Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.4

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#3601 Post by TheGodfather » Tue Aug 17, 2010 5:32 pm

What a great month. Turning about to be one hell of an expensive year Criterion-wise...
Love the Antichrist and Night of the Hunter cover. Good that they didn`t go with the knuckle shot.

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#3602 Post by zedz » Tue Aug 17, 2010 5:54 pm

TheGodfather wrote: Good that they didn`t go with the knuckle shot.
I bet they're saving those for the disc art.

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#3603 Post by TheGodfather » Tue Aug 17, 2010 5:58 pm

zedz wrote:
TheGodfather wrote: Good that they didn`t go with the knuckle shot.
I bet they're saving those for the disc art.
yeah they probably are. Wouldn`t mind that though, I just think it`s too cliché to put it on the cover. On the discs is something else, something new :wink:

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#3604 Post by s.j. bagley » Tue Aug 17, 2010 8:09 pm

oldsheperd wrote:I think the Modern Times cover is amazing. Sometimes minimalism works. I seem to recall that it is some version of a Polish Chaplin poster.
sure minimalism can often be great.
it's just a shame that 1) the 'modern times' cover isn't minimalist and 2) it's just fucking awful.
(love that 'antichrist' cover, though.)

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#3605 Post by Cinephrenic » Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:24 pm

The Chaplin cover is great. It's more dada than minimalism.

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#3606 Post by HistoryProf » Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:50 pm

Flike wrote:I keep looking at the Modern Times cover and think I'm simply missing something. There has to be a reason for its ugliness. In addition, it's done by Sam Smith who a fantastic designer. I hope it isn't in fact a template for future releases. Blah.

All the other covers are fantastic. I suspect The Night of the Hunter will be an attractive digipak.
Modern Times is truly awful. just completely blah and uninspired...boring. Night of the Hunter is passable, but I too hoped for something original...Paths of Glory kind of prepared me for this though. I do love the box art for the set...perfect. can't wait to see the individual cover art. (and pleasantly surprised by the price!)

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#3607 Post by rwaits » Tue Aug 17, 2010 11:31 pm

The monthly histrionics in this thread make me chuckle.

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#3608 Post by Tribe » Tue Aug 17, 2010 11:43 pm

rwaits wrote:The monthly histrionics in this thread make me chuckle.
Ya know, when this Forum was unavailable on the day the new releases were announced, at first I thought that I wouldn't have to hear the latest round of complaints about the cover art and was happy not to. But, after a few attempts of seeing if the Forum was up...I actually missed not being able to read the latest round of criticisms. I mean, what's a new release announcement day without the histrionics?

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#3609 Post by HistoryProf » Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:02 am

They fixed the date on NotH - so the image posted earlier no longer shows...here 'tis. Really rather underwhelmed with it, but it will probably end up one of those that looks a lot better in person.

[img]http://criterion_production.s3.amazonaws.com/release_images/3064/541_BD_box_348x490.jpg[/img]


oh, and while i'm not a fan of the film, the Antichrist cover is really quite good....probably the best of this batch.

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#3610 Post by godardslave » Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:07 am

modern times cover reaction = :shock: #-o
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#3611 Post by Ashirg » Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:23 am

I wonder if they want to keep all Chaplin covers similar with something from the films superimposed over Charlie's face.

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#3612 Post by MyNameCriterionForum » Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:47 am

Oh good, they've fixed the Modern Times cover:

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And made it a better film in the process.

Srsly tho, if they're releasing a bunch of Chaplins, and are desiging them as a "set" I wish they'd hired someone like Chris Ware.

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#3613 Post by Cinephrenic » Wed Aug 18, 2010 1:00 am

I wonder if there are people who spend 90min on looking at the cover art and design and never watch the film. :)

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#3614 Post by MyNameCriterionForum » Wed Aug 18, 2010 1:06 am

Fixed:
Cinephrenic wrote:I wonder if there are people who spend 90min reading this thread and never watch the film. :)

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#3615 Post by oldsheperd » Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:33 am

Cinephrenic wrote:The Chaplin cover is great. It's more dada than minimalism.
Minimalism. Dada. Mama. Papa. whatever.....

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#3616 Post by bugsy_pal » Wed Aug 18, 2010 11:01 pm

Cinephrenic wrote:The Chaplin cover is great. It's more dada than minimalism.
I agree with you - very Dada. I like the cover. I suppose he was contemporaeous with the Dada thing in his early days, but Modern Times is somewhat late for that. I've never really thoguht of Chaplin as dada-esque - although I reckon aspects of the film fit well with what the Dadists were on about.

I am less enamoured of the Night of the Hunter cover - it's competently put together but I think I'll need more time to digest it.

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#3617 Post by felipe » Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:35 am

Will Criterion unveil the individual covers for the films in the boxset, or only when they're released?

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#3618 Post by knives » Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:48 am

It's probably the same situation as Darjeeling and TRL, in about a month we'll get them.

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#3619 Post by godardslave » Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:33 am

For the BBS story it will be interesting if they opt for unified covers (e.g. six moral tales) or individual covers.

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#3620 Post by kaujot » Thu Aug 19, 2010 3:48 am

All boxsets are unified covers, aren't they?

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#3621 Post by Norbie » Thu Aug 19, 2010 11:31 am

Brian C wrote:See, this is where I don't like getting rid of post counts. I never would have even considered that was true had I seen that med only had 89 posts here. And an unfamiliar avatar to boot.

Still, good to know it's all just made up. Coming off the heels of the upcoming Paths of Glory O-ring digi, a Night of the Hunter figure-8 would have been especially disappointing.
Paths of Glory O-ring digi?

I have gone through previous post and have not come upon this topic.
Can you please be a bit more specific?

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#3622 Post by Flike » Thu Aug 19, 2010 6:58 pm

Thought about not posting this as it's completely unproductive, but:

"Oops, forgot for a minute there to never read message boards - apparently some @Criterion fans think my Chaplin cover is garbage. #fuckem"

Like everything else the guy has done, so pretty annoyed he threw some equine Photoshop slop on my second-favorite Chaplin and then whined about people not liking it. Oh, to never venture outside the echo chamber of Twitter...

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#3623 Post by Minkin » Thu Aug 19, 2010 7:27 pm

He really has it out for us.
He really does take criticism worse than that guy advertising his drug/gang/guns movie.

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#3624 Post by knives » Thu Aug 19, 2010 7:35 pm

I can't understand any of that. Is he saying we're like a Ben folds forum?

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#3625 Post by domino harvey » Thu Aug 19, 2010 7:39 pm

One of his readers called us "armchair designers" and then said the Ben Folds Forum was nicer than we are. Most forums probably are, really, but that was the specific example

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