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domino harvey
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#226 Post by domino harvey »

I like the canted title card, not a big fan of the wasted space
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Derek Estes
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#227 Post by Derek Estes »

I second that. I find the template to be quite simple and lovely. Dead space is alive and well, and living at Eclipse!
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#228 Post by TheGodfather »

Very simple and stylish. Love it
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#229 Post by sevenarts »

yea i love the design, and the idea of keeping it basically the same from one box to the next. i can see a whole shelf full of eclipse titles in my future.
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#230 Post by Jem »

domino harvey wrote:I like the canted title card, not a big fan of the wasted space
Yeah, why don't we fill it full of skywriting!
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#231 Post by criterionsnob »

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#232 Post by domino harvey »

criterionsnob wrote:Vengeance is Mine
that's the first cover in months that feels like a real Criterion and not someone from the .com forum's fan art
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#233 Post by Cinephrenic »

Everything I would ask for. All beautiful, expecially Army of Shadows and Sansho!!!
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#234 Post by Lino »

Sansho's is gorgeous.
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#235 Post by denti alligator »

Vengeance is Mine is ok. The MoC is, I think, much better.
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#236 Post by Andre Jurieu »

denti alligator wrote:Vengeance is Mine is ok. The MoC is, I think, much better.
I actually enjoy the Criterion version much more.
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#237 Post by Matt »

That Vengeance is Mine cover is hot! I'm not crazy about the Army of Shadows cover though. The gradient in the title text is so Macromedia Freehand 1995. I wish they could have done something similar to the way the text in the title card appears.
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#238 Post by Narshty »

Army of Shadows looks rotten. Really, really bad. He looks like he's been tortured with MS Paintbox. I do like Vengeance is Mine, even though it has a certain colouring of the Lord of War poster. Sansho is kinda blah, and I realise they have to produce a new cover for The Third Man, but losing the iconic shot of Welles in the doorway and replacing it with something that could just as well be The Signalman is a shame.

I'm not really fussed about any of the releases this month since they all (or will soon) have very high quality editions in the UK. The monthly rush has passed.
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#239 Post by scalesojustice »

i think i prefer the MoC "Vengence" cover to the criterion, but the criterion cover is one that i wouldn't mind of other people saw that i owned it. that MoC one makes me nervous.
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#240 Post by TheGodfather »

Other than Vengeance is Mine (from wich I like the MoC version better) I love all the other 3 covers! All brilliant!
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#241 Post by tryavna »

There's something about the starkness of the cover for Army of Shadows that works for me. Not great like the one for Sansho, but effective. (The swastika on the floor may be a little over-the-top, though.)
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#242 Post by TheGodfather »

tryavna wrote: (The swastika on the floor may be a little over-the-top, though.)
I actually like that
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#243 Post by Narshty »

TheGodfather wrote:
tryavna wrote: (The swastika on the floor may be a little over-the-top, though.)
I actually like that
What all that wasted blue space needs is a nice Hitler mugshot.
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#244 Post by Nihonophile »

One thing that makes the new Third Man cover better than the original is that it keeps with the spirit of the film about the mystery enshrouding who the third man is. The original cover, which I adore, does ruin the movie's key scene for the uninitiated.
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#245 Post by justeleblanc »

Matt wrote:That Vengeance is Mine cover is hot! I'm not crazy about the Army of Shadows cover though. The gradient in the title text is so Macromedia Freehand 1995. I wish they could have done something similar to the way the text in the title card appears.
What, and the title card isn't so 1985 stencil?

Am I the only one who likes the cover? I think it goes hand in hand with the stylized world of Melville's films.
Nihonophile wrote:One thing that makes the new Third Man cover better than the original is that it keeps with the spirit of the film about the mystery enshrouding who the third man is. The original cover, which I adore, does ruin the movie's key scene for the uninitiated.
It feels very Dead Zone to me.
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#246 Post by TheGodfather »

justeleblanc wrote:Am I the only one who likes the cover?
Nope, I love the cover. And I`m sure we`re not alone ;)
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#247 Post by Matt »

Posted in the Army of Shadows thread (by people who ought to know better):
Buttery Jeb wrote:Looking forward to this disc. Shame the artwork is so weak; but I think the style might come out better on a digipak. God I hope it does, at least.
justeleblanc wrote:The artwork is great, BJ. Were you hoping for a gun?
Buttery Jeb wrote:I dunno... maybe it's the awkward blue-on-blue-on-blue color scheme. Or the use of the shackled prisoner that, while iconic for the film, seems to be the only image anyone ever uses for it (the BFI disc has roughly the same image as its cover; and virtually every review I read when the film was reissued used it as well). As I said, the texture given the art by being printed on a Digipak might help; but, looking at it on a computer screen leaves me cold.

Again, this is all personal preference on my part, and I'll be picking this up regardless of what it looks like. The artwork just doesn't work for me, and it's probably my least favorite cover from Criterion in a while.
jbeall wrote:I agree that the artwork seems underwhelming. I think they want it to look similar to Le Cercle Rouge. I don't think it's bad per se, but they've had some fantastic covers lately (Green for Danger, 49th Parallel) that I feel kinda let down by this one. Doesn't matter, I'll still buy it. I'm even more excited about this purchase now that I've seen the features.
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#248 Post by JabbaTheSlut »

I have pretended for years that the CC covers don't matter, but now I have to come out of the closet. The Fucking Army of Shadows and Bailiff covers are ugly.
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#249 Post by Anthony »

I like all the new CC covers. I don't know what some people are complaining about. I like the minimalistic look... less is more.
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#250 Post by JabbaTheSlut »

Yap, Ok less is more and more is less. Call me a luddite but the quick-cheap-sterile-computer-freehand-so-'98-style doesn't look too good to me. Lazy stuff. Not minimalistic at all, I find. Just sparse, undefined and quite uninspired. It's semi-Ok, but the CC looks have been better in the past. But... the film is a masterpiece and this babble is just babble.
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