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- Hate the Todd Browning set cover with passion, it's just plain awful.
- Love the cover for The Others, it's simple yet effective. It kind of looks like Second Sight's cover for The Babadook. Is it the same artist?

I really like all the covers (though Videodrome's retro-VHS-styled packaging only becomes more amusing with every move to an updated format!), especially the colour coded Tod Browning covers which look like they are trying to capture the sense of roughly created lurid posters slapped onto the walls of the latest town that the travelling carnival would be setting up in.

I passionately love the Browning set cover as well as the individual film covers. For me it's so fitting

I love the original poster of Freaks but think this is a good box cover. the individuals I don't like nearly as much, but that's okay

More Nicole Kidman movies should just have pictures of Nicole Kidman on the cover

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colinr0380 wrote: Mon Jul 17, 2023 9:22 pm I really like all the covers (though Videodrome's retro-VHS-styled packaging only becomes more amusing with every move to an updated format!)

Betamax, which makes the joke even more esoteric. (Did anybody else on the board actually experience those first hand?)

zedz wrote: Tue Jul 18, 2023 12:11 am

colinr0380 wrote: Mon Jul 17, 2023 9:22 pm I really like all the covers (though Videodrome's retro-VHS-styled packaging only becomes more amusing with every move to an updated format!)

Betamax, which makes the joke even more esoteric. (Did anybody else on the board actually experience those first hand?)

I did, though it was at my friend’s place. We had VHS; he had Betamax. At the video store you had to specify when checking out a title which format you needed. That ended around 1989/89, I think.

Not only do I remember Betamax, I remember when the first video store in town opened and they carried some titles on VHS and some on Beta with very little duplication. But no problem as you could just rent the machine you needed.

I love the Browning set artwork. The Others is fine, I suppose.

zedz wrote: Tue Jul 18, 2023 12:11 am

colinr0380 wrote: Mon Jul 17, 2023 9:22 pm I really like all the covers (though Videodrome's retro-VHS-styled packaging only becomes more amusing with every move to an updated format!)

Betamax, which makes the joke even more esoteric. (Did anybody else on the board actually experience those first hand?)

We had one growing up. My traumatic memory was that when it went kaput, my copy of Garfield: His 9 Lives was stuck inside, never to be reclaimed. We replaced the player with a VCR and never looked back.

Gerald Christie wrote: Mon Jul 17, 2023 9:10 pm - Love the cover for The Others, it's simple yet effective. It kind of looks like Second Sight's cover for The Babadook. Is it the same artist?

I guess Notorious was the inspiration here, right?

Matt wrote: Tue Jul 18, 2023 12:43 am Not only do I remember Betamax, I remember when the first video store in town opened and they carried some titles on VHS and some on Beta with very little duplication. But no problem as you could just rent the machine you needed.

I grew up in rural Oklahoma (900 pop) in the 1980s, and this comment suddenly summoned a memory from a local video store around 1985 who would let you rent a machine for these flat discs. They weren't for Beta or VHS. These were flat enclosed grey containers that I would describe as a hard drive (That is not accurate). This was a few years before laserdiscs hit the market. What were these? I remember my sitter renting this whole setup and she rented Empire Strikes Back. Does anyone know what I am thinking of? Were these actually early laser discs contained in a huge floppy disc?

EDIT: sorry for the off-topic. This was a weird trigger to a memory I hadn't thought about in 35 years.

aox wrote: Tue Jul 18, 2023 5:26 pmI grew up in rural Oklahoma (900 pop) in the 1980s, and this comment suddenly summoned a memory from a local video store around 1985 who would let you rent a machine for these flat discs. They weren't for Beta or VHS. These were flat enclosed grey containers that I would describe as a hard drive (That is not accurate). This was a few years before laserdiscs hit the market. What were these? I remember my sitter renting this whole setup and she rented Empire Strikes Back. Does anyone know what I am thinking of? Were these actually early laser discs contained in a huge floppy disc?

EDIT: sorry for the off-topic. This was a weird trigger to a memory I hadn't thought about in 35 years.

It might have been the Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED) format?

I saw a few of them on display at Beyond Video in Baltimore a few years ago, and they sort of match the description.

aox wrote: local video store around 1985 who would let you rent a machine for these flat discs. They weren't for Beta or VHS. These were flat enclosed grey containers that I would describe as a hard drive (That is not accurate). This was a few years before laserdiscs hit the market. What were these? I remember my sitter renting this whole setup and she rented Empire Strikes Back. Does anyone know what I am thinking of? Were these actually early laser discs contained in a huge floppy disc?

RCA CEDs or SelectaVision discs. We had these when I was a kid. The actual discs were closer to LPs. You'd insert the sleeve into the machine and it would load the disc and spit the empty sleeve out.

I think they were discontinued around 1985 or so because the last one my dad bought was A View to a Kill. I have very fond memories of these and is how I was first exposed to so many movies.

My sister sent me links to these two introductions, which would play before the film started and it was a trip revisiting them.

My dad resisted video tape, though eventually bought a VHS player. He also jumped on the LaserDisc bandwagon.

Thanks! That's exactly what they were. What a blast from the past. I love those moments in life. Apologies for the derailment.

Yes, our first purchased video machine was a SelectaVision because the store that sold them and rented the discs out was on the corner of our block. I watched pretty much everything they had (except I Spit on Your Grave which was quite rightly forbidden to 13-year-old me). A key memory for me was the open-matte transfer of All the Right Moves allowed a brief glimpse of Tom Cruise’s penis.

ryannichols7 wrote: Mon Jul 17, 2023 9:31 pm I love the original poster of Freaks but think this is a good box cover. the individuals I don't like nearly as much, but that's okay

Sorry for my ignorance, but how we have a box set of two discs but three individual front covers? Thanks!

videozor wrote: Tue Jul 18, 2023 9:51 pm

ryannichols7 wrote: Mon Jul 17, 2023 9:31 pm I love the original poster of Freaks but think this is a good box cover. the individuals I don't like nearly as much, but that's okay

Sorry for my ignorance, but how we have a box set of two discs but three individual front covers? Thanks!

Probably some sort of digipak with space for the booklet (such as it is).

videozor wrote: Tue Jul 18, 2023 9:51 pm Sorry for my ignorance, but how we have a box set of two discs but three individual front covers? Thanks!

Criterion seems to like to give every individual title in a box set its own cover art on their website, even if this cover art isn't actually represented in the physical package. (The Ranown westerns box seems to be a comparable example. It doesn't look like those individual covers are actually in the box, unless maybe they appear in the book somewhere?) I would guess that since the Browning box is only 2 discs each film won't have its own cover art, but I'd love to be wrong because the standalone cover for Freaks is a vast improvement over the cover of the box set.

I assumed it would be two digipacks, and one of them would have the cover for one movie on the front and the cover for another movie on the back. Does Criterion ever do that?

I really hope it's not just a regular case with the two discs inside and no individual covers for the movies, considering the price their charging for this.

I think the Monsters and Madmen set had reversible covers to represent all of the art, but other than that I’m not sure.

Edit: Upon inspection I stand corrected. They weren’t reversible but rather one cover on front and one on the back across two cases.

Apologies if this was already mentioned, but The Last Metro has been repackaged in a Scanavo.

Sorry for this odd request, I hope that this is the right place to post.
I'm totally mesmerized since I saw the animated menus by Per Kirkeby on Criterion Blu-Ray "Breaking The Waves"; I saw the movie in theatres when it was released but it was such a fascinating experience to rediscover this gorgeous transfer.

I have a MacBook Pro 14 and would like to know if someone knows a place where I could find the chapter "converted" into "dynamic" wallpapers format or small videos.
Like this, but in 1080p resolution and converted for Mac OS. I can not rip the blu-ray. Perhaps some application can convert small videos into "dynamic wallpapers" for Mac OS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6xEinLh4eA
Breaking the Waves - chapters (Per Kirkeby)

Thanks in advance for your help.

In the meantime, I just have put instead "Joy" from Blade-Runner 2049 (open-matte screenshot); that's not that bad (this will broke my heart (and her too probably) to remove (even temporarly) Joy from my active wallpaper.