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

[mfunk9786]

You said you hope it's not like the Blu packaging, even though any idiot can see that it isn't. Not to be coarse or anything, but how many more high quality photos of the packaging does one need to be certain about what it looks like?

[Dr. Snaut]

You said you hope it's not like the Blu packaging, even though any idiot can see that it isn't. Not to be coarse or anything, but how many more high quality photos of the packaging does one need to be certain about what it looks like?

Jesus, relax. No need to attack someone based on something of very little consequence. I said it looks like The Third Man release. I didn't want to make a conclusory statement without being 100% certain. I have seen some "high quality photos" of Criterion's blu-ray releases that appear to be the same size as Criterion's DVD releases. For example, the Chungking Express blu-ray release packaging looks like the individual dvd releases' packaging within the Varda box set based on the "high quality photos", when in reality the packaging in the CE BR is much smaller. There is no need for name calling.

[gubbelsj]

In an attempt to divert rapidly escalating hurt feelings....geoffcowgill's witty X / Los Angeles reference went largely unnoticed, so here's a visual aid for the uninitiated. I laughed, at least...

[HerrSchreck]

(Schreck pounds the canvass floor of the ring with the meat of his fists in thumping rhythm:)

"Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!"

The crowd picks up the chant. Hair and teeth and fabric and spit and dust bunnies fly... It looks like Dr Snaut has landed a solid right hook on Mfunk and is going in for the second half of a one-two... but Mfunk catches him mid-throw and smashes the meat of his palm up into Snaut's chin, causing his jaws to snap shut before his tongue was tucked fully in. The tip of Snaut's tongue flops and jumps around the ring independent. Sparks explode behind Snaut's eyes as he squawks in pain and reflexively doubles over: on the way down his head whomps right into the cartilage on the bridge of Mfunks nose which was drawn forward by the throw of the chin blast.

Both men collapse to the canvass, stars and tweety birds and bubbles and frying pan pops splat and circle both their heads. The crowd boos & hisses, crying "fake!" In the ensuing mayhem someone swipes the tip of MFunks tongue. Fadeout.

[cdnchris]

Seriously, all I did was post a picture. No need to turn it into an event

[Jean-Luc Garbo]

The only thing better than finding Los Angeles by X in my Criterion would be finding Decline and Fall of Western Civilization. Kudos to geoffcowgill.

[HerrSchreck]

Mfunk, after the chin smash/tongue-bite: ..and our lovely round card girl: (hey she's gotta earn a living, and piano wasn't cutting it.)

[TheGodfather]

Excellent! great to finally see a digipack again =D>

[mfunk9786]

I'm guessing that we'll be seeing one for the Painleve and PP&P sets too. I'm also glad too see more despite the fact that I've become fond of the clear keepcases.

[fdm]

Cardboard sucks. O:)

[Dr. Snaut]

I, too, prefer the clear cases. They tend to age better than the cardboard cases. It is nice to see Criterion putting in so much effort with this release, though.

[cdnchris]

Il Generale della Rovere packaging
Danton packaging

[King Prendergast]

This has potential cover art written all over it

[mfunk9786]

This has potential cover art written all over it

Wow, I don't see that at all. At least, I hope that's not what we get, it looks awful.

[zedz]

This has potential cover art written all over it

Wow, I don't see that at all. At least, I hope that's not what we get, it looks awful.

Yeah, it would be nice to hope that Criterion can come up with something other than the giant letter Z. This just looks like the old DVD cover art but more cluttered.

(Further to that old DVD, I never noticed before that they put "WITH YELLOW SUBTITLES!" on the cover - now that's a special feature for swo17 to celebrate)

[What A Disgrace]

Maybe they'll use 23 smaller Z's to form a larger Z.

[Tom Hagen]

Maybe they'll use 23 smaller Z's to form a larger Z.

That one will never get old. The whole Painlevé Friday afternoon inside joke cover-cum-swimminghorses tribute was perhaps the single most rewarding moment of my time as a member of the forum.

[souvenir]

[arsonfilms]

I'm in. Sign me up.

[kaujot]

Package of the year.

[tholly]

Very Very Very happy I preordered that one a while ago!

[What A Disgrace]

An angel just descended from heaven and made my morning awesome.

[knives]

Ooooh.

[TheGodfather]

Looking good!

[Matt]

Are we having a contest to see who can post the most banal, useless comment?

Thank goodness the deluge of criticism of the new covers will shortly relieve us of this tedium.