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

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#2451 Post by starmanof51 » Fri Jul 16, 2021 1:16 pm

bakofalltrades wrote:
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Perhaps the cheese stands alone here, but I definitely did not like the old Onibaba cover. Don’t really care much about the new one either, honestly, but am surprised by the affinity for the old cover.
Love the movie, have always disliked the DVD cover. This is somewhat better.

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#2452 Post by knives » Fri Jul 16, 2021 2:03 pm

barbarella satyricon wrote:
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knives wrote:
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Thematically that works out well though.
It’s been some years since I watched the film, but can’t really see how it would relate thematically? I remember it mainly as a sci-fi adventure type deal with a
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cosmologically philosophical trick ending?
The film has traditionally been viewed as a metaphor for the death of identity in the ‘50s so a faceless hanging victim is a good way to express that idea.

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#2453 Post by cdnchris » Sat Jul 17, 2021 10:14 pm

Mirror (Digipak + Booklet)
Bringing Up Baby (Booklet)
Deep Cover
Working Girls (Booklet)
La piscine

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#2454 Post by barbarella satyricon » Sat Jul 17, 2021 10:20 pm

Bringing Up Baby is perfect in its way. Everything together looks great. Mirror is pretty great-looking too!

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#2455 Post by Boosmahn » Sun Jul 18, 2021 12:53 am

The leopard tail and leopard-patterned spine are great. My Best Packaging vote might go to it just for those. :P

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#2456 Post by FrauBlucher » Wed Aug 11, 2021 2:08 pm

I wonder if they will have alternate packaging for the UHD.

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#2457 Post by domino harvey » Mon Aug 16, 2021 12:57 pm

Wow, Kane is an all time worst

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#2458 Post by soundchaser » Mon Aug 16, 2021 12:58 pm

We’re definitely missing something for the Kane set (probably a fold-out in some way?), but I agree that it doesn’t really excite as is.

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#2459 Post by Pavel » Mon Aug 16, 2021 1:00 pm

There's definitely a gimmick to the Kane packaging, but regardless it's sort of astonishing how awful it is.

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#2460 Post by FrauBlucher » Mon Aug 16, 2021 1:00 pm

domino harvey wrote:
Mon Aug 16, 2021 12:57 pm
Wow, Kane is an all time worst
Here I’m thinking don’t let it be a cartoonish cover. I would take that now

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#2461 Post by swo17 » Mon Aug 16, 2021 1:00 pm

Ahem...

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#2462 Post by domino harvey » Mon Aug 16, 2021 1:01 pm

Imagine taking a film known for being one of the most visually interesting and influential films of all time, and honoring it by primarily putting a single letter of typeface on the cover

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#2463 Post by FrauBlucher » Mon Aug 16, 2021 1:03 pm

I do like the La Strada cover

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#2464 Post by Boosmahn » Mon Aug 16, 2021 1:06 pm

I get what they're going for with Citizen Kane, but it's still really bad. I wonder if they'll change it if the backlash is strong enough (a la The Tree of Life).

At least Once Upon a Time in China looks good. That "II" in Menance II Society bothers me, but maybe that was chosen in 1993 because there are two main characters (and two "menaces" to society?). I haven't seen the film yet, as you can probably tell.

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#2465 Post by Pavel » Mon Aug 16, 2021 1:06 pm

I love how Kane is like the biggest solo release in recent memory and got the most low-effort cover in recent (and not so much) memory

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#2466 Post by geoffcowgill » Mon Aug 16, 2021 1:09 pm

The Kane cover looks like the "go back a chapter" button on a remote.


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#2468 Post by domino harvey » Mon Aug 16, 2021 1:12 pm

geoffcowgill wrote:
Mon Aug 16, 2021 1:09 pm
The Kane cover looks like the "go back a chapter" button on a remote.
Ha, it does!

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#2469 Post by senseabove » Mon Aug 16, 2021 1:13 pm

Anyone else just... not seeing the new titles? I see the "November Titles Announced" splash, but when I click it, I only see last month's titles. I can search for upgraded titles and they show up, but new titles do not...

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#2470 Post by Pavel » Mon Aug 16, 2021 1:15 pm

Go to the bottom of the page (if the issue is what I think it is)

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#2471 Post by Ribs » Mon Aug 16, 2021 1:16 pm

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#2472 Post by senseabove » Mon Aug 16, 2021 1:18 pm

Doh! Did the sort order reverse for everybody, or did I just click that at some point and forget about/not realize it?

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#2473 Post by movielocke » Mon Aug 16, 2021 1:19 pm

Wow, The Citizen Kane cover is probably the worst cover they've done in at least five or six years--if not much longer. what a spectacular failure on that point.

the rest of the edition looks remarkable.

I find it stunning that neither MIIS or CK are getting DVD releases, considering both would be bought by libraries that have long since weeded earlier editions out. (thought it's probably more likely that CK doesn't get weeded because of its status, or still circulates enough that it doesn't get weeded).

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#2474 Post by domino harvey » Mon Aug 16, 2021 1:20 pm

senseabove wrote:
Mon Aug 16, 2021 1:18 pm
Doh! Did the sort order reverse for everybody, or did I just click that at some point and forget about/not realize it?
I had the same trouble at first, I think they recently switched it

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#2475 Post by FrauBlucher » Mon Aug 16, 2021 1:25 pm

New Cover by Mike McQuade...why?

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