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That's fantastic work. It made me chuckle, which is the idea I imagine. The new logo looks good too.

Oh my god, a Mike Allred cover? Am I dreaming? I almost feel like I have to buy this, even if I don't ever watch the movie.

A warning to Criterion: if you ever release Four Nights of a Dreamer with a Chris Ware cover, my head will explode.

Not what I expected AT ALL. WOW.

Big Ebert style thumbs up to the new design.

Although it being on a killer cover (S & A) doesn't hurt.

Edit: K & S looks like the Necronomicon Ex Mortis to me. Although my eyes have been a bit funny lately.

A) Gorgeous! Apparently Pietro is the anti-Bunuel in the realm of cover art.

B) Re: the new style, I love the tab and am anxious to see how it relates to the spine. The new logo is going to take some getting used to, but that's mainly because it blends in to Seduced and Abandoned to the point of seeming like part of the art. All in all, touche, Criterion, touche...

-Toilet Dcuk

I love the floating people on the Germi cover!!!

And the grass on the Baumbach cover still makes it look like the Will Ferrel movie. I bet that's a sneaky way to get more people to buy it!!!

Grass? Looks more like a chalkboard with thought bubbles doodled on it to me.

Dah! I'm blind. Are those quotes from the movie all over the cover??? Brilliant!!! I'm so proud of my avatar these days.

justeleblanc wrote:I'm so proud of my avatar these days.

I thought it was Noah Wyle and you were just a big E.R. fan.

Too bad Criterion dropped the ball on releasing E.R. on DVD. By the way Matt, is that Pinal or the mother from Everyone Loves Raymond?

I guess I haven't been paying attention--I thought it was Dame Edna.

I don't like the new cover template at all. It makes them look like comic books or paperbacks (and that's not just the Mike Allred thing either). Putting the year of release on the cover seems daft too - that kind of thing can only repel more people than it attracts.

The biggest problem is, I do not trust that new logo to give me something of inherent quality the way I did with the old one.

Anyone else think Criterion is having a serious case of the New Cokes?

I thought it was grass too looking at ellipsis7 image, but looking at the picture below (a little bigger) reveals a lot more:

I think we ought to wait until the Rohmer covers get posted to start worrying about graphic integration. I'm sure they'll be much more restrained than the very "look at meee!" style Criterion is persuing with Seduced & Kicking. Then we'll see.

Truthfully I don't find this new look any worse or more distracting than the logo in the upper right hand corner of my BFI discs, or the mandated ratings and other information slapped on the covers of many R1 and R2 discs. I think it'll be fine once we've got it in our hands.

matt wrote:A warning to Criterion: if you ever release Four Nights of a Dreamer with a Chris Ware cover, my head will explode.

Now you're putting thoughts in my head. How perfect would it be if they got Chris Ware to design a package for the new Playtime?

for someone who freaked out at the prospect of a logo design switch, this looks a lot better than I'd feared

I'm sorry, but that big C is just not working for me. Please bring back the old logo. Please!!!

OH NO!! The "C" is obscuring part of that dude's face! The dude in the upper left-hand corner of the Rohmer box. Show some respect for Rohmer for just a moment, Criterion! Just kidding.

I didn't realize Kicking and Screaming was made in 1955. At least it says so on the cover. Some of the years on Rohmer covers are also wrong. At least they didn't mis-spell directors' names.

criterionsnob wrote:Rohmers are up

Very 'Modern Library Classics':

I didn't realize Kicking and Screaming was made in 1955. At least it says so on the cover. Some of the years on Rohmer covers are also wrong. At least they didn't mis-spell directors' names.

Maybe that was suppose to be for a film made in 1955? Il Bidone? I Live in Fear?

I quite like the Rohmer covers. I dunno yet if I prefer the new aesthetic to the old, but these covers give me a lot of optimism for future covers.