Leaving gift for a colleague, designed by Netherlands-based Mike Giesser. Great execution, I’m particularly enamoured of the duotone palette. (via Antonio Carusone)
Criterion does the best covers. (via Fuck Yeah Wes Anderson)
Erin Biba in Wired:
Crammed with references to Star Wars and Resident Evil, Spaced became hugely popular in Britain. On Tuesday, a DVD set brings the show to the United States for the first time.
If you even vaguely enjoyed Shaun of the Dead you’ll love this to death. So damn good. And with new commentaries from the likes of Quentin Tarantino and Matt Stone, I’ll be hard-pressed not to double dip.
How many versions is that now? Still, could be worth it just for the cover art. The Big Lebowski: 10th Anniversary Edition, out 9 September. Mark it zero, dude.
Paramount, like most Hollywood studios, did not create a preservation program — “asset protection” in industry parlance — until the home-video boom of the 1980s proved film libraries could have indefinite, lucrative lives.
— From Stephanie Argy’s detailed, technical feature on the recent restoration of Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather trilogy by Robert A. Harris, Joanne Lawson and the team at Motion Picture Imaging. The original negative elements were in such disarray that it took a full 12 months to complete the restoration.
This is one double-dip I can tolerate.
— Marty Langford will be shelling out for the new Robert A. Harris-supervised restoration of Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather trilogy. How could you not?
Granted, they didn’t have the best source material to work from, but the DVD’s grainy, shaky-through-the-projector appearance is a turn off.
— Philip Pirrello likens the new DVD transfer of Eleanor Coppola’s Hearts of Darkness documentary to the 1991 VHS version. Ouch.
