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

[Cinephrenic]

Mulholland the worst. Sorry

[DrunkenFatherFigure]

PLUS: A booklet featuring an interview with Lynch from filmmaker and writer Chris Rodley’s 2005 edition of the book Lynch on Lynch

They do specify that the interview will be contained in a booklet, so that's good news at least. And I wonder if it might be a digipack like Eraserhead. I could imagine them doing digipacks for all Lynch releases.

And I actually like the Brood cover they went with more than the one Domino posted. Criterion's cover is more quietly unsettling, while the other one seems too overt.

[Roger Ryan]

Perhaps using the ghostly defocused image of Watts and Harring actually found in the film's final sequence would have been better than trying to allude to it with a poor filter effect. I like all of the alternate covers better.

[Luke M]

I think Criterion selected the most commercial-friendly of the choices for Mulholland Dr. It seems like they're banking on the film having wide range appeal.

[movielocke]

I think Criterion selected the most commercial-friendly of the choices for Mulholland Dr. It seems like they're banking on the film having wide range appeal.

I imagine the stars had to be equal size and a certain percentage of space as well.

[domino harvey]

I think Criterion selected the most commercial-friendly of the choices for Mulholland Dr. It seems like they're banking on the film having wide range appeal.

I imagine the stars had to be equal size and a certain percentage of space as well.

The original DVD releases only had one of the actresses on the cover

[merzbau]

True, but if you're talking about the US release, there were two versions of it in stores, one with Watts's face and one with Harring's.

Cosigned on Criterion's Brood artwork being the better of the two. It looks like it's going for an Egon Schiele or Otto Dix thing, and I love the weirdly skewed perspective too.

[Jean-Luc Garbo]

I've seen on Tumblr all of those posters above that domino shared which baffles me even more how Criterion could have paid for something so flat and unimaginative.

[sir_luke]

I'm attending a presentation tonight on Criterion's cover art legacy which will feature their art director Eric Skillman. Any special insults regarding this month's covers you all would like me to lob from the audience?

[domino harvey]

"Is there a reason why art galleries like Spoke Art, the Bottleneck Gallery, et al can generate and host dozens of exciting young artists to share their aesthetically-pleasing visual interpretations of films but we keep getting shitty beginner Photoshop exercises from your label?"

[FakeBonanza]

Hopefully this seemingly indulgent presentation is a ruse meant to lure Skillman into what is, in fact, an intervention of sorts.

[sir_luke]

I will do my best to sit down and have a long, tough talk with him.

[JayAlmighty]

Please, just hold up a copy of Cries and Whispers above your head and ask "How did this happen?"

[mfunk9786]

"When you update Viridiana to Blu-ray, can you use the pink cover?"

[FakeBonanza]

Please, just hold up a copy of Cries and Whispers above your head and ask "How did this happen?"

That question will answer itself when Skillman is introduced to field questions in pitch darkness, with a red spotlight illuminating only sixty percent of his face.

[MongooseCmr]

"Is there a reason why art galleries like Spoke Art, the Bottleneck Gallery, et al can generate and host dozens of exciting young artists to share their aesthetically-pleasing visual interpretations of films but we keep getting shitty beginner Photoshop exercises from your label?"

Or more simply "When did you stop caring?" Between this and the coffee table book the ego stroking is getting to be a bit too much

[sir_luke]

Funnily enough, he did focus on the cover for The Brood for a while, but I've decided I don't mind that one as much as I initially did. The best part of the night was learning that we're apparently getting another animated film soon.

[krnash]

Funnily enough, he did focus on the cover for The Brood for a while, but I've decided I don't mind that one as much as I initially did. The best part of the night was learning that we're apparently getting another animated film soon.

Fantastic Planet would be nice.

[bainbridgezu]

There's a good chance Fantastic Planet is coming eventually. Someone's got the US rights to Laloux's films and it isn't Shout! Factory or GKIDS.

I doubt they'd stick Fantastic Planet in a box, but I hope we get Time Masters and Gandahar at the same time. Maybe they could do something like the Errol Morris films and release the bigger title alone with the other two in the same, separate package.

[Drucker]

Fairly certain that the Masters of Cinema release is region-free. Why wait?!

[HistoryProf]

i'm so excited the Brood is finally coming i'm not even mad that it has the worst cover in the entire collection.

well maybe a little.

[HistoryProf]

Unused Mulholland Dr covers

all four of those are eons better. ugh.

[swo17]

I think Criterion just hates films from 2001.

[HistoryProf]

It's been a while since I've seen The Brood, but isn't that cover kind of spoiling the ending?

Not kind of....it TOTALLY spoils the ending. They might as well put Norman's desiccated corpse on the next cover of Psycho. Or an image of Tyler Durden as a figment of Edward Norton's imagination on Fight Club.

[cdnchris]

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