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And it seems that the cover has been very slightly tweaked in its top part, near the roof of the house, a little on the right of the Wacky C.



Seems a bit silly to me to amend such a small thing like this.

Limelight (Comes with a booklet)
The Rose

Too bad about the Wacky C on Limelight. Other than that, this looks like another excellent release.

The Merchant of Four Seasons
The Confession
State of Siege

Criterion Designs - Les Blank: Always for Pleasure

I think they went with the best cover (although I like the dancing old guy on the beach). Also glad they didn't choose for the title: The World Accordin' to Les Blank.

@Tenia - the changes on The Big Chill cover seem odd. Guess they did some pruning on that tree in the background (is that window an important plot development