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#305:

Great covers! Especially the latter. Is it from a poster?

Hurrah for original poster art!

BOUDU = best Criterion cover for ages!

Lovely.

The covers this month are nice, though I'm not too crazy about the font for "Roberto Rossellini"

The Rossellini cover is horrible.

If we only have these releases, then it is a lame month I think.

It reminds me of the I Vitelloni cover.

With the HariKiri cover, it looks like they've rereleased Short Cuts.

Just wanted to point out how eerily similar the Harakiri cover is to Cinephrenic's own.

That's exactly what I have been thinking! My memory did not fail me! Good job, cinephrenic!

javelin wrote:Just wanted to point out how eerily similar the Harakiri cover is to Cinephrenic's own.

I prefer Cinephrenic's. I like how the cross pattern is at a slight angle.

ditto

Well, that would mean the end of this thread then, yes? I mean, we couldn't possible have anything to say each month if all the covers are the same. Right? Right?

I think the St. Francis cover is more appropriate for the releases this month (Ran, Playtime, La Bete Humaine) than last month, because blah blah blah

Is it just me, or have Criterion told the forum to remove Cinephrenic's mock cover of Harakiri... and removed the large version of their own for amendments? Do I smell a lawsuit?

wow this is exciting.
cinephrenic if you win $1.5 million in damages, can i have $10,000?

i always thought you were the most intelligent, brilliant,funniest, coolest, best-looking, best-judge-of-films member of this forum.

If they win the case, I will sell my Criterions to pay the damages.

Whoa, humor me for a second. Cinephrenic, how the hell did you predict what the cover was going to be?

I can't believe they left those messed up covers and descriptions with all the typos up over the weekend. They must have had a softball game to rush to.

(They're not doing too bad, the True Foes. 2 wins and a tie so far.)

Well, the Au Revoir Les Enfants description no longer comes up with the Flowers of St. Francis cover, but the Harakiri description still shows the St. Francis cover.

matt wrote:I can't believe they left those messed up covers and descriptions with all the typos up over the weekend. They must have had a softball game to rush to.

(They're not doing too bad, the True Foes. 2 wins and a tie so far.)

Yeah, I'm at a total loss to understand why they would allow all those mistakes to stay up over the weekend. It just seems like such a bad sign of things to come from Criterion. My guess is that the ringer that they brought in for their softball team is now in charge of the Coming Soon section, and he/she wasn't hired based on their webpage skills but instead on their ability to hit cleanup and their power to the gap in right-field.

Andre Jurieu wrote: My guess is that the ringer that they brought in for their softball team is now in charge of the Coming Soon section, and he/she wasn't hired based on their webpage skills but instead on their ability to hit cleanup and their power to the gap in right-field.

I also heard that they are a good base stealer, which was the clinching factor in them getting the job at criterion.

Jesus. While most Criterion covers tend to look a lot better once you actually hold them in your hand, Heaven Can Wait looks even more hideous than I'd expected. The faces on those angels...

The faces on those angels...

Aphex Twin sprang to mind. If thats the best that the big G can do then I dread to think what Old Nick has in store for me.

While bashing the look of covers in the hand, Jules Et Jim looks like a bootleg. And thats not because I have a bootleg whichever wise ass was going to say it. It is because it 'looks' like a bootleg.

i felt the same way about 'The Phantom of Liberty'... somebody didn't put much effort into the cover design on that one. i liked the book inside and the menus and such on the disc, but the cover is just plain boring and unoriginal.

For those that care (e.g. the potentially litigious cinephrenic!), the cover for the lookalike Harakiri has been missing from the Coming Soon page on the website for several days now (replaced by the ubiquitous Flowers of St Francis). Maybe a glitch, maybe undergoing a rethink. The old cover is still there on the Harakiri page, however.

mmiesner wrote:i felt the same way about 'The Phantom of Liberty'... somebody didn't put much effort into the cover design on that one. i liked the book inside and the menus and such on the disc, but the cover is just plain boring and unoriginal.

I really like this cover, as well as the Bourgeoisie one, if That Obscure Object of Desire had the similar styled sewn lips poster for it's cover, that would be really cool.....unoriginal can be good.