Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.4

[Jeff]

I've never seen Jeanne Dielman. I'm hoping it's about a woman who drinks a magic potion and turns into a teapot.

[swo17]

Bravo sir. =D>

[Tribe]

I've never seen Jeanne Dielman. I'm hoping it's about a woman who drinks a magic potion and turns into a teapot.

No, that would be the Real Housewives of New York.

[DRSchwarz]

It appears that the Last Days cover comes directly from the novelization dust jacket cover.

[a.khan]

Repeating frames seems to be a new trend Criterion cover art.

Repeating frames seems to be a new trend Criterion cover art.

[justeleblanc]

I've never seen Jeanne Dielman. I'm hoping it's about a woman who drinks a magic potion and turns into a teapot.

Where did you get that image?

[domino harvey]

Chris posted it like one page ago

[Cinephrenic]

What is the source? This looks like a fake fan art.

[domino harvey]

The Press Release?

[Jeff]

It is from the Criterion sell sheets which, as Chris points out, are very subject to change.

[kaujot]

As in that beautiful My Dinner with Andre cover.

[Svevan]

I'm still thinking/hoping the My Dinner With Andre covers might both be included, like a slipcase/actual cover thing. That "temp" cover was far too conceptually advanced to just be thrown out. It could be a booklet cover, perhaps...

[ranaing83]

Does anyone know if Criterion are planning to re-release their older blu-rays in the new, preferable blu packaging that has been emerging of late? I really want to pick up some of their earlier blu's like 400 Blows, but I'd wait if there was the chance of getting it in the new plastic cases.

[kaujot]

I'm still thinking/hoping the My Dinner With Andre covers might both be included, like a slipcase/actual cover thing. That "temp" cover was far too conceptually advanced to just be thrown out. It could be a booklet cover, perhaps...

My guess is that it'll be the booklet cover. Many of their "first" covers go on to grace the cover of the DVD booklet.

[oldsheperd]

Jeanne Dielman is about a woman who is addicted to putting Ex-lax in her coffee.

[ccfixx]

Does anyone know if Criterion are planning to re-release their older blu-rays in the new, preferable blu packaging that has been emerging of late? I really want to pick up some of their earlier blu's like 400 Blows, but I'd wait if there was the chance of getting it in the new plastic cases.

Several forum users, including myself, across the internet have enquired to Jon Mulvaney about this, and the response has been that Criterion currently has no plans of offering any type of exchange or purchasing program for the blu-ray platic cases in regard to the first blu-ray releases that were packaged in the cardboard cases. Mulvaney did say that it's something that Criterion has thought about, but no other knowledge that I know of has surfaced lately.

CC

[JAP]

It appears that the Last Days cover comes directly from the novelization dust jacket cover.

Well, Pierre Le-Tan's illustrations aren't exactly a dime a dozen! But this, the Metropolitan cover and most of the work I know, seem to nicely fit with some sort of adopted anachronism.

Notre époque d'ordinateurs et de téléphones portables est quelque chose qui m'est totalement étranger. Avec l'âge, je suis de plus en plus mélancolique. Comment exprimer cela? Tristesse... Regrets... Le temps qui passe...

(more here)

I guess a Wacom tablet is pretty unlikely...

[mikebhryan]

So is it the cover [for Last Year at Marienbad] that imdb has posted or this cover criterion has posted that is going to stand?

[TheGodfather]

The one from the Criterion site.

On that note: there`s still no cover for Jeanne Dielman...

[mikebhryan]

How about the cover for MY DINNER WITH ANDRE--Criterion or IMDB?

[Jeff]

How about the cover for MY DINNER WITH ANDRE--Criterion or IMDB?

The Criterion site always has the most current version of the planned cover art. In both of the cases you mentioned, the IMDb art comes from the sell sheets that Criterion sends out to various distributors and press contacts. Those are early concepts for the art that are frequently modified or dumped altogether. Still, it is common for those alternate concepts to be used as art for booklets or elsewhere within the Criterion package.

[Fierias]

The Jeanne Dielman cover is finally up on criterion's website, and it's the same as the one that's been making the rounds. Disappointing.

[Saturnome]

The pic is less compressed though

[img]http://criterion_production.s3.amazonaws.com/release_images/2299/484_box_348x490.jpg[/img]

Still looks like a MSPaint job (especially the fonts), not that it's wrong to work with Paint.
I wonder why it took so long if it's the same thing?

[Fierias]

I suppose the font might have been very slightly tweaked, it looks a tad more elegant in the finished version. It's good that they spent an extra week working on that.

[swo17]

I wonder why it took so long if it's the same thing?

They must have wanted to watch the film one more time to make sure the cover really fit.