Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol. 7

[Ribs]

45 Years

It's the glacier that's melting to reveal Tom Courtenay's first love encased in ice, the inciting event of the film

[tenia]

45 Years is a great cover if you know the context in the film.

It's not because it has context within the movie that it represents it properly. In this case, it's quite awful (partly already because it's actually pretty hard to distinguish what exactly it is).

As for the others, it's quite a mixed bag for me. I never liked the use of gigantic vertically stretched fonts so Blow-up is meh to me, I'm unsure about the face seemingly randomly cut in half for Canoa, then there's the cheap grainy close up and tons and tons of credits slapped on top of it for Multiple Maniacs, and the guy walking on air on his way to fly over a mansion for Being There.

[movielocke]

Why is the cover for 45 years a frozen vagina?

[aox]

Why is the cover for 45 years a frozen vagina?

thats what the movie is about

[cdnchris]

and the guy walking on air on his way to fly over a mansion for Being There.

Have you seen the film? Because it's more than suiting.

Also, it's the original poster and has actually been used in just about every home video release since the SelectaVision disc. The Warner Blu ray broke the tradition. I'm glad it's back and when I saw earlier that this was possibly being announced I had all sorts of horrible ideas as to what they were going to do.

[Never Cursed]

Being There and 45 Years look good (though the fonts on 45 Years are not good,) Blow-Up is simple but effective (as it seems to be one of those movies that will sell very well for Criterion,) Multiple Maniacs is okay and reflects the film itself, and Canoa is hideous and looks like someone messed around with custom Photoshop brushes.

[CSM126]

Being There is unsurprising but it could've been worse. I'd once had the horrible idea that they might make the cover a spoof of Rene Magritte's Son of Man with a TV instead of an apple. I'll take the same old poster art.

[zedz]

45 Years

It's the glacier that's melting to reveal Tom Courtenay's first love encased in ice, the inciting event of the film

Isn't it also a stylized view of Courtney's character over the shoulder from behind (white hair, blue / green face), possibly nuzzling into Rampling's shoulder (neckline visible on the left). I think it's an interesting, complicated idea that they haven't quite pulled off.

[Luke M]

I really like the covers for Blow-Up and Multiple Manaics. I think they both pulled it off.

[flyonthewall2983]

I love the Being There art. It's a little like a Supertramp album cover.

[oh yeah]

I believe the Being There art is what was on the original paperback, or certainly one of the most popular iterations. I think the super-old DVD had the same art but then the more recent Warner blu/DVD "deluxe edition" traded it for some ugly, glossy Sellers photoshop. Glad to see the original art restored, it reminds me of the style of a lot of book covers in the 70s and 80s.

[cdnchris]

I had/have the old DVD and VHS, and my dad had the RCA CDC and LaserDisc. They all used that art. The old Blu ray is the only release I know of that doesn't.

[cdnchris]

His Girl Friday

[mfunk9786]

Early contender for best packaging

[FrauBlucher]

My favorite "old Hollywood" cover.

[TheGodfather]

That's gorgeous

[cdnchris]

Something Wild
Fox and His Friends
Black Girl

[Ribs]

For a month where none of the covers really seemed like much of anything to me, all of these look absolutely fantastic in their cases.

[vidussoni]

Forgive me if this has been posted already, but I just saw this on IMDB.

[perkizitore]

Is swimminghorses back?

[domino harvey]

Come And, one of my favorites

[Cinephrenic]

One of the best anti-war films ever if there is such a thing.

[knives]

Presumably fan art?

[Murdoch]

I can't tell the difference anymore.

[Feego]

Is that cover art perhaps taken from Filmstruck or Criterion's old Hulu channel? I know Hulu used to feature mockups like that for titles that had not yet been announced for DVD/Blu release.