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klee13
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#278 Post by klee13 »

Thank you for the comments again, everyone.
In response to the comment about the text, yes that occurred to me. When I was making it I was having trouble selecting a font that I felt related to the film in some way. I was already aware of the font on the IE cover, and I began to think about the designer's rationale for choosing it. Both the character of writer and the decaying environment of the zone are expressed in the font and having thought about it for a while I decided that it was the font that was the most interconnected meaning-wise with the film itself.
As for the charcoal comment, Herr smartypants, the original picture actually looks like that. It is taken from the black-and white segment of the film. The only changes I made were blur affects on the edges so that it blended with the color background better.
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#279 Post by sidehacker »

Pretty good Stalker cover, but perhaps you should have incorporated bright yellow into the design somewhere. Make everything a bit more pixelated, too.

But seriously, good stuff.
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miless
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#280 Post by miless »

I've always loved this French poster for Stalker:

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Kinsayder
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#281 Post by Kinsayder »

miless wrote:I've always loved this French poster for Stalker:
Too subtle. It needs a giant exploding head to really sell it.
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#282 Post by kaujot »

I think the poster is gorgeous except for the dog in the door. I dunno why. It just don't completely work.
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klee13
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#283 Post by klee13 »

May very well be what we actually get:
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portnoy
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#284 Post by portnoy »

i was bored and had 20 minutes to waste. here's one i'd like to see get a dvd release at any point in the future, but the potential for extras from a criterion disc would be huge:

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#285 Post by jaredsap »

Klaylock wrote:May very well be what we actually get
With a ravishingly shot film, in which a blow-up of every other frame would make a good poster or DVD cover, that was the best they could do. The mind reels.
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#286 Post by domino harvey »

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Looks perfect to me. 8-)
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#287 Post by luridedith »

My dream criterion releases hideously photoshopped (prepare your eyes):

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miless
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#288 Post by miless »

I saw that Lesbians on Acid video years ago and it still makes me laugh. Les-beans, pure fucking comic gold!
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#289 Post by Feego »

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#290 Post by Badering »

Just made this for fun.

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#291 Post by Cinephrenic »

That's nice!
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#292 Post by portnoy »

goofin around:

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#293 Post by Cinephrenic »

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#294 Post by Knappen »

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Kinsayder
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#295 Post by Kinsayder »

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Gloria Grahame seems to have her breasts on upside-down.
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#296 Post by HerrSchreck »

Kinsayder wrote:Gloria Grahame seems to have her breasts on upside-down.
Either that or she has two duplicates of her nose inside her sweater.
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#297 Post by Oggilby »

Just an idea of a Criterion set that could have all the miscellany that wouldn't really belong as extras for his main films (like The Merchant of Venice, his 1979 TV special, The Deep, footage from The Dreamers and Moby Dick, etc.)

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M
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#298 Post by M »

Kind of a dirty-sounding title. Plus, Orson Welles has a faintly menacing expression on his face there. I don't know that I want to see inside.
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#299 Post by kaujot »

That's exactly why I want to see inside.
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Kinsayder
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#300 Post by Kinsayder »

It's full of country goodness and green pea-ness.
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