Tuesday 4 August 2015

Magnolia (1999)

Entertainment in Video have handled some of the best independent cinema of recent years but their sleeve design ethos is tacky, tabloid-style rubbish. And Magnolia deserves better than that, even if the design required minimal imagination.

Union City (1980)

A much-underrated classic. Sadly the DVD release came out under Tartan, which meant a still on the front cover and that same old tiresome white and black spine. Why do that when there's a poster like that out? Simple matter to clone the skyline for a wrap cover. Not crazy about the crease on the tights but happy to go with it until I can find a better scan of the poster.


Two Mules for Sister Sara (1971)

Another Eastwood classic. Oddly this one hasn't got nailed by many collections but came out with just a plain photo cover despite being a standalone issue. 


Vengeance (1968)

One of my favourite spaghetti Westerns, this smashing Richard Harrison vehicle is still lacking a DVD release (even though 4Front put it out on VHS here twenty years ago). It was hard getting a good scan of the poster but I managed it and the rest was fairly simple. Quite proud of this one.

Sunday 2 August 2015

THX-1138 (1971)

Warners are usually one of the better labels for bringing out vintage films in decent covers but the one for THX-1138 featured a Criterion-style cover of the title character's ear, so off that came.

To Catch a Thief (1954)

Spoilt for choice for vintage posters for this one, easily squeezing out Paramount's "random picture of Cary and Grace" original.


Saturday 1 August 2015

Transformers: The Movie (1986)

One of my guilty pleasure films; I love Transformers and even though the original animated film is objectively tripe it's a big part of my childhood. As was the original UK movie poster, a version of which cut from a comic adorned my bedroom door. Merging that (already used for the cheapo Sony Wonder release) with the contents of Metrodome's two-disc Ultimate Edition with some cleaner rear cover artwork was simple but satisfying.