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godardslave
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#426 Post by godardslave »

JusteLeblanc wrote:That's a great cover! But I can't read the DIRECTED BY text
come to think of it, it does look a bit like one of those eye test charts. :wink:
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Cinephrenic
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#427 Post by Cinephrenic »

4..L...B...V..Z..5...I need glasses.

Seriously, they should have went with black on the "directed by" text.
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#428 Post by jmj713 »

Sorry, don't mean to be offensive, and I'm a huge Criterion and Kurosawa fan, but that cover for The Bad Sleep Well, while interesting and different, evokes Nazi imagery for me...
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#429 Post by godardslave »

jmj713 wrote:Sorry, don't mean to be offensive, and I'm a huge Criterion and Kurosawa fan, but that cover for The Bad Sleep Well, while interesting and different, evokes Nazi imagery for me...
in what way?
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#430 Post by godardslave »

can anyone post photos of the Man Who Fell to Earth packaging, inside and out in full detail?

I'd like to see what the book looks like as well.
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Derek Estes
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#431 Post by Derek Estes »

I really love the cover for Young Mr. Lincoln. It's lovely. I really love the Bad Sleep Well cover. I think it is very clever. It is very abstract, but makes sense to those familiar with the film. Brilliant!
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#432 Post by daniel p »

godardslave wrote:can anyone post photos of the Man Who Fell to Earth packaging, inside and out in full detail?
It's not gatefold...

It's a wide (really wide) slipcase, which features the art you can find at www.criteriondvd.com.

The double amaray is probably what you want to see, and it is nice, but a gatefold could have been even nice imo.
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#433 Post by hammock »

There is nothing in the "Young Mr. Lincoln" cover I like. The font is a bit too sixties for my taste and looks like it has been "thrown" onto the picture, which by the way does not awake my curiosity at all. I'm extremely disappointed with this one...
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Derek Estes
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#434 Post by Derek Estes »

Too Sixties? Do you mean the font? I guess that font might have been used in the sixties, but I feel it is very evocative of the period in which the film is set. Not that you have to like it. But I feel it suits the film nicely.
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#435 Post by Alonzo the Armless »

I like the cover to YOUNG MR. LINCOLN too. The "directed by" is fine just the way it is too. It's not supposed to stand out since anyone who would buy this would already know that the larger words below are the name of the director.
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#436 Post by tasog37 »

I like the Young Mr. Lincoln cover a lot, but not the 'directed by' text. I think moving said text to the bottom of the cover would help it out a lot and would in turn make it easier to read.
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Alonzo the Armless
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#437 Post by Alonzo the Armless »

This may sound odd, but moving some of the type to the bottom would draw more attention to the type and take away from the photo. As it is now, the type looks like one element because of its careful spacing. One takes it in quickly and then concentrates on the moody photo. By breaking up the type, you now get 3 graphic elements with 2 of them being text. I think one would then find his or her eyes constantly moving back and forth between them and not fixing on the mood set by the monochromatic photo.
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#438 Post by justeleblanc »

jmj713 wrote:I'm a huge Criterion and Kurosawa fan, but that cover for The Bad Sleep Well, while interesting and different, evokes Nazi imagery for me...
It reminds me of waffle house.
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#439 Post by Cinephrenic »

No offense, but was there some kind of hologram of the swastika while you were drug induced on LSD? =P~
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#440 Post by oldsheperd »

Makes me want to listen to some good 'ol Krautrock like Faust or Kraftwerk.
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#441 Post by Brian Oblivious »

JusteLeblanc wrote:
jmj713 wrote:Sorry, don't mean to be offensive, and I'm a huge Criterion and Kurosawa fan, but that cover for The Bad Sleep Well, while interesting and different, evokes Nazi imagery for me...
It reminds me of waffle house.
It reminds me of Rodchenko.
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#442 Post by tasog37 »

Alonzo the Armless wrote:T One takes it in quickly and then concentrates on the moody photo. By breaking up the type, you now get 3 graphic elements with 2 of them being text. I think one would then find his or her eyes constantly moving back and forth between them and not fixing on the mood set by the monochromatic photo.
Yeah, that makes sense. I looked at it for a bit longer and the balance seemed to work better than I thought it did. It would clear up that 'directed by' text issue, though.

If they moved it to the bottom they'd have to do something to the top of the picture too probably, so that wouldn't really work I guess.

I wonder if whoever designed this cover also designed The Man Who Fell to Earth, because they seem fairly similar to me. Well, just the text, really.
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#443 Post by Theodore R. Stockton »

oldsheperd wrote:Makes me want to listen to some good 'ol Krautrock like Faust or Kraftwerk.
I take great offence to this statement.
How could you possibly leave out Einsturzende Neubauten?
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#444 Post by analoguezombie »

Theodore R. Stockton wrote:How could you possibly leave out Einsturzende Neubauten?
or Neu!
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#445 Post by hammock »

Don't forget CAN!
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#446 Post by oldsheperd »

I've actually got Can's Tago Mago and Delay 1968 on my shelf right now. I figure this cover also inspires me to listen to some Pere Ubu. Y'know something abstract.
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#447 Post by godardslave »

i like the way that guy made that imponderable/inpenetrable/extreme "this cover looks like Nazi imagery" statement, then disappears again.

thats style.
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#448 Post by justeleblanc »

Is analogue's avatar in spite of the nazi imagery?
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#449 Post by backstreetsbackalright »

How could you possibly leave out Einsturzende Neubauten?
Einstur are wonderful, but don't really fall into the Krautrock category, by virtue of chronology, if nothing else. Can and Neu! totally fit tho. As would early Tangerine Dream, early Cluster, Guru Guru, Amon Duul II, Harmonia, or Ash Ra Tempel.
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#450 Post by oldsheperd »

Screw it, I'm just going to pop in some Throbbing Gristle!
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