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

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#1851 Post by phoenix474 » Wed Mar 18, 2020 5:08 pm

I’m not sure about the color scheme, but otherwise I really like that Portair cover.

Not entirely crazy about the Come And See cover cause the original poster is so effective, but I really can’t complain since we’re getting such a magnificent release of one of my favorite films.

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#1852 Post by DarkImbecile » Wed Mar 18, 2020 5:12 pm

therewillbeblus wrote:
Wed Mar 18, 2020 4:57 pm
Missed opportunity to use the actual powerful portrait for the Sciamma
I think it's kind of cool that they got a new piece from the artist who did the paintings in the film, at least

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#1853 Post by therewillbeblus » Wed Mar 18, 2020 5:52 pm

I didn’t realize that, DI, you make a good point and of course it’s still thematically intact

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#1854 Post by Saturnome » Wed Mar 18, 2020 6:44 pm

An Unmarried Woman reminds me of the cover for Sunday Bloody Sunday.

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#1855 Post by Rupert Pupkin » Thu Mar 19, 2020 12:01 am

DarkImbecile wrote:
Wed Mar 18, 2020 5:12 pm
therewillbeblus wrote:
Wed Mar 18, 2020 4:57 pm
Missed opportunity to use the actual powerful portrait for the Sciamma
I think it's kind of cool that they got a new piece from the artist who did the paintings in the film, at least
yes, this is not an actual portrait which appears on the movie "Portrait de la jeune fille en feu"- since they choose a painting I would have loved one of the actual painting from the movie (the second one). I did not seen every movie theaters poster (the poster in France was a photo from the movie with Adel Haenel on it (the fire - dance scene), but it's apparently a painting from an artist (perhaps some painting done for the movie but not actually used in the end? or a real work by the Criterion collection team) ?

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#1856 Post by cdnchris » Thu Mar 26, 2020 8:46 pm

Army of Shadows: basically the same as the first one, just some layout changes, drops the chapter listing inside, and a couple of other things.

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#1857 Post by Boosmahn » Thu Mar 26, 2020 11:53 pm

cdnchris wrote:
Thu Mar 26, 2020 8:46 pm
just some layout changes, drops the chapter listing inside, and a couple of other things.
I've always wondered why Criterion stopped doing that.

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#1858 Post by tenia » Fri Mar 27, 2020 2:48 am

Many of their releases don't have chapter titles anymore.

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#1859 Post by movielocke » Fri Mar 27, 2020 11:33 am

Probably an artifact of the early dvd (or LD?) era of titling chapters, most studios dropped it when they dropped printing inserts entirely. Criterion probably dropped it because the titles are in the Blu-ray menu, and the dvd market that doesn’t have titles chapters on the disc menus is increasingly small

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#1860 Post by domino harvey » Mon Apr 13, 2020 1:39 pm

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#1861 Post by therewillbeblus » Mon Apr 13, 2020 1:43 pm

I did not know that Bruce Lee was The Thing in Fantastic Four

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#1862 Post by Ribs » Mon Apr 13, 2020 2:05 pm

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#1864 Post by swo17 » Wed Apr 15, 2020 12:41 pm

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#1865 Post by mfunk9786 » Wed Apr 15, 2020 12:41 pm

lol, that Lady Eve cover

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#1866 Post by McNulty » Wed Apr 15, 2020 12:47 pm

The original covers of Taste of Cherry and especially The Lady Eve are far superior to the upgraded ones. Marriage Story cover has me rolling.

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#1867 Post by nosnhojttam » Wed Apr 15, 2020 12:50 pm

would have been nice if they could fit a "Live, Laugh, Love" on that Marriage story cover.

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#1868 Post by Feego » Wed Apr 15, 2020 12:51 pm

The Lady Eve, starring Ethel Merman and Michael Sarrazin. It's times like this that I really wish Criterion did the reversible cover thing. On the plus side, The War of the Worlds looks great.

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#1869 Post by aox » Wed Apr 15, 2020 12:58 pm

Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep look great!

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#1870 Post by Glowingwabbit » Wed Apr 15, 2020 1:02 pm

I feel like the person who did the Taste of Cherry cover hasn't even seen the film. I just don't understand it.

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#1871 Post by swo17 » Wed Apr 15, 2020 1:04 pm

He's like beckoning someone to bury him I guess

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#1872 Post by Glowingwabbit » Wed Apr 15, 2020 1:06 pm

I'm wondering if he had a cherry in his hand during the first draft of it.

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#1873 Post by domino harvey » Wed Apr 15, 2020 1:07 pm

Jesus, all of these except War of the Worlds are terrible. Has the artist for Lady Eve ever seen the two stars?

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#1874 Post by KJones77 » Wed Apr 15, 2020 1:11 pm

The Lady Eve or Cluny Brown for the worst in recent memory? Similar color schemes too and both haunting.

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#1875 Post by therewillbeblus » Wed Apr 15, 2020 1:11 pm

Taste of Cherry's original cover involving the tree was good and should have been utilized here, though I don't hate this one. War of the Worlds is perfect. The Lady Eve and Marriage Story are so bad I don't want either on my shelf - not as objectively awful, but more repelling than the lazy robot drawing in Cluny Brown's cover.

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