Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol. 6

[zedz]

The Furies has the thickest book in my collection at 267 pages, though Mr. Arkadin and Vampyr come close.

And that's his collection of books he's talking about, folks.

[swo17]

Well no, if we're going outside of Criterions, that honor would of course go to the Walden book.

[zedz]

No fair counting bilingual texts unless you've read it (in that case literally) both ways!

[boywonder]

Jeez, the pics of the whole "Red River" package continue the jumbled up mess of the cover. The book spine format doesn't line up with the package format. The inside blu/DVD holder is great, though. I wish they could have used one or better yet, both of the pics of Clift & Wayne on the cover. Perhaps a false back with regular CC details ... that could have been removed so that the Clift pic coulda been on the back, with Wayne on the front ... with the same Red River font, small and on the bottom. Well, no time to clean up this mess now ... perhaps it will astonish when it arrives at my door. Fingers crossed ... not much hope ...

[Yaanu]

The book spine format doesn't line up with the package format.

I'm pretty sure that's just a printing error for his particular release. Chances are that the rest of them line up almost perfectly.

[captveg]

The book spine format doesn't line up with the package format.

I'm pretty sure that's just a printing error for his particular release. Chances are that the rest of them line up almost perfectly.

When dealing with multiple printed pieces things can't always be perfect. Us collectors sometimes have to deal with it, and I'm glad it only drives me partially crazy.

[swo17]

[knives]

I hope that's indicative of other Imamura's. Dr. Akagi would be amazing.

[med]

I have the MoC, but there's a lot of room for improvement.

[domino harvey]

[eerik]

[FrauBlucher]

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! Terrific cover!

[FakeBonanza]

I can't believe my luck. I spent quite a bit of yesterday hoping to see Vengeance is Mine today. It's been at the top of my upgrade list for a very long time.

[felipe]

I could do without the "Roy Scheider in" on the All that Jazz cover. I know they were probably required to include it, but it just looks like a last minute addition.

[jindianajonz]

Great covers.

I've never seen the movie, but is there a reason for the odd protrusion on the leftmost red hand on the Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down cover?

[Yaanu]

Great covers.

I've never seen the movie, but is there a reason for the odd protrusion on the leftmost red hand on the Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down cover?

I think that's just the silhouette.

[Gregory]

The silhouette of what? The arm is clearly coming up from below, so what's that trianglar shape? Looks like another inept Saul Bass-influenced design, to me.

[med]

It's an armpit.

[pzadvance]

The silhouette of what? The arm is clearly coming up from below, so what's that trianglar shape? Looks like another inept Saul Bass-influenced design, to me.

The red hands dissolve into negative red space. The "triangular shape" is just the negative space under the female silhouette's armpit.

[CSM126]

The silhouette of what? The arm is clearly coming up from below, so what's that trianglar shape? Looks like another inept Saul Bass-influenced design, to me.

The red hands dissolve into negative red space. The "triangular shape" is just the negative space under the female silhouette's armpit.

I didn't even realize that was a body outline at first. Looked like two pairs of overlapping arms, one red, one black, on negative black space. Now that I see it it actually looks good.

[Yaanu]

All is forgiven, CSM126.

I just like how the Love Streams artwork matches up with the artwork of the Cassavetes box set. Too bad they couldn't have done the same with Hearts and Minds and correspond with the artwork of the America Lost and Found box set, though. Oh well.

[warren oates]

Agree with Yaanu about the consistent Cassavetes branding.

I don't know about the much-praised Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! cover, though. Almodovar films have had some pretty great original posters. This one feels like a weird compromise between ideas from the original release poster, which itself seemed kind of Saul Bass-y and other works of his. I feel like I get what it's going for. I just really don't like the way it's realized, neither the exact final image, nor the way it's drawn, the typeface or the precise allocation of color. This one feels like they settled for a pretty good mock-up of one variation they were still playing with halfway through the design process.

[Gregory]

The silhouette of what? The arm is clearly coming up from below, so what's that trianglar shape? Looks like another inept Saul Bass-influenced design, to me.

The red hands dissolve into negative red space. The "triangular shape" is just the negative space under the female silhouette's armpit.

I didn't even realize that was a body outline at first. Looked like two pairs of overlapping arms, one red, one black, on negative black space. Now that I see it it actually looks good.

Same here! It didn't "click" correctly at first look, but once it did, I think it's a good cover.

[swo17]

I actually saw it correctly at first but now all I can see are two flappy-faced camels awkwardly tied together by their collars.

[jindianajonz]

The red hands dissolve into negative red space. The "triangular shape" is just the negative space under the female silhouette's armpit.

Same here! It didn't "click" correctly at first look, but once it did, I think it's a good cover.

Obviously it didn't click for me, either. I liked it before, and now I like it even more.