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

[Matt]

Good thing they didn't go with an illustrated version of this cover, it might have ended up something like this.

[oldsheperd]

That would have been awesome. The first interactive cover.
Find six differences between these two pictures!

[justeleblanc]

That would have been awesome. The first interactive cover.
Find six differences between these two pictures!

I also love People magazine!

[oldsheperd]

It's like Highlights for Criterion Collectors

[Antoine Doinel]

Gallant appreciates the cover art for what it is; Goofus complains without mercy on the internet.

[Des Esseintes]

Okay....while we're on the topic, what's with the comma after 23? It's an address, right? No need for a comma between the address number and the street. I like the cover as a whole (though I agree Criterion's done too many horizontal split covers recently) but I thought I'd point that out.

[ehimle]

JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES

that's how its spelt on their website... looks like mulvaney might need be informed of misplaced commas....

[reno dakota]

Okay....while we're on the topic, what's with the comma after 23? It's an address, right? No need for a comma between the address number and the street. I like the cover as a whole (though I agree Criterion's done too many horizontal split covers recently) but I thought I'd point that out.

French addresses (and this would apply to addresses in Brussels as well) typically have a comma between the number and the street, so there is nothing unusual about the placement of the comma on the cover. Also, there is this:

[Des Esseintes]

Fair enough, I was just curious.

[Doctor Sunshine]

[img]http://criterion_production.s3.amazonaws.com/release_images/2278/481_box_348x490.jpg[/img]

Made in U.S.A. could use another period though.

[Cinephrenic]

It looks like both Godard covers were designed by Kellerhouse.

[colinr0380]

A sneak peek at the first couple of pages of the booklet in the For All Mankind reissue from Eric Skillman's blog.

(Easter Egg: Tamara features in the comments!)

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold cover evolution.

And a link to Kent William's poster for the Rashomon theatrical release:



EDIT: The post from Kent William's blog.

[kaujot]

That's a fucking great poster. Available for sale?

Edit: According to Skillman, Criterion will end up selling it after it's toured for a while.

[Harmonov]

That's a fucking great poster. Available for sale?

It's already for sale on the Criterion website.

[zombeaner]

[img]http://criterion_production.s3.amazonaws.com/release_images/2299/484_box_348x490.jpg[/img]

Maybe once I see the film I'll change my mind. However, as of right now that is one of the worst covers I've ever seen from Criterion.

[jon]

edit: Oh, my bad. Your comment came right after the Rashomon poster.

I'd have to agree then, a truly terrible cover.

[Anhedionisiac]

I think zombeaner meant the Jeanne Dielman cover, not the Kent Williams Rashomon poster

[justeleblanc]

How quickly we forget the Photoshop wizardry of Sylvia Pinal and neon pink.

[oldsheperd]

I haven't seen Jeanne Dielmann either but I know the plot and I kind of dig the minimalist cover. Criterion doesn't typically create flashy covers that give us rundown of what we are going to be watching anyway.

[jon]

How quickly we forget the Photoshop wizardry of Sylvia Pinal and neon pink.

I wish they had saved the (alternate) pink cover for the released booklet. I always took the b&w version that made it in as an inside joke.

[swo17]

from DVDBeaver:



So as we suspected, the austere invisible cover slips off, revealing...??? This film is so mysterious!

I also like how they positioned the discs to make it look like Delphine Seyrig has bug eyes. :-s

I believe this will be the first Blu-ray of a film released SD in a digipak, yes? I'm curious to see how they handle that packaging. I bet we get screwed in some way, as the BD is just a one-discer.

[psufootball07]

Nah man, Third Man and Last Emperor had pretty tight digipaks. Both are in BluCrap.

[swo17]

Yeah, I should have said "first Blu-ray of a film released SD in a digipak since the recent policy change regarding Blu-ray packaging." I still don't think there's any precedent for how we can expect the packaging for the BD Marienbad to look.

[ouatitw]

Don't forget about The Man Who Fell To Earth which has a beautiful SD digipack which included the source novel, and then you get the standard bluray case and the novel was missing along with a booklet missing the essays on the novel.

I actually considered selling off the Bluray to buy the standard edition.

[domino harvey]

They would pick that horribly unflattering publicity photo of Seyrig for the inside of their already ugly set