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Moe Dickstein wrote:I gotta say I really like the Witch cover.

I'd be pretty disappointed in a Criterion release that just used the original poster at this point.

Yeah, GROSS!!!

There's still design work going on there.

Yeah, for the worse

Wouldn't a better example be the Sullivan's Travels cover?

Domino Harvey's on the mistake

domino harvey wrote:

They could've also just slapped some text on this publicity photo and it would've made a great cover (for I Married a Witch, not the Cassavetes box)

they could have used this photo for any Criterion release, Bergman, Cassavetes, whatever...
I would have been happy.
Thanks so much for this photo...

at least I'm glad that I Married A Witch is at last release on blu-ray...

I much prefer the minimalist cover to The Uninvited in comparison to its original poster, and that really looks like the standout cover of the month.

Sadly I have to agree with warren oates on La Notte - that's just going to irritate my OCD obsession with lining up the cover images properly! Hopefully that one will look better (and I'll be able to cope with it!) once it is in my hands.

I also quite like the I Married A Witch cover (I get it: Veronica Lake is smokin' hot!) but do agree with zedz that it looks a little too 'digital'.

movielocke wrote:That I Married a Witch artwork makes me think that Sullivan's travels upgrade got bumped last minute--look at how similar the art is--I bet we see Sullivan's Travels and maybe the Lady Eve in November or december.

Like many others, I saw the similarities instantly and thought "My, how incredibly boring and LAZY" - just pathetic really. La Notte is horrible as well. Really a bad couple of months.

Only salvation is that The Uninvited is sublime - one of the best covers they've ever done. Or maybe it just seems so compared to the crap surrounding it.

To be fair, Veronica Lake was usually represented in that way, it's not just Sullivan's Travels.

And really it's not like I Married A Witch is even in the same MS Paint league as Babette's Feast.

It's a template for everything Veronica Lake. She's on the take for Criterion cover art.

I like the idea behind the I Married a Witch cover, but the execution is just all wrong. As others have said, it looks too "digital," it doesn't have the, for lack of a better word, grace that a painted illustration would have had.

But then, why bother with artists' renditions at all when you have a puss like this?

I have to say, with publicity stills like that on hand, why bother with a contemporary illustration at all? Toss a coin: use one for the box cover and one for the booklet and everybody's happy, plus Criterion would probably sell about 20% more.

EDIT: And the hits keep on coming:

Damn zedz, love that last one, probably the best one yet

Who in their right mind wouldn't buy that disc?

(sigh)

Le sigh.

About Shoah, is the digipack for the DVD edition very different from the blu-ray digipack? The former must house 6 discs, so is it bigger or did they just put one disc on top of the other?

I haven't seen it but my understanding is that it's similar to Berlin Alexanderplatz using the figure-8 disc holders.

I'd forgotten how nice that Berlin Alexanderplatz packaging was. Damn.

Love the image underneath the disc, even though it breaks with the idea of the rest of the package design. Can't believe a fish-eye shot hasn't been used for this space before (has it?). Then again, there aren't too many films in the collection with such shots that are also so representative of the film as a whole.