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Antoine Doinel wrote:I'm honestly surprised at the tolerance for White Dog cover. As if having the title in gigantic white letters isn't enough, we get a pretty poor illustration of a white dog to drive home the point, yes, this is a movie about a dog.

It's a movie about a white dog, and it's called white dog. Were you expecting the cover to be a picture of Burl Ives eating a steak?

CSM126 wrote:

Antoine Doinel wrote:I'm honestly surprised at the tolerance for White Dog cover. As if having the title in gigantic white letters isn't enough, we get a pretty poor illustration of a white dog to drive home the point, yes, this is a movie about a dog.

It's a movie about a white dog, and it's called white dog. Were you expecting the cover to be a picture of Burl Ives eating a steak?

Replace Burl Ives with Kristy McNichol and I think we have a winning cover! Where's swimminghorses when you need him.....

White Dog UK One-Sheet

C'mon you guys...

It always reminds me of this picture when I think of White Dog:



But I like Criterion's cover, alright.

the cover for 'white dog' is absolutely perfect for it.
the 'europa' cover isn't really to my liking, however.
it seems... unfinished.
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also, i like the thought of saying 'they've swimminghorsed my kevyip, this month!'

s.j. bagley wrote:also, i like the thought of saying 'they've swimminghorsed my kevyip, this month!'

They've badly designed the covers of your unwatched DVDs? I suppose it works.

The UK poster for WHITE DOG is excellent: assuming that Criterion were aware of it, I can't fathom why they didn't use that as their artwork. MoC do it almost all the time and consistently produce very good covers. CC's WHITE DOG cover is inferior to the UK poster in every respect (their title font is awful and far too large, even the dog looks a lot less menacing).

EUROPA's cover is even worse than the November output and that's saying something. Off-hand I can only think of four covers that really stuck with me this year (Vampyr, High & Low, The Furies, Patriotism). Yup, 4 decent covers in 12 months - it can hardly get any worse in 2009.

#-o

I really like the White Dog cover, it's absolutely appropriate for that release.

So are we to assume there'll be no Eclipse set or re-releases for the month of December?

Mr Finch wrote:The UK poster for WHITE DOG is excellent: assuming that Criterion were aware of it, I can't fathom why they didn't use that as their artwork. MoC do it almost all the time and consistently produce very good covers. CC's WHITE DOG cover is inferior to the UK poster in every respect (their title font is awful and far too large, even the dog looks a lot less menacing).

The dog also looks like the offspring of a badger and a rat.

Matt wrote:

Murdoch wrote:The Europa cover makes me want to go out and buy it right now, but the White Dog seems like a fan cover.

Funny, I was going to say exactly the opposite.

yeah my thoughts exactly. Love the White Dog cover!

Can someone explain to me why the Ophuls are all super thin digipaks? They each resemble an individual disc in the Rohmer box. Will Criterion's Lola DVD come with a box that you can put them all in?

justeleblanc wrote:Can someone explain to me why the Ophuls are all super thin digipaks? They each resemble an individual disc in the Rohmer box. Will Criterion's Lola DVD come with a box that you can put them all in?

That would be a logical assessment. That was Criterion's original plan (a boxset), but new restoration or rights issues that we don't really know of caused them to release the films that they had already prepared. We will most likely see a set with Lola as well as the titles individually available.

Harmonov wrote:Will a new verb emerge from this forum? Swimminghorsed? Like Munsoned from Kingpin?

I can see it now, "Jesus, Criterion really swimminghorsed the Ozu covers this month, didn't they?"

This term will now be a permanent part of my vocabulary.

"My kevyip contains a lot of swimminghorsed covers, interestingly enough."

Soon, we will be able to contruct whole sentences and paragraphs using only crazy/weird member's names.

justeleblanc wrote:Can someone explain to me why the Ophuls are all super thin digipaks?

Well, Madame De... includes a copy of the original novel, making a digi-sleeve necessary to house it. Presumably Le Plaisir and La Ronde were also packaged in digis to keep a consistent style across the three simultaneous releases.

I never get responses back from Mulvaney, I e-mailed him about receiving a damaged case a month ago, nothing.

I wouldn't expect them to replace a damaged case unless it's a digipak, but they will always replace a defective DVD, damaged booklet or sleeve.

kinjitsu wrote:I wouldn't expect them to replace a damaged case unless it's a digipak, but they will always replace a defective DVD, damaged booklet or sleeve.

It's a digipak. I just re-e-mailed him and got a reply in seconds. Hmm.

They don't replace cases. I emailed when my In The Mood For Love case arrived with broken tabs and they regretfully informed me that do not replace those. I would be surprised if they replace digipaks as those are even more easily damaged during shipment.

This is on the Rialto site, but it's in the same style as the Criterion Ophuls releases so that box is looking more and more likely:

souvenir wrote:This is on the Rialto site, but it's in the same style as the Criterion Ophuls releases so that box is looking more and more likely

would love to see that happening. Looks like an excellent cover.

This Lola/box-set speculation is putting me off purchasing any of the Ophuls. Though I might have to spring for Earrings anyway, and just suck it up when/if the boxset comes.

kaujot wrote:This Lola/box-set speculation is putting me off purchasing any of the Ophuls. Though I might have to spring for Earrings anyway, and just suck it up when/if the boxset comes.

If Crtierion do eventually release the Ophuls releases as a box set with Lola Montes added in, i would hope they provide the option to buy/email in for the box separately, at the least thats what they should do.

Here is a peek at the Blu-Ray packaging of The Last Emperor. I'm sure it'll initate a bitch fest.

I doubt there'll be any bitchfests, seeing as how it's a placeholder mockup made by one of DVDAf's users

That's clearly fake. Besides, Criterion said their packaging will be same, but smaller to the size of the Blu-ray.