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Jean-Luc Garbo
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#826 Post by Jean-Luc Garbo »

I love the font on the Rivette. Good job on La Chinoise, too.
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#827 Post by OliverB »

Cinephrenic wrote:Great cover, bad film.
Hey I'd buy a Criterion release of The Ghoul anytime!
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#828 Post by ship_destroyer »

two more from me. resident runner up to stop making sense's fantastic covers haha. seriously, that Paris nous appartient one is incredible. anyways...

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#829 Post by Stop Making Sense »

I quite like the title treatment you did there on Night of the Hunter!

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#830 Post by ship_destroyer »

^ wasn't that yellow like, twenty minutes ago?
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#831 Post by mteller »

Stop Making Sense wrote:I quite like the title treatment you did there on Night of the Hunter!

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Now if they'd only release this, and the Calcutta trilogy, and Devi, Mahanagar, and Charulata... then I could stop sending Mulvaney emails that he never replies to.
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#832 Post by Stop Making Sense »

The last one for a bit, I think.

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#833 Post by zedz »

Stop Making Sense wrote:The last one for a bit, I think.

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They should put you in charge of covers and acquisitions.
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#834 Post by denti alligator »

Stop Making Sense, who are you?
Your work is so superior to what Criterion are doing now that I'm a little taken aback.

And yes, put him/her in charge of acquisitions, too!
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#835 Post by Guido »

A quick one:

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#836 Post by Sloper »

I don't know how appropriate it is to the film (haven't seen it or read the book), but I love the Leave Her to Heaven concept above - it would be great to see someone take a chance and release a DVD like that, with an actual worn book-cover style. Somehow it feels like it would be suited to something like Greed, or better still Häxan. Or The Ninth Gate, I suppose.
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#837 Post by Guido »

You know, I look at that cover and I'm not too sure about it. I did it in ten minutes, and I think it makes thematic sense (in relation to the lifeless housing units to which Costa's project relocates), but it still looks a little too hip for me at the moment. I've tried my hand at designing a cover for Colossal Youth many times, and yet I always feel like the end result is juvenile.
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#838 Post by movielocke »

Sloper wrote:I don't know how appropriate it is to the film (haven't seen it or read the book), but I love the Leave Her to Heaven concept above - it would be great to see someone take a chance and release a DVD like that, with an actual worn book-cover style. Somehow it feels like it would be suited to something like Greed, or better still Häxan. Or The Ninth Gate, I suppose.
Dogma did that style.
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#839 Post by domino harvey »

More important: See Leave Her to Heaven!
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#840 Post by Cosmo Vitelli »

There Will Be Blood's 2-disc dvd U.S. release had a book cover when you take the sleeve off as well.
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#841 Post by bdsweeney »

Guido wrote:You know, I look at that cover and I'm not too sure about it. I did it in ten minutes, and I think it makes thematic sense (in relation to the lifeless housing units to which Costa's project relocates), but it still looks a little too hip for me at the moment. I've tried my hand at designing a cover for Colossal Youth many times, and yet I always feel like the end result is juvenile.
I wouldn't worry about it too much as it's damn sight better that Criterion's own for A Christmas Tale. Plus, it catches the eye, which is, of course, the point of any DVD/book etc. cover.
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#842 Post by Awesome Welles »

zedz wrote:
Stop Making Sense wrote:The last one for a bit, I think.

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They should put you in charge of covers and acquisitions.
SECONDED!
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#843 Post by TheGodfather »

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Absolutely wow! send it to Criterion, so that they finally release a gorgeous cover. Keep it up
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#844 Post by HistoryProf »

ship_destroyer wrote:two more from me. resident runner up to stop making sense's fantastic covers haha. seriously, that Paris nous appartient one is incredible. anyways...

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how dare you tease me like this!!!!!!!!! I would KILL for a loaded CC of this...the current disc is so underwhelmingly bland :(
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#845 Post by Cinephrenic »

Wow, you seem to have a hold on your craft through psychedelic drugs. =P~
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#846 Post by HistoryProf »

so does someone have a template for the whacky C and the criterion boxes along the side with the dates in them? what the font is for those and spine #s? I've been playing in photoshop but can't for the life of me properly do the C or get the boxes right on the side/spine.

actually...I'm sure i'm asking this in the wrong forum section...but wasn't sure where else to do it...My library occasionally sells some of their dvds, and I picked up Woman in the Dunes for $5 (the rest of the set was nowhere to be found though). Problem is that it's in a keep case with the cardboard cutout cover from the original case slid into it with nothing on the back...quite ugly. is there somewhere around this forum where I can get an image file to make a new cover? I realize such activities tend to be practiced by less than ethical folks...but there has to be some resource for those who don't like the digipacks and whatnot....any help out there?
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#847 Post by ship_destroyer »

HistoryProf wrote:so does someone have a template for the whacky C and the criterion boxes along the side with the dates in them? what the font is for those and spine #s? I've been playing in photoshop but can't for the life of me properly do the C or get the boxes right on the side/spine.
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and the font criterion uses along the spine is kartika, i believe.
sorry i can't really help with your other query.
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#848 Post by ship_destroyer »

^ i think he was using "um" in that case to imply that the proceeding images were proof of his non-five-year-old-acy. i also think it was pretty obvious. either way, here is a new cover from me. it's awful, but a kick ass movie. just picture it all glittery like the mishima set is.

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#849 Post by Stop Making Sense »

Just a quick one.

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#850 Post by DVDRam »

Stop Making Sense wrote:Just a quick one.

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Fantastic job! It's so refreshing to see the egg used that way, and with no dripping teeth alien looming. Your covers continue getting better and better.
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