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

[Jeff]

Of course, nine times out of ten the quotes only show up on the sell sheets and not on the physical packaging.

Yes, they always put pull quotes on the sell sheets. The purpose of which is to encourage vendors to order their product. They never show up on the actual package art, and will not even be on the final art when Criterion puts it up on thier site. Remember that the final art for A Christmas Tale will probably not look anything like that.

[TheGodfather]

Good to see that Human Condition is a digi, allthough I expected it to be more like the Monterey/ BRD trilogy kind of packaging.
And an only 12 page booklet is a bit of dissapointment...

[OliverB]

Chould we start petitioning Criterion now to use the original poster art work for Stagecoach and not some stinko "artfully intended" digital rendering?!?


Example 1

Example 2


Please and Thank you, Criterion!!!

[fiddlesticks]

I'll be happy if they just leave the saddles off the coach horses.

[OliverB]

fixed the size!

[Jeff]

I imagine that this is a case where Criterion will intentionally avoid the poster art in order to distinguish their disc from the Warner one.

[OliverB]

But there were MANY designs used to market this great film and Warners choice of sourcing vintage art work was not necessarily the top pick either as evidenced by the two links posted above. Both of which are entirely distinctive and different from Warners set. Printed on a digipak cover, either one among a number of other choices would look absolutely fabulous!

I'm sending my request in to Mulvaney anyways... it can't hurt!

[Feego]

I imagine they may use a still shot, as they did with Young Mr. Lincoln.

[domino harvey]

A drawn cover by the Heaven Can Wait/Amarcord artist would be fun-- a lot of memorable characters in Stagecoach after all

[OliverB]

Nothing drawn could surpass what's already been... and it would be in better taste to use what was used to market the film to audiences back then and pay homage to the wonderful and often unheralded artists of the time. Those stills like Young Mr. Lincoln are terrible. Criterion needs to take a cue from MOC for this film. If any of the upcoming releases are deserving, surely it's this!

[sidehacker]

A drawn cover by the Heaven Can Wait/Amarcord artist would be fun-- a lot of memorable characters in Stagecoach after all

Yes, this would be great.

[aox]

A drawn cover by the Heaven Can Wait/Amarcord artist would be fun-- a lot of memorable characters in Stagecoach after all

Where were they when it was time for the Salo reissue? huh?

[Magic Hate Ball]

A drawn cover by the Heaven Can Wait/Amarcord artist would be fun-- a lot of memorable characters in Stagecoach after all

Where were they when it was time for the Salo reissue? huh?

He probably balked at the idea of doing a three-panel spread of children bathing in feces.

[domino harvey]

She

[Flike]

She.

[Napier]

I love the Amarcord art work. I purchased one of the art prints from Criterion, and have it framed amongst the other film posters in my house. I can't tell you how many people comment on it even though they know nothing about the film. So I am in agreement that Caitlin Kuhwald would probably do a bang up job on the Stagecoach cover.

[Chull]

A drawn cover by the Heaven Can Wait/Amarcord artist would be fun-- a lot of memorable characters in Stagecoach after all

Please, please, please don't let this happen. I think those covers are some of the worst in the collection. (Thief of Bagdad slightly less so.)

[domino harvey]

Go away

[swo17]

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But how will people know the old French lady is in it?

[Derek Estes]

The Heaven Can Wait cover is Vile, it looks like something in an Avon catalog, it almost smells of potpourri.

[mfunk9786]

That Christmas Tale cover is awful on an epic scale. Wow. Almost swimminghorses-level.

[CSM126]

...and then when we actually get it in our hands it'll be a foil digi that opens like a Christmas present and we'll all be like "Ohhhh".

[Finch]

A Christmas present with the old French lady inside.

[dadaistnun]

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[Napier]

That Christmas Tale cover is awful on an epic scale. Wow. Almost swimminghorses-level.

I've said it on here somewhere before, Criterion felt bad for all the shite we dumped upon swimminghorses covers, leading up to his long drawn out demise, that they gave him a job. Now look what haunt's us.