justeleblanc wrote:The two Melville's are nice. Neither are surprises, but the covers are definitely trying to aim at the Tarantino fans who know there are cool foreign films but never knew where to begin.
Yes, considering you told me that Souffle was coming just under a year ago!
I like the Melville matching pair covers, not too sure about Missing - I like the look but it could be trying to be too clever, you know? (Though this is exactly the sort of cover that looks much better in person than online!)
In terms of the films themselves I am especially glad to fill in a Melville gap with Second Breath (picked up the BFI of Le Doulos), the extras on Missing will make that worth a purchase and very excited about the Mizoguchi, especially with only the one overlap with the recent MoC series.
Hmmmm... also, where are announcements for the titles that are supposed to come out on Blu in October, but haven't been announced on SD yet? What an odd month...
Pretty crappy lookin' gun. It might have worked like that if the top box weren't rotated CCW about 30 degrees. Still, I'm glad to have both these Melvilles, plus the Mizoguchi. Good times!
LQ wrote:Hmmmm... also, where are announcements for the titles that are supposed to come out on Blu in October, but haven't been announced on SD yet? What an odd month...
They didn't end up announcing any Blu titles this month. That list of Blus that they released a few months ago weren't all coming out in October anyway. That is their initial slate of Blu-ray titles, which were scheduled to begin releasing in October. It may take them six months to get all of those out. They'll slowly roll out those 13 titles, see if anyone buys them, then decide if they want to do any more.
I like the covers, especially the Mizoguchi ones.
So what`s the deal with releasing the Cassavetes titles again? just different covers but with the same extra`s? I already own the 8 disc box set, so these are a bit of useless releases in my book.
TheGodfather wrote:I like the covers, especially the Mizoguchi ones.
So what`s the deal with releasing the Cassavetes titles again? just different covers but with the same extra`s? I already own the 8 disc box set, so these are a bit of useless releases in my book.
We talked about this over on the locked thread, but it's for people who are interested in checking out Cassavetes by starting out w these most popular of his films, but would never spring for the whole box set (which has been out long enough to grab the cinephiles willing to spring for it, for the most part). It's like what they did with Jimi Plays Monterey.. and the reverse of what they did w Olivier Shakespeare, and Literary Adaptations. They do futz around w the existing line from time to time.
TheGodfather wrote:So what`s the deal with releasing the Cassavetes titles again? just different covers but with the same extra`s? I already own the 8 disc box set, so these are a bit of useless releases in my book.
We talked about this over on the locked thread, but it's for people who are interested in checking out Cassavetes by starting out w these most popular of his films, but would never spring for the whole box set (which has been out long enough to grab the cinephiles willing to spring for it, for the most part). It's like what they did with Jimi Plays Monterey.. and the reverse of what they did w Olivier Shakespeare, and Literary Adaptations. They do futz around w the existing line from time to time.
The licensing information is difficult to make out on the back cover, but it does look like it was licensed from "Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Inc.," as Jameson281 indicated. The United Artists symbol is also visible at the bottom.
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