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

[Feego]

Fox and His Friends and Black Girl are terrific. I'm not quite sold on His Girl Friday. It's fair, and a good deal better than any of the classic Hollywood releases they've done in the last couple of years. But surely this still has to be the best old Hollywood cover Criterion has produced?

[Never Cursed]

I like them all, but I swear I recognize the fonts on Something Wild from another Criterion.

[mother sky]

I like them all, but I swear I recognize the fonts on Something Wild from another Criterion.

Maybe the Essential Arthouse series?

[swo17]

I like them all, but I swear I recognize the fonts on Something Wild from another Criterion.

Robert Drew's Kennedy films

[Luke M]

I love the cover for Black Girl. I was worried they'd go with an illustration.

[cdnchris]

McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Boyhood
The Executioner

[teddyleevin]

I like them all, but I swear I recognize the fonts on Something Wild from another Criterion.

Robert Drew's Kennedy films

Also not dissimilar to "Michael Haneke" on Code Unknown.

[cdnchris]

Pan's Labyrinth

[movielocke]

Breathless and 400 blows are re released as single format in November and January respectively


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[domino harvey]

Man, those movies are just a license for printing money for Criterion

[cdnchris]

Short Cuts

[xoconostle]

Man, those movies are just a license for printing money for Criterion

No doubt, but given that those films are deservedly canonical, that many of us don't want or need two formats per title, and most importantly, that we want Criterion to thrive, why not? :-)

[PfR73]

And yet they still won't take my money by issuing the Antoine Doinel boxset on Blu-Ray.

[cdnchris]

Lone Wolf and Cub
Punch-Drunk Love

[FrauBlucher]

Punch-Drunk Love

After looking at the cover over time and now the rest of the packaging, I've become a fan of the art work. I think it represents the film just fine.

[dwk]

Lone Wolf and Cub

Does this include the exploded diagram poster I mentioned in this post?

[cdnchris]

Unfortunately it doesn't.

[mfunk9786]

Punch-Drunk Love

After looking at the cover over time and now the rest of the packaging, I've become a fan of the art work. I think it represents the film just fine.

I feel like more often than not when a cover is controversial upon initial reveal, this is what ends up happening when the entirety of the packaging is available. (Remember Mishima?)

[tenia]

Sometimes, the colors are better in real life. Other times, it's better when part of the whole design rather than the front cover on its own.

[swo17]

Perhaps, but the DVD digipak with all the Jeremy Blake art was still better.

[dwk]

Unfortunately it doesn't.

Dang. Now how the hell am I supposed to craft a baby cart of death?

[Rupert Pupkin]

Lone Wolf and Cub

thanks cdnchris...

the main cover reminds me the work of French cartoonist Philippe Druillet (who is much more associated to the SF world...)

[cdnchris]

Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
One-Eyed Jacks
The Squid and the Whale

[ng4996]

Unfortunately it doesn't.

Dang. Now how the hell am I supposed to craft a baby cart of death?

Apparently the diagram is hidden in the spine of the release, in a "secret compartment".

[domino harvey]

Wow, I just checked and it is. Would never have spotted it otherwise, someone had to be tipped off about that, it is extremely well hidden