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swo17 wrote: Mon Jul 16, 2018 7:23 pm

Maybe it's just because I've always disliked the film, but that Princess Bride cover is a real eyesore.

I love all the covers so far

mfunk9786 wrote: Mon Jul 16, 2018 7:28 pm Maybe it's just because I've always disliked the film, but that Princess Bride cover is a real eyesore.

My daughter approves, so your opinion is null and void.

I'm really happy with that new Sisters cover

That new cover for Sisters has a seriously disturbing H.R. Giger vibe to it!

DarkImbecile wrote: Mon Jul 16, 2018 7:30 pm I'm really happy with that new Sisters cover

Definitely the best of the month.

One of your wrongest hot takes yet

That Sisters cover is awesome, and agreed on the HR Giger vibe.

The details for Princess Bride seems to indicate it is in a clothbound digipak?!

Ribs wrote: Mon Jul 16, 2018 7:47 pm The details for Princess Bride seems to indicate it is in a clothbound digipak?!

PLUS: An essay by author Sloane Crosley and, for the Blu-ray edition, Goldman’s introduction to his Princess Bride script from the 1995 collection Four Screenplays, in a lavishly illustrated, clothbound book

I think it's just the text materials

But the cover is clearly a hardback book. I think it will be like Say Amen, Somebody and be a book with a disc holder

According to their press contact material, "This October, the beloved fairy-tale classic The Princess Bride will join the Criterion Collection in a clothbound storybook Blu-ray edition packed with special features."

Sisters will be my only purchase. The cover is fantastic

And yes, it appears only the Blu-ray will be cloth-bound. The DVD will not be.

albucat wrote: Mon Jul 16, 2018 8:12 pm According to their press contact material, "This October, the beloved fairy-tale classic The Princess Bride will join the Criterion Collection in a clothbound storybook Blu-ray edition packed with special features."

I stand corrected; sounds like a fun gimmick

Hideous.

Will look great next to my condom-bound Spinal Tap

The Princess Bride is one of those films I've sorta seen in patches, piecemeal across background television sets, and never linearly, but that's absolutely gorgeous packaging. It also seems shrewd for a film so widely disseminated to have such caring and unique packaging---to make it more tangible, if you will.

mfunk9786 wrote: Mon Jul 16, 2018 8:23 pmHideous.

Probably because you have no soul. [-(

mfunk9786 wrote: Mon Jul 16, 2018 8:23 pmHideous.

...in the way that a children's storybook should be! I kind of love it going all in on that aesthetic in the manner of that time when Videodrome turned its packaging into a Betamax tape. I wonder if it would cause the same confusion!

Literally worried for anyone who can see that beautiful packaging and call it "hideous"

Did we actually get a month where the covers were all good?

Eight Hours is so hilariously off-point that it's on-point (sunshiney, feelgood Fassbinder).

Shampoo is a simple, strong shot with great colour that they kept simple and strong.

The Princess Bride looked the weakest of the bunch at first, though obviously appropriate to the film, but the total package sells it like crazy.

Sisters is one of the best things they've done in a long while: successfully retro but not dated, appropriate to the film, and subtly disturbing, not just with the Rorschach / Giger effect in the middle, but with the uncanny mirror / not-mirror reflection of the faces. (It's a shame the film isn't as good as that cover.)

While very pretty and fitting, I have a feeling that it'll be extraordinarily subject to wear and tear (and I say that as an ardent fan of digipaks).