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It is, yes. Double Alphapak is actually the correct name of this kind of case.

The Yi Yi cover is pure perfection--may be one of my all-time favorites. (it will resonate much more with those who have seen the film)

these are easily the two best covers thus far this year.

Why didn't they use this? Best use of a speech bubble ever.

Yi Yi is nice.

i dont see whats so great about the KoKo cover, though. its looks kinda boring to me.

Only boring people get bored!

I'm about 95% positive that the Koko cover is by Aesthetic Apparatus, they consistantly have made the best Criterion covers.

bunuelian wrote:Only boring people get bored!

well my old friend, you got me there!

domino harvey wrote:I'm about 95% positive that the Koko cover is by Aesthetic Apparatus, they consistantly have made the best Criterion covers.

You mean like this one?

OK, first of all I'm VERY excited by Yi Yi since it's easily one of the best films of the 21st century and the old DVD sucked butt. BUT, I was really hoping that Mulvaney's hint about Edward Yang coming in '06 would mean A Brighter Summer Day, which I've been dying to see since reading about in in Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema. Oh well, my buying this will hopefully help persuade CC into pursuing Yang further.

kinjitsu wrote:

domino harvey wrote:I'm about 95% positive that the Koko cover is by Aesthetic Apparatus, they consistantly have made the best Criterion covers.

You mean like this one?

which I've always been on record as loving

A bit late perhaps, but the Masculin Feminin booklet is fantastic - a pastiche of the teen pop French magazines of the 60s, with fake ads, retro graphics and columnated essays. And not padded out with fucking stills either.

The cover for Koko looks very much like one of the Melville covers.

Narshty wrote:A bit late perhaps, but the Masculin Feminin booklet is fantastic - a pastiche of the teen pop French magazines of the 60s, with fake ads, retro graphics and columnated essays. And not padded out with fucking stills either.

It is great, I picked that DVD up a week ago and was similarly impressed by the booklet.

And yes, the covers for Yi Yi and Koko: A Talking Gorilla are easily the best covers thus far this year.

the revised viridiana and late spring are better.

justeleblanc wrote:The cover for Koko looks very much like one of the Melville covers.

Koko le Flambeur

"Oh, how quickly we all forget the cover art glory that is Equinox," he said completely straight-faced.

-Toilet Dcuk

justeleblanc wrote:The cover for Koko looks very much like one of the Melville covers.

How so?

The YI YI cover is very simple and strong, two thumbs up.

(albeit minor differences)

I want to go all Highlights Magazine on it, but it looks like the only revision was to cut out Parker Posey's face-- which is hardly an improvement. Oh, and they added that "Copyrighted material" sticker. What's thatabout?

all covers at DVD Empire have copyrighted material sticker. It's not part of actual cover

I'll miss you most of all, Scarecrow.

they took some outlines away on other photos too, but I'm in favor of not having a posey close up on the cover, It works better with just the males in the photos. well, it works better with no photos at all, but the way things are, I like the dvdempire one.

The Criterion version is also cropped on both sides as well as the bottom, with a 10% loss of image. A disturbing trend.

SncDthMnky wrote:they took some outlines away on other photos too,

You, my friend, have just crossed a line and fallen into a deep chasm of insane unimportant minutiae from which there may perhaps be no pathway back. Somebody throw him a rope!