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

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sir_luke · #3476 Post by **sir_luke** » Mon Jul 15, 2024 9:04 pm

CSM126 wrote:I like how Gummo is just the iconic promo image done over to look like AGGRODR1FT. Korine probably got a chuckle out of that. They’re all lovely covers though.

Looks like it was designed by Joao Rosa, the creative director of EDGLRD, Korine’s “creative collective,” so seems to be very intentionally evocative. Surprised they didn’t swap out the bunny ears for a horned mask while they were at it!

bugsy_pal · #3477 Post by **bugsy_pal** » Wed Jul 17, 2024 2:03 am

I am absolutely stoked by the Lewton announcement. But I gotta say - that cover design is a bit of a dog's breakfast!

reaky · #3478 Post by **reaky** » Wed Jul 17, 2024 9:54 am

bugsy_pal wrote:I am absolutely stoked by the Lewton announcement. But I gotta say - that cover design is a bit of a dog's breakfast!

It does have the look of one of those cheapo genre double bill discs. I’d have preferred a single piece of art integrating elements from both films.

#3479 Post by **cdnchris** » Thu Aug 01, 2024 5:33 pm

The Last Emperor [4K] (Booklet)
Brief Encounters/The Long Farewell
Not a Pretty Picture
Real Life [4K]
Mother [4K]

Notes on the respective restorations can be found at the bottom of these pages:

The Last Emperor (I don't have the Arrow edition but it appears to be the same restoration they used)
Brief Encounters/The Long Farewell
Not a Pretty Picture
Real Life
Mother

dwk · #3480 Post by **dwk** » Thu Aug 01, 2024 5:44 pm

Kind of surprised that The Last Emperor isn't a digipak.

nicolas · #3481 Post by **nicolas** » Thu Aug 01, 2024 5:59 pm

cdnchris wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 5:33 pm The Last Emperor (I don't have the Arrow edition but it appears to be the same restoration they used)

Yes, this is the restoration that’s on Arrow & Turbine’s UHDs. They collaborated here again after Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Unfortunately Criterion have started reducing the transfer notes to the bare minimum last year, otherwise they’d have likely shared this. Restoration and grading was done by LSP in Germany.

PfR73 · #3482 Post by **PfR73** » Thu Aug 01, 2024 9:07 pm

nicolas wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 5:59 pm
cdnchris wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 5:33 pm The Last Emperor (I don't have the Arrow edition but it appears to be the same restoration they used)
Yes, this is the restoration that’s on Arrow & Turbine’s UHDs. They collaborated here again after Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Unfortunately Criterion have started reducing the transfer notes to the bare minimum last year, otherwise they’d have likely shared this. Restoration and grading was done by LSP in Germany.

I am confused; under the tech specs, the linked page states "HDR: HDR10 [Extended Version] , Dolby Vision [Extended Version] , HDR10 [Theatrical Version] , Dolby Vision [Theatrical Version]", but isn't the Extended Version only on Blu-ray and therefore wouldn't have HDR?

nicolas · #3483 Post by **nicolas** » Thu Aug 01, 2024 11:11 pm

PfR73 wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 9:07 pm
nicolas wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 5:59 pm
cdnchris wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 5:33 pm The Last Emperor (I don't have the Arrow edition but it appears to be the same restoration they used)
Yes, this is the restoration that’s on Arrow & Turbine’s UHDs. They collaborated here again after Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Unfortunately Criterion have started reducing the transfer notes to the bare minimum last year, otherwise they’d have likely shared this. Restoration and grading was done by LSP in Germany.
I am confused; under the tech specs, the linked page states "HDR: HDR10 [Extended Version] , Dolby Vision [Extended Version] , HDR10 [Theatrical Version] , Dolby Vision [Theatrical Version]", but isn't the Extended Version only on Blu-ray and therefore wouldn't have HDR?

The extended cut is BD only and SDR. I assume something was mixed up while listing the specs.

#3484 Post by **cdnchris** » Fri Aug 02, 2024 3:39 am

PfR73 wrote:
nicolas wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 5:59 pm
cdnchris wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 5:33 pm The Last Emperor (I don't have the Arrow edition but it appears to be the same restoration they used)
Yes, this is the restoration that’s on Arrow & Turbine’s UHDs. They collaborated here again after Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Unfortunately Criterion have started reducing the transfer notes to the bare minimum last year, otherwise they’d have likely shared this. Restoration and grading was done by LSP in Germany.
I am confused; under the tech specs, the linked page states "HDR: HDR10 [Extended Version] , Dolby Vision [Extended Version] , HDR10 [Theatrical Version] , Dolby Vision [Theatrical Version]", but isn't the Extended Version only on Blu-ray and therefore wouldn't have HDR?

