Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol. 7
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SOTL is ok, I guess but it’s too cute for my tastes. A Rorschach blot made of blood doesn’t even seem to connect with the film (unless we just assume Lecter used Rorschachs on his patients, I guess?). I would’ve preferred either the poster art or even criterion’s simple-but-effective laserdisc cover art (Clarice looking through the glass with Lecter reflected so he seems to be peering over her shoulder).
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It's meant to be the death's-head hawkmoth from the film mixed with blood. It's one of the most astoundingly simple things Criterion could have done. Unless someone wanted lambs with duct taped mouths as the cover.
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You know you've been spoiled by Arrow Video when you look at the specs for Night of the Living Dead and go "where's the 100 page hardback book?!"
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Goddammit.Boosmahn wrote:Both Night of the Living Dead and Silence of the Lambs will be.Ribs wrote:Night of the Living Dead is surely a digipak, right?
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I’m aware. I still think it’s too cute.Big Ben wrote:It's meant to be the death's-head hawkmoth from the film mixed with blood. It's one of the most astoundingly simple things Criterion could have done. Unless someone wanted lambs with duct taped mouths as the cover.
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I’ve come to accept that most Criterion art is gonna be terrible, and while this new batch is no exception for the most part, I feel like it should only be Ben and Barbara on the Living Dead cover.
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In contrast, I think it would be better with just the hands.
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Image 2 is just perfect. By comparison the actual cover feels very cluttered.Glowingwabbit wrote:Image 2 would have been a better cover.dwk wrote:Image 2
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Image 2 is basically the cover for the Mill Creek Blu-ray that just came out.
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Silence of the Lambs is awful. That could've been the poster for a dozen cheap horror movies, or maybe a new season of AHS, but it's just not SOTL.
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That looks great!
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Agreed. Someone email Mulvaney stat!
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Yes, I agree with another poster about it being a death’s-head hawkmoth, but with a twist depicting it as a Rorschach ink drawing to echo the psychological undertones in the film. It is one of the best recent covers, though the type could have been a bit smaller in relation to the illustration. (I wonder if a black background would have looked much better though.)CSM126 wrote:SOTL is ok, I guess but it’s too cute for my tastes. A Rorschach blot made of blood doesn’t even seem to connect with the film (unless we just assume Lecter used Rorschachs on his patients, I guess?). I would’ve preferred either the poster art or even criterion’s simple-but-effective laserdisc cover art (Clarice looking through the glass with Lecter reflected so he seems to be peering over her shoulder).
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Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol. 7
I like the inside drawings much better than the cover one.
The Tom Jones cover feels unfinished and that typeface goes neither with the film nor with that particular drawing.
A bit upset Malle’s film did not get a new cover.
The Tom Jones cover feels unfinished and that typeface goes neither with the film nor with that particular drawing.
A bit upset Malle’s film did not get a new cover.
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It strikes me as a less successful version of the Don't Look Now cover's approach.Graphist wrote:Yes, I agree with another poster about it being a death’s-head hawkmoth, but with a twist depicting it as a Rorschach ink drawing to echo the psychological undertones in the film. It is one of the best recent covers, though the type could have been a bit smaller in relation to the illustration. (I wonder if a black background would have looked much better though.)CSM126 wrote:SOTL is ok, I guess but it’s too cute for my tastes. A Rorschach blot made of blood doesn’t even seem to connect with the film (unless we just assume Lecter used Rorschachs on his patients, I guess?). I would’ve preferred either the poster art or even criterion’s simple-but-effective laserdisc cover art (Clarice looking through the glass with Lecter reflected so he seems to be peering over her shoulder).
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Hoo boy, Election's a *real* miss altogether.
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Monterey Pop, however, is even better than I thought. The liner art reminds me of the freakout scene from Belladonna Of Sadness.
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This is one where it's even worse when you have it in your hands.Ribs wrote:Hoo boy, Election's a *real* miss altogether.
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Is Election a booklet or fold out?
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It's a fold out