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

[cdnchris]

Love seeing that Warner logo on Day for Night, and the whole cover art is truly fucking gorgeous (easily Criterion's best in quite a while). Dressed to Kill seems like it will look better in person, but it's still not very good.

Again I'm still rather shocked by the hate aimed towards Dressed to Kill since it was the poster art and has been used on a lot of art since and for me was fairly iconic. I'm pretty sure the reverse on the Arrow uses it as well as the MGM blu ray. At any rate there is a rather fascinating supplement on here about it and the marketing industry that produced these one sheets, specifically for low budget horror (and vhs box art for porn).

Obviously doesn't make up for the disc's other issues but it's a great supplement.

[oh yeah]

I really like the Dressed to Kill cover and especially the red-black palette on the back/spine.

[carmilla mircalla]

The only thing that always bothered me about the poster are those miss piggy feet stuffed in those heels. It looks like a cartoon. Otherwise I've been indifferent on the poster art since I first saw it long ago but, I did just find this and I think it's the best version, and it's using real people:

[cdnchris]

Interestingly the interviewee for the supplement, Stephen Sayadian, talks about those shoes, which they figured would be the selling point, and I believe he said they were size 13 shoes made for drag performers. They also did use real people for the photo: the man in the background is an employee they pulled in. He admits, though, that they had nothing to do with the filtering.

There was an alternate photo that they took that they show during the interview, which was probably more effective and true to the film but it was used for the published screenplay instead. It sounds as though De Palma is the one that chose the final image for the one sheets.

[HorseHeadBookends]

Alternate designs for The Black Stallion:
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts ... las-delort

[sir_luke]

Surprisingly, I think they went with the best one!

[zedz]

Alternate designs for The Black Stallion:
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts ... las-delort

They're all quite nice, but several of them make it look like an animated film rather than drawn artwork representing a live action film.

[domino harvey]

I definitely prefer the hand-drawn titles over the more sterile one we got

[mfunk9786]

[domino harvey]

Awesome

[Cinephrenic]

What is Indian Corn?

[knives]

This film doesn't seem to be on IMDB. What is it?

Edit: Internet seems to suggest there's a Moonrise Kingdom connection.

[swo17]

I take it you guys were never Khaki Scouts.

[captveg]

Moonrise Kingdom

[domino harvey]

[cdnchris]

Throne of Blood (Blu-ray only)
Two Days, One Night

[FakeBonanza]

Throne of Blood (Blu-ray only)
Two Days, One Night

What's with the Wes Anderson colour palette on the back/spine of Two Days, One Night? I've yet to see the film, but I suspect such a garish colour scheme is a little off the mark.

[swo17]

Looks more like Stereolab to me.

[domino harvey]

[lacritfan]

What's with the Wes Anderson colour palette on the back/spine of Two Days, One Night?

It's the color of the other top she wears in the film. Or a coincidence.

[The Narrator Returns]

Dare I say it, it reminds me of a Criterion other than the Wes Andersons...

[domino harvey]

What's with the Wes Anderson colour palette on the back/spine of Two Days, One Night?

It's the color of the other top she wears in the film. Or a coincidence.

[eerik]

[mfunk9786]

That Code Unknown cover is one of the very best. Great covers all around.

[aox]

fantastic release month.