Criterion Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.2

[SimonI]

Can somebody post the two versions side by side. I can't find the first one anywhere...

What gives? I linked to the current cover but it's gone back to the first design! So anyways, lucky for us I kept both copies...

Old on the left; new on the right:



Errr... or is it new on the left, old on the right???

[godardslave]

its also worth noting that a "tree" looks nothing like a "car".

[backstreetsbackalright]

I wouldn't be surprised if we shortly see Canterbury with a Criterion "New Look" cover design. It's currently the last spine in the Sprocket-Font series.

[Cinesimilitude]

You will find most "C's" look similar, as opposed to E's, that look nothing like C's.

its also worth noting that a "tree" looks nothing like a "car".[/quote]

Although both do have trunks, as do elephants, so one could conceivably confuse the three. Maybe you had thought about this before you posted...

[Ashirg]

Alternative cover?

[SimonI]

I wouldn't be surprised if we shortly see Canterbury with a Criterion "New Look" cover design. It's currently the last spine in the Sprocket-Font series.

I do hope so... meanwhile, it's curious that the image currently on their site is not the latest they showed :-s

[edgarnazaretian]

so after searching through image's site i found the cover of seduced and abandoned and the the new spine art...i dont know if this was mentioned before but here it is...

[HerrSchreck]

Art direction by Jack Kirby?

All their covers are starting to look like publishing products rather than video products, S&A looking like a fucking comic book. All the SIX MORAL TALES look like college textbooks.

[Cinesimilitude]

I like it. I liked the way it was before even more, but it'll still be the high quality content we are used to.

[souvenir]

Am I missing the spine number or is it just not there?

[CSM126]

Am I missing the spine number or is it just not there?

It's near the bottom of the spine, as usual.

[denti alligator]

And it's running horizontally, not vertically, if I'm seeing it right. This is a change.

[Cinesimilitude]

a few of the boxsets have horizontal spine numbers, Doinel and Stage and Spectacle are a few I own that are that way, but for individual releases, yeah, its new.

[HerrSchreck]

Speaking of groovy spines, anyone ever empty out their monterey box & peek inside the hollow box at the spine reverse? Innaresting young lady hiding in there...

[Anonymous]

Art direction by Jack Kirby?

All their covers are starting to look like publishing products rather than video products, S&A looking like a fucking comic book. All the SIX MORAL TALES look like college textbooks.

It's interesting that they've used two prominent cartoonists for each of the Germi titles -- however Michael Allred is hardly Jaime Hernandez. And it's a shame they didn't try to get Alex Toth to do a cover before he recently passed:



As for Kirby, no one could've made a better EQUINOX coverthan he

[Lino]

Gorgeous artwork for Jigoku (and great extras too).

[Narshty]

The've got the same crappy Heaven Can Wait artist back for Amarcord.

[Gigi M.]

Shit... Why would they do something like that.

[FilmFanSea]

The artwork for Spirit of the Beehive is sublime--it is easily one of my all-time favorite Criterion covers.

[cgray]

yeah, that amarcord cover is horrible!

however, i really like the seven samurai cover, as well as the Jigoku cover. i really dig those, as opposed to screen captures.

[Cinesimilitude]

oh god september is going to be expensive...

I'm buying Amarcord, Seven Samurai, and Beehive.

and also, I love the Heaven Can Wait art, and the Amarcord art as well.

[richast2]

is it just me, or does the Jigoku cover look like a close-up of somebody's tattoo?

[Cinesimilitude]

i believe it is.

[Jeff]

The've got the same crappy Heaven Can Wait artist back for Amarcord.

That would be Caitlin Kuhwald. Who, apparently, likes writing poetry and drawing pictures of her friends. I wouldn't talk any more shit about her if I were you. She looks downright dangerous.

[bjeggert82]

I really like the new covers, particularly Seven Samurai and Jigoku.

I'm excited to see what they do with Playtime, Yojimbo, and Sanjuro.

The Seven Samurai cover is a HUGE improvement to the original version.