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

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Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.

#526 Post by Graphist » Mon Oct 16, 2017 5:37 pm

All of the covers look like they spent 5 minutes on each.

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#527 Post by Boosmahn » Mon Oct 16, 2017 5:46 pm

I have to say I'm quite fond of those G.W. Pabst covers, even if those fonts are just inverted...

And I'd much rather have the full version of that I, Daniel Blake cover, something like one of the Korean editions...

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#528 Post by Brian C » Mon Oct 16, 2017 5:54 pm

I didn’t like I, DANIEL BLAKE at all but that’s a good cover.

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#529 Post by TheGodfather » Mon Oct 16, 2017 6:04 pm

For me this is the best month in years

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#530 Post by Morbii » Mon Oct 16, 2017 6:06 pm

Luke M wrote:The Breakfast Club looks like one of those fake covers people would make of films they’d want to see in the Collection.
Totally. Not quite swimminghorses, but someone sure didn't know how to fix the outlines...

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#531 Post by dwk » Mon Oct 16, 2017 6:16 pm

The Breakfast Club cover is pretty much the original poster
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Which the TCM 2 poster parodied
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#532 Post by MoonlitKnight » Mon Oct 16, 2017 9:42 pm

dwk wrote:The Breakfast Club cover is pretty much the original poster
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Not to mention virtually all previous VHS/DVD/Blu editions. And, honestly, at this point, I can't see it being anything else, it's been so tattooed in my mind.

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#533 Post by HitchcockLang » Fri Oct 20, 2017 2:39 pm

Just got my order in from the flash sale and there's a trend I'm noticing. With Rebecca, Barry Lyndon, and even Festival, not to mention the surprising blu-ray packaging on Vampyr after the downgrade of its DVD counterpart, is it safe to say booklets are starting to regain their place in the Criterion edition as opposed to these ubiquitous leaflets of the last few years?

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#534 Post by kcota17 » Fri Oct 20, 2017 2:41 pm

Maybe with all the high-profile releases Criterion has been doing, they can afford them again now?

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#535 Post by tenia » Fri Oct 20, 2017 5:53 pm

Maybe transportation costs are down again.

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#536 Post by cdnchris » Sat Oct 21, 2017 2:00 am


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#537 Post by Never Cursed » Sat Oct 21, 2017 9:25 am

What is it with the inner art of the Criterion Lynch releases being better covers than the actual covers?

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#538 Post by mfunk9786 » Sat Oct 21, 2017 12:20 pm

I don’t want to live on a planet where Criterion chooses one of the images from inside that Twin Peaks box over that cover, are you kidding me?

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#539 Post by swo17 » Sat Oct 21, 2017 12:21 pm

Uh, that's your dealbreaker for continuing to live on Earth?

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#540 Post by SSF » Sat Oct 21, 2017 12:39 pm

mfunk9786 wrote:I don’t want to live on a planet where Criterion chooses one of the images from inside that Twin Peaks box over that cover, are you kidding me?
Same deal for Eraserhead

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#541 Post by Never Cursed » Sat Oct 21, 2017 12:59 pm

And Mulholland Drive! That one is particularly egregious; every single image in the packaging of that release would have made a better cover than the one it got

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#542 Post by SSF » Sat Oct 21, 2017 1:01 pm

Mungo wrote:And Mulholland Drive! That one is particularly egregious; every single image in the packaging of that release would have made a better cover than the one it got
I meant I can’t inagine any other cover for Eraserhead besides the iconic poster they used.

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#543 Post by Big Ben » Sat Oct 21, 2017 1:37 pm

I guess I belong to the small,lonely club full of weird people who don't really care about covers.

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#544 Post by 371229 » Sun Oct 22, 2017 5:11 pm

Big Ben wrote:I guess I belong to the small,lonely club full of weird people who don't really care about covers.
It's not that small of a club... it's called the "silent majority." Most don't care that much about the cover but rather what's on the disc inside the packaging.

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#545 Post by Morbii » Sun Oct 22, 2017 6:09 pm

I don’t care about the cover, per se (it won’t cause me to skip out on something I want, though I guess could prevent a complete blind buy which might be driven by the cover/title to begin with). However, I still like to comment on them from time to time!

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#546 Post by Feego » Sun Oct 22, 2017 6:55 pm

By the images shown on Amazon, the Breakfast Club Blu-ray will not feature the "TBC" logo at the bottom like the DVD. Not important, just something I noticed.

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#547 Post by Graphist » Thu Oct 26, 2017 9:19 pm

Maybe it was Lynch’s last word about the cover artwork for each of his releases.

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#548 Post by cdnchris » Thu Oct 26, 2017 9:58 pm

The Philadelphia Story

It also comes with a booklet.

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#549 Post by Gregory » Fri Oct 27, 2017 12:18 am

Between the cover and that choice for the inside image, they're really showing off all that this film has to offer visually.

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#550 Post by HitchcockLang » Mon Oct 30, 2017 8:58 am

I may be in the minority, but I miss the blue cover.

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