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Great batch of covers this month, except for THE one for THE Fellini film.

zedz wrote:Great batch of covers this month, except for THE one for THE Fellini film.

[-X It obv takes place in Los Angeles

pzadvance wrote: Wait is there really some kind of hidden image here that I'm missing?

Yes, and it's one of those things that'll make you shit bricks when you see it.

It's a schooner, for the record.

Askew wrote:

pzadvance wrote:Wait is there really some kind of hidden image here that I'm missing?

Try looking at the thumbnails of the cover on Criterion's site.

Well I've tried it all and I'm still left scratching my head. I can see that the gradient of the dots might be taking some kind of shape but for the life of me I can't see what it is...

pzadvance wrote:

Askew wrote:

pzadvance wrote:Wait is there really some kind of hidden image here that I'm missing?

Try looking at the thumbnails of the cover on Criterion's site.

Well I've tried it all and I'm still left scratching my head. I can see that the gradient of the dots might be taking some kind of shape but for the life of me I can't see what it is...

Spoiler

It's a particularly disturbing portrait of the killer

pzadvance wrote:

Askew wrote:

pzadvance wrote:Wait is there really some kind of hidden image here that I'm missing?

Try looking at the thumbnails of the cover on Criterion's site.

Well I've tried it all and I'm still left scratching my head. I can see that the gradient of the dots might be taking some kind of shape but for the life of me I can't see what it is...

Does this help?

CSM126 wrote:

Spoiler

It's a particularly disturbing portrait of the killer

No, it's not.

Spoiler

It's the victim

The Narrator Returns wrote:It's a schooner, for the record.

THERE IS NO EASTER BUNNY!

Glad the Mars face is making a comeback for the Vanishing cover:


Beautiful covers on everything else though! Only complaint is, I wish the house would've been the representation for Mon Oncle.

The whole Tati set is maybe the most perfect thing they've ever done art wise. Beautiful.

rwiggum wrote:Does this help?

Hi-ho! I'm on board. Thanks for your indulgence.

Okay, the Tati covers and the Vanishing are some of the best work Criterion's artists have ever done. Really stunning stuff.

This is easily the best month for me in years. Might be the best CC month for me ever.

Wow. The stunning and gorgeous Tati covers makes the ugly Demy covers seem even more grotesque and terrible. Pretty much a perfect month on all counts.

LA DOLCE VITA's font is disastrously awful, yes; and THE VANISHING is a "bad trip" from the 80's so, perhaps, it is somebody's idea of amusing to revive the awful optical art of the era (inescapable at the time if you visited any shopping mall, and notorious as something you only attempted to "see" upon leaving, unless you welcomed a headache); BUT, as someone who sat out the whole VIRIDIANA debacle with amusement, and who remembers the name swimminghorses with genuine fondness, there is simply no excuse for CC to allow that MY DARLING CLEMENTINE cover to market! It is easily fixable, after firing the intern that was allowed to have a go at it. (They simply cannot have actually paid someone actual money for that!) To impose upon such a beautiful image, a second geometry that forces your eye up between those two posts and fixes it there, deforming all around it, is nothing short of psychotic.

Speaking of nothing short of psychotic

George Kaplan wrote:LA DOLCE VITA's font is disastrously awful, yes; and THE VANISHING is a "bad trip" from the 80's so, perhaps, it is somebody's idea of amusing to revive the awful optical art of the era (inescapable at the time if you visited any shopping mall, and notorious as something you attempted to "see" upon leaving unless you welcomed a headache); BUT, as someone who sat out the whole VIRIDIANA debacle with amusement, and who remembers the name swimminghorses with genuine fondness, there is simply no excuse for CC to allow that MY DARLING CLEMENTINE cover to market! It is easily fixable, after firing the intern that was allowed to have a go at it. (They simply cannot have actually paid someone actual money for that!) To impose upon such a beautiful image, a second geometry that forces your eye up between those two posts and fixes it there, deforming all around it, is nothing short of psychotic.

wat

This is truly a ridiculously generous month. 100% buys for me. ouch on the wallet!

You guys can't actually look at that MY DARLING CLEMENTINE cover and not be appalled.

Did Peter Becker personally piss in your coffee this morning?

Yes, i find the gorgeous black and white image and simplicity of the cover absolutely appalling. I will every time I look at it and when I buy it and when I take it off the shelf to watch it. Damn them!!!!

I always forget how strictly enforced Poe's Law is on this forum.

Poe's Law by definition is not something that's enforced but rather a failed... oh wait, are you being facetious again?

Guys, just remember, it's never too early for a Richard Cranium award contender!