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karmajuice
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#826 Post by karmajuice »

But wouldn't that completely contradict the notion of the dog going from calm to furious? Going from fury to calm is hardly interesting.
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kidc85
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#827 Post by kidc85 »

pianocrash wrote:Image
Awesome. This needs to be their next release.
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domino harvey
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#828 Post by domino harvey »

White Jules and Jim Dog sounds like an awesome new Ebony and Ivory R&B duo
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Jeff
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#829 Post by Jeff »

domino harvey wrote:White Jules and Jim Dog sounds like an awesome new Ebony and Ivory R&B duo
I was thinking the same thing, but "Dog" should be spelled "Dawg." They would make good "buddy-cops" too.
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Dante Vescio
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#830 Post by Dante Vescio »

karmajuice wrote:But wouldn't that completely contradict the notion of the dog going from calm to furious? Going from fury to calm is hardly interesting.
Agreed. It's just that the previous cover was better so I just thought it could come as the first. But either way would be fine by me, just as long as they include that cover, which was far better than the new one.

Oh well...
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TheGodfather
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#831 Post by TheGodfather »

Street Dude wrote:I like the new, white artwork better now.
Yup me too. Good thing they changed it, I think.
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Harmonov
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#832 Post by Harmonov »

Perhaps the "old cover" will be in artwork inside the disc, especially if it's a digipak. Then you could have the calm white outside and the black rage inside. Makes sense, no?
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#833 Post by The Glue Man »

pianocrash wrote:Image
WIN :D

Personally I quite like the new cover. The old one looked like a halfhearted version of that poster art, and as such, IMO, it's better to have something completely different...

Re the Europa cover (not THAT bad but the fan cover posted elsewhere was better), I never realised before just how *bad* the Milky Way cover was until now, seeing it next to Europa... thank goodness I have the Optimum Bunuel box!
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#834 Post by domino harvey »

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#835 Post by domino harvey »

BEAUTIFUL cover for MO. Criterion finally got a period cover right! =D>

All three look great actually. Sorry to disappoint my negativity junkies
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#836 Post by denti alligator »

I like all three of them. A lot.

So wait: no Magnificent Obsessions on Blu-ray?
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#837 Post by zedz »

I like all of them (but I'm notoriously unfussy), particularly the austere Rossellini one, a pretty bold design decision.
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#838 Post by Finch »

That cover for Magnificent Obsession is a beauty. =D>

The El Norte and Rossellini artwork are not to be sniffed at, either. Let this sink in for a moment: the covers aren't just alright but genuinely good across the board. I'm positively shocked.
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#839 Post by domino harvey »

Mr Finch wrote:That cover for Magnificent Obsession is a beauty. =D>

The El Norte and Rossellini artwork are not to be sniffed at, either. Let this sink in for a moment: the covers aren't just alright but genuinely good across the board. I'm positively shocked.
Thank you Criterion for listening to us bitch and clearly making a positive step forward. Look at even the extras for these: brilliant stuff! =D>
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#840 Post by Musashi219 »

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#841 Post by souvenir »

I also like the Magnificent Obsession cover, but it's very close to the existing R2
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#842 Post by jaredsap »

souvenir wrote:I also like the Magnificent Obsession cover, but it's very close to the existing R2
That's because the image is essentially the original one-sheet.
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#843 Post by domino harvey »

Because when the original is so perfect, no need to fuck around. See: White Dog
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HerrSchreck
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#844 Post by HerrSchreck »

Ditto. Sometimes they want to be too "Criterion"y, and they feel the need to honor their art dept/contractors rather than the film and it's visual history. This (the Sirk) is almost a page from the MoC playbook... and it works really well.

Nice to see some indispensible stuff getting ready to hit shelves.
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#845 Post by colinr0380 »

The Criterion cover is better laid out though - I like the way she is gazing at the wacky C!

Also liking the burgundy and gold of the Rossellini Eclipse set.
HerrSchreck wrote:Nice to see some indispensible stuff getting ready to hit shelves.
But aren't these all color films? :wink:
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#846 Post by domino harvey »

The MO reminds me in style and even in font of the best cover from this year, also from January: Miss Julie
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Finch
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#847 Post by Finch »

The artwork for the Eclipse sets would be so much stronger if they just picked one image from each film, filled the entire page with it and put the title with the caption "a film by" on top of it. This almost blank page with a small-sized stretch of pictures in the centre is totally unappealing. The only exceptions are the Late Ozu covers. Even with Eclipse being the "low-budget" sibling of the main line, the artwork still could and should look a great deal better than the current output, the new Rossellini set included.
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#848 Post by domino harvey »

That's not the only one. Plenty of the Eclipse sets have big pics (Fuller, Klein, Mizo, Late Ozu, Shepitko) and the other half have the little strip of pics. I agree that the bigger pic is better but it's by no means a rarity
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#849 Post by Finch »

Re Fuller/Klein/Mizo/Shepitko: should have remembered those #-o
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HerrSchreck
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#850 Post by HerrSchreck »

colinr0380 wrote:
HerrSchreck wrote:Nice to see some indispensible stuff getting ready to hit shelves.
But aren't these all color films? :wink:
(Reclines back in chair... taps cathedral of ten fingertips together repeatedly, while chewing inner lip... Lightbulb appears over head.)

"aha!"

(Types furiously:)

TECHNICOLOR IS NOT 'COLOR'
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