The Kid, and many shorts. Interestingly enough, Criterion's Modern Times cover indicates the correct Charlie Chaplin credit.

Hoping The Graduate & The Emigrants/The New Land will be digipak

I Knew Her Well is one of the all-time great covers.

Really great set of covers, especially The Graduate, The Kid, and The Emigrants/The New World.

Altair wrote:Could The Graduate cover be any more... predictable?

I guess it couldn't, but it's so tastefully executed that it couldn't really get better. From the white framing to the title inside the box, love eveything about that cover.

There are some things on The Kid that bother me though. I don't like the font as painting on the wall and found it kind of distracting (and irrelevant) to include the cop on the artwork.

felipe wrote:There are some things on The Kid that bother me though. I don't like the font as painting on the wall and found it kind of distracting (and irrelevant) to include the cop on the artwork.

It's an iconic image from the film, and the cop was part of the original still. I do think this easily stands as the best Chaplin cover in the collection.

Luke M wrote:

Ribs wrote:A bit odd the Kid calls him Charlie rather than Charles. Is he billed differently in the film?

According to IMDb, Chaplin was billed as Charlie Chaplin for Modern Times, The Circus, The Kid, and many shorts. Interestingly enough, Criterion's Modern Times cover indicates the correct Charlie Chaplin credit.

If I recall correctly, Chaplin officially changed his billing from "Charlie" to "Charles" with Monsiuer Verdoux and all subsequent films as a sort of rebranding.

I Knew Her Well's cover is amazing. I don't know the film but I'm very tempted.

Downhill Racer
The Apu Trilogy

Saturnome wrote:I Knew Her Well's cover is amazing. I don't know the film but I'm very tempted.

If you love the cover, I daresay the film won't disappoint.

Just came back from the BN sale with a bag full of new Criterions and was very happy to see such great booklets included with the Apu Trilogy and Mulholland Dr. On the other hand, everything else was pretty pathetic, packaging-wise. Those little leaflets are just sad.

I think silence de la mer and limelight had real booklets but pretty much all the other 2015 keepcase releases have foldouts.

movielocke wrote:I think silence de la mer and limelight had real booklets but pretty much all the other 2015 keepcase releases have foldouts.

The foldouts were a stupid thing to do before and they're even stupider now. Why on earth would they do it? Limelight indeed has a booklet. I haven't been buying any 2015 Criterions before this autumn, and after "Limelight" was shocked when I got Kwaidan as it came out. A foldout? A foldout that, unread and fresh from the wraps, looked like it'd been used as fake money in my kids' games. Now that it's been in use it looks even more vintage, 90s style. How cool is that.

AK wrote:

movielocke wrote:I think silence de la mer and limelight had real booklets but pretty much all the other 2015 keepcase releases have foldouts.

The foldouts were a stupid thing to do before and they're even stupider now. Why on earth would they do it?

Personally, I blame the people who forced Criterion to stop cutting costs by releasing Dual Format releases, and instead cut costs elsewhere in their releases. I also blame those people for the recent compression issues in some transfers.

Am I the only one who thinks the Nixon on the cover of Secret Honor looks nothing like Philip Baker Hall in the movie?

flyonthewall2983 wrote:Am I the only one who thinks the Nixon on the cover of Secret Honor looks nothing like Philip Baker Hall in the movie?

Google image search "Roger Stone" & "Nixon" for a good time

Jellyfish Eyes
Speedy
Burroughs: The Movie

rockysds wrote:

As the guy who has been annoyingly listing this in my monthly guesses for about 4 years now I can only say WOW. So gorgeous and I can't wait to have this in hand. No release has made me happier in a very very long time.

Now what to obsess over?

JELLYFISH EYES 2.

HistoryProf wrote:Now what to obsess over?

The return of studio canal titles?

HistoryProf wrote:Now what to obsess over?

Maybe if you wish hard enough, you and I can singlehandedly make that Criterion of Kafka a thing.