Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.4

[reno dakota]

Also, is it just me, or does the year of release tab say "1955"?

It does. And the tab on the new Seventh Seal cover still says "1976".

[swo17]

It's not that bad. It's actually kind of okay, if not creative.

Typical vain knife comment.

[CSM126]

I quite like the image they chose for Andre, but the completely illegible text is a disaster. Wouldn't it make more sense to use a font that looks like what they'd use for a menu in a restaurant? Something clean, sleek and sophisticated? The mess they used looks like a splatter from spilled soup, not letters.

[Antoine Doinel]

The new Andre cover is terrible, but I guess they're trying to stay consistent for the month.

[CSM126]

I'm also appalled by the fact that they've made the Marienbad cover even more legible and thrown the Wacky C/tab on there. It should be moving the other way and becoming completely blank. Have some balls.

[cdnchris]

That's actually what I figured the cover would look like. Sorry for getting your hopes up with the other one.

[tholly]

I also like the image, but don't like the text, as others have said.

[Jean-Luc Garbo]

I had a dream that the cover for My Dinner With Andre was done by the guy who did the Amarcord one. This one is not as bad as I'd feared, but it's not too imaginative either. It's like they tried to castrate the fun in the movie.

[domino harvey]

The Amaracord artist was female, but like I said somewhere on here, I too imagined a comic artist for the film's cover. The only good thing about this new cover is the text, and you guys won't even let that stand. Criterion, I know you're reading-- Change. It. Back.

[jaredsap]

Criterion changed the BEN BUTTON art. I'm a fan of the subtle tweaking, though it's still a little unclear to me how many discs this edition contains.

[kaujot]

Perhaps your joking tone is lost on me?

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The Amaracord artist was female, but like I said somewhere on here, I too imagined a comic artist for the film's cover. The only good thing about this new cover is the text, and you guys won't even let that stand. Criterion, I know you're reading-- Change. It. Back.

I actually like the text. I just wish they hadn't used the same style on plenty of other releases already.

[cdnchris]

He's pointing at the temp art that was up before. Paramount had actually said a while ago the film was being released on DVD and Blu-ray May 5th (just not that it was going to be a Criterion title) and that temp art showed up on Amazon.

[domino harvey]

My fault for not using the quote button, but I was actually talking about Andre, as the Amazon art for Button features the common studio temp font

[kaujot]

It was my confusion, Domino, not yours.

[mfunk9786]

I'll admit it: I like the new Andre cover better.

[domino harvey]

Did anyone ever mention the similarity between the original (superior) cover and



?

[geoffcowgill]

My Dinner With Lonesome, now that would be a movie!

[Dr. Snaut]

On a good note, I am looking forward to seeing the Jean Painleve box set. It should turn Criterion fan's frowns upside down.

[TheGodfather]

Wow that new Andre cover is horrible ](*,)
Why the hell change it? I thought it was good the way it was...

[a.khan]

Because with 'dinner' in the film's title, there just had to be a plate, knife, fork, napkin -- otherwise, the buying public might be confused.

Criterion's art department argued the same logic for the cover of The Curious Case of Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.

It's tough running a business these days, guys; we wouldn't understand.

[karltmc]

That new My Dinner with Andre cover is so terrible it makes me cry.

[mfunk9786]

I have a question about the packaging of [House of Games] DVD. When I got my copy (which I purchased new, with the Criterion sticker on the shrink wrap), the insert was put in the slipcase so that when you open the case, the disc is on the left side and the booklet was upside-down on the right. I assumed this was intentional (it seems very clever, and fitting with the film's theme of trickery), but when I told some other people about it, they were convinced it was a packaging glitch.

Does anybody else have a copy with the reversed/upside down packaging?

I had the same thing happen with Missing. I think if the majority of the artwork, etc is on the back of the booklet, they do this.

[HerrSchreck]

Holy broccanoli-- that question was asked like fifteen thread pages back, in dec '08!

Mfunk, took a dunk, through a chunk, of thread gunk.

[LQ]

Because I have a vested interest in mfunk's defense, and so he doesn't look like a total fool, I'll simply state that some mod must've moved his post from another thread to this one today. Earlier, I noticed both h-double's post and mfunk's (albeit delayed) response in the House of Games thread.


I like the little ditty very much, though

[HerrSchreck]

Oh no-- no no.. apologies if it made mfunk look in any way bad. There's nothing wrong whatsoever in going back through a thread or catching up on a topic, or remembering a comment from awhile ago because something that just happened to you triggered the memory of it (which is what I figured was the case in Mr Funk's case).

That was just me being bored and riffing with worthless wordplay to keep the devil out of my idle mind. No snaps intended, I assue you.

(and to prove that Monsieur Funk is well-enough regarded hereabouts, the mod who made the text move, who happens to be one of the most thoroughly right guys on the web, slipped me a PM letting me know of the move).

Tempest inna teacup. Back to biz, all......