The Arrow Thread

[tele1962]

Just a heads up:

http://www.avforums.com/threads/or-t...u-ray.1903768/

[Susan Foreman]

Stand-alones:

"Today is the day. After months of tremendous hard work, we are very pleased to finally see the works of Walerian Borowczyk join the Arrow Academy range.

All of his titles are available and in stock as stand alone releases and can be ordered direct from the Arrow Store:

The Beast: The Beast
Goto, isle of love: Goto, Isle of Love
Immoral Tales: Immoral Tales
Walerian Borowczyk Short Films and Animation: Walerian Borowczyk Short Films and Animation
Blanche: Blanche "

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Michael Brooke

In a nutshell, they weren't designed by Borowczyk himself!

We thought long and hard about the design of this project, because we were in the highly unusual position of dealing with the work of someone who habitually designed his own posters, and indeed started out as a fine artist and award-winning poster designer before turning to film. More specifically, he designed posters for four of his first five features, and a screening invite for the fifth (Goto) - so using his own designs was about as close to a no-brainer as any decision that was made on this project. There was really no good argument for using anything else.

As for the branded Arrow covers, we again used Borowczyk as our inspiration, because his regular producer Dominique Ségrétin told us that for all live-action features, he would pick out a single still that he thought was most representative. In a couple of cases (Immoral Tales and The Beast), he'd incorporate the still into the poster, which is why they're the same still on both sides of the sleeve - but we thought it was important to stick to those principles as well (only bending them slightly with regard to the short films cover, as there wasn't a Borowczyk-selected still so instead we picked one from what he believed to be his best short, Angels' Games).

In fact, we based the entire design of the project (discs, sleeves, book/booklets, box) from things that we know that Borowczyk had personally signed off on. The use of Futura as a font right across the board (bar the subtitles: we thought that would be too jarring) derives from the fact that Borowczyk himself used it more than any other. Similarly, the conscious decision not to use any still images or video clips in any of the menus derives from the similarly image-free advertising flyers that he designed in the 1960s, and so on.

One of the primary aims of the project was, effectively, to give Borowczyk's films back to Borowczyk himself - to decisively separate them from decades of fly-by-night exploitation merchants and lurid covers that he would certainly never have approved had he been given the option. So the notion of effectively asking him to design the packaging (despite him being dead eight years) was one of the earliest ideas that we came up with - and all credit to Arrow for allowing us to follow this through to the end, even if it meant tinkering with their usual branding guidelines. Which is something that the BFI would never have permitted, so I'm very glad in retrospect that I never managed to realise a Borowczyk project there!

Oh, and as a further bonus, not having to pay artists (bar Arrow's usual packaging/booklet designers) or licence third-party designs saved us a fair wodge of cash, which could be diverted elsewhere. So not only was this genuinely the best and most appropriate design decision for this project (since nothing else would have been truer to Borowczyk's intentions), but it was also the cheapest - and is one of the reasons why we managed to get every scrap of film footage scanned in HD and boost something we were still calling "the booklet" as recently as last Easter to a whopping 344 pages. In other words, there was really no downside.

Well explained.Thanks.
From an Arrow collector's pov it's highly unusual for them not to use some alternate poster art.
As I said damn fine packages and I'll be picking the others up as soon as they appear on the shelves of HMV.

[plasterface]

anyone else's copy of the klownz blu stick if you try to access picture gallery?

[tele1962]

I watched my Arrow Blu of Dawn Of The Dead again for the first time in a few years................man I forgot how good this film is. It just nails it.

Wish they still held the rights to this one and gave it the attention it deserves although PQ is still very good.

[Susan Foreman]

I don't want 'those in the know' to think I am trolling, but here's another FaceBook posting:

"***Release update Stray Cat Rock Collection***
Due to some last minute production checks we have decided to push the release date of this title back to October 6th to ensure we have adequate time to finalise and effectively QC everything. We do however expect orders from the Arrow store to be shipping prior to this date."

[Rik]

Originally Posted by tele1962

I watched my Arrow Blu of Dawn Of The Dead again for the first time in a few years................man I forgot how good this film is. It just nails it.



Wish they still held the rights to this one and gave it the attention it deserves although PQ is still very good.

I watched the Argento cut (sadly SD only), included in the set, the other day for the first time in years, can't wait to see it & Suspiria next month at Grimmfest, with Claudio Simonetti's Goblin providing the score (for Suspiria only) :woohoo:

Gonna take a few items to sign on the off chance I get to meet the maestro himself

[PaulD]

Originally Posted by Rik

I watched the Argento cut (sadly SD only), included in the set, the other day for the first time in years, can't wait to see it & Suspiria next month at Grimmfest, with Claudio Simonetti's Goblin providing the score (for Suspiria only) :woohoo:

Gonna take a few items to sign on the off chance I get to meet the maestro himself

I'm soooo looking forward to this. Slippery Jack is going too!

[Rik]

Originally Posted by PaulD

I'm soooo looking forward to this. Slippery Jack is going too!

Me too, two of my favourite films on the big screen and Claudio Simonetti

[tele1962]

Oh man I wish I was.