Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol. 7
- Feego
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To be honest, the Bringing Up Baby cover has grown on me, but I wish they had picked better images of Grant and Hepburn. I've always been partial to this still:
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LOLAmazing Goose wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 3:14 pmI haven't see the film, so it may be a perfect choice but I'm always going to see The Mirror cover in this context:
https://www.reddit.com/r/criterion/comm ... &context=3
Actually, I wonder what the approval process is like for titles like this? I know on some titles where the director is still among us and involved with the reissue, Criterion will get a handful of designs with a ton of variations on each one (like imagine six different designs with something like four or five different variations of each), and they'll get the director's input on which one they like. In this case, I guess it's just an in-house decision and they run it by the rights owners (who basically just make sure there's nothing ridiculous or scandalous about the chosen design).
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any idea if "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" will be a digipack or a standard keepcase ?
- dwk
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High picture on Amazon looks like a standard Scanavo case.
- yoloswegmaster
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No digipacks for Memories of Murder or Irma Vep:
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Criterion has actually updated the Deep Cover cover to make the money design more period-appropriate. Hilariously, even though they tweaked all but two of the bills, the one in the lower right-hand corner still sports the anachronistic seal and looks mirrored.
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is "Ace In The Hole" a digipack for a single-Blu-Ray now or a Scanavo ? (initially this was a combo DVD/Blu-Ray)
I wonder if they still kept the digipack packaging which looks really nice.
I wonder if they still kept the digipack packaging which looks really nice.
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So apologies for being so late on these, but here are April's titles:
Masculin féminin
The Furies
History is Made at Night
Memories of Murder
Irma Vep
Hopefully won't be an issue for May's.
Masculin féminin
The Furies
History is Made at Night
Memories of Murder
Irma Vep
Hopefully won't be an issue for May's.
- omegadirective
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This is awesome that they still include the novel for The Furies.
I have the original DVD release, so I already have the book, but I noticed that some reissues don't include the novel like The Man Who Fell to Earth's blu ray release.
I wonder if a blu ray release of Short Cuts or a solo blu ray release of Picnic at Hanging Rock will include the book.
I have the original DVD release, so I already have the book, but I noticed that some reissues don't include the novel like The Man Who Fell to Earth's blu ray release.
I wonder if a blu ray release of Short Cuts or a solo blu ray release of Picnic at Hanging Rock will include the book.
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If I'm not mistaken, the lack of book in some re-releases are because of contractual issues, si I guess as long as there's a deal with the publishers, Criterion will include the novels.
- dwk
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Short Cuts is on Blu-ray and it does not have the book. The DVD release lost the book due to rights expiring long before the Blu-ray happened, so that wasn't surprising.
Picnic at Hanging Rock Blu-ray only release did drop the novel.
Picnic at Hanging Rock Blu-ray only release did drop the novel.
- omegadirective
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Well then I am very grateful I still have those original editions!
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Trances (Poster insert)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Booklet)
Merrily We Go to Hell (Insert)
Flowers of Shanghai (Booklet)
Nightmare Alley (Insert and a surprise)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Booklet)
Merrily We Go to Hell (Insert)
Flowers of Shanghai (Booklet)
Nightmare Alley (Insert and a surprise)
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The Flowers of Shanghai cover, as illustrative art, is attractive enough. But it also feels just completely disconnected from the tone and the textures of the film itself, which, in my mind’s eye and memory, is a truly immersive and enveloping filmed representation of an unfilmable historical past, filled with tactility and depth in its images. This illustration, on the other hand, looks like a lot of well-arranged layers rendered cleanly. These kinds of posts are like yelling into the void, yes, but there it is.
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- Apperson
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I mean... these are all terrible right? I don't just have poor artistic taste?
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Yeah, sure whatever. It’s all objective anyway, right?
- therewillbeblus
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I'm pretty indifferent to all of them. Original Cast Album: Company and Ashes and Diamonds looks just fine to me, and the aesthetic choices on the others are understandable even if maybe underwhelming for some
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I like the Company cover. One of their better "event poster" style covers, which they also used for their previous Pennebaker release. Happy to see the film coming, it's very fun. I never got around to seeing Beasts of No Nation but the cover makes sense. Having never seen After Life, I'm not sure I fully understand what they were going for (even though I do know what the film is about). Ashes and Diamons has an interesting apocalyptic vibe
- therewillbeblus
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Yeah, I don't know how else you create a cover for Beasts of No Nation- put the emphasis on Elba and not the kid, or the horrific violence? It's a perfect decision for a cover, just not a particularly interesting one.
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They’re all fine. There’s nothing horrendous
- Apperson
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I think what did it for me is how flat they all are, Beasts of No Nation and After Life especially.
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After Life is terrible in its bland thoughtlessness
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I like the Company cover a lot; it's definitely of a piece with the show's original poster. (Although I'd like it more if the silhouettes didn't have orange drop shadows.)