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Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2014 10:28 pm
by colinr0380
Ah, I see it now!
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2014 11:23 pm
by Buttercream
domino harvey wrote:Buttercream wrote:The Hellman cover likes like a Vintage paperback of some acclaimed 'world literature' writer.
Just say Murakami, it's what you're thinking of
Truth.
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 2:24 am
by RyanGallagher
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 3:41 am
by criterion10
The L'Avventura cover is actually very nice, even though I personally prefer the recent Janus poster. Tootsie is rather "meh", while the other three are simply awful. Easily one of the worst months for cover art I have been around for.
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 5:45 am
by HistoryProf
colinr0380 wrote:I'll go against the grain and say that I like all the covers. Especially the Monte Hellman one which looks to be doing the same kind of 'multiple scene pile up' thing as the Y Tu Mama Tambien cover (which having received it today sadly doesn't look any better in person), but more successfully with each element - horses! sunrises! abstracted actor portraits - looking as if they are revealed by ripping layers of paper to expose the images underneath. I really hope that this one is a digipack with a rougher textured paper feel to it, rather than a glossy one, as just looking at the image creates a tactile feeling. Could it be in the style of the Dazed and Confused set with cut out elements?
Also, I'm not up on my American geography and this might be pushing the imagery much too far but is the central black and white image in the shape of a particular state or county?
the blu ray is only one disc, the DVD 2, so it'll be in the clear plastic cases.
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 3:23 am
by swo17
I don't know how much significance to attach to this, but we got an invitation to a baby shower this week, and it appears to use the same font as the cover for It Happened One Night. There are even arrows on it!
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 9:37 am
by FrauBlucher
You could say the reason for the baby shower is because 'it happened one night.'
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 9:08 pm
by TheGodfather
My sweet lord, those are some pretty awful covers... Good to finally see It Happened one night, though. Too bad it has one of this year`s worst covers...
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 5:46 am
by cdnchris
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 2:42 am
by acroyear
Interesting treatment on the All That Jazz discs. I'm guessing their labels are meant to be read in a sequential order? Has anything like that been done on Criterion discs before?
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 1:01 am
by cdnchris
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 7:10 am
by rwiggum
Wow, that's GORGEOUS. My initial feeling that the cover was too predictable and boring has been decimated by the rest of the packaging.
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 3:37 pm
by mfunk9786
We spend most of our time chiding Criterion for messing with iconic poster art - I'm particularly glad they resisted in this case.
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 3:52 pm
by swo17
I like that their first new release that's not in dual format is still a digipak.
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 11:17 pm
by captveg
swo17 wrote:I like that their first new release that's not in dual format is still a digipak.
But back to the thinner and more shelf-space conscience digipak.
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 3:53 am
by Jeff
mfunk9786 wrote:We spend most of our time chiding Criterion for messing with iconic poster art - I'm particularly glad they resisted in this case.
Best of both worlds. It's a newly commissioned painting of that classic photograph.
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 11:13 pm
by cdnchris
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 11:54 pm
by domino harvey
A good reminder of two great contenders for Worst Cover in the year-end wrap-up
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 12:04 am
by zedz
domino harvey wrote:A good reminder of two great contenders for Worst Cover in the year-end wrap-up
I don't like either cover particularly, but in a year that includes
Y tu mama tambien I'm not sure these covers even meet the dress code for the Hall of Shame.
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 12:16 am
by domino harvey
If any category deserves five votes this year, it's this and not Best Release!
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 12:40 am
by FakeBonanza
God, they somehow turned out even worse than the initial art indicated. I can't believe how awful that disappearing font looks on the spine of The Innocents
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 12:44 am
by Minkin
Odd that they skimped on the disc art + Innocents blank interior. As convenient as it is to see the chapters list behind the booklet
, I'd far prefer it that they put some artwork behind the disc/booklet. At the very least, they should pull an Arrow and put a reversible cover back there (perhaps with original poster artwork).
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 1:24 am
by jindianajonz
For those of you who have the Zatoichi box, try not to leave it open for too long. I left mine open today for a few hours, and came back to find this:
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 8:53 pm
by MongooseCmr
zedz wrote:domino harvey wrote:A good reminder of two great contenders for Worst Cover in the year-end wrap-up
I don't like either cover particularly, but in a year that includes
Y tu mama tambien I'm not sure these covers even meet the dress code for the Hall of Shame.
Y Tu Mama Tambien at least has some pretty colors, and I get what they were going for. That Macbeth cover is just ugly in every way. I'm not even sure what I'm looking at
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 9:11 pm
by Yaanu
The cover artwork to Tootsie has been slightly altered from
the original:
