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Wow, I love everything about that Crumb set except for the awkward rectangular photo on the top of the back cover. The artwork portfolio looks great and I love love love the cover of the booklet, which is of Crumb's brother I gather (not Crumb himself).

I think that the top photo on back works alright even if slightly overlapping the title and mission statement over it would have been a nice touch. Charles' tiny writing on the inside cover was an excellent idea, too. All in all, it looks great.

I absolutely love this art. It's such a beautiful move to make the inside a shrine to Charles. If I have one gripe it's that I wish they'd done something more creative with the actual disc art.

I'd highly recommend this book as a companion piece to the film. It includes scans from Charles' notebook and letters from Charles (that were sadly edited for grammar by Maxon Crumb, ruining a bit of his writing's unique charm), as well as comics from Robert and scans of some of Maxon's bizarre work. The standout of the book, however, is a full scan of Charles' delightfully subversive art school application, which is an invaluable piece of work in and of itself (and is included in this Criterion release as well apparently, to some extent).

Yeah, I wasn't very hopeful considering they used old art for the cover and Crumb and Zwigoff really don't get on well these days, but... wow. Favorite package of the year so far.

mfunk9786 wrote:If I have one gripe it's that I wish they'd done something more creative with the actual disc art.

That might be the case for the DVD, since disc art usually differs between DVD and Blu-ray releases.

I just went to Barnes & Noble intending to purchase The Red Shoes & Black Narcissus (neither of which they had gotten in-stock) & found a copy of Bottle Rocket on Blu-Ray in the plastic case. Having been holding off on purchasing it waiting for just such an event, I snapped it up. Hopefully the other early releases will follow suit in more rapid succession.

I keep hoping for the same...lucky you! That and Marienbad are two i've never seen in plastic cases. has anyone ever seen Marienbad in plastic in a store? I don't want to order it on-line for fear of getting the old one.

I think Bottle Rocket and The Third Man are the only two so far to make the transition. The rest you need to get the cases from Criterion. (Wasn't it this thread where I posted once or twice recently about these two?)

I also saw bottle rocket in a real case in stores today, alas I also so el norte, marienbad, 400 blows and last metro still in the cardboard.

Re: Crumb - I was going to wait to see what people said about the unused footage, but I think these printed materials just sealed the deal for me. Fantastic.

cdnchris wrote:

mfunk9786 wrote:I have been so eagerly anticipating photos from the Zwigoffs, and this is just cruel on the part of Criterion at this point. Send them to Chris nowwwww!

Here you go!

Crumb Blu-ray

I love that you took a picture of the open case, showing the spine. I'm always anxious to find out what color they'll go on the spine, so it's great I can see it on the picture.
Thanks a lot.

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I like it. Very iconic.

They even got to use a derivation of the original poster's font they seemed determined to use.

Thumbs Up Soldier!

A Film by Wes Anderson

Nah, that's not Futura. Well, the title at least. The other stuff might be Futura Condensed (but it looks a little vertically stretched).

Kirk Douglas is rolling over in his gr.... wait, no, that isn't right.

damn

Type is nice, but this is the most disappointed I've been in a long time. I can understand why they wouldn't want to portray it as a gorgeous war film, but this is just a bore.

I like it. Their gritty version of putting the Hollywood star on the cover.

I guess I was the only one but I actually liked the image on the press cover (yeah, the font was awful.) This one's fine, though.

No, I thought that was a great image, too. But no one could see it for the typeface. Maybe Kirk demanded that his face be bigger. Do your best Kirk Douglas impression:

<slams fist on table> It's GOT to be BIGGER, DAMMIT! <storms off in a huff>

I like it too - the typography is nice and the photo works well.

It's pretty, but it doesn't really convey anything about the movie to me- it looks sort of static, and as though it's about the physical suffering of Douglas' character.

You have to admit that this is a hard picture to convey.