Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol. 6

[tenia]

That seems more likely. Maybe they weren't finished when the pic was taken?

That would be my guess : they made the picture before having produced the final packaging and used that instead.

[dwk]

Paul Pope's LW&C art now with inks


plus a little Daigoro

[Ribs]

Isn't it a little weird that we've just been getting like proper full art reveals the past few months? I can't recall a time *before* Carnival of Souls that it's happened and now we've had four in five months!

[domino harvey]

The Executioner is cover of the year

[Ribs]

Boyhood probably going to be the worst of the year though

[Ribs]

Weird the GDT trilogy has two different covers.

[cdnchris]

The one for The Executioner may be one of my all time favourites.

[Cinephrenic]

Is that Pan's Vagina?

[Newsnayr]

Guessing that the Blu-Ray version of the Del Toro set will be digipaks to accommodate the hardcover book.

[Graphist]

Will the same happen if and when they release Polanski’s The Tenant for example, as part of the Apartment Trilogy? Or Cocteau’s Orphic Trilogy?

[colinr0380]

I guess its just that they're his more 'personal mythology' trilogy compared to the US films which are part of franchises and/or based on existing material? It is slightly difficult as you could make a case for The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth both being period pieces dealing abstractly with the Spanish Civil War, while Cronos is more contemporary. But they have a lot of the same preoccupations otherwise, particularly the wisdom, courage and credulity of children against the somewhat cruel duplicity of adults.

On Boyhood, I think the cover is great for expanding the idea of following someone aging out to the entire family, not just the boy. That's an example of trying to reframe the film into something wider than it was originally marketed as.

Its a great month overall for covers. The Tree of Wooden Clogs might potentially get lost in this, but deserves a commendation too! (Outside of The Executioner it is really a child-experience focused month of releases!)

[The Narrator Returns]

I think I'm too amused by the fact that Ellar Coltrane doesn't even get to completely age like the other cast members because of the Blu-Ray sticker covering his final look in the film.

[domino harvey]

Weird the GDT trilogy has two different covers.

The one without the Blu-Ray sticker is the DVD set

[Ribs]

Weird the GDT trilogy has two different covers.

The one without the Blu-Ray sticker is the DVD set

Yeah, but it seems a very strange expense to have two covers commissioned all the same - unless they're just going to use that art for the book's cover or something, in which case I still don't really see why the editions should be different.

[domino harvey]

The DVD set doesn't have the book

[colinr0380]

I think I'm too amused by the fact that Ellar Coltrane doesn't even get to completely age like the other cast members because of the Blu-Ray sticker covering his final look in the film.

That's the final evolved form of the cinephile! Either that or its a homage to the Laughing Man from the Ghost In The Shell series!

(Or it just would have covered someone's face wherever it was placed!)

[mfunk9786]

Wow, that Boyhood cover is a travesty.

[Ribs]

The DVD set doesn't have the book

Yeah, so they might be re-purposing the art for the cover of the book in the BD set. I just don't see why they shouldn't be consistent and have it look the same for all editions.

[Finch]

Dodgy font for The Tree of Wooden Clogs but a fine cover otherwise. The Executioner cover is wonderful.

[Luke M]

Boyhood doesn't work and I think because it's gives the impression that the movie is about film, tape, or filmmaking.

The rest are quite good. I always liked the Short Cuts cover and I'm happy to see them keep it.

[FakeBonanza]

Guessing that the Blu-Ray version of the Del Toro set will be digipaks to accommodate the hardcover book.

I'd say that the blu-ray will almost definitely be a digipak, since the essays from the individual releases will be integrated into the hardcover book.

It seems to make quite a lot of sense to use artwork more consistent with the individual releases for the DVDs box, while creating a more unique packaging for the blu-ray set, which would better exploit the digipak format.

[Roger Ryan]

Boyhood doesn't work and I think because it's gives the impression that the movie is about film, tape, or filmmaking.

Have to disagree about the Boyhood cover which I think is superb and far more representative than the original poster art (which became the cover for the Paramount release). The photos are taken from "Boyhood: Twelve Year on Film", a coffee table book containing portrait photos of the cast members as they aged during the shooting of the feature.

[Emak-Bakia]

Yeah, I think the Boyhood cover is great. That's clearly 35mm film for still photography (see the numbers identifying each frame along the edges.) It's a contact sheet. We even see Mason working in the darkroom in the film, so the cover works as a sort of intratextual object. And, of course, it's a clever representation - in a single image - of the the process of aging.

[Feego]

This is a rare month where I enjoy all of the covers -- the one exception being the DVD Del Toro cover, but I don't mind since, if I were to buy it, I wouldn't be buying the DVD set anyway.

[movielocke]

Boyhood and the DVD set cover are probably the two best of the month.

I think this is criterion first HC book in a box set. I imagine they are experimenting with a new style of box. The DVD set will get the usual flimsy cardboard of all their box sets, while the bluray set will get a stiffer thicker cardboard like the arrow battles without honor or humanity set. Both sets will house the normal keepcases of the respective DVD or bluray releases. I can't imagine they will go to the immense expense of manufacturing digipacks for cronos or devils backbone. So like the whit stillman or Wallace Shawn set, these will both be keep case boxes.