Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol. 7

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#1776 Post by ng4996 » Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:08 pm

I have to agree with domino, I expected they might go all out with GBH and make something really gorgeous. This feels a bit busy and drab. I still think Fantastic Mr Fox is the best of the Anderson titles, lookswise.

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#1777 Post by keylime_5 » Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:08 pm

I found a bigger version of that image here by the way

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#1778 Post by bainbridgezu » Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:13 pm

I was hoping for something like their Princess Bride book -- same gold and purple color scheme, but with a a velvet finish. Need to see this one in person. Could be great, especially with pop-up/pull-out elements.

Edit: Now that I've seen the larger version, I'm not so sure. Doubt this is what they were going for, but it looks like Peter Greenaway dashed off a coloring book for a child he hates.
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#1779 Post by movielocke » Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:14 pm

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Bressonaire leak strikes again with the Cluny-est Brown-iest cover of 2020

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#1780 Post by mteller » Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:17 pm

Where are you folks finding these covers?

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#1781 Post by bainbridgezu » Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:18 pm

Hard to judge Stewart and Dietrich from the thumbnail, but I love the background sketches. They'd be at home on a great-looking old paperback.

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#1782 Post by domino harvey » Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:18 pm

Those drawings both look like the stars, no Cluny Browning detected, movielocke

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#1783 Post by Glowingwabbit » Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:20 pm

domino harvey wrote:
Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:18 pm
Those drawings both look like the stars, no Cluny Browning detected, movielocke
The color of her dress needs to change. You can't have the background the same color as what someone is wearing like that.

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#1784 Post by movielocke » Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:20 pm

domino harvey wrote:
Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:18 pm
Those drawings both look like the stars, no Cluny Browning detected, movielocke
I thought that the background was fancy old fashioned wallpaper and dietrich was drawn as though she were emerging from the wallpaper, or made her clothes from it.

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#1785 Post by swo17 » Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:21 pm

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#1786 Post by domino harvey » Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:26 pm

So that’s what the mystery doodle cover was

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#1787 Post by domino harvey » Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:28 pm

Glowingwabbit wrote:
Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:20 pm
domino harvey wrote:
Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:18 pm
Those drawings both look like the stars, no Cluny Browning detected, movielocke
The color of her dress needs to change. You can't have the background the same color as what someone is wearing like that.
That complaint I can get on board with, but it’d be an easy fix

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#1788 Post by mfunk9786 » Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:39 pm

Grand Budapest Hotel cover is excellent and that's all I've got for today, the rest are awful

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#1789 Post by Feego » Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:54 pm

I like the Destry Rides Again cover, and I'm just gonna put this out there: I wish that is what they had done for McCabe & Mrs. Miller.

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#1790 Post by Brian C » Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:57 pm

I like Grand Budapest ... sure, it’s a little busy, but that’s hardly out of step with the film itself.

But I think mostly I’m just glad it’s finally coming out.

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#1791 Post by Oedipax » Wed Jan 15, 2020 6:04 pm

I guess my memory is going because I would've sworn Army of Shadows was already re-issued on blu-ray years ago.

Edit: To make this post thread-appropriate, I'll just add that the Grand Budapest artwork is not to my liking and I wish the colors were warm/pink tones not blue.

Edit 2: I see now that Army is back in print, and my memory is not quite as terrible as I thought.

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#1792 Post by Matt » Wed Jan 15, 2020 6:14 pm

Glowingwabbit wrote:
Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:20 pm
You can't have the background the same color as what someone is wearing like that.
Why not? It's clearly a deliberate choice. I think the cover is a nice nod to the pulp Western origins of the movie, like a limited-color splash page or ad in the interior of a pulp magazine.

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#1793 Post by domino harvey » Wed Jan 15, 2020 6:16 pm

It reminds me of children’s book art of the fifties and sixties. I don’t mind the mono color bleed, but I think a different shade of red, even the same red, would look better

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#1794 Post by therewillbeblus » Wed Jan 15, 2020 7:39 pm

I really expected the Miranda July cover to be the most divisive - pretty surprised to see the lack of strong opinions on that one (so far)

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#1795 Post by CSM126 » Wed Jan 15, 2020 7:44 pm

Me and You is gorgeous, as is Budapest. No real opinion on the others (well, I suppose a new Army of Shadows cover might have been refreshing but it’s not bad as is).

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#1796 Post by artfilmfan » Wed Jan 15, 2020 9:00 pm

ng4996 wrote:
Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:08 pm
I have to agree with domino, I expected they might go all out with GBH and make something really gorgeous. This feels a bit busy and drab. I still think Fantastic Mr Fox is the best of the Anderson titles, lookswise.
They went for something that would get an oof out of domino. It did. Mission accomplished!

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#1797 Post by domino harvey » Wed Jan 15, 2020 9:01 pm

I mean, if that's true, they can def take a bow

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#1798 Post by TheGodfather » Thu Jan 16, 2020 3:04 am

GBH cover doesn’t look that good,let’s hope it’ll be better inperson and that it’ll be a nice a digipack. Loved the film, great to see more Anderson in the collection!

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#1799 Post by britcom68 » Thu Jan 16, 2020 6:58 am

My sole complaint about Grand B. Hotel's cover art is just that the blues are hardly indicative of the film's pallets. I would agree with others who would have preferred reds, yellow-orange or perhaps even pastels to echo the courtesan au chocolat. Shades of blue are used in the film, but hardly to such a degree it begged to be the cover art. Frankly this is one tremendous chance for the packaging itself to be opulent, in keeping in with the spirit of the film itself. If it is learned that Anderson himself approved this cover as-is then I would be shocked at his miscalculation from so meticulous an auteur.

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#1800 Post by tenia » Thu Jan 16, 2020 7:17 am

therewillbeblus wrote:
Wed Jan 15, 2020 7:39 pm
I really expected the Miranda July cover to be the most divisive - pretty surprised to see the lack of strong opinions on that one (so far)
I'm myself surprised people are seemingly pleased (or at least not displeased) with this awful Paint collage that definitely gives me a Déjà vu from the swimminghorses thread.

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