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Name how any of those covers are Swimminghorse like in even one quality beyond the vague quality of 'bad'? The Pialat is uninspired and inaccurate, but not that sort of bad.

Van Gogh? More like Van Nogh, amirite

Glad to see they didn't change Nosferatu: that's a hard cover to top.

I don't think anybody can complain about the new sleeves for Mabuse or Red River. Not too keen on the WCF box, but I think they're starting to cope with the loss of peerpee.

It seems there are two alternatives for MoC covers: original artwork with dynamic lettering or production still with... er... minimalist lettering. The latter can be jazzed up by adding random grey lines at right angles.

Then again, if you love sans serif fonts and clean modernist aesthetics, these look quite good, especially if you are trying to emphasize the still as the major design element. It isn't lazy--it is a conscious choice just as any other font would be. I also love the Mizoguchi fonts, which remind me of those Reid Miles used on some of the classic Blue Note album covers from the same era. They really work in this context.

I also don't get the criticism of the Van Gogh. The image emphasizes not a finished product but rather the process of creation, in particular Van Gogh's use of impasto techniques. Seems a perfectly legitimate choice. Sometimes it is well to set aside prior expectations and neat one-to-one correlations between design and what the film is "about," which is a pretty subjective place to begin anyway.

Of course, it could be that I simply love that font irrationally. It should be on everything, basically.

I'd say the cover for Van Gogh is both inspired and accurate, different strokes for different folks, i'd guess. Overall i like the new covers quite a bit. Also glad that they kept the cover for Nosferatu, of course. Really looking forward to these releases.

Stroke of genius -- and quite a coup, MoC, in getting Cliff Spohn to design the Computer Chess poster art. It looks great.



I hope you can take the design even further with the fonts and everything for the Blu-ray release and really make the cover look like Atari 2600 box art.



Even though this is a theatrical poster, I'm putting this here instead of the Computer Chess thread so as to avoid cluttering that thread with artwork discussion.

Few pictures of the packaging.

And the book.

Looks lovely, although so much for conserving shelf space. Don't those four cases only contain one disc each and no booklet?

Yeah, they've only got the single disc in each.

It's a quality package though. The book has a nice matte finish, and the box is properly finished, so it can't be untucked (like the BBS box).

Trawling the internet I came across these on a Chinese blog where the owner was showing off their MoC collection :



I assume they're bootlegs rather than any kind of official release, although from what I could tell the blogger didn't mention this and seemed to be singing the praises of Eureka / MoC. Mind you I was relying on Google Translate to understand it (Judex translates as Jew Texaco!) Still nice slipcases...

Those aren't slip covers. You get those pieces of cardboard in lieu of cases. Yes, they are bootlegs. MoC and Criterion are very popular in many of the DVD stores here in Beijing.

Oh yeah I knew they are sold like that because a friend once sent me a couple of films from Hong Kong (which also turned out to be bootlegs) that had the same kind of cardboard covers, but I found with a tiny bit of folding they would slip over a regular DVD case and also came with a paper cover you could slip into the amaray. Those MoCs in the photo looked like the same kind of thing.

Ooo. I like the raised lettering on Alone Across the Pacific.

Oddly enough, on the MoC release of The World, Tony Rayns discusses all the Criterion and MoC titles you can find bootlegged with Chinese subtitles. In Los Angeles' Koreatown, I've even found a store that sold numerous Korean bootlegs of Criterion, MoC and other boutique labels from the UK.

Glad they didn't pull a Kino and are putting it out on Blu-ray

I prefer the Kino artwork, though.

I'm probably never going to say that about anything ever again.

I think the MoC artwork is brilliant, though I have a lot of nostalgia attached to the Atari 2600-style artwork.

Any word on whether or not dual formats will be here to stay? I guess we'll have a better idea Monday!

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Nashville will be dual-format according to Eureka's press release, Roma BD only. Seeing that Eureka have struck a deal with Paramount, we can perhaps hope for Lady Eve and Miracle of Morgan's Creek in the collection (unless Arrow got there first). Very strong lineup for the first few months: the Rosi sounds intriguing and I'll probably replace my Paramount BD of Wings with the MoC for the booklet. Getting Wake in Fright as well.