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

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CSM126 · #751 Post by **CSM126** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 2:00 pm

Antoine Doinel wrote: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.

It's a movie about a white dog, and it's called white dog. Were you expecting the cover to be a picture of Burl Ives eating a steak?

Antoine Doinel · #752 Post by **Antoine Doinel** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 2:22 pm

CSM126 wrote:
Antoine Doinel wrote: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.
It's a movie about a white dog, and it's called white dog. Were you expecting the cover to be a picture of Burl Ives eating a steak?

Replace Burl Ives with Kristy McNichol and I think we have a winning cover! Where's swimminghorses when you need him.....

Via_Chicago · #753 Post by **Via_Chicago** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 2:25 pm

White Dog UK One-Sheet

C'mon you guys...

sir karl · #754 Post by **sir karl** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 2:43 pm

It always reminds me of this picture when I think of White Dog:

But I like Criterion's cover, alright.

s.j. bagley · #755 Post by **s.j. bagley** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:03 pm

the cover for 'white dog' is absolutely perfect for it.
the 'europa' cover isn't really to my liking, however.
it seems... unfinished.
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also, i like the thought of saying 'they've swimminghorsed my kevyip, this month!'

#756 Post by **Matt** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:07 pm

s.j. bagley wrote:also, i like the thought of saying 'they've swimminghorsed my kevyip, this month!'

They've badly designed the covers of your unwatched DVDs? I suppose it works.

#757 Post by **Finch** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:37 pm

The UK poster for WHITE DOG is excellent: assuming that Criterion were aware of it, I can't fathom why they didn't use that as their artwork. MoC do it almost all the time and consistently produce very good covers. CC's WHITE DOG cover is inferior to the UK poster in every respect (their title font is awful and far too large, even the dog looks a lot less menacing).

EUROPA's cover is even worse than the November output and that's saying something. Off-hand I can only think of four covers that really stuck with me this year (Vampyr, High & Low, The Furies, Patriotism). Yup, 4 decent covers in 12 months - it can hardly get any worse in 2009.

#-o

#758 Post by **mfunk9786** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:54 pm

I really like the White Dog cover, it's absolutely appropriate for that release.

So are we to assume there'll be no Eclipse set or re-releases for the month of December?

Narshty · #759 Post by **Narshty** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:36 pm

Mr Finch wrote:The UK poster for WHITE DOG is excellent: assuming that Criterion were aware of it, I can't fathom why they didn't use that as their artwork. MoC do it almost all the time and consistently produce very good covers. CC's WHITE DOG cover is inferior to the UK poster in every respect (their title font is awful and far too large, even the dog looks a lot less menacing).

The dog also looks like the offspring of a badger and a rat.

TheGodfather · #760 Post by **TheGodfather** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:21 pm

Matt wrote:
Murdoch wrote: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.

yeah my thoughts exactly. Love the White Dog cover!

justeleblanc · #761 Post by **justeleblanc** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:23 pm

Can someone explain to me why the Ophuls are all super thin digipaks? They each resemble an individual disc in the Rohmer box. Will Criterion's Lola DVD come with a box that you can put them all in?

Cinephrenic · #762 Post by **Cinephrenic** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:35 pm

justeleblanc wrote:Can someone explain to me why the Ophuls are all super thin digipaks? They each resemble an individual disc in the Rohmer box. Will Criterion's Lola DVD come with a box that you can put them all in?

That would be a logical assessment. That was Criterion's original plan (a boxset), but new restoration or rights issues that we don't really know of caused them to release the films that they had already prepared. We will most likely see a set with Lola as well as the titles individually available.

godardslave · #763 Post by **godardslave** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:09 am

Harmonov wrote: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.

"My kevyip contains a lot of swimminghorsed covers, interestingly enough."

Soon, we will be able to contruct whole sentences and paragraphs using only crazy/weird member's names.

CSM126 · #764 Post by **CSM126** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:43 am

justeleblanc wrote:Can someone explain to me why the Ophuls are all super thin digipaks?

Well, Madame De... includes a copy of the original novel, making a digi-sleeve necessary to house it. Presumably Le Plaisir and La Ronde were also packaged in digis to keep a consistent style across the three simultaneous releases.

#765 Post by **mfunk9786** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 3:17 pm

I never get responses back from Mulvaney, I e-mailed him about receiving a damaged case a month ago, nothing.

kinjitsu · #766 Post by **kinjitsu** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 3:31 pm

I wouldn't expect them to replace a damaged case unless it's a digipak, but they will always replace a defective DVD, damaged booklet or sleeve.

#767 Post by **mfunk9786** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 3:35 pm

kinjitsu wrote:I wouldn't expect them to replace a damaged case unless it's a digipak, but they will always replace a defective DVD, damaged booklet or sleeve.

It's a digipak. I just re-e-mailed him and got a reply in seconds. Hmm.

Antoine Doinel · #768 Post by **Antoine Doinel** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 3:35 pm

They don't replace cases. I emailed when my In The Mood For Love case arrived with broken tabs and they regretfully informed me that do not replace those. I would be surprised if they replace digipaks as those are even more easily damaged during shipment.

souvenir · #769 Post by **souvenir** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:41 pm

This is on the Rialto site, but it's in the same style as the Criterion Ophuls releases so that box is looking more and more likely:

TheGodfather · #770 Post by **TheGodfather** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 5:55 pm

souvenir wrote:This is on the Rialto site, but it's in the same style as the Criterion Ophuls releases so that box is looking more and more likely

would love to see that happening. Looks like an excellent cover.

kaujot · #771 Post by **kaujot** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 6:01 pm

This Lola/box-set speculation is putting me off purchasing any of the Ophuls. Though I might have to spring for Earrings anyway, and just suck it up when/if the boxset comes.

godardslave · #772 Post by **godardslave** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 9:57 pm

kaujot wrote:This Lola/box-set speculation is putting me off purchasing any of the Ophuls. Though I might have to spring for Earrings anyway, and just suck it up when/if the boxset comes.

If Crtierion do eventually release the Ophuls releases as a box set with Lola Montes added in, i would hope they provide the option to buy/email in for the box separately, at the least thats what they should do.

ianungstad · #773 Post by **ianungstad** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 3:13 am

Here is a peek at the Blu-Ray packaging of The Last Emperor. I'm sure it'll initate a bitch fest.

#774 Post by **domino harvey** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 3:18 am

I doubt there'll be any bitchfests, seeing as how it's a placeholder mockup made by one of DVDAf's users

Cinephrenic · #775 Post by **Cinephrenic** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 3:58 am

That's clearly fake. Besides, Criterion said their packaging will be same, but smaller to the size of the Blu-ray.

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