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

[Finch]

The previous artwork was better (a combination of the old cover with the font of the new one would have been perfect) but I still like this cover even if I'm struggling to make sense of it.

[godardslave]

thin red line 9/10
2 thumbs up!
Its a great cover, worth the wait, best since marienbad!
I am still hoping for a digi for this also.

[aox]

This is a magnificent cover and interesting concept. I love that it looks like an open book. This is so much better than the terrible concept art before. Cover of the year? Definitely in the running.

[Murdoch]

I like it enough, just because anything is better than the last one.

[TMDaines]

I love that it looks like an open book.

It doesn't though as the picture on the cover doesn't follow the curve of the page.

[aox]

I love that it looks like an open book.

It doesn't though as the picture on the cover doesn't follow the curve of the page.

Then, magazine?

Perhaps it is my shitty work monitor, but from here is seems to. It gets darker in the correct places. I am focusing on the open spine anyway.

[Matt]

Jesus Christ, how difficult would it have been to make the line red?

Everybody rails against the obviousness of The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus, but why is the The Thin Red Line not red?

It's also not very thin.

[Cinephrenic]

Amazing.

[flyonthewall2983]

I like it better than the other rumored covers. On it's own, I'm not crazy about it.

[Svevan]

Jesus Christ, how difficult would it have been to make the line red?

Thank God thank God that the line isn't red. I just regret that there's a line at all - although without it, what a boring cover. I'm mostly positive on it I guess.

[Brian C]

I can dig it.

[willoneill]

It's quite stupid, to be frank ... but I could care less. I love the film (the most important part), and 95% of the time all anyone would see is the spine anyway.

[fdm]

I think stupid is pretty fitting. Doesn't work for me at all.

[eljacko]

I don't personally care for it much at all, but like a lot of Criterion covers I would have to see how it works as a package (Mishima springs to mind immediately).

I don't know if this kind of design would work very well with this cover, but it reminds me of some Korean special edition DVD sets I have which open in halves - the front cover is split down the middle to open the case. It would be a lot of extra design work that I doubt Criterion would trouble themselves with, but it would make for an interesting package design nonetheless.

[Tribe]

Jesus Christ, how difficult would it have been to make the line red?

Everybody rails against the obviousness of The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus, but why is the The Thin Red Line not red?

It's also not very thin.

But I think the consensus is that it is a line.

[JAP]

That cover is beautiful. Maybe not as beautiful as a "rosy-fingered dawn" but above average for sure. I just hope this doesn't turn into another A Christmas Tale...

[CrazedCollector]

This new cover caught me off guard - not sure if I like it one way or the other. Maybe it'll grow on me? But surprising, all the same.

[Fesapo]

Everybody rails against the obviousness of The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus, but why is the The Thin Red Line not red?

It's also not very thin.

Parts of the red letters H, R, and N - which are all lined up evenly - are obscured by the line/page crease, making it a very "thin red line" indeed.

[godardslave]

Everybody rails against the obviousness of The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus, but why is the The Thin Red Line not red?

It's also not very thin.

Parts of the red letters H, R, and N - which are all lined up evenly - are obscured by the line/page crease, making it a very "thin red line" indeed.

[-X

We need someone to scientifically and precisely measure the thickness (or should that be thinness) of the line.
Then we need to have 3 pages of debate about what measurement a line must be less than to be defined as thin.
Then everyone who posted in those 3 pages needs to go outside their house more often.

[cdnchris]

Secret of the Grain Blu-ray

[Brian C]

Secret of the Grain Blu-ray

Well ... that'll stand out on the shelf, anyway.

[Duncan Hopper]

Another book cover.

[HistoryProf]

I guess I should be shocked that the reaction is so overwhelmingly negative here, considering I think it's absolutely stunning....but then again what would this thread be without all the grousing? Personally, I love it...I think it captures the beauty of the film perfectly. Whether the line remains perfectly creased to the bottom makes no difference at all to my eye....the entire composition is almost ethereal...somehow making war and explosions meditative. Amazing work.

now back to your regularly scheduled whining.

[HistoryProf]

Jesus Christ, how difficult would it have been to make the line red?

so everyone could bitch about how obvious that is? Like everyone did with the RED shoes and BLACK narcissus? there is no pleasing this crowd!

[HistoryProf]

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EDITED BY MATT: Wow, what a great cover! Three cheers for the Criterion art department!

quoted just so this work of art can be atop page 130 too