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Cold Bishop · #376 Post by **Cold Bishop** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 4:44 am

Not a bad image or font for the title, but simply isn't evocative of the film.

Cinephrenic · #377 Post by **Cinephrenic** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:23 am

Look more like a Nosferatu to me. The dark theme isn't working, but nice cover though.

Badering · #378 Post by **Badering** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 1:20 pm

Cinephrenic · #379 Post by **Cinephrenic** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:53 pm

Badering wrote:

nice!

The Glue Man · #380 Post by **The Glue Man** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 8:03 pm

Badering wrote:

I know nothing about this film, but the cover made me want to - surely a good thing. Very nice

justeleblanc · #381 Post by **justeleblanc** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 8:12 pm

Wow, that cover looks like one in a box set. Maybe just wishful thinking.

neal · #382 Post by **neal** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 3:41 am

I agree. The HHH cover is gorgeous.

Skritek · #383 Post by **Skritek** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 6:45 am

But what's up with the year on the Café Lumière cover?

Badering · #384 Post by **Badering** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 3:25 pm

Thanks, guys :)

Just made two more covers, and a box cover. Not much change from the Café Lumière cover, but one guy mentioned a box set, so I made this!

M · #385 Post by M » Mon Jun 09, 2008 3:57 pm

Isn't that the kid from The Red Balloon, not Flight of the Red Balloon?

Badering · #386 Post by **Badering** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:17 pm

Shit, youre right. I guess I just mixed those two films ^_^

tavernier · #387 Post by **tavernier** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 5:20 pm

And surely Criterion would have his name as Hou Hsiao-hsien.

M · #388 Post by M » Mon Jun 09, 2008 5:45 pm

Nitpickers on parade! They wouldn't have all the films' years on the side logo as 1980 either, nor would they have any year at all on the outer box set cover.

tavernier · #389 Post by **tavernier** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 5:53 pm

That's what this thread is for.

#390 Post by **zedz** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:34 pm

Nevertheless, that's a lovely template for the inevitable (hah!) Hou box set.

PimpPanda · #391 Post by **PimpPanda** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:34 pm

The Hou boxset that I would love to see released would be his Taiwanese history trilogy. Someone should try their hand at that!

Badering · #392 Post by **Badering** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 12:12 am

What's up with all the mistakes on those covers lol.

Cosmic Bus · #393 Post by **Cosmic Bus** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 4:31 am

A couple of ideas for the upcoming adaptation of one of my favorite novels:

I feel like they're both overly reminiscent of other DVD covers, but it's better than another noir-styled image.

cysiam · #394 Post by **cysiam** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 2:20 pm

Some day...

klee13 · #395 Post by **klee13** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 6:07 pm

Cosmic Bus wrote:A couple of ideas for the upcoming adaptation of one of my favorite novels:

I feel like they're both overly reminiscent of other DVD covers, but it's better than another noir-styled image.

These covers are not bad at all. (By the way, good job on the Hsiao-Hsien covers, Bandering, small errors be damned!) I prefer the image on the second, but the text just does not work. Besides the border, I can't say what is exactly putting me off of the first. Perhaps it is the way the text and picture (both good in their own right) interact, or maybe the strangely artificial appearance of the image. Content-wise, I can't talk since I have (obviously) not seen the movie, but I guess they do both depict Brooklyn! My advice would be stick with the second picture and change the text, maybe to something less font-looking. (And maybe change the logo color too.)

Badering · #396 Post by **Badering** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 6:19 pm

Cosmic Bus: I love how you worked with the type in the left cover of Motherless Brooklyn. I also love the picture.I don't know if it catches the films atmosphere or something, but it's really a slick picture which works great for the type treatment.

Not a big fan of your other though.

Cosmic Bus · #397 Post by **Cosmic Bus** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 3:14 am

Thanks for the comments. I really liked the photo from the second cover, but couldn't figure out what exactly to do with it; this attempt is better, I think, although maybe the design is too... forced? Either way, it's all just a fun creative outlet.

klee13 · #398 Post by **klee13** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:33 pm

...Not that I would necessarily endorse such a release

kaujot · #399 Post by **kaujot** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:34 pm

I would endorse such a release.

klee13 · #400 Post by **klee13** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 12:34 am

kaujot wrote:I would endorse such a release.

I haven't seen it yet, so I don't know whether I would endorse it! However, it just opened at Film Forum yesterday...

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