Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.4
- TheGodfather
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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.
Love the Antichrist and Night of the Hunter cover. Good that they didn`t go with the knuckle shot.
- zedz
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I bet they're saving those for the disc art.TheGodfather wrote: Good that they didn`t go with the knuckle shot.
- TheGodfather
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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 newzedz wrote:I bet they're saving those for the disc art.TheGodfather wrote: Good that they didn`t go with the knuckle shot.
- s.j. bagley
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sure minimalism can often be great.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.
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.)
- Cinephrenic
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The Chaplin cover is great. It's more dada than minimalism.
- HistoryProf
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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!)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.
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The monthly histrionics in this thread make me chuckle.
- Tribe
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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?rwaits wrote:The monthly histrionics in this thread make me chuckle.
- HistoryProf
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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.
[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.
- godardslave
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modern times cover reaction =
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- Ashirg
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I wonder if they want to keep all Chaplin covers similar with something from the films superimposed over Charlie's face.
- MyNameCriterionForum
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Oh good, they've fixed the Modern Times cover:
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.
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.
- Cinephrenic
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I wonder if there are people who spend 90min on looking at the cover art and design and never watch the film.
- MyNameCriterionForum
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Fixed:
Cinephrenic wrote:I wonder if there are people who spend 90min reading this thread and never watch the film.
- oldsheperd
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Minimalism. Dada. Mama. Papa. whatever.....Cinephrenic wrote:The Chaplin cover is great. It's more dada than minimalism.
- bugsy_pal
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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.Cinephrenic wrote:The Chaplin cover is great. It's more dada than minimalism.
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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Will Criterion unveil the individual covers for the films in the boxset, or only when they're released?
- knives
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It's probably the same situation as Darjeeling and TRL, in about a month we'll get them.
- godardslave
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For the BBS story it will be interesting if they opt for unified covers (e.g. six moral tales) or individual covers.
- kaujot
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All boxsets are unified covers, aren't they?
- Norbie
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Paths of Glory O-ring digi?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.
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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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...
"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...
- Minkin
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He really has it out for us.
He really does take criticism worse than that guy advertising his drug/gang/guns movie.
He really does take criticism worse than that guy advertising his drug/gang/guns movie.
- knives
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I can't understand any of that. Is he saying we're like a Ben folds forum?
- domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
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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