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

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

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

I also love People magazine!

It's like Highlights for Criterion Collectors

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

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.

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....

Des Esseintes wrote: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:

Fair enough, I was just curious.

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

It looks like both Godard covers were designed by Kellerhouse.

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.

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.

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

It's already for sale on the Criterion website.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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.

justeleblanc wrote: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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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