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

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DimitriL · #3526 Post by **DimitriL** » Mon Sep 16, 2024 9:19 pm

Not Blood Simple, for some reason.

But it really does seem like the direction the Coens are wanting to go in. I don’t think you get that much stylistic consistency unless you’re getting a specific request. It’s never really been Criterion’s in-house art strategy to unify disparate titles like that, outside of box sets.

johnnysnatchclub7 · Mon Sep 16, 2024 9:29 pm

I really adore the symmetry of The Piano and The Power of the Dog covers but then those are both the same artist. Not sure it’s a Campion edict. Will be interesting to see if her other two titles ever get 4Ks if they get a cover change.

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diamonds · #3528 Post by **diamonds** » Mon Sep 16, 2024 10:29 pm

Picturing Anton Chigurh moping back to back with the man on the Chilly Scenes of Winter cover.

dwk · #3529 Post by **dwk** » Mon Sep 30, 2024 11:58 pm

Blutarsky · #3530 Post by **Blutarsky** » Tue Oct 01, 2024 12:02 am

dwk wrote: Mon Sep 30, 2024 11:58 pm

Oh, I absolutely love this.

Tue Oct 01, 2024 12:25 am

Wow, they actually went all out on that— will it only be for the combo, I wonder?

ryannichols7 · #3532 Post by **ryannichols7** » Tue Oct 01, 2024 12:52 am

that actually makes up for not using the original art on the cover, that's an amazing package

Beloved Aunt · #3533 Post by **Beloved Aunt** » Tue Oct 01, 2024 12:52 am

That's fabulous!

#3534 Post by **cdnchris** » Wed Oct 09, 2024 8:56 pm

Pandora's Box (Booklet)
I Walked with a Zombie/The Seventh Victim [4K] (Booklet)
Demon Bond [4K]
Gummo [4K]

Details on restorations at the bottom of these pages:

Pandora's Box
I Walked with a Zombie/The Seventh Victim
Demon Pond
Gummo

#3535 Post by **Matt** » Wed Oct 09, 2024 9:05 pm

I like the flipped booklet for the Lewtons. Too bad they didn’t do a reversible cover. They always print the reverse side anyway so why not try it once?

#3536 Post by **cdnchris** » Thu Oct 10, 2024 4:05 am

Though deep down I knew it was unlikely, I was hoping for some sort of peel off like the early DVDs for The Killers and Lower Depths. Agreed that the booklet design was at least a nice touch.

Jean-Luc Garbo · Thu Oct 10, 2024 4:14 am

cdnchris wrote: Wed Oct 09, 2024 8:56 pm Details on restorations at the bottom of these pages:

[url=https://criterionforum.org/Video/i-walk ... us-blu-ray]I Walked with a Zombie/The Seventh

"The negative of The Seventh Victim had large amounts of mold throughout."

I'm sure Criterion did a great job on this but what conditions did WB keep it under? Or do some negatives just mold anyway if a little contamination happens? No wonder a restoration of this was so expensive.

#3538 Post by **Matt** » Thu Oct 10, 2024 6:36 am

It’s an RKO film and was not preserved nearly as well as, say, MGM or Warner Bros. films. Turner (and eventually Warner Bros.) only acquired the library in the 1980s. Given Howard Hughes’s complete mismanagement of the company during his ownership, it’s a miracle these films survived as well as they did.

The state of RKO elements is also what’s keeping the Astaire and Rogers films from being upgraded to Blu-ray.

#3539 Post by **cdnchris** » Thu Oct 10, 2024 3:00 pm

Interestingly, I don't recall seeing much of anything along the lines of mold residue in The Seventh Victim other than subtle hints maybe, but it is evident during I Walked with a Zombie in a couple places, which they don't even mention. I could have missed it in Seventh on my first viewing, and planned on rewatching anyways, but if it was heavy enough for them to note it, I would have thought it would be very obvious.

dwk · #3540 Post by **dwk** » Thu Oct 10, 2024 4:07 pm

I wonder if it was a mistake and they meant to note it for Zombie and put Victim instead?

beamish14 · #3541 Post by **beamish14** » Thu Oct 10, 2024 5:38 pm

Jean-Luc Garbo wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 4:14 am
cdnchris wrote: Wed Oct 09, 2024 8:56 pm Details on restorations at the bottom of these pages:

[url=https://criterionforum.org/Video/i-walk ... us-blu-ray]I Walked with a Zombie/The Seventh
"The negative of The Seventh Victim had large amounts of mold throughout." I'm sure Criterion did a great job on this but what conditions did WB keep it under? Or do some negatives just mold anyway if a little contamination happens? No wonder a restoration of this was so expensive.

Apparently the negative of Rosemary’s Baby had dog piss on it

#3542 Post by **swo17** » Tue Oct 15, 2024 4:14 pm

#3543 Post by **domino harvey** » Tue Oct 15, 2024 4:36 pm

Good covers this month, at least

Beloved Aunt · #3544 Post by **Beloved Aunt** » Tue Oct 15, 2024 4:40 pm

The Grifters' cover seems terrible though. Nice..ideas, but clumsy execution, as usual. For one thing, it's the wrong shade of yellow. What, is the sun a ripe banana or something? (I think about this movie too often, as you can probably tell.)

DimitriL · #3545 Post by **DimitriL** » Tue Oct 15, 2024 6:18 pm

The Grifters one is another Sister Hyde masterpiece.

ryannichols7 · #3546 Post by **ryannichols7** » Tue Oct 15, 2024 6:24 pm

wonder what the eventual cover for The Bling Ring is gonna be

#3547 Post by **Finch** » Tue Oct 15, 2024 11:24 pm

The Grifters cover is actually growing on me but the text at the top and bottom touching the sunglasses makes it look cluttered. I'd have left a bit more space at both ends.

I do like the Winchester 73 and Pryor covers a lot.

black&huge · #3548 Post by **black&huge** » Wed Oct 16, 2024 12:23 am

Am I the only one who thinks Jimmy Stewart looks like Rock Hudson on that Winchester '73 cover?

#3549 Post by **zedz** » Wed Oct 16, 2024 1:56 am

black&huge wrote: Wed Oct 16, 2024 12:23 am Am I the only one who thinks Jimmy Stewart looks like Rock Hudson on that Winchester '73 cover?

Plus he's got Dan Duryea's hand, Stephen McNally's hat and Shelley Winters' shoulder!

black&huge · #3550 Post by **black&huge** » Wed Oct 16, 2024 2:21 am

such an inclusive artwork

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