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Amazing

I like McCabe & Mrs. Miller and the old Woman in the Dunes but the rest are meh.

Also, the Ingrid Bergman film with the b&w photo background and big yellow lettering seems like a lazy attempt at matching their Rossellini set. It's infuriating.

What's with the "Y" in Beatty being in front of his shoulders but behind his head?

McCabe cover is hideous, rest are okay

A Taste of Honey is confused and dithering and really pretty pitiful. What a mess, fingerprints and, what the hell, a lightbulb. That makes loads of sense. Oh I get it, it's kitchen-sink realism. Shockingly obvious.

My first question on McCabe cover - where's Mrs. Miller?

Hurry up and take the picture so I can throw this heavy coat and credits off of me.

Immortal Story could've done without the border.

I really dig the Ingrid Bergman cover, but I can't quite explain why.

welp.... those covers are all huge piles of shit.

domino harvey wrote:McCabe cover is hideous, rest are okay

I think it's an okay cover that just doesn't accurately suit the film.

Minus The Immortal Story, which feels like something is off, I actually like most of these, even if none are spectacular. I can certainly live with this compared with much of what we were getting last year!

Randall Maysin wrote:A Taste of Honey is confused and dithering and really pretty pitiful. What a mess, fingerprints and, what the hell, a lightbulb. That makes loads of sense. Oh I get it, it's kitchen-sink realism. Shockingly obvious.

The lightbulb is actually a reoccurring image in the movie.

... I like them all except the old Woman in the Dunes cover (which is just "okay"). It worked better as part of the box set, with the nice embossed cover.

More importantly, that's a great selection of titles this month!

I really like both of the Welles, Taste of Honey is hideous

domino harvey wrote:McCabe cover is hideous, rest are okay

McCabe and The Amazing Bearskin Dreamcoat. Why didn't they just dispose of the formalities, and just put the entire credits list on the cover.

Ashirg wrote:My first question on McCabe cover - where's Mrs. Miller?

Hiding under the coat, holding tightly to McCabe's torso. Altman's starting to freak out wondering where his lead actress is and she can't stop giggling about it.

I actually hate that McCabe cover, and I'm surprised there were no contractual obligations to feature both Beatty and Christie's faces. For a movie that features so many striking images, it seems incredibly lazy to choose what looks like a wardrobe test for the cover.

Ashirg wrote:My first question on McCabe cover - where's Mrs. Miller?

To paraphrase domino harvey from six years ago, HOW DO YOU NOT PUT JULIE CHRISTIE ON THE COVER?

My god, this is an awful month.

Woman in the Dunes is OK, and I guess the Bergman one isn't too bad (following the Bergman / Rossellini design), but the 2 Welles are awful (especially Immortal Story), feeling like they were made 40 years ago for a cheap VHS, A Taste of Honey feels like something done in 5 seconds, and the Altman is so overbloated I'm wondering why they didn't simply just put the text (since it's enough already to fill the whole cover).

I think the image from this one could've nicely translated into a dvd cover for McCabe. #Justice4JulieChristie

Edit: looks like someone had the same idea:

I'm buying four of these right away; can't recall the last time I've bought that many Criterions at once.

I like the Taste of Honey image fine, and the visual concepts behind the Welles covers as well. I wish those covers boasted a little more tone––more color in the case of Immortal Story, more range of greyscale on the Chimes at Midnight cover. The type on Chimes at Midnight could be a little better.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller needs a different concept. I think the photo in the back just doesn't convey the mood or feeling of the film. It's striking as a behind-the-scenes photo (I think it appears in Kathryn Altman's book, if I recall right), because it seems so out of step with the tone of the film. There's an interesting idea behind the type––the kind of hand-made ornate type, like poorly-made signs carved after better examples in fancier towns. But it overwhelms in a very loud way. I'm not sure I've ever seen poster art for McCabe & Mrs. Miller that I've ever been excited about, but this cover really isn't right. I do like that image on the Cohen LP, though. I'm in it for the 4k scan and the 1080p, either way.

Ashirg wrote:My first question on McCabe cover - where's Mrs. Miller?

Maybe on the back?

The McCabe cover....

If you let your eyes go a little out of focus, the Immortal Story cover looks like an ultrasound.