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Jeff wrote:Slightly different art on the sell sheets. Hopefully this is all temporary:

Wow, all they did was highlight the eye image with their cursor.. Maybe they'll C+P something better inside...

That said, the Facebook re-do of the cover is somewhat of an improvement, although shoppers might wonder why John Malkovich took the Magic School Bus to a sunflower.

Now it looks like a guy crawling out of a flower....

HistoryProf wrote:I'm so annoyed at this release - primarily because it had me really excited but it screams fail on every level.

My feelings exactly: whether the fault is with Criterion or Jonze, this release, which had such potential, is shaping up to be an all-around disappointment.

Does the sell sheet update look to anyone else like someone tried to highlight the eyeball with their cursor?

tarpilot wrote:Does the sell sheet update look to anyone else like someone tried to highlight the eyeball with their cursor?

You and Duck Duck should read my posts first next time.

Damn, I should have stolen that great MSB reference instead

For the first two covers, they used Helvetica but shaved off parts of certain letters (notice the g, l, k, etc.). Now we simply get Helvetica. I guess that's an improvement.

Sell sheet art isn't necessarily newer. In fact, it's probably an earlier attempt or mock up. I'm trying to think of it as a work in progress that still has a long way to go.

Maybe BJM is one of those A Christmas Tale-type situations where they'll change the cover a few times and replace it with something more meh than bleh

Didn't they already expend all of their meh for the month though?

Criterion's art department will never run out of meh

Minkin wrote:

Jeff wrote:Slightly different art on the sell sheets. Hopefully this is all temporary:

Wow, all they did was highlight the eye image with their cursor.. Maybe they'll C+P something better inside...

That said, the Facebook re-do of the cover is somewhat of an improvement, although shoppers might wonder why John Malkovich took the Magic School Bus to a sunflower.

Is it Aping Academic Texts Month at Criterion?

Bloody Hell, the Malkovich and Kiarostami covers are good. Beautiful, simple stuff, good typography, strong image. They both reminded me of Kubrick posters starting from A Clockwork Orange.

Good one

I'm seriously considering not buying the BJM. Yes, the cover art is *that* horrible. It has nothing to do with the imagery and the colors of the film.

Now I get the BJM cover, and it's genius! It will be one of the covers that just has plain white on the inside and is thematically tied to the film because they can control John, you can control the packaging. The printed cover is an uninspired piece of shit on purpose so it doesn't inspire you ideas of what to do with the cover.

You're a real scream, duck², I'll tell ya

Matt wrote:the icing on Criterion's spectacular "fuck you" cupcake

Love the analogy...

mfunk9786 wrote:You're a real scream, duck², I'll tell ya

Hey, I took a chance.... you never know until you fail.

Jeff wrote:F. Ron Miller's process blog and alternate covers for Vanya.

The one with title-as-street-sign is pretty nice, actually.

Agreed. I prefer the first one (with the subway style and sans photo) to the finished final product, but I'm just happy to see this title in the collection.

I like the final cover the best. I like the typewriter-style title treatment on the second cover the best but the final one is fine (I guess it is in red to signify the film is in colour? Or to suggest red corrections onto a script?) I'm particularly glad that they didn't go for the VANYA highlighting of the New York connection as shown on the colour picture cover!

Here's the post by Sam Smith showing the World On A Wire art.

The Last Temptation of Christ
Letter Never Sent
The War Room

Letter Never Sent looks fantastic!

Upcoming poster for the Children of Paradise tour:



So, will this be one of the 50% of posters that makes it to the DVD/Blu covers?