Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.5

[cdnchris]

La Jetee / Sans Soleil

Other than dimensions it's exactly the same as the DVD.

[eljacko]

Actually, the Tiny Furniture packaging should have one of those little cardboard tabs like gimmicky Hallmark cards - you pull it and it makes her eyes cross.

You press her nose and she says "I'm in the Criterion Collection and you're not...I'm in the Criterion Collection and you're not", in the voice of the Talky Tina doll from the Twilight Zone. You open the package and a check from her mom pops up. Folks, I'll be here all week.

Buy my movie! Buy my movie!

[yeahimajerk]

I am going to blind buy The Organizer based on this artwork alone. I love it.

[FerdinandGriffon]

I am going to blind buy The Organizer based on this artwork alone. I love it.

Yeah, but why one art style below the title banner and an entirely different one above it? Seems like a mistake to me.

[matrixschmatrix]

The faces above the banner are further back and thus less detailed

[swo17]

Anyone else have trouble getting Godzilla out of its slipcover? Methinks Godzilla himself would have had difficulty exposing its contents.

[willoneill]

Anyone else have trouble getting Godzilla out of its slipcover? Methinks Godzilla himself would have had difficulty exposing its contents.

My copy was pretty tight ... I held the top and bottoms with my open palms and shook it 'til it came out.

[FerdinandGriffon]

The faces above the banner are further back and thus less detailed

Yeah, but there's no perspectival difference in the faces below the banner (they're all the same size), and the shift between levels is not just a shift in detail, but a shift in style (from detailed and hand-drawn, to ligne-clair and computer drawn.).

[Tribe]

Anyone else have trouble getting Godzilla out of its slipcover? Methinks Godzilla himself would have had difficulty exposing its contents.

Ya sure there isn't one of those black anti-theft tags stuck somewhere inside the box? I never get those if I order directly from Criterion, but anywhere else it's not uncommon.

[Matt]

No, it's pretty tight. The pop up adds a couple of extra layers of paper to the thickness of the digipak, which they may not have taken into consideration when specifying the width of the slipcase.

[Jeff]

I am going to blind buy The Organizer based on this artwork alone. I love it.

Yeah, but why one art style below the title banner and an entirely different one above it? Seems like a mistake to me.

You'd have to ask Catilin Kuhawald. Here is her original illustration before Criterion added the title treatment.

[Matt]

Maybe she assumed all those faces would all get covered up by the title treatment. Perhaps she'll have a chance to fine-tune the illustration before it goes to print.

[matrixschmatrix]

It looks to me as though all the faces were originally in the blanker style of the top couple rows, and she went in and did detail work over the more prominent ones. Perhaps the others won't be visible on the blu cover?

[mfunk9786]

In my opinion, it gives a nice sense of depth to have folks who are further away be less detailed.

[domino harvey]

Let's let Universal's film restorers take a crack at it: a few passes and they'll scrub all those features clean to properly recapture the artist's intent

[aox]

Anyone else have trouble getting Godzilla out of its slipcover? Methinks Godzilla himself would have had difficulty exposing its contents.

Yes. Mine if very difficult to remove.

[kinjitsu]

Try zapping it with your Oxygen Destroyer. Worked for me.

[eerik]

For some reason they have changed the order of Gordon's and Cort's names.

Old cover:


Updated cover:

[Brian C]

Just contractual obligations and/or obligation to posterity, I would imagine. Old posters all have Gordon's name first.

[Blublub]

While it may be a niggling complaint, anyone else surprised/concerned about the return to cardboard packaging [for Godzilla]? I just finished replacing all my cardboard releases at five bucks a pop...

[zedz]

I thought everybody was delighted by the pop-up? This isn't a 'return' to anything, anyway, it's just standard Criterion practice to give some of its titles special packaging (e.g. Sweet Smell of Success, Mishima, Dazed and Confused)

[Jeff]

While it may be a niggling complaint, anyone else surprised/concerned about the return to cardboard packaging? I just finished replacing all my cardboard releases at five bucks a pop...

It's not a return to the early Blu-ray cases. The type of digipak that Godzilla is in is very different from the initial o-ring digipaks. Even after they switched to the clear, plastic Scanavo cases for most Blu-ray titles, they've used these high-quality sleeved digipaks for several titles to accommodate certain art/packaging designs. The single-disc releases of Breathless, Amarcord, Sweet Smell of Success, and Dazed and Confused are all only available in digipaks. The same is true for most multi-disc Blu-ray sets: Night of the Hunter, Carlos, The Leopard, Seven Samurai, Brakhage, Battle of Algiers, etc.

[cdnchris]

Tiny Furniture
Three Outlaw Samurai

[The Narrator Returns]

Wow, Tiny Furniture's packaging has to be their worst packaging since their first DVDs. The cover is hideous, the color scheme is gaudy, and the inside is puke green. I never thought I'd say this, but Tiny Furniture really deserved better.

[med]

Yes, it is absolutely the worst thing I've seen in my entire life. Due to the sickening rage that artwork has triggered, I am typing this post with a vomit-covered keyboard.