Thanks Bill. I’d like to get it right away, but unfortunately I’m afraid I am not able to purchase it at the moment. My pocket money is scarce and I’m already gathering some cash to get this DVD:
Again, thank you Eureka for releasing this, what a great cover too.
Yes, all DVD covers should be that clever.
Why are LP and CD covers mostly arty and intellectual, while VHS, DVD and Blu covers often give me the impression to be made for idiots?
@ Why are LP and CD covers mostly arty and intellectual, while VHS, DVD and Blu covers often give me the impression to be made for idiots?
I think it has something to do with the format of the LP and the popularity of pop music in the sixties, which attracted the popular and ambitious artists and art design groups such as Andy Warhol, Hypgnosis, etc. The LP became a true medium for modern artists. The CD art is more or less a continuation, but VHS, DVD and Blu-ray covers are usually made by the company, and they don’t use the Original covers, most probably for financial reasons. They’re even too avaricious to hire and pay a guy like Dicfish, who could do miracles with DVD covers.
Stanton, you clearly haven’t seen too many album covers. I know of hundreds of moronic covers.
That Hands Over The City art looks like Czech art done with MS Paint. To each their own 
[quote=“scherpschutter, post:10703, topic:1923”]@ Why are LP and CD covers mostly arty and intellectual, while VHS, DVD and Blu covers often give me the impression to be made for idiots?
I think it has something to do with the format of the LP and the popularity of pop music in the sixties, which attracted the popular and ambitious artists and art design groups such as Andy Warhol, Hypgnosis, etc. The LP became a true medium for modern artists. The CD art is more or less a continuation, but VHS, DVD and Blu-ray covers are usually made by the company, and they don’t use the Original covers, most probably for financial reasons. They’re even too avaricious to hire and pay a guy like Dicfish, who could do miracles with DVD covers.[/quote]
The difference is that many if not the most music covers are ambitiously done, that they are made to attract an audience which has some taste, while film covers are made mostly for a cheap mainstream taste. And the music industry is not less money orientated than the film industry. But still they try to sell their products with intelligence. And I’m talking here about music and films made for a mass audience.
I have. Of course there are also ugly covers, but if you exclude some teeny stars most covers do more than have a picture of the grinning artist(s) as cover. A band like Blur is aiming at a big audience, but not with tasteless shit covers you often find for films.
Half of my DVDs have ugly covers, cheap photoshop work with uninspired motives. Most (actually nearly all) of my CDs have an ambitious cover.
Hehe, maybe it’s your good taste in music. I listen to gangsta rap and death metal. Not much tasteful going on in the art department.
Thanks, last.caress 
that Jim Post record is pretty awesome. Feel like posting some myself. Maybe later.
By the way, I don’t agree at all on the VHS assessment. VHS cover art blows both DVD and bluray art away in terms of style and artistic vision. Even the templates used by different labels look arty on plenty occasions. Moreover, sometimes real artists were hired to design a VHS cover. That, or some original art was used. This in a time, of course, without digital designing.
VHS covers were - generally speaking - superior to DVD and Blu-ray, true
The difference is that many if not the most music covers are ambitiously done, that they are made to attract an audience which has some taste, while film covers are made mostly for a cheap mainstream taste
Really? I wonder if audiences who buy music have better taste than moviegoers.
I think its just too easy for a movie distributor to grab a screencap and make a cheap, shitty cover out of it instead of paying for good artwork.
Music is just music, generally speaking, and there’s not a movie to flip through to grab screenshots from and slap on the cover. Kinda forced to think about creative artwork…
Plus movies involve way too many people who are all disconnected from each other, and too much corporate-non-communication going on, which typically results in shoddy work.
This can be seen demonstrated in the excellent cover art of smaller releasing companies, like say Grindhouse versus MGM.
Bands tend to at least get more say in what happens with their album, unless they are on some huge label but even then, they still generally get a good amount of say in regards to album art.
A big, global-corporate film distributor doesn’t care about any of that shite. They want to keep costs down, and money coming in, and that’s about it.
Also, cover art sells albums, or at least it did when I grew up. I used to go to the shop and blind buy albums based on just the cover, not knowing anything about the artist. I may still sometimes check stuff out in the same way, but these days its almost impossible not to hear something prior to purchase.
Yup, that’s from back when scherpschutter used to pose naked on album covers for money. Crazy times. ;D
@ that’s from back when scherpschutter used to pose naked on album covers for money
Those were the days (and that was Mary Hopkin)
Yes very much so. Even tempted me back to collecting some VHS tapes again.
I’ve been tempted to start collecting VHS myself for this reason. So far I’ve been mostly satiated with high res VHS cover scans tho
Gente di rispetto / The Flower in His Mouth 1975
In Croatia it was translated as Schollteacher and a Mafia, but it isn’t really about Mafia, nor is it giallo although it was shown as a part of giallo cycle. But I recommend the movie. It is best described as political (or even better, ideological) thriller set in rural Sicilia. Main characters are somewhat undeveloped so some of their actions and dialog will look unbelievable. On the plus side, absolutely gorgeous looking sets, familiar cast (Jennifer O’Neill, Franco Nero, James Mason), tense plot at witch center is age old class struggle. Add little bit of exploitation elements (obligatory 70s sex scenes, some horror/giallo elements like creepy midgets) and you have a nice feature.
Mother India (1957): a huge, sprawling, nearly three-hour long Indian saga that is filled with song, heartbreak, drama and every hardship that come be thrown at the towering Earth-mother figure of Nargis. Directed by Mehboob Khan, it’s overly melodramatic and parochial in its morality (in other words, it strays far onto the side of traditional, conservative India society, particularly in the depiction, alas, of women). Yet it looks fantastic, the location shooting paying large dividends (the studio work not so much), thanks to the cinematography by Faredoon A. Irani. Intriguingly, mention of the British colonial administration is very oblique and not at all important to the plot: it’s as if the makers are trying to forge a narrative for India separate from Empire, a mythic tale designed to galvanism patriotism in the idea of a the newly-independent India. Overall, it’s not perfect, but the luminous performance of Nargis conquers any reservations one might have.
That Malicious Age / Quella eta Maliziosa
-I really enjoyed this sexy film with Gloria Guida. Plot is rather pointless but what the heck, I could watch Gloria Guida for hours. Silvio Amadio made good work as a director here. The bus scene in the beginning is a good example, I think it’s one of the sexiest scenes I’ve seen even though basically nothing happens in it.
Russian Roulette - Cold war thriller set in Canada with George Segal. Pretty good.
A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas - Enjoyed this, had me laughing, not quite as good as the previous two entries but still funny enough.
Murder By Decree - Holmes and Watson on the case of Jack The Ripper, not seen it for many years, forgot how many top notch actors had supporting roles in it.
Mr.Ricco - Dean Martin plays a lawyer who gets a black militant off a murder charge, when he is suspected of killing again Ricco is less than popular for getting him off and becomes a target himself.
…From The Police With Thanks - Fancied revisiting this Italian crime classic with Enrico Maria Salerno on the case tracking down a mob who’ve been dishing out vigilante vengeance to criminals who have escaped justice. Classic.
Just re-watched The Passenger, I obviously still love it. It’s simply amazing how such contemplative films reflect your psyche and how many random memories flash through your mind while watching these classic arthouses. Damn… this shot is just enrapturing…
Amer (2009)
Not really a giallo, but a tribute to gialli, genre fans will have a lot of references to spot. Visually stunning movie, but it feels like a short film, stretched to full feature length.
