Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.4

[Awesome Welles]

Not that I want to take the contrarian view, but Vampyr looks a bit too much like a bad metal t-shirt to me (perhaps it's the font and scythe silhouette). MoC's cover was genuinely elegant.

Agreed I don't particularly like anything except Trafic which is gorgeous.

[Feego]

This image of the Criterion Vamyr cover is on the IMDb. I don't know if it's the official cover or where they got it from.

EDIT: Looks like the artwork is up, and it's the same cover! And a great one at that!

[Highway 61]

Aside from Mon Oncle Antoine, I love them all. And while the old fashioned Trafic cover is gorgeous, I also don't mind the goth Vampyr cover. If contemporary cover art turns more people onto a silent film they would otherwise avoid, I can't object.

[Jean-Luc Garbo]

The Dreyer cover is so goth, but it's good. I'm not a fan of High and Low, but at least it's not as bad as Mishima.

[codam]

High res versions:

[Michael Kerpan]

The Mon Oncle Antoine cover does not capture the feeling of the film -- at all.

[denti alligator]

The Mon Oncle Antoine cover does not capture the feeling of the film -- at all.

It's the only weak one in the bunch, which is, I guess, a good thing.

[Michael Kerpan]

The Mon Oncle Antoine cover does not capture the feeling of the film -- at all.

It's the only weak one in the bunch, which is, I guess, a good thing.

Except -- in some ways --I think this is the most important release in the batch. (as largely unknown as it is important).

[arsonfilms]

The Mon Oncle Antoine cover reminds me of the same things that the cover for A nos amores evoked, with perhaps a bit of Fanny and Alexander thrown in. Is that just totally and completely off base?

[Morbii]

Is it just me, or is Vampyr Criterion's best cover ever?

[rwaits]

Not at all. I was trying to place what earlier covers it reminded me of, and those are the ones. Not a huge fan of any of them, really.

[Michael Kerpan]

The Mon Oncle Antoine cover reminds me of the same things that the cover for A nos amores evoked, with perhaps a bit of Fanny and Alexander thrown in. Is that just totally and completely off base?

I think so. (as to the nature of the film) ;~}

[kaujot]

I'm still not sold on that yellow used for the Trafic sidebar. I know it "matches" the yellow stripe down the roads, but I think in such a big block, it clashes horribly with the blue.

That said, I hope they issue it as a poster, as I know that's what the original poster looked like (at least I'm 90% sure of that).

[denti alligator]

Is it just me, or is Vampyr Criterion's best cover ever?

Dude, you're making it painfully obvious that your a metal fan.

[redbill]

Is it just me, or is Vampyr Criterion's best cover ever?

Dude, you're making it painfully obvious that your a metal fan.

Morbii . . . metal face!!

[Morbii]

arson: agreed. I knew it reminded me of something Criterion and you just hit the nail on the head. I actually didn't like it so much because it felt "already used".

denti: hah

[colinr0380]

Is it just me, or is Vampyr Criterion's best cover ever?

Dude, you're making it painfully obvious that your a metal fan.

Morbii . . . metal face!!

It reminded me of I Walked With A Zombie!

[HelenLawson]

I like how the Criterion logo on Mon Oncle Antoine is used as an eyebrow piercing.

[Jeff]

I'm still not sold on that yellow used for the Trafic sidebar. I know it "matches" the yellow stripe down the roads, but I think in such a big block, it clashes horribly with the blue.

That said, I hope they issue it as a poster, as I know that's what the original poster looked like (at least I'm 90% sure of that).

Yep. Criterion has used variations of the original posters for all of the Tati titles. Here is the original French one-sheet for Trafic.

[jaredsap]

Yep. Criterion has used variations of the original posters for all of the Tati titles. Here is the original French one-sheet for Trafic.

This is a gorgeous poster so I'm happy Criterion decided not to mess with it much, but I'd love know why no other filmmaker in the collection besides Tati -- to my knowledge, perhaps someone can correct me -- has been consistently represented by original key art. This isn't a complaint. I'm just curious.

[justeleblanc]

For anyone else who ever interned or worked at Tribeca Productions, that poster used to grace the 6th floor when you opened the elevators.

[fdm]

...I don't particularly like anything except Trafic which is gorgeous.

That's what I was thinking too.

[glaswegian tome]

The Mon Oncle Antoine cover does not capture the feeling of the film -- at all.

It's the only weak one in the bunch, which is, I guess, a good thing.

Except -- in some ways --I think this is the most important release in the batch. (as largely unknown as it is important).

This is interesting. I've never seen the film myself but I think the cover art is cool and has made me want to see it.

[bufordsharkley]

The first eight times I saw the Trafic cover, I took the cars driving as 0s and 1s. (Tell me I'm not the only one.)

...A beautiful composition at any rate, but leading to an amusing anachronism for me.

[Morbii]

The first eight times I saw the Trafic cover, I took the cars driving as 0s and 1s. (Tell me I'm not the only one.)

I did a double take, myself.