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

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#176 Post by Ribs » Thu Dec 15, 2016 6:21 pm

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

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#177 Post by tenia » Thu Dec 15, 2016 6:26 pm

Apperson wrote: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.

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#178 Post by movielocke » Thu Dec 15, 2016 6:44 pm

Why is the cover for 45 years a frozen vagina?

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#179 Post by aox » Thu Dec 15, 2016 6:51 pm

movielocke wrote:Why is the cover for 45 years a frozen vagina?
thats what the movie is about

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#180 Post by cdnchris » Thu Dec 15, 2016 6:54 pm

tenia wrote: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.

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#181 Post by Never Cursed » Thu Dec 15, 2016 6:55 pm

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.

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#182 Post by CSM126 » Thu Dec 15, 2016 7:08 pm

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.

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#183 Post by zedz » Thu Dec 15, 2016 9:44 pm

Ribs wrote:
45 YearsShow
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.

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#184 Post by Luke M » Fri Dec 16, 2016 12:28 am

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

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#185 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Fri Dec 16, 2016 12:06 pm

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

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#186 Post by oh yeah » Fri Dec 16, 2016 8:04 pm

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.

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#187 Post by cdnchris » Fri Dec 16, 2016 8:12 pm

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.

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#189 Post by mfunk9786 » Wed Dec 28, 2016 2:13 am

Early contender for best packaging

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#190 Post by FrauBlucher » Wed Dec 28, 2016 11:01 am

My favorite "old Hollywood" cover.

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#191 Post by TheGodfather » Thu Dec 29, 2016 12:20 pm

That's gorgeous


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#193 Post by Ribs » Sun Jan 01, 2017 12:35 pm

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.

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#194 Post by vidussoni » Mon Jan 16, 2017 4:21 pm

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

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#195 Post by perkizitore » Mon Jan 16, 2017 4:57 pm

Is swimminghorses back? :P

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#196 Post by domino harvey » Mon Jan 16, 2017 5:02 pm

Come And, one of my favorites

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#197 Post by Cinephrenic » Mon Jan 16, 2017 8:17 pm

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

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#198 Post by knives » Mon Jan 16, 2017 8:24 pm

Presumably fan art?

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#199 Post by Murdoch » Mon Jan 16, 2017 8:26 pm

I can't tell the difference anymore.

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#200 Post by Feego » Mon Jan 16, 2017 8:36 pm

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.

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