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‘Two-Lane Blacktop’: A DVD box with a hot-rod bod
Mighty Austin graphic designer Marc English has designed a passel of award-winning DVD packages for the highbrow Criterion Collection, including elaborately beautiful ones for “Slacker,” “Dazed and Confused,” “Naked” and “My Own Private Idaho.”
Just released from Criterion is Monte Hellman’s unassailable existential road picture “Two-Lane Blacktop,” which English also designed. It’s a knockout box. But don’t listen to me.
First this Hollywood-elsewhere.com blogger notes:
Criterion’s version (of ‘Two-Lane Blacktop’) may be the most attractive package they’ve ever put out. It’s the s*. I would be in awe of it even if it held a movie I didn’t like. It’s got a beautiful design.
To which Hellman personally responds to English:
I’d like to echo the above sentiments from a blogger. I couldn’t be more pleased with the way the package turned out. Everything about it is a delight to the eye. You managed to use BOTH my favorite cover designs, one on the box, the other on the disc holder fold-out. And I love the split photo of the gas station as you open the fold-out. And everything is so clean and simple.
Gape at and read about the DVD HERE.
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