Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:25 pm
Perhaps they maxed out on their monthly umlaut allowance with the Kaurismäki set.kaujot wrote:They're missing his umlaut.
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Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:37 pm
From the The Great Umlaut Debate of 2006:kaujot wrote:Apparently I missed the first one.
Tom Peeping wrote:About the spelling of "Ophuls". In his remarkable study on Ophuls that he published in 1963 (Collection Cinéma d'Aujourd'hui), Claude Beylie devotes a whole chapter to the question of the way the name "Ophuls" should be spelled. He was born Oppenheimer in Germany, took the pseudonym "Ophuls" and then became french. He always considered himself as french with a french name and did not want the german "umlaut" to appear in the spelling of his name. Beylie says he even had it erased from the opening credits of Le Plaisir, where the ghost trace of the "umlaut" is still visible. So, it should by spelled "Ophuls" and not "Ophüls", once and for all. If it doesn't make such a difference to us, to him, apparently it did.
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:44 pm
Ophuls covers are whatever, the Eclipse set's color scheme is good but they've gone back to the horrid small pics in the middle of white space arrangement
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:44 pm
An excellent reminder that wildly excessive discussion of film-related minutea and tangents existed long before the advent of the internet.Jeff wrote: From the The Great Umlaut Debate of 2006:
Tom Peeping wrote:In his remarkable study on Ophuls that he published in 1963 (Collection Cinéma d'Aujourd'hui), Claude Beylie devotes a whole chapter to the question of the way the name "Ophuls" should be spelled.
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:50 pm
$39.95 per single disc film? I really hope those Ophuls films are going to be offered in a boxset... especially because the uniform artwork will lend itself to a nice one.
Kind of an underwhelming month.
Kind of an underwhelming month.
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:00 pm
That's putting it mildly. Probably the worst release month of the year so far. And to think I was fondly recalling the September of two years ago in anticipation...mfunk9786 wrote:Kind of an underwhelming month.
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:10 pm
Just think of it as easier on the wallet...just the Ozu for me.
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:14 am
I too have a fucking problem with pink and it has nothing to do with Peter Sellers or Aerosmith. Those color schemes of Eclipse are ghastly horrible, plain and simple. 
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:07 am
It's most likely the after effects of "Viridiana"!Cinephrenic wrote:I too have a fucking problem with pink
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:40 am
Not to start a firestorm or anything, but if they announced that they were simply making the original Viridiana coverart available for purchase (for those comfortable with their own sexuality), it'd be more exciting than anything else announced this month put together.
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:51 pm
I'll add my 2 cents and say that I think it looks really good. The pink works well.
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:38 pm
Yeah you need a super zoom lens to see the pictures on the Eclipse box.domino harvey wrote:Ophuls covers are whatever, the Eclipse set's color scheme is good but they've gone back to the horrid small pics in the middle of white space arrangement
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:07 pm
Especially with the fact that it's all white space, it just looks like an incomplete collage or something. Really a let down, because the cover looks great.
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:56 pm
The Ophuls covers look gorgeous and I will be getting them but it`s indeed a kind of underwhelming month on the titles.
I was getting my hopes up high for the release of Last Year In Marienbad. Guess we`ll have to wait another month...
I was getting my hopes up high for the release of Last Year In Marienbad. Guess we`ll have to wait another month...
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:02 pm
The Max covers are maybe the best I've ever seen for a dvd...
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:13 pm
Actually, the more I think about them, the more disappointed I am in them. If they weren't going to release the films as a box set, why go with the same art scheme for all of them? It seems counter-intuitive being that each film is its own seperate entity.
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:18 pm
Why not? They've done it before with multiple releases from the same director:
Dassin's Night and the City and Thieves' Highway
Dassin's Brute Force and The Naked City
Malle's The Lovers and The Fire Within
Ichikawa's Fires on the Plain and The Burmese Harp
the Yojimbo and Sanjuro re-releases...
There might be more, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head.
Dassin's Night and the City and Thieves' Highway
Dassin's Brute Force and The Naked City
Malle's The Lovers and The Fire Within
Ichikawa's Fires on the Plain and The Burmese Harp
the Yojimbo and Sanjuro re-releases...
There might be more, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head.
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:56 pm
These covers lack the individual personality of each film that those covers had. They just look like generic wealthy people trading cards.
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:34 pm
Anyone have an idea on how much the box would have cost, and how much they saved by not having a box? I assume it's not a negligible amount, being that Eclipse's box is pretty minimal, partly to save costs.
But then, are these films really related? I mean, as an Eclipse box they could be called "Late Ophuls" but for Criterion, they aren't a BRD trilogy or anything like that. They are just three films made around the same time by the same director.
And I love rich people trading cards.
But then, are these films really related? I mean, as an Eclipse box they could be called "Late Ophuls" but for Criterion, they aren't a BRD trilogy or anything like that. They are just three films made around the same time by the same director.
And I love rich people trading cards.
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:45 pm
Well, the Varda box with 4 films was $100, but they didn't have commentaries. So for these, maybe $80-100 for 3 films with commentaries (and therefore a higher price point in general?) It definately wouldn't have been a $120 dollar set, which is what they're cost if purchased seperately.
EDIT: It has been brought to my attention that I am a huge dope, and totally misunderstood what question was being asked. I'm going to just leave my original reply up to keep myself humble.
EDIT: It has been brought to my attention that I am a huge dope, and totally misunderstood what question was being asked. I'm going to just leave my original reply up to keep myself humble.
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:33 pm
Cover art for An Autumn Afternoon (towards the center of the press release).
You can also get a look at the Essential Arthouse Vol. 1 covers (small) towards the bottom of the page.
You can also get a look at the Essential Arthouse Vol. 1 covers (small) towards the bottom of the page.
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:50 pm
Don't like the Ozu cover.
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:03 pm
Really don't like the Ozu cover.
Not because it's trying to be courageous (or edgy, or ...) and fails, but because it doesn't seem like it's trying to do anything. Pretty boring. Looks like an amateur scrapbook page. I wish they would have used fancy scissors for the cutouts, at least.
Not because it's trying to be courageous (or edgy, or ...) and fails, but because it doesn't seem like it's trying to do anything. Pretty boring. Looks like an amateur scrapbook page. I wish they would have used fancy scissors for the cutouts, at least.
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:05 pm
That is a jumbled mess. Perhaps a redesign is what is taking Criterion so long to post the Ozu cover on their site, though I doubt it.
Essential Arthouse
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:05 pm
That's kind of cool that you can get stripped down versions for I would imagine 15 to 17 bucks if you look.