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Klaylock, that is amazing. Best disc art ever and the cover itself is way up the list too. I was not a big fan of the film but your fan art had med wanting to see it again - great job!

wow! fantastic cover! If Criterion's thinking about re-releasing a remastered edition of Alphaville they have to look here!

I have the original Criterion and I'd like to "refresh" this edition... Could it be possible for you to post a 300dpi cover so I can print a pristine new artwork ? (I like both, the one with Anna Karina and Lemmy Caution cover and the Brazil-2001-red-eye (I think about Brazil because of the neon... But in many Godard's movies, I've seen that he tends often to use the neon (in Detective for instance...)

Both versions are great, but I feel the one with the actors' faces is better. Once again, an excellent effort. Are you taking requests?

I too love that cover. The first with the faces is great because it's a bit more ghostly. The second is great because it's more stark which is appropriate to that film. It'd be great to see it on a Criterion because this is the best fan cover I've seen in awhile. =D>

The fruit of my boredom (and lacking photoshop skills)



(Admittedly derivative of that rejected Schizopolis cover on the ol' Dungeon site)

I'm staying out of actually commenting on the fake covers, but I will say that I was just thinking a couple weeks ago about what a dream release a Brain Candy Criterion would be, considering that there's a whole forty percent of the movie missing and reshot that still exists in bootleg form. Add to that the now-friendly Kids' willingness to provide audio commentaries and potential for numerous hilarious extras. I mean, it IS a Paramount release, it's possible but.... I know it'll never ever happen. But man, if it did, I would spring for a free pizza party for the entire Criterion office staff. YOU HEAR THAT STAFFERS WHO LURK ON THIS BOARD? PIZZA PARTY!

I'll supply the ice cream.

domino harvey wrote:I know it'll never ever happen. But man, if it did...

Well, the old Paramount disc did go out of print recently...

CSM126 wrote:

domino harvey wrote:I know it'll never ever happen. But man, if it did...

Well, the old Paramount disc did go out of print recently...

So did Anthony Mann's The Tin Star, which isn't related to Brain Candy, but is probably about as likely (or more) to get released by Criterion.

That red light on the fan-favorite Alphaville cover does look coincidentally like a dose of Gleemonex, dot dot dot.

For comparison:

Two Japanese covers of Alphaville:



The purples and greens are a little brighter on the Dvd's I've seen, and look better than the image here.

And a Japanese VHS cover of Alphaville:



I like the curved title font, but otherwise a bit of a mess.

As far as requests go, sure I might take a few if I've seen the film. I usually get ideas for covers while I'm watching movies though.

A 300 dpi may be problematic since I didn't originally make it that big. Indeed, even the original screen caps don't look very good when magnified that much. However, it might be a good project for the future. Besides, I think it would be cool to make a full cover version sometime.

In the mean time, I made a cover for Week-End. It might not look as cool as Alphaville's, but I was trying to go for something different with this one. As for the fact that I did two Godard films in a row, it is a mere coincidence. Or perhaps not. There is that Film Forum festival going on after all.

I made this in around five minutes so it's not that great:



I stole the logo and etc. from The Burmese Harp cover.

As you can see, I like working with still photos and monochrome.

Yes! It's about time we got another fake cover of a movie that will never be in the Collection! And it's a hell of a cover, too!

that's a really wide American flag

Thats pretty bad.

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Agreed!

It's just like the film. I'm just not sure about the the position of the text. The discs are fantastic too.

Can't say that I like the choice of font, mainly because it's the same used by Kino and RusCiCo. (At least it is, fresh off my memory)

What gets me the most is the standard "charcoal art effect" on the stalkers head... very 1a Photo-shooop.

That Stalker art is making me drool...