Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol. 7

[tenia]

I myself wonder why some releases have a back cover blurb written in Justify and others don't.

[domino harvey]

And now we've officially run out of things to discuss on our discussion forum

[cdnchris]

Sigh. Well I guess I'll just shut it all down then.

[domino harvey]

We had a good run there at the end with Domino's Pizza, at least

[Boosmahn]

To add on, I've always wondered why some of the inner prints are a straight black, like Yi Yi or Fish Tank.

[cdnchris]

We had a good run there at the end with Domino's Pizza, at least

I was laughing pretty hard at that one. At least we will always have the memories.

[cdnchris]

To add on, I've always wondered why some of the inner prints are a straight black, like Yi Yi or Fish Tank.

I assume just to save money on a reissue that might not sell all that well.

[tenia]

And now we've officially run out of things to discuss on our discussion forum

Well, yes and no. Criterion's covers (+ spines and backcovers) follow quite strict patterns, so it's always surprising to stumble of the few that don't. I recall for instance the story with the slightly misaligned spines a few years ago.

[CSM126]

If slightly misaligned spines surprise you and warrant discussion, you might want to try going outdoors once in a while. There’s trees and flowers and people and stuff out there.

[tenia]

Well, this is the criterionforum, not the treesandflowersandpeopleandstuffforum.
Joke aside, it's not like I care or so, it's just those small things in life that can make one chuckle.

[cdnchris]

In the Heat of the Night

[swo17]

Because we're all the same color...to the Predator

[criterionoop]

New titles are up!

[swo17]

[FrauBlucher]

Ooooooh, A Face in the Crowd.

[goblinfootballs]

Love the Diamonds of the Night cover.

[domino harvey]

Face and Diamonds are both great

[colinr0380]

And the individual covers for the Police Story films:


I know that this is probably appearing because of the UK Eureka releases but this does make me wonder whether this might bode well in the future for a release of Police Story III: Supercop, previously released by Criterion on Laserdisc.

[Brian C]

These cover images are all more square-shaped than normal. This isn't a packaging change, is it?

[colinr0380]

I can't speak to the ones that swo posted but I resized the two Police Story ones so they would not display too large.

[mteller]

First thing I thought of was this:

[Lemdog]

I usually don't care too much about the cover art, but god the entire police story package is horrible.

[Boosmahn]

A Face in the Crowd and Diamonds of the Night are both great, although the images on the Police Story set look very uncanny to me.

[Graphist]

Face and Diamonds are both great

I agree. Exquisite, especially the latter! But is it just me or the guy on the FITC one is pointing at his derriere?

[movielocke]

Love the eighties look of the police story package, looks very fun.