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jmj713 wrote: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???

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

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.

godardslave wrote: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...

Alternative cover?

backstreetsbackalright wrote: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

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...

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

HerrSchreck wrote: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

Gorgeous artwork for Jigoku (and great extras too).

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

i believe it is.

Narshty wrote: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.

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.