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The Koker Trilogy artwork is indeed great, understated but beautiful.

cdnchris wrote: Wed May 29, 2019 4:25 am Swing Time

Love that artwork on the inside

Same. I forget what the consensus was here on the cover but overall it's a very handsome package

cdnchris wrote: Tue May 14, 2019 4:05 am Blue Velvet - though mild, I'd say it's NSFW

Blue Velvet's front cover uses a metallic ink for the blacks so there's a cool little effect when you shift it in the light.

I was ok with the Blue Velvet cover to begin with, but realizing that removing the digipack cover kind of evokes pulling back a curtain makes it a bit more clever to me. I like it.

mfunk9786 wrote: Wed May 29, 2019 3:40 pm Same. I forget what the consensus was here on the cover

Pretty negative, Domino swung the hatestick rather hard.

cdnchris wrote: Sun Jun 02, 2019 3:39 am A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman

And with this, spine #212 has been disappeared from the Criterion Collection.
Well, only if the DVD box set doesn't have the number on the fourth disc. Anybody know if that's the case or not?

Yaanu wrote: Mon Jun 03, 2019 4:38 pm

cdnchris wrote: Sun Jun 02, 2019 3:39 am A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman

And with this, spine #212 has been disappeared from the Criterion Collection.
Well, only if the DVD box set doesn't have the number on the fourth disc. Anybody know if that's the case or not?

*shrug*, they did the same thing to the cassavetes set to zero outcry, I don't see the problem here either.

And same with the Fanny and Alexander Blu-Ray Set as well right?

In the DVD set Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie is its own disc and has a spine number of 212. It's found on the disc for Winter Light in the Blu-ray set.

Cassavetes set assigned 256 to A Constant Forge for the DVD set. It is found on the disc for Shadows in the Blu-ray set.

Fanny and Alexander's Blu-ray release had all four spine numbers collapsed down to one: 261.

Which means there are no #212, 256, and whatever numbers were assigned to Fanny

This is also true for the BD releases of Grey Gardens / The Beales of Grey Gardens, and The Seventh Seal / Bergman Island. I'm sure there are another few as well.

Which is why I saw those releases in half to be able to renumber the spines

dda1996a wrote:Which means there are no #212, 256, and whatever numbers were assigned to Fanny

They exist and a person for whom those numbers are terribly important can just get the dvd and have the precious possession of the numbers. :-p

I half seriously hope that the koker numbering conundrum indicates they’re just going to stop numbering box set shells altogether going forward.

They should prolong hitting the 1000th spine by reassigning these missing box set numbers for whatever is left to release at the end of the year. Would absolutely make no sense but that makes it even funnier.

La vie de Jesus
L'humanite

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (NSFW)
War and Peace

Hedwig gets digipak treatment over War and Peace. Baffling.

McNulty wrote: Tue Jun 11, 2019 2:17 pm Hedwig gets digipak treatment over War and Peace. Baffling.

Well, you have

PLUS: An essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek, and (on the Blu-ray) portraits of Hedwig by photog­rapher Mick Rock, illustrations by animator Emily Hubley, and excerpts from two texts that inspired the film: Plato’s Symposium and The Gospel of Thomas

vs.

PLUS: An essay by critic Ella Taylor

so I would imagine the printed material influenced the packaging.

McNulty wrote:Hedwig gets digipak treatment over War and Peace. Baffling.

Yes, I was hoping and was sure for no particular reason War and Peace would be a digipak. Would’ve been great to see some more of those beautiful watercolor drawings.

The Circus is my favorite Chaplin cover

Polyester is probably my favorite of the year so far. Cluny Brown is undoubtedly the worst. I wish they had done something more with The Cloud Capped Star, I know that's the films most ubiquitous image, but it just seems rather bland. Overall a good month though in terms of releases.

I won't restate the obvious, but is everyone fine with The Circus? It's not awful, but I don't think it's very good either. Polyester and Local Hero are great though