MoC Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on

[What A Disgrace]

Eureka's website has them both as February releases.

[sidehacker]

I'm glad MoC didn't go for Kagi and Enjo as there are already ways to see both films in respectable quality and with english subs. I have heard next to nothing about these two Ichikawa films, and I couldn't be more excited for them. More proof that MoC is the king of the DVD world, not that any more proof was needed.

[Steven H]

I'm *ecstatic* at the Ichikawa choices! I really can't exclaim enough. Alone On The Pacific and Kokoro are both classics, the former being a dramatic and moody piece that Naruse fans will flock to (though a love story, it maybe has more in common with Ichikawa's Fires on The Plain in style of delivery.) Alone on the Pacific is strong and a bit wild, though I haven't seen it with english subtitles to really get a handle on it. Huge cheers for these picks, and I'm really excited to see what else Ichikawa we have on deck. I'm hoping, like others, for Ten Dark Women, which has one of the most hilarious, unexpected, and vicious endings!

[TheGodfather]

Never heard of them before tbh but the covers look very promising!

[backstreetsbackalright]

Wow! Lovely covers, and I can't wait to finally see the adaptation of Kokoro!

[Matango]

The Alone Across the Pacific cover should at least lose the guy's head, or start from scratch, or something. Anything.

[codam]

[ellipsis7]

Very sharp series of MoC covers, I think all derived from original poster art, except maybe the Pialat...

[TheGodfather]

WOW!!! =D> =D> great titles, excellent covers. Finally a Godard in the collection
is there a release date for these already?

[Awesome Welles]

Very nice. Not surprised to see Muriel, very pleased with that as I was holding off on the R1. At the moment the MoC site lists Muriel as March, La Guelle Ouverte as April, Il Grido and Une Femme Mariee as May. I'll be picking up all but the Pialat which I will try and rent. Excellent announcement, can't wait to see what the extras will be.

[Tommaso]

Yes, very nice! And as #81 is still empty, I bet it means either another Godard or another Antonioni (come on, "Le Amiche", please!).

[HerrSchreck]

Great additions to the line!

This Pialat cover is the only one I'm not crazy out (not talking about the film, which I haven't seen)-- I'm lukewarm on the image itself but my real issue is with the parenthetical translation of the film's title smack bang up againat the director's name in a larger font. It's not even so much where the translation is placed, but the fact that it's there at all. I know this has been done on other titles, but it doesn't feel as awkward as it does here. Usually CC & MoC settle on a title of a foreign film, deciding in most cases (I'd imagine) to go with that which the film is primarily known by in the west, whether that be the translated title (Vengeance Is Mine, whose cover doesn't have the orig Japanese on the front), or the Mizoguchis, which are the reverse (providing the untranslated Japanese titles on the front covers).

I like the seamlessness and confident simplicity of a single title on the front, and leaving the back cover for translations and detail. Even in cases where I dislike the translated title (a good example of this would be the titling of Le Quai des brumes "Port of Shadows", even though the actual translation of 'quai des brumes' is something more along the lines of "The Foggy Port" or 'the hazy dock', etc... a title reflecting the atmosphere created on the set by pumping tons of smoke-- so much of it that Carne said cast and crew were so saturated by this that their evening bathwater turned inky black-- to simulate for the camera the thick fog so much discussed in the text ).

[Subbuteo]

utterly gob smacked, fabulous

[Cinetwist]

Ditto. Mouth watering.

What a start to the new year! Recession, smecession.

[Awesome Welles]

Yes, very nice! And as #81 is still empty, I bet it means either another Godard or another Antonioni (come on, "Le Amiche", please!).

I thought that too but #81 is Tokyo Sonata I'm hoping #78 is another Resnais... Providence? As for Antonioni there's 83# onwards! Bring it on!

[Hail_Cesar]

Yes, very nice! And as #81 is still empty, I bet it means either another Godard or another Antonioni (come on, "Le Amiche", please!).

I thought that too but #81 is Tokyo Sonata I'm hoping #78 is another Resnais... Providence? As for Antonioni there's 83# onwards! Bring it on!

#78 is another Pialat if I correctly remember...

[Anhedionisiac]

My God, man, these are amazing covers to incredible movies.
Outstanding. My favorites in a while, certainly.

[PimpPanda]

Muriel!! Should be much better than the crappy R1...

[sidehacker]

Indeed, same goes for Il Grido and Une femme mariée.

[Murdoch]

Il Grido and Une femme mariée! Fantastic news, I'm always excited by MoC and these covers are simply gorgeous!

[TheGodfather]

At the moment the MoC site lists Muriel as March, La Guelle Ouverte as April, Il Grido and Une Femme Mariee as May. I'll be picking up all but the Pialat which I will try and rent. Excellent announcement, can't wait to see what the extras will be.

Ok thanks for the info

[Tommaso]

Yes, very nice! And as #81 is still empty, I bet it means either another Godard or another Antonioni (come on, "Le Amiche", please!).

I thought that too but #81 is Tokyo Sonata I'm hoping #78 is another Resnais... Providence? As for Antonioni there's 83# onwards! Bring it on!

Oh yes, you're right, I totally forgot about "Tokyo Sonata". But if successive spines belong to one director, they are normally ordered following the film's original release date. So if #83 is Antonioni, it can't be an earlier film than "Il Grido" (too bad!). Which leaves nothing else but "Oberwald", the China documentary or, dare I say it, "Zabriskie Point".

[jbeall]

Jesus. Simply unbelievable covers. =D> =D> =D>

[foggy eyes]

Oh, hell yes. Merry Christmas to you too, MoC!

[Cabiria21]

Purple overload