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

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#151 Post by **mfunk9786** » Tue Dec 13, 2016 3:56 pm

Are we really evaluating things based on what grade they'd get in a college art class

Murdoch · #152 Post by **Murdoch** » Tue Dec 13, 2016 4:12 pm

The artist seems to have had a tough time with Hawke's face. In Midnight's cover I keep seeing Peter Dinklage...

matrixschmatrix · Tue Dec 13, 2016 4:18 pm

I was thinking Clint Howard

Murdoch · #154 Post by **Murdoch** » Tue Dec 13, 2016 4:22 pm

And now I see Howard too

johnnysnatchclub7 · Tue Dec 13, 2016 4:34 pm

You can never unsee Clint Howard.

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flyonthewall2983 · Tue Dec 13, 2016 6:23 pm

swo17 wrote:

Hawke looks more like James Marsden here.

Andre Jurieu · #157 Post by **Andre Jurieu** » Tue Dec 13, 2016 6:43 pm

flyonthewall2983 wrote:Hawke looks more like James Marsden here.

Hopefully, Criterion will release Linklater's director's cut, where Jesse keeps getting killed off repeatedly like some sort of android caught in a narrative loop he's unable to escape from. Delpy kind of looks like she could be Evan Rachel Wood's aunt from France.

Brian C · #158 Post by **Brian C** » Tue Dec 13, 2016 7:18 pm

mfunk9786 wrote:Are we really evaluating things based on what grade they'd get in a college art class

You're right - since they look like they were made for a junior high art class, they should be graded accordingly.

Never Cursed · #159 Post by **Never Cursed** » Tue Dec 13, 2016 10:26 pm

I guess the Worst Cover award next year is going to be a four-way tie.

#160 Post by **domino harvey** » Wed Dec 14, 2016 12:18 am

Maybe the box set was sponsored by the Prisma app

Minkin · #161 Post by **Minkin** » Wed Dec 14, 2016 1:05 am

There's clearly a stylistic choice behind the increasingly detailed drawings of the two mains. I'll assume that Criterion will post one of their "Criterion Designs" articles to try and win/convince people of that. That said, I think the outer box looks awful and I'm not sure if it would exactly draw the attention of any newcomers.

flyonthewall2983 · Wed Dec 14, 2016 5:06 am

Ishmael wrote:Er... why is the sun already well up in the sky in Before Sunrise?

Down to the last minute it was between that and this

Minkin · #163 Post by **Minkin** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 3:02 am

Janus poster for Marseille Trilogy; thus a 50/50 chance it will end up as the eventual boxset cover:

knives · #164 Post by **knives** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 4:44 am

Now if only they pick up his amazing comedy Le schpountz I'll be content for the year.

Rupert Pupkin · #165 Post by **Rupert Pupkin** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 7:07 am

Andre Jurieu wrote:
flyonthewall2983 wrote:Hawke looks more like James Marsden here.
Hopefully, Criterion will release Linklater's director's cut, where Jesse keeps getting killed off repeatedly like some sort of android caught in a narrative loop he's unable to escape from. Delpy kind of looks like she could be Evan Rachel Wood's aunt from France.

well and on the painting cover of "Before Sunrise" (which I like) Julie Delpy's nose looks a bit like Emmanuelle Béart from her Manon des sources years (I almost can hear her "pili pli" when she was calling the goats..)..
I won't complain about that... By the way, if Criterion could release on blu-ray another Edouard Molinaro movie, please release "A Gauche en sortant de l'ascenseur"... this is a [-o< (since they started with "La Cage aux Folles" everything is possible - and Emmanuelle Béart is so

in this movie...)

#166 Post by **swo17** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 9:02 pm

#167 Post by **mfunk9786** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 9:03 pm

Being There and Multiple Maniacs are pretty good, 45 Years is abysmal, the rest are somewhere in-between

Ribs · #168 Post by **Ribs** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 9:04 pm

Best month for covers in forever. Being There and 45 Years both just fantastic, Blow-up great. Not a big fan of the other two but I'm not totally against them.

sir_luke · #169 Post by **sir_luke** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 9:10 pm

mfunk9786 wrote:45 Years is abysmal

Literally.

Apperson · #170 Post by **Apperson** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 9:24 pm

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

#171 Post by **mfunk9786** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 9:39 pm

That doesn't fix the fonts

Shrew · #172 Post by **Shrew** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 9:50 pm

45 Years reminds me of the occasional swimminghorses cover where he had a good idea ruined by his uniquely shoddy use of fonts and placement.

Blow-up is a great update to a classic design.

JabbaTheSlut · #173 Post by **JabbaTheSlut** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 9:56 pm

45 Years cover is as semi-good as the film.

knives · #174 Post by **knives** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 10:13 pm

I just don't get it. Is that ice cream? Seems like a good way to turn off an audience.

#175 Post by **swo17** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 10:17 pm

knives wrote:I just don't get it. Is that ice cream? Seems like a good way to turn off an audience.

Looks like bedsheets that open up into a cave

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