Criterion Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.1

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#251 Post by **cdnchris** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:31 pm

Michael wrote:The cover of Divorce Italian Style alone makes me want to order it.

That's exactly what I thought! It could be the biggest turd in the collection and I'd still buy it blind just based on that cover!

Martha · #252 Post by **Martha** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:49 pm

Those are both fantastic. I want to hang out with the artist for Divorce.

Lino · #253 Post by **Lino** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:50 pm

Love the Orson Welles one! Moo-dee!! =P~

J M Powell · #254 Post by **J M Powell** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:13 pm

matt wrote:Divorce Italian Style? Hands down, the best Criterion cover ever. No contest, no question. Anyone know who the artist is?

Looks like Jaime Hernandez to me.

Alonzo the Armless · Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:35 pm

I love both covers too! Two completely different looks keeping Criterion from having a "house style."

Woland · #256 Post by **Woland** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:35 pm

Just wanted to chime in and voice my adulation of the Divorce Italian Style cover. I like it so much that I'm defying my non-posting policy.

Lemdog · #257 Post by **Lemdog** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:04 pm

I love both of the covers. A good change after a few of the stinkers that have poped up in recent months.

Cinephrenic · #258 Post by **Cinephrenic** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 10:24 pm

Love the Divorce cover too. So far the best this year.

Eric · #259 Post by **Eric** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 10:26 pm

Did I miss the part where someone mentioned the (probably not finalized) cover art for the Wajda box on DVDempire?

Alonzo the Armless · Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:43 pm

I like that cover. Has a Saul Bass look to it.

#261 Post by **zedz** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:15 am

Weird that this is up on DVDEmpire and not on Criterion, but it looks great. Obviously Ashes & Diamonds is the selling point of this set!

Tribe · #262 Post by **Tribe** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:24 am

That sure does look like Jaime Hernandez' work....do you guys really think it's his though?

Tribe

godardslave · #263 Post by **godardslave** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:50 am

zedz wrote:Weird that this is up on DVDEmpire and not on Criterion, but it looks great.

maybe criterion are still finalizing the individual films covers, and want to wait until they are all ready before posting them.

edit: By the way, it is a very good cover, so i hope its "official", and they keep it.

#264 Post by **zedz** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:53 am

Tribe wrote:That sure does look like Jaime Hernandez' work....do you guys really think it's his though?

Tribe

Without a doubt it's Jaime's. (Or Criterion have bought themselves a major lawsuit)

Gregory · #265 Post by **Gregory** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 2:55 am

Divorce Italian Style is by Jaime Hernandez (if any further confirmation was needed) -- and I love it!

About the Wajda cover art: it sure doesn't appear to be by the artist that Mulvaney said was doing it (the link is earlier in this thread).

yumitree · #266 Post by **yumitree** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 3:47 am

Gregory wrote:About the Wajda cover art: it sure doesn't appear to be by the artist that Mulvaney said was doing it (the link is earlier in this thread).

maybe that was (one of) the reason(s) for the delay.

the two official covers this month are amazing, and i like the wadja box, but it looks a little wide to me and that dvd logo is horribly placed (and probably one of the reasons the image looks too wide).

colinr0380 · #267 Post by **colinr0380** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 9:58 am

I really like the April covers! Does anyone else think that on the Divorce Italian Style cover the lady being blasted off in the rocket in the top middle row is a sly nod to Solaris?

Or am I reading too much into the covers now!

J M Powell · #268 Post by **J M Powell** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 2:09 pm

colinr0380 wrote:Does anyone else think that on the Divorce Italian Style cover the lady being blasted off in the rocket in the top middle row is a sly nod to Solaris?

A nod, yes, but definitely not to Solaris. (And/or it's possibly something that happens in the film -- I haven't seen it.)

porquenegar · #269 Post by **porquenegar** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 9:54 pm

Great covers on these two. That definitely looks like a Hernandez (Love and Rockets) cover. The F for Fake is is great too. I'd love to own a poster of it.

Gregory · #270 Post by **Gregory** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:02 am

A nod, yes, but definitely not to Solaris.

Bad link
EDIT: The third try was the charm.

The Fanciful Norwegian · Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:03 am

The link is good, it's just that Geocities is extremely stingy when it comes to bandwidth. Try it again tomorrow or something.

mingus · #272 Post by **mingus** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 11:52 am

j_nolan wrote:The font on the Wajda set is brutal, but otherwise, great stuff for April.

I totally agree on that.
All the text and logo parts are horribly placed and are weakening the rest of the wonderful graphic artwork.

Nevertheless: Criterion is back on track in style with their recent covers.

Theodore R. Stockton · Sun Feb 06, 2005 4:34 am

for Jules et Jim if you like the artist and don't like the cover, think of how beautiful the menue will look. I look at that more than the cover.

kevyip1 · #274 Post by **kevyip1** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 5:19 pm

The Jules and Jim cover is the latest in the collection of dismembered, discolored, and overall bizarre-looking closeups of female faces:

Steven H · #275 Post by **Steven H** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 5:33 pm

kevyip1 wrote:The Jules and Jim cover is the latest in the collection of dismembered, discolored, and overall bizarre-looking closeups of female faces

also: La Strada, Sullivan's Travels, L'avventura, Passion of Joan of Arc, In the Mood For Love, and to a lesser extent, Contempt, Rules of the Game, The Silence, and Diary of a Chambermaid. That was fun.

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