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I have to agree with domino, I expected they might go all out with GBH and make something really gorgeous. This feels a bit busy and drab. I still think Fantastic Mr Fox is the best of the Anderson titles, lookswise.

I found a bigger version of that image here by the way

I was hoping for something like their Princess Bride book -- same gold and purple color scheme, but with a a velvet finish. Need to see this one in person. Could be great, especially with pop-up/pull-out elements.

Edit: Now that I've seen the larger version, I'm not so sure. Doubt this is what they were going for, but it looks like Peter Greenaway dashed off a coloring book for a child he hates.

Bressonaire leak strikes again with the Cluny-est Brown-iest cover of 2020

Where are you folks finding these covers?

Hard to judge Stewart and Dietrich from the thumbnail, but I love the background sketches. They'd be at home on a great-looking old paperback.

Those drawings both look like the stars, no Cluny Browning detected, movielocke

domino harvey wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2020 9:18 pm Those drawings both look like the stars, no Cluny Browning detected, movielocke

The color of her dress needs to change. You can't have the background the same color as what someone is wearing like that.

domino harvey wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2020 9:18 pm Those drawings both look like the stars, no Cluny Browning detected, movielocke

I thought that the background was fancy old fashioned wallpaper and dietrich was drawn as though she were emerging from the wallpaper, or made her clothes from it.

So that’s what the mystery doodle cover was

Glowingwabbit wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2020 9:20 pm

domino harvey wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2020 9:18 pm Those drawings both look like the stars, no Cluny Browning detected, movielocke

The color of her dress needs to change. You can't have the background the same color as what someone is wearing like that.

That complaint I can get on board with, but it’d be an easy fix

Grand Budapest Hotel cover is excellent and that's all I've got for today, the rest are awful

I like the Destry Rides Again cover, and I'm just gonna put this out there: I wish that is what they had done for McCabe & Mrs. Miller.

I like Grand Budapest ... sure, it’s a little busy, but that’s hardly out of step with the film itself.

But I think mostly I’m just glad it’s finally coming out.

I guess my memory is going because I would've sworn Army of Shadows was already re-issued on blu-ray years ago.

Edit: To make this post thread-appropriate, I'll just add that the Grand Budapest artwork is not to my liking and I wish the colors were warm/pink tones not blue.

Edit 2: I see now that Army is back in print, and my memory is not quite as terrible as I thought.

Glowingwabbit wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2020 9:20 pmYou can't have the background the same color as what someone is wearing like that.

Why not? It's clearly a deliberate choice. I think the cover is a nice nod to the pulp Western origins of the movie, like a limited-color splash page or ad in the interior of a pulp magazine.

It reminds me of children’s book art of the fifties and sixties. I don’t mind the mono color bleed, but I think a different shade of red, even the same red, would look better

I really expected the Miranda July cover to be the most divisive - pretty surprised to see the lack of strong opinions on that one (so far)

Me and You is gorgeous, as is Budapest. No real opinion on the others (well, I suppose a new Army of Shadows cover might have been refreshing but it’s not bad as is).

ng4996 wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2020 9:08 pm I have to agree with domino, I expected they might go all out with GBH and make something really gorgeous. This feels a bit busy and drab. I still think Fantastic Mr Fox is the best of the Anderson titles, lookswise.

They went for something that would get an oof out of domino. It did. Mission accomplished!

I mean, if that's true, they can def take a bow

GBH cover doesn’t look that good,let’s hope it’ll be better inperson and that it’ll be a nice a digipack. Loved the film, great to see more Anderson in the collection!

My sole complaint about Grand B. Hotel's cover art is just that the blues are hardly indicative of the film's pallets. I would agree with others who would have preferred reds, yellow-orange or perhaps even pastels to echo the courtesan au chocolat. Shades of blue are used in the film, but hardly to such a degree it begged to be the cover art. Frankly this is one tremendous chance for the packaging itself to be opulent, in keeping in with the spirit of the film itself. If it is learned that Anderson himself approved this cover as-is then I would be shocked at his miscalculation from so meticulous an auteur.

therewillbeblus wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2020 11:39 pm I really expected the Miranda July cover to be the most divisive - pretty surprised to see the lack of strong opinions on that one (so far)

I'm myself surprised people are seemingly pleased (or at least not displeased) with this awful Paint collage that definitely gives me a Déjà vu from the swimminghorses thread.