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Buttercream wrote:Any screenshot grabbed at random would have made a gorgeous cover for The Letter Never Sent. Instead it looks like a puppet theater or a Lotte Reiniger animation.

CSM126 wrote:It's the telephone wires from the opening of RED.

CSM126 wrote:It's the telephone wires from the opening of RED.

domino harvey wrote:You know, the iconic image everyone associates with these films. Some wires.

cdnchris wrote:Belle de jour

Criterion wrote:Hey everybody, regarding the Godzilla artwork:

Artist Bill Sienkiewicz used the original, '54 Godzilla as reference for his artwork, but all of the renderings are nevertheless, in the end, Bill's personal vision of the creature, albeit one that is Toho approved. We can see why some viewers consider it to be more akin to the 2002 incarnation of Godzilla because the back plates seem more sharp-pointed and jagged than the curved tips of the '54 original, for example, or the tail tapers more to a point, but those plates don't exactly mirror the ones from the 2002-3 monster either.

We pushed Bill to address Godzilla as a force of destruction, an elemental being, to step away from a rendering that would be purely literal and fetishistic in detail, and think he came up with a terrific interpretation. This is also why there is color in the packaging art. Although the movie is a beautifully-photographed B&W work, we kept leaning towards the elemental aspects of fire and water and wanted the color palette to evoke that.

We also explained to Bill that Godzilla was a very low-budget and artless fictional puppet character, that while eventually iconic, was still rather silly from the outset. We told Bill that if people were that attached to Godzilla, beyond enjoying the films and perhaps the merchandise and iconography that was spawned from said films, they should probably take a nice hard look at their lives and wonder if suicide really is the worst option at their disposal.

Love,
Criterion

mfunk9786 wrote:

We also explained to Bill that Godzilla was a very low-budget and artless fictional puppet character, that while eventually iconic, was still rather silly from the outset. We told Bill that if people were that attached to Godzilla, beyond enjoying the films and perhaps the merchandise and iconography that was spawned from said films, they should probably take a nice hard look at their lives and wonder if suicide really is the worst option at their disposal.

Love,
Criterion