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

[cdnchris]

The Magic Flute
The Kid Brother
Wanda
Detour
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Japón

[Gregory]

Thank you, Chris. One pic of Japón and one of I Wanna got mixed up.

[cdnchris]

Just noticed, thanks!

[Boosmahn]

Detour appears to have a booklet, which is a nice surprise. I retract my complaints about the cover -- it looks better to me now. (And thank you for these packaging shots. I just noticed the camera reflection in the case... it looks like you have a nice professional setup there!)

[cdnchris]

I just noticed the camera reflection in the case... it looks like you have a nice professional setup there!

Other than I keep getting the reflection in the photos!

Japon also has a booklet. The rest are inserts.

[Feego]

The Magic Flute looks lovely. Too bad most of us aren't going to own the single release!

[FrauBlucher]

I love the interior of the Detour package.

[dustybooks]

The disc design for I Wanna Hold Your Hand is definitely after my heart.

[swo17]

[domino harvey]

That Swing Time cover is new front runner for worst of the year

[FrauBlucher]

Yeah, a little disappointed with that one.

[pzadvance]

wow, love that l'humanité cover.

[knives]

That Swing Time cover is new front runner for worst of the year

And yet it's the best of the month.

[KJones77]

Underwhelming art all around, except for War and Peace which is excellent.

[MongooseCmr]

I really liked Swingtime until seeing the squiggles in the letters... as usual I don’t notice bad font work until you guys make me look for it

[domino harvey]

Strong disagree, knives. War and Peace is beautiful and I quite like the Dumonts. No strong feelings one way or the other in Hedwig, but it’s apt and of a piece with the covers for their other similar titles

[Brian C]

Yeah, I don't know what's going on with that Swing Time cover. It looks like placeholder art. But at least they've correctly identified it as a movie with Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire in it, even if it does that annoying thing where the credits do not match the person underneath them.

Also the Bergman set has been wacky C'd:

[knives]

Strong disagree, knives. War and Peace is beautiful and I quite like the Dumonts. No strong feelings one way or the other in Hedwig, but it’s apt and of a piece with the covers for their other similar titles

I can buy that argument for Hedwig, though I'd prefer something based on this. For the other three though I feel like they are overly splotchy ala the Burroughs Queer cover in a way I personally don't like.

[NABOB OF NOWHERE]

Well I think the Dumonts are phenomenal and right on the button

[yoloswegmaster]

Well I think the Dumonts are phenomenal and right on the button

Dude, what are you doing? Don't you know that you're only allowed to dislike the covers around here?

[NABOB OF NOWHERE]

Well I think the Dumonts are phenomenal and right on the button

Dude, what are you doing? Don't you know that you're only allowed to dislike the covers around here?

Sorry I thought I was on the bluray.com site

[Feego]

I love the War and Peace and L'humanite covers. The rest are whatever. Swing Time is par for the course in Criterion's ongoing campaign to make golden age Hollywood classics look unremarkable. The title font on that one is adapted from this poster, for what it's worth.

[soundchaser]

I wish they'd have updated that poster instead.

[colinr0380]

wow, love that l'humanité cover.

Thirded on the L'humanité cover. Its from the key opening shot of the film but the way it has been painted ties it in with the theme of transcendent art versus earthy tangibility too. Love all the other covers too.

Also try to avoid the screenshots from the film on the Criterion page for L'humanité, as one contains a (kind of?) spoiler:

Spoiler

the shot of Pharaon wearing the handcuffs himself post-interrogation

[FrauBlucher]

That poster definitely would’ve been a better choice.