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

[Saturnome]

What the heck? It's not like the fact that there's 23 films is relevant enough to make it into the cover that way... It's more of a cute thing to put somewhere inside.
I want the original back. It's my sure buy of april please!

Though I'm glad that now I know that 23 sideway makes NW. Fun. No one will see that 23 in stores.

[swo17]

Not to mention, what are they going to do if they happen to secure the rights to a couple more of his films? Calling all seahorses! Time for a new formation!

P.S. In preparation for this joke, I noticed that IMDb only credits Painlevé with having directed 28 films in total. So this would constitute virtually all of his work. Does anyone know a) if IMDb is reasonably accurate, and b) what's holding Criterion back from releasing an entire career retrospective?

[Matt]

Does anyone know a) if IMDb is reasonably accurate, and b) what's holding Criterion back from releasing an entire career retrospective?

Wikipedia says he did over 200 films. Guess it comes down to which user-contributed content you are going to trust. NW!

[swo17]

I consider both IMDb and Wikipedia to be the unvarnished truth, so it stands to reason that he directed both more than 200 and only 28 films. Though that still leaves unanswered the question of why didn't Criterion choose not to include all not-172 of them.

[Schkura]

I consider both IMDb and Wikipedia to be the unvarnished truth, so it stands to reason that he directed both more than 200 and only 28 films. Though that still leaves unanswered the question of why didn't Criterion choose not to include all not-172 of them.

Because having that many fucking seahorses on a DVD cover would just be silly. ](*,)

[tholly]

Just sent this e-mail to Mulvaney:

What happened to the Science Is Fiction cover?!? Yesterday it looked amazing. I had decided I was going to pre-order it just for the cover alone, films unseen. It was easily one of the best artworks Criterion has ever done. Then, I sign on your site today and see this horrible cover that looks like a 5th grade art project. Why is Criterion starting to tease us with awesome artwork only to take it away. You did this to us with White Dog as well.

Please consider returning the old artwork and getting rid of this 12 Monkeys knock-off artwork.

Also, I am not alone in my views. Please see what others are saying at the CriterionForum.org website.

[criterionsnob]

Well, what do you know, they switched it back already.

[karmajuice]

I had a feeling it might, this time around. This honestly felt like a joke.

PS: Haha, I like that The Life Aquatic is considered a "Related Film".

[TheGodfather]

That does look better indeed. Worthy of a purchase just for the cover!

[Tom Hagen]

This had to be some sort of horrible swimminghorses-related joke to alievate some boredom in the Criterion offices on the Friday before a three day weekend.

[domino harvey]

This should prove for any doubters that Criterion reads this board. So, hello Criterion and thank for switching it back. Now, how 'bout releasing those Chabrol titles you guys are sitting on for Christ's sake

[swo17]

[cough]Last Year at Marienbad[/cough]

[Tom Hagen]

[cough]Last Year at Marienbad[/cough]

I bet we see it in May. The Rialto showings winding down, the recent blog post about Resnais, etc. all point that way.

[Anhedionisiac]

Criterion, we love you! Thanks for listening!
Can I have your autograph?

[arsonfilms]

Thank god... Not that this wasn't an essential purchase even with the crappy other cover, but now I really can't wait to buy this.

[Saturnome]

I haven't seen anybody mention the Empire of Passion cover yet, I guess it just went up:
[img]http://criterion_production.s3.amazonaws.com/release_images/2086/468_box_348x490.jpg[/img]

[mfunk9786]

That may be my favorite of all four home run covers this month. Just gorgeous.

[domino harvey]

To tie the two covers together, I assume that what they're looking down is a giant urethra?

[Saturnome]

Looks good, but... Why does the ladder simply vanish (it looks like so)? There's also something that appears as a visible cut on the right of the image at the same level where the ladder disappear, and the bottom part of the image is copy-pasted from above.
Edit:picture of what I'm talking about

[eez28]

Crap, I missed what the new Painlevé cover looked like. Can anyone repost it that saved t?

[Antoine Doinel]

....I guess they all couldn't be perfect covers.

[TheGodfather]

That may be my favorite of all four home run covers this month. Just gorgeous.

agreed

[klee13]

Crap, I missed what the new Painlevé cover looked like. Can anyone repost it that saved t?

[eez28]

Crap, I missed what the new Painlevé cover looked like. Can anyone repost it that saved t?

Now I wish I had never seen that

[domino harvey]

I hate when a great post like that ends up on the bottom of a page