It's a bug on my end bubthe looks of it. Sorry about that. The theatrical on 4K is the only one with HDR/Dolby Vision

#3485 Post by **swo17** » Thu Aug 15, 2024 4:22 pm

#3486 Post by **domino harvey** » Thu Aug 15, 2024 4:33 pm

That MS Paint Scarface cover is one of the worst pieces of shit I’ve ever seen

ryannichols7 · #3487 Post by **ryannichols7** » Thu Aug 15, 2024 4:40 pm

the new ones are generally all quite atrocious but Scarface is indeed a new low. looks beyond amateur

this reminds me of July...2022? when we got the cover art leaks and they were all such a joke I decided to believe them. being surrounded by this month, it's only all the more obvious just how good Seven Samurai remains

Grand Wazoo · #3488 Post by **Grand Wazoo** » Thu Aug 15, 2024 4:47 pm

Scarface looks like it could be a screen from that NES game Deja Vu

Boosmahn · #3489 Post by **Boosmahn** » Thu Aug 15, 2024 5:15 pm

I was going to say Funny Girl has the only good new cover, but it's not even original!

Paper Moon's cover is okay, though.

therewillbeblus · Thu Aug 15, 2024 5:17 pm

The shape of water is spoiled as flat by the cover, I want my money back

TechnicolorAcid · Thu Aug 15, 2024 5:23 pm

ryannichols7 wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2024 4:40 pm this reminds me of July...2022? when we got the cover art leaks and they were all such a joke I decided to believe them. being surrounded by this month, it's only all the more obvious just how good Seven Samurai remains

Don’t downplay how good that Godzilla cover is too but besides that yeah pretty bland covers this month and Scarface is shockingly bad especially from someone who designed The Circus cover which remains one of my favorites from the collection.

#3492 Post by **Finch** » Thu Aug 15, 2024 5:30 pm

Scarface immediately made me think of swimminghorses. The cover would have been fine without the filter on Muni and the background.

tenia · #3493 Post by **tenia** » Thu Aug 15, 2024 5:42 pm

domino harvey wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2024 4:33 pm That MS Paint Scarface cover is one of the worst pieces of shit I’ve ever seen

I originally came to say "oh my god, that Shape of Water cover is... something", but that was before I saw that garbage rubbish of a Scarface cover. Wow, just wow.

soundchaser · #3494 Post by **soundchaser** » Thu Aug 15, 2024 6:28 pm

Funny Girl is good (largely by virtue of just being solid existing art), the other new ones are middling to awful. Paper Moon might be my least-favorite just because of how bland it is compared to the film's iconic posters. Who is going to be sold on any of these films by these covers?

Jean-Luc Garbo · Thu Aug 15, 2024 6:33 pm

Did the same person do Paper Moon and Shape of Water? Like come on switch it up. I'm a little shocked they didn't commission an illustrator for the del Toro like they've done before.

DimitriL · #3496 Post by **DimitriL** » Thu Aug 15, 2024 6:40 pm

The Shape of Water was done by the great Greg Ruth, what?

Jean-Luc Garbo · Thu Aug 15, 2024 6:44 pm

I stand corrected. I was sure it was a film still!

dwk · #3498 Post by **dwk** » Thu Aug 15, 2024 7:06 pm

That has to be like the third time that a Greg Ruth cover was mistaken for a still.

Oh, that Scarface cover is inexcusably bad.

Kracker · #3499 Post by **Kracker** » Thu Aug 15, 2024 8:10 pm

Yeah sad that Scarface was the one that got the short straw this month. Cover definitely looks bad amongst the winners, both past and present.

Paper Moon is good, nice composition and use of space.

therewillbeblus · Fri Aug 16, 2024 3:56 am

The weird orange mark scribbled over Muni's face is hilarious in its juvenile attempts to fit the title, which is also written in typeface that would be attached to a screwball comedy. So it all fits together to insinuate a silly romp, except that's not what this movie is. Maybe Criterion's laziest and most misguided cover art yet

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