Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol. 6

[colinr0380]

Ah, I see it now!

[Buttercream]

The Hellman cover likes like a Vintage paperback of some acclaimed 'world literature' writer.

Just say Murakami, it's what you're thinking of

Truth.

[RyanGallagher]

Regarding the Shooting / Ride the Whirlwind cover, here are some of the book covers that John Gall has worked on

[criterion10]

The L'Avventura cover is actually very nice, even though I personally prefer the recent Janus poster. Tootsie is rather "meh", while the other three are simply awful. Easily one of the worst months for cover art I have been around for.

[HistoryProf]

I'll go against the grain and say that I like all the covers. Especially the Monte Hellman one which looks to be doing the same kind of 'multiple scene pile up' thing as the Y Tu Mama Tambien cover (which having received it today sadly doesn't look any better in person), but more successfully with each element - horses! sunrises! abstracted actor portraits - looking as if they are revealed by ripping layers of paper to expose the images underneath. I really hope that this one is a digipack with a rougher textured paper feel to it, rather than a glossy one, as just looking at the image creates a tactile feeling. Could it be in the style of the Dazed and Confused set with cut out elements?

Also, I'm not up on my American geography and this might be pushing the imagery much too far but is the central black and white image in the shape of a particular state or county?

the blu ray is only one disc, the DVD 2, so it'll be in the clear plastic cases.

[swo17]

I don't know how much significance to attach to this, but we got an invitation to a baby shower this week, and it appears to use the same font as the cover for It Happened One Night. There are even arrows on it!

[FrauBlucher]

You could say the reason for the baby shower is because 'it happened one night.'

[TheGodfather]

My sweet lord, those are some pretty awful covers... Good to finally see It Happened one night, though. Too bad it has one of this year`s worst covers...

[cdnchris]

Love Streams
Vengeance is Mine
All That Jazz

[acroyear]

Interesting treatment on the All That Jazz discs. I'm guessing their labels are meant to be read in a sequential order? Has anything like that been done on Criterion discs before?

[cdnchris]

Eraserhead

[rwiggum]

Wow, that's GORGEOUS. My initial feeling that the cover was too predictable and boring has been decimated by the rest of the packaging.

[mfunk9786]

We spend most of our time chiding Criterion for messing with iconic poster art - I'm particularly glad they resisted in this case.

[swo17]

I like that their first new release that's not in dual format is still a digipak.

[captveg]

I like that their first new release that's not in dual format is still a digipak.

But back to the thinner and more shelf-space conscience digipak.

[Jeff]

We spend most of our time chiding Criterion for messing with iconic poster art - I'm particularly glad they resisted in this case.

Best of both worlds. It's a newly commissioned painting of that classic photograph.

[cdnchris]

Macbeth
The Innocents

[domino harvey]

A good reminder of two great contenders for Worst Cover in the year-end wrap-up

[zedz]

A good reminder of two great contenders for Worst Cover in the year-end wrap-up

I don't like either cover particularly, but in a year that includes Y tu mama tambien I'm not sure these covers even meet the dress code for the Hall of Shame.

[domino harvey]

If any category deserves five votes this year, it's this and not Best Release!

[FakeBonanza]

God, they somehow turned out even worse than the initial art indicated. I can't believe how awful that disappearing font looks on the spine of The Innocents

[Minkin]

Odd that they skimped on the disc art + Innocents blank interior. As convenient as it is to see the chapters list behind the booklet , I'd far prefer it that they put some artwork behind the disc/booklet. At the very least, they should pull an Arrow and put a reversible cover back there (perhaps with original poster artwork).

[jindianajonz]

For those of you who have the Zatoichi box, try not to leave it open for too long. I left mine open today for a few hours, and came back to find this:

[MongooseCmr]

A good reminder of two great contenders for Worst Cover in the year-end wrap-up

I don't like either cover particularly, but in a year that includes Y tu mama tambien I'm not sure these covers even meet the dress code for the Hall of Shame.

Y Tu Mama Tambien at least has some pretty colors, and I get what they were going for. That Macbeth cover is just ugly in every way. I'm not even sure what I'm looking at

[Yaanu]

The cover artwork to Tootsie has been slightly altered from the original: