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Harlan County USA's cover is brilliantly done...picket signs, guns, pissed off miners, pissed off miners' wives...all in sepia-toned black and white.

Damn, am I looking forward to this one.

Tribe

Elevator to the Gallows deserves its own release as it shares no theme with the Malle boxset.

ofcourse it does, which is why it's not IN the malle boxset. but atleast the spines could be together.

I posted earlier on how much I loved the cover art for the Bad Sleep Well when I first saw it online. Now this is my fav Kurrosawa film, and I have 75% of the collection so I would of bought this title regardless of the cover art. After I got my copy and I looked over it my feelings for the cover have changed. It still looks better on a computer screen then in a DVD case for some reason. I can't put my finger on the exact reason. Part of the reason is that the back to me looks homemade. I have bootleg concert dvd art that is better. I think that simple is better alot of the time, I think that in this case it is worse.

Balzer

Sweet!

At least it's not a family portrait

Awesome stuff - now let's hope the disc warrants the cover

I think it's stunning.
FAR superior to the Tokyo Story cover. Better than the other two Ozu covers too, imo.

I think we can take a break from the whole "Why are you putting out these titles when I really want Ozu and Mizoguchi!" bit, no?

More Mizoguchi would sure be nice.

backstreetsbackalright wrote:I think we can take a break from the whole "Why are you putting out these titles when I really want Ozu and Mizoguchi!" bit, no?

not really, its 1 fucking film.

What we should be getting is 2 box sets for Ozu and Mizoguchi, with 3-5 films in each.

I don't like the scratchy-scratchy font of the title. Does that style of text tie into the film somehow? The rest is very lovely though.

Wouldn't it be just cute as hell if "Late Spring" was written in little slivers of apple-skin?

I can't figure out the font choice. Not unduly impressed by the cover myself -- but cover design will hardly be a major factor in my decision as to how many copies I will be buying of this.

leo goldsmith wrote:Wouldn't it be just cute as hell if "Late Spring" was written in little slivers of apple-skin?

Michael Kerpan wrote:I can't figure out the font choice.

They look like pine needles to me. I'm impressed with all of the recent batch of covers. Beautiful work.

Cherry blossom twigs would not be Ozu-esque. Perhaps alone, of all the major golden age Japanese film makers, Ozu never really uses any cherry blossom imagery.

The embedded Noh play involves pines in some way (but I forget the details).

This cover just seems a bit overly fussy -- I would have thought something simpler would have been better.

It's better than Viridiana's -- to be sure.

Narshty wrote:I don't like the scratchy-scratchy font of the title. Does that style of text tie into the film somehow? The rest is very lovely though.

They're pine needles. Which is a Japanese symbol of...hmmmm....well, fuck if I can remember.

I love the image in the bottom right. would have loved it, extended as the whole covers backdrop.

Maybe I'm alone, but I would prefer no images at the bottom. They look somewhat like lobby cards from the film. Of course, I'm going to snap this up anyway, so this is inconsequential to my love for the film itself.

It seems Criterion released Viridiana cover so that every time their artwork is subpar, we can say "at least it's not Viridiana"

"Late Spring" looks great, except -- am I the only one who, due to typographical oddness with the "L-A", initially mis-scanned the title as "Hate Spring"?

At first glance I also thought it said "Hate Spring."

According to this review, we get experimental packaging for Young Mr. Lincoln:

[quote]Unlike most Criterion two-disc releases, “Young Mr. Lincolnâ€

Especially since it still comes in a packaging the size of a Double alpha case. A daft idea.

Arn777 wrote:Especially since it still comes in a packaging the size of a Double alpha case. A daft idea.

Sounds like a similar package as the demonlover special edition.