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Holding out until Christmas for this will be really, really difficult.

That's actually precisely where I intend to put my copy of Easy Rider immediately after cracking open the set.

swo17 wrote:That's actually precisely where I intend to put my copy of Easy Rider immediately after cracking open the set.

Don't do that swo17! Just send it to me. I'll even pay the postage.

Judging by that picture, is Easy Rider going to be a digipack?

Since it is part of a box set, I assume it will be, but maybe not in the sense of Breathless or Seven Samurai. Probably more like cardboard slip covers. Could be like an eclipse case too.

When these are eventually released individually, I would see them being in the standard plastic BD case.

aox wrote:When these are eventually released individually, I would see them being in the standard plastic BD case.

What makes you think this is going to happen? As far as I can recall, the only Criterion box set to ever be subsequently broken up was Cassavetes, and that's a completely different licensing situation, with some of the titles in this set already available individually from the licensor. In fact, I would have expected that 'box only' (and corresponding price barrier) was a condition of the licence.

And the Malle set, but it came together and separate at the same time.

Not sure why people seem to have such difficulty with photographs. That's obviously a slim digi, much like the ones in the Varda and Doniel sets. There is no plastic on or around the case pictured, hence...

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aox wrote:When these are eventually released individually, I would see them being in the standard plastic BD case.

What makes you think this is going to happen? As far as I can recall, the only Criterion box set to ever be subsequently broken up was Cassavetes, and that's a completely different licensing situation, with some of the titles in this set already available individually from the licensor. In fact, I would have expected that 'box only' (and corresponding price barrier) was a condition of the licence.

The Monterey Pop set was also broken up, and of course The 400 Blows was eventually available separately. But they milked the box sets for years before they broke them up, and since the America Lost and Found set will undoubtedly be a much bigger cash cow, I doubt we'll see individual years for a long, long time, if ever. And as you say, there's the licensing situation to consider.

The one thing that's really odd - and maybe this has been brought up elsewhere - is that the box itself has no spine number. As far as I can tell, it'll be the only box in the mainline collection that has no spine number in which the discs aren't available separately.

Brian C wrote:The one thing that's really odd - and maybe this has been brought up elsewhere - is that the box itself has no spine number. As far as I can tell, it'll be the only box in the mainline collection that has no spine number in which the discs aren't available separately.

This was one of the main reasons I think this box will be split up. But I get Zedz's point.

For me personally, The Last Picture Show is the only film in the box I would care to revisit throughout my life with any regularity until the end. So, maybe wishful thinking makes up another side of my post in the hopes that this will be a single spine.

Brian C wrote:The one thing that's really odd - and maybe this has been brought up elsewhere - is that the box itself has no spine number. As far as I can tell, it'll be the only box in the mainline collection that has no spine number in which the discs aren't available separately.

Maybe the studio execs had as hard a time understanding the rationale for numbering the box as the rest of us do, and when they were told about it said: "No. . . What?"

As for the other exceptions, I'll give you Monterey Pop, but the Malles were simultaneous releases and The 400 Blows was a previous release (as were two of the Vardas, for that matter).

What was the story with the Hitchcock set, Wrong Men & Notorious Women? Was that a boxset that got broken up?

Didn't the two Ozu films get a box spine number this year? That was a strange call.

Hitchcock Box:I believe it was boxed up after the individual releases like the Olivier stuff

Hitchcock was a 'collector's set' of previously issued discs like the many Samurai ones, the Bergman and 'Great Adaptations'.

The Ozu double feature follows Criterion numbering protocol to a T (see also I Am Curious), though the Rossellini set was non-standard in numbering the box after the discs.

Slow news week, huh?

Has no one posted this, yet? I didn't see it anywhere. Maybe, we'll get one new image per day from Criterion.



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BBS set is confirmed digipak -- looks like a thick box too, like the Oceans set?

Haven't all these Facebook pics already confirmed digi?

Apparently not to the people in this thread, which I believe was the impetus for domino's tongue-in-cheek post. They could post a photo with the caption "DIGIPACK" and people here would still post "Looks great - hope it isn't one of those plastic cases!"

mfunk9786 wrote:Apparently not to the people in this thread, which I believe was the impetus for domino's tongue-in-cheek post. They could post a photo with the caption "DIGIPACK" and people here would still post "Looks great - hope it isn't one of those plastic cases!"

It's better on the rare occasion that we get a picture of a plastic keepcase and someone says it looks like we're getting a digi.

Love Still Walking and Sweet Smell of Success is growing on me. LOL at Senso and Fish Tank.

I actually really like the Fish Tank cover, haven't seen the film though.

it's been nearly ten minutes since these covers were posted, I expected at least thirty posts bitching about Still Walking and Fish Tank's covers by now, terribly disappointed in the forum, I can't believe how we're slacking off.

I think Fish Tank is fine, also. And agreed that Still Walking is beautiful. I'm not sure what to make of Senso.