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

[mfunk9786]

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

[Murdoch]

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

[matrixschmatrix]

I was thinking Clint Howard

[Murdoch]

And now I see Howard too

[johnnysnatchclub7]

You can never unsee Clint Howard.


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[flyonthewall2983]

Hawke looks more like James Marsden here.

[Andre Jurieu]

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]

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]

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

[domino harvey]

Maybe the box set was sponsored by the Prisma app

[Minkin]

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]

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]

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

[knives]

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

[Rupert Pupkin]

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 (since they started with "La Cage aux Folles" everything is possible - and Emmanuelle Béart is so in this movie...)

[swo17]

[mfunk9786]

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

[Ribs]

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]

45 Years is abysmal

Literally.

[Apperson]

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

[mfunk9786]

That doesn't fix the fonts

[Shrew]

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]

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

[knives]

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

[swo17]

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