Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.4

[Tootletron]

Madame de. . . . - very attractive . I'm guessing, however, that there's going to be plenty of bitching and moaning about La Ronde and Le Plaisir, as they're both skinny digipacks, à la the individual Vardas, but they slide vertically into thin cardboard sleeves - not the kind of doubled (folded) stock that's been used, say, for a title like Patriotism, to give the packaging some heft, but rather a single sheet, like that used for the much-maligned Milestone Killer of Sheep.

I have no clue what the skinny digipaks look like for the Varda films and Killer of Sheep, the only one with skinny digipaks I am familiar with is Three Films by Teshigahara. Is it going to be like that?

[kaujot]

I have no clue what the skinny digipaks look like for the Varda films and Killer of Sheep, the only one with skinny digipaks I am familiar with is Three Films by Teshigahara. Is it going to be like that?

I think he's referring to the Sansho digipak.

[arsonfilms]

[Murdoch]

The Europa cover makes me want to go out and buy it right now, but the White Dog seems like a fan cover.

[Matt]

The Europa cover makes me want to go out and buy it right now, but the White Dog seems like a fan cover.

Funny, I was going to say exactly the opposite.

[colinr0380]

Really like the Europa cover - as well as relating in to an early sequence of the train map printed on a sheet of glass it also beautifully prepares the audience for the various layers of imagery and superimpositions in the film. Even the rather fake seeming out of focus shot of Jean-Marc Barr ties in with the rear screen projection.

You know, this would be a great title to have a transparent slip cover with the train map on similar to the Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas cover.

[foggy eyes]

The Europa cover makes me want to go out and buy it right now, but the White Dog seems like a fan cover.

Other way round, surely? The Europa one looks an awful lot like all those shitty fan covers in that 'fake' thread. The White Dog cover is rather silly, but I don't mind (it promises that a copy of White Dog is inside, and that's good enough).

[pmunger]

The Europa cover sure reminds me of The Milky Way one.

[swo17]

Really like the Europa cover - as well as relating in to an early sequence of the train map printed on a sheet of glass it also beautifully prepares the audience for the various layers of imagery and superimpositions in the film.

I like how the White Dog cover prepares the audience for getting conjunctivitis.

[Via_Chicago]

Just FYI, the image of the dog on the White Dog cover is taken from the original poster art of the film. It also fits the film's brash, in-your-face style.

[Tootletron]

The Europa cover makes me want to go out and buy it right now, but the White Dog seems like a fan cover.

Other way round, surely? The Europa one looks an awful lot like all those shitty fan covers in that 'fake' thread. The White Dog cover is rather silly, but I don't mind (it promises that a copy of White Dog is inside, and that's good enough).

This is pretty much how I feel. Europa looks like an amateur photoshop. I imagine it's easier to appreciate if you've seen the film, but the cover doesn't really inspire me to do so.

[Murdoch]

I suppose I'm biased against White Dog having not liked the film. I'm sold on Europa I guess more for the still at the CC website than the cover itself, but I do love the cover's placement of the title and the overall design. And at this point can't you argue any of the covers look like photoshop?

[jon]

White Dog is pretty cool, but Europa is terrible. Like someone just wrote, it reminds me of the Milky Way. I dislike it intensely. Definitely a piece of bad fan art.

p.s. the Europa fan art in the "Fake Criterion Covers" thread is much nicer

[Lino]

The Europa cover makes me want to go out and buy it right now, but the White Dog seems like a fan cover.

Funny, I was going to say exactly the opposite.

Same here. The White Dog one is superb.

[dx23]

Did Criterion hire swimminghorses for the Europa cover?

[Luke M]

I have no clue what the skinny digipaks look like for the Varda films and Killer of Sheep, the only one with skinny digipaks I am familiar with is Three Films by Teshigahara. Is it going to be like that?

Yes, I got these 3 today. They're skinny digipacks like most of Criterion's box sets. It's possibly the worst packaging for individual release we've ever had. Cheers!

[Antoine Doinel]

SERIOUSLY?!!?

domino harvey is going to collapse in on himself like a dying star when he sees this.

[domino harvey]

You rang?

The White Dog cover is more or less exactly what I imagined... would probably look better if the dog was more cartoony (something about the mouth looks off), but as it is it's not bad. That Europa cover though, holy cat, it's a good thing anyone who wants it already knows to get the boxed set because that really does look like a swimminghorses cover

[luridedith]

They BOTH look like swimminghorses covers, much more amateur looking than last month's much hated cover art (even though I may have been the only one to actually not mind them). These ones can be fixed though, I would get rid of the black specks on the font of the title of White Dog and on the Europa cover I'd get rid of the bad blurred effect on the face (haven't seen the film, don't know if its a screenshot) and the shitty gradient effect on the font.

Damn, I wish this month would have been Last Year At Marienbad & The Cook, Thief, Wife & His Lover.

[Harmonov]

Will a new verb emerge from this forum? Swimminghorsed? Like Munsoned from Kingpin?

I can see it now, "Jesus, Criterion really swimminghorsed the Ozu covers this month, didn't they?"

This term will now be a permanent part of my vocabulary.

[swo17]

I would prefer it find popularity as a pejorative, as in sweet swimming horses the covers are awful this month.

[Tootletron]

And at this point can't you argue any of the covers look like photoshop?

I'm not arguing that it's a photoshop. They all are. I'm saying that it looks like an amateur photoshop. It really does look like something out of the Fake Criterion thread. Unless I misunderstood what you were saying.

I dig the White Dog cover okay, though.

[CSM126]

White Dog is exactly what I expected, and that's a good thing. Short of using an actual still of the blood-soaked dog in the movie (which probably would have incurred the misguided wrath of animal rights loons), the cartooned picture is an excellent image to use.

To tell you the truth, though, they could have packaged it in a brown paper bag and I'd still be happy just to have the movie at all. I'm sick of my nth-generation bootleg.

[Antoine Doinel]

I'm honestly surprised at the tolerance for White Dog cover. As if having the title in gigantic white letters isn't enough, we get a pretty poor illustration of a white dog to drive home the point, yes, this is a movie about a dog.

Frankly, that cover isn't too far removed from this:

[mfunk9786]

I really wish the White Dog cover said "Get Ready for Mush Hour".