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The Australians are getting the original theatrical artwork (but nothing except a trailer) and the UK gets something that's worse (IMO) than Greg Ruth's Criterion art.





The UK artwork is as seems the norm with many UK distributors plastered with 4 and 5 star ratings. NO ONE IS GOING TO BUY OUR MOVIE IF WE DON'T PUT ENOUGH 4 AND 5 STARS ON THE FRONT!!!!!!!!!

Opposite of Anatomy of a Fall this is beautiful artwork and packaging

It’s nice to see a real boxset instead of multiple discs crowded onto hubs in a single digipak or a scanavo.

Lynch/Oz
All That Money Can Buy
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
The Runner
Saint Omer
To Die For [4K UHD]

The newer films (Lynch/Oz, Saint Omer, Beauty and Bloodshed) don't have any restoration details, but I added the rest to the bottom of their respective pages:

All That Money Can Buy
The Runner
To Die For

Link for Lynch/Oz is broke…

Sorry about that. It's fixed now.

The Querelle cover is something else. Terrible month.

Finch wrote: Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:21 pm The Querelle cover is something else. Terrible month.

Looks like an action figure.

Sheesh, Querelle...to do it without the giant cock feels wrong. I used to see the French poster every day when I worked at TLA in Philly. Glad I took it before I quit.

a month where the cover art is truly as uninspired as the picks

The Underground Railroad would be fine if the title design wasn't so bad. And as for Querelle... yeah...

The only new cover I kind of like is for the one film I'm interested in, Victims of Sin, though the colors are a bit loud there, too. But that may be appropriate for the film (which I'm looking forward to watching).

I'm amazed they managed to make Querelle Brad Davis so sexless. He looks straight from a PlayStation 2 cutscene.

Finch wrote: Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:37 pm The only new cover I kind of like is for the one film I'm interested in, Victims of Sin, though the colors are a bit loud there, too. But that may be appropriate for the film (which I'm looking forward to watching).

I like that artist's work (Summertime was a particularly good cover, I thought) but I'm not in love with that cover yet. will have to see the movie

Criterion trying to appeal to the Barbie audience with that Querelle cover I see.

Querelle has the texture of weird AI art

Yeah I was thinking the same. Uncanny valley territory.

Boosmahn wrote: Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:31 pm The Underground Railroad would be fine if the title design wasn't so bad. And as for Querelle... yeah...

Title design is from the original Amazon art. Kinda dig the Bound cover. A neat change from Sister Hyde's usual aesthetic. That Querelle cover really is dire.

Boosmahn wrote: Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:31 pm The Underground Railroad would be fine if the title design wasn't so bad.

Actually, that appears to be a straight lift from the posters Amazon used. (Jean-Luc Garbo beat me to it)

Glad I'm not the only one who thought Querelle looked like something Dall-E would generate (i.e. sub-MidJourney quality).

I think some of you need to meet our friend Tom (of Finland)

I don't like Bound but I dig the other covers

Wow ALL the covers look horrible this month. When's the last time THAT happened?

Kracker wrote: Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:19 pm Wow ALL the covers look horrible this month. When's the last time THAT happened?

March was close but I like The Devil and Daniel Webster

ryannichols7 wrote: Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:24 pm

Kracker wrote: Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:19 pm Wow ALL the covers look horrible this month. When's the last time THAT happened?

March was close but I like The Devil and Daniel Webster

Oh March covers arent the greatest but nowhere near as bad as these.

The Fassbinder does look horribly AI. I googled the artist and apparently he's legit, a lot of LGBT charged stuff. Maybe something AI with a lot of editing? Either that or a 3D model, which is going to give the action figure look.

Just realized they're releasing the Fassbinder and Bound for Pride Month