Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol. 7
- Omensetter
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The DVD version does indeed contain both the traditional insert and the novella.
- jbeall
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Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol. 7
This is also true of the blu. (I picked up a copy in the recent B&N sale.) There are two inserts: one is the leaflet with the essay and production credits, and the other is the 44-page novella.
- acroyear
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Thanks guys for clearing up my curiosity about the DVD vs Blu inserts. The more I think of the supplements inside, the more its influencing my decision to purchase.
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It is a terrific film and the supplements do an excellent job of diving into it and its troubled history.
Tremendous overall release.
- swo17
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- domino harvey
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The incomplete art for Ambersons is clever
- Brian C
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The Ambersons cover looks very nice. The Some Like It Hot cover does not look even slightly nice.
- Luke M
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I like all of them especially the Mizoguchi.
- domino harvey
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I like the cover for The Magnificent Ambersons. It looks a little bit dreamlike, like a faded memory, and the unfinished coloring is a nice nod to the missing/lost footage. I also like the vulgarity of Some Like it Hot's cover.
- Brian C
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It’s been awhile since I’ve watched it so maybe I’m being unfair ... I just don’t remember it being a one-woman stage show about a broken-down drunk.domino harvey wrote:Marilyn Monroe got the fuzzy end of the lollipop again
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Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol. 7
Not a single atrocious cover this month. Kudos, Criterion. The Mizoguchi one is particularly appealing in its simplicity.
- DarkImbecile
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Ambersons and Chikamatsu look great; I don't hate SLIH, but it's certainly not ideal.
- domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
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Yellow and black is always gross, why do they keep doing that
- knives
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Maybe it will make sense after watching the movie, but that True Stories cover is reverse selling me.
- stevewhamola
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You're forgetting the infamous delirium tremens scene where she hallucinates miniature rubber puppets of Curtis and Lemmon first flying around the room, then posing lazily on her. Or am I confusing it with another movie?...
- Feego
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Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol. 7
Wow, Some Like It Hot is all kinds of awful. It's bad enough that tiny Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon were photoshopped onto an unflattering photo of Monroe, but they weren't even photoshopped well!
Ambersons on the other hand is beautiful. A happy addition to my collection (although I'd buy it even if they photoshopped tiny Tim Holt on a drunk Dolores Costello).
Ambersons on the other hand is beautiful. A happy addition to my collection (although I'd buy it even if they photoshopped tiny Tim Holt on a drunk Dolores Costello).
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- swo17
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Oh yikes, I didn't initially notice them. Horrifying.
- DarkImbecile
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- Brian C
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Haha I didn’t notice them either. Now it’s both ugly AND stupid.
- RPG
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It reminds of the music video for "Miserable" by Lit, with a blonde sex symbol blown up to King Kong size towering over miniature men. If only she was chasing and devouring them.
- Max von Mayerling
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Yes, I also did not notice this at first. Ack.
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I sort of like it now, at least in concept. It’s the bizarrely flat angle of her that sinks it
- Gregory
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Some Like a HOT Mess
- domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
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To be fair, the typeface is the only thing the designer did take from the original key art