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Any chance they could find one more place to put the same artwork in this release? (And does Edward Hopper have anything to do with Mulholland Drive anyway?)

Not seeing the problem here. You didn't like the film—don't buy a fancy-shmancy edition of it. Couldn't be simpler.

All of us, when the first low-res beauty shots appear:

It's not nice to try to make Chinese speakers believe it's spelled "blue-ray."

Seems pretty dorky to me. It's just the K from the opening title of the film: The designer is trying to justify it, as designers do. 🙄

For $17.99?? Buy it and use it as very stylish coasters!

They must have made a buhzillion of this set. I bought it a couple years ago as an Amazon Black Friday special for $10—and here it is, still widely available. It is a beautiful set, certainly, and an unbelievable price.

It's not a scam. It's just expensive. Some of the expense probably goes to Bob Peak's estate for the poster art used on the lenti. Some may go to Laurent Durieux for the steelbook art. And the production expense increases when the total run is in the hundreds, or even a few thousand, rather than the limitless factory production that Target sells. If the extra stuff isn't worth the expense to you, then nobody will think less of you for passing on this release. In general, it seems that prices are on the rise for a lot of premium retailers now, so eventually, many of us will be priced out of things that we might have bought a few years ago. But it'll be all right.

Other than comments on this forum, I'd actually say the opposite—Wings of Desire is enormously beloved. One of my top five of all time. (And I also love Paris, Texas, but Wings is just really special.) The affection for Paris currently might be because Harry Dean's star has risen a lot over the past few years, and this was his breakout role.

No worries! They are beautiful transfers of two of my favorite movies. Those of you who are ordering this set and haven't seen the films yet are in for a treat.

The Criterion releases were director-approved remasters, but has he gone back yet again and done something else now? I presume it means they're using the same thing that's on the Criterions.

Consistent aesthetic, at least for each movie.

To me, that is quite a jumble of mismatched stuff. Will stick with the Criterions.

What I always think when I see "invoice paid":

What do you expect anyone to say, though? Your options: 1) You watch it and like it. 2) You watch it and don't like it. 3) You don't watch it and probably don't think about it again after this release has come and gone. We're in an era of too many good premium releases and too little money to spend on them. So if something comes along and you've never heard of it until there's a premium release, chances are you don't need a premium release of it.

If you can get bored of a movie after less than a minute, then this one might not be for you.

Could you please derail one of the many threads I'm not interested in instead? Thanks!

Ha! Not when there's already a really good Criterion disc for this movie.

Would be nice to, like, have some idea what the actual product is going to look like.

Mods—please administer the appropriate penalty for posting in this thread without any actual news to report. Thank you. 😜

According to the text on the back of the full sleeve case, Audrey Hepburn "finds herself" repeatedly in this film.

Here's what Letterboxd tells me I gave 5 stars to: Toy Story 3 Inception Tron Legacy True Grit The Descendants Les Miserables Gravity The Zero Theorem Patema Inverted The Giver Paddington Inside Out Macbeth Les Innocentes Kedi The Jungle Book Your Name Frantz Kubo and the Two Strings Arrival A Monster Calls A Silent Voice Rogue One Blade Runner 2049 Paddington 2 Les Gardiennes L'Apparition Isle of Dogs Cold War Solo Roma They Shall Not Grow Old Into the Spider-verse Glass Toy Story 4 Ad Astra

It's based on a series of books that's even more Holmes-y than the movie. I read one of the books, but it didn't make much of an impression—probably because really I wanted to be like the movie. I'll read more at some point. If I remember right, at the time of its release one of the main criticisms from fans of martial arts films was that this one uses a fair bit of CGI—and not particularly seamless in its integration. I think some people felt that it was not quite in line with standards of the genre. Maybe that's changed now; I haven't kept up.

Pretty great action, and overall goofy and fun. If this were a steelbook, or if the beauty shots were out and amazing, I'd definitely be in the GB already. I think the film has been free on Amazon Prime for a while, so you can check out a bit of it to see if you like it.

One of my favorites. By coincidence, we very nearly watched this last night.