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domino harvey wrote:I practice comical unlikely behaviors with my digipaks

I throw my slipcovers in the garbage. (Not Criterion ones though, I promise)

mfunk9786 wrote:Then when I've watched and read everything a second time, I move them to a hole I've dug in my unfinished basement where I give them a proper burial

Who the hell has time to watch and/or read something twice. [-(

I've always shelved them like Captveg, with the opening facing outward. I do the same thing with box sets for accessibility purposes, and I figure this way everything is consistent.

For you outward-slipcoverers, do you shelve your box sets the same way?

Yes, of course

jindianajonz wrote:I've always shelved them like Captveg, with the opening facing outward. I do the same thing with box sets for accessibility purposes, and I figure this way everything is consistent.

For you outward-slipcoverers, do you shelve your box sets the same way?

Do you shelve your books with the spine inwards too?

Brian C wrote:

jindianajonz wrote:I've always shelved them like Captveg, with the opening facing outward. I do the same thing with box sets for accessibility purposes, and I figure this way everything is consistent.

For you outward-slipcoverers, do you shelve your box sets the same way?

Do you shelve your books with the spine inwards too?

If you're gonna use the book comparison, then doesn't the filing style both myself and captveg use make even more sense? The "spine" of the digipak would be the spine of the disc-holding case (since it folds open like a book), which, when filed our way, is facing outward (just like a book)!

Please stop trying to normalize this behavior.

Well, I was kidding. But also ... no.

This might be the greatest discussion in the history of the forum.

WTF is this huge 1966 on the disc artwork ?

What do you do with French blus/dvds, where the title is "upside down" relative to English-speaking discs? Do you line them up as is or do you shelve the French discs upside down so all your titles can be read going in the same direction? (I do the latter.)

tenia wrote:WTF is this huge 1966 on the disc artwork ?

That is odd. Criterion posted a pic the dvd set and it doesn't have 1966 on it

Maybe since there was only one disc they didn't want all that empty space. I don't know off hand if other one disc blu rays that have 2 disc DVD counterparts warrant that design choice though.

Rayon Vert wrote:What do you do with French blus/dvds, where the title is "upside down" relative to English-speaking discs? Do you line them up as is or do you shelve the French discs upside down so all your titles can be read going in the same direction? (I do the latter.)

Line them up as is. I find bottom to top spines more logical as if the item is face-down, the spine can be easily ready. If face up, you don't need the spine anyway.

TMDaines wrote:If face up, you don't need the spine anyway.

If you have multiple releases piled together, surely, you would need the spine to know which is which for all of them except for the one at the very top ?

It looks like the digipak for Blow-Up is not as thick as the Dekalog one. Is the booklet inside relatively thick?

They changed the art for Dheepan:

Old:

New:

Much preferred the old type.

I think the new one works much better in relation to the rest of the composition. Plus it would be easier to read from a distance. I wish they played a bit more with the kerning of it though.

All pretty good.

Love They Live By Night and the Fanny Trilogy. Lodger's pretty good. Straw Dogs is ruined. Ugetsu: still boring

domino harvey wrote:Love They Live By Night and the Fanny Trilogy. Lodger's pretty good. Straw Dogs is ruined. Ugetsu: still boring

I pretty much echo Domino's sentiments (although I've always liked the Ugetsu cover and am glad they didn't change it). The shocking power of the Straw Dogs image has been completely neutered by turning it into a painting -- an annoying trend Criterion is continuing from The Innocents and Eraserhead -- and colorizing it to boot.