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

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souvenir · #426 Post by **souvenir** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:51 pm

tavernier wrote:Is that the Japanese spelling of "Autumn"?

I think Criterion's designer randomly removed that "n" and the "s" from "Yasujiro" to see if we were paying attention. Or Swimminghorses has a new job.

tavernier · #427 Post by **tavernier** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:57 pm

I stopped reading after seeing the misspelled "autumn."

And--please don't mention SH here again!

godardslave · #428 Post by **godardslave** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 11:09 pm

For Autumn Afternoon, the dvd empire cover is better #-o

Steven H · #429 Post by **Steven H** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 11:11 pm

godardslave wrote:For Autumn Afternoon, the dvd empire cover is better

Agreed. And it gets the guy's name right for starts.

stalker_ozu · #430 Post by **stalker_ozu** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 3:21 am

[img]http://criterion_production.s3.amazonaws.com/release_images/1771/446_auumnafternon.jpg[/img]

I liked this cover very much, the other is almost like a Spoiler.

Matango · #431 Post by **Matango** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 8:02 am

They should uppercase the A in "an" if they're going to do so for the other two words. Looks like an Eclipse cover to me.

sidehacker · #432 Post by **sidehacker** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 2:54 pm

What's with the out of place steam pipes?

CSM126 · #433 Post by **CSM126** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 3:01 pm

"a Ysaujiro Ozu film"

Jesus Christ, Criterion. Ditch this cover designer FAST. He can't spell and he can't even convincingly photoshop anything. Those pipes are thrown in there so poorly I'd be given to thinking this is actually a dotcom-produced fan cover put up there by a hacker.

Antoine Doinel · #434 Post by **Antoine Doinel** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 3:08 pm

swimminghorses now works for Criterion.

Steven H · #435 Post by **Steven H** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 3:38 pm

Antoine Doinel wrote:swimminghorses now works for Criterion.

That's the first thing I thought of when I saw the thing.

The Fanciful Norwegian · Mon Jul 07, 2008 3:41 pm

So in these various Autumn Afternoon covers, we've had:

-Incorrect Japanese title
-Incorrect English title
-Two distinct misspellings of the director's name
-Smokestacks composited in MS Paint

=D>

HelenLawson · #437 Post by **HelenLawson** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 3:43 pm

I know absolutely nothing about this film, but judging from the cover, I'd assume it was the Japanese equivalent of Red Desert.

CSM126 · #438 Post by **CSM126** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 4:11 pm

Person · #439 Post by **Person** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 4:12 pm

What an awful, awful cover. #-o If this isn't a clumsy fake job, then someone at Criterion needs to be met with the rubber hose.

klee13 · #440 Post by **klee13** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 5:57 pm

Who knew a project like the cover for An Autumn Afternoon would have such a arduous production attached to it? Perhaps it's cursed.

Aside from the indefensible spelling errors, I can at least see where they're coming from with the design- A Japanese style wrapper, surrounding a photograph from the film. Those pipes which people thought were some poor Photoshopping job seem to be a card tucked under the label, probably to alleviate all the empty space in the (all too clearly faked) top of the photograph...

jbeall · #441 Post by **jbeall** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 6:05 pm

This isn't the first time the initial cover design has has misspellings. I know for a fact that they misspelled "Michael" as "Micheal" Powell for the A Canterbury Tale cover--I emailed them and it was fixed a day or two later And they've done this at least one or two other times, but I can't recall the exact instances.

klee13 · #442 Post by **klee13** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 6:13 pm

jbeall wrote:This isn't the first time the initial cover design has has misspellings. I know for a fact that they misspelled "Michael" as "Micheal" Powell for the A Canterbury Tale cover--I emailed them and it was fixed a day or two later And they've done this at least one or two other times, but I can't recall the exact instances.

Yes, but to make two spelling mistakes in a row on the same cover...

jbeall · #443 Post by **jbeall** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 7:58 pm

I was just trying to play devil's advocate! 8-[ This cover really makes me wonder if the folks at Criterion are having a huge laugh at our expense.

reno dakota · #444 Post by **reno dakota** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 8:37 pm

I e-mailed Mulvaney about the errors on the "An Autumn Afternoon" cover and got this reply today:

Thanks for your email! Yes, we do plan to correct the typos before the cover art is printed. Thanks for your vigilance, and feel free to write in again if you have any other concerns!

Best,

JM

Narshty · #445 Post by **Narshty** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 3:01 pm

Yet another revision has been posted. And there's still some awesomely shoddy Photoshopping going on with the chimney stack on the right.

TheGodfather · #446 Post by **TheGodfather** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 5:29 pm

Narshty wrote:Yet another revision has been posted. And there's still some awesomely shoddy Photoshopping going on with the chimney stack on the right.

At least this one looks better than the first one...

aox · #447 Post by **aox** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:02 pm

TheGodfather wrote:At least this one looks better than the first one

agreed

Antoine Doinel · #448 Post by **Antoine Doinel** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:11 pm

It still looks like a cut and paste mess.

davebert · #449 Post by **davebert** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 8:54 pm

Yeah, what the fuck? Counting the cover they put out in the press release, has Criterion ever taken so many public stabs at a cover design? The past non-Eclipse Ozu covers have ranged from pretty good to lovely.

As long as there are no typos on the spine, though, I think that's all I'll be looking at 99% of the time.

Matango · #450 Post by **Matango** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 1:36 am

I see they took my "An" uppercasing suggestion on board. I'm sure they're enjoying following this thread =D>

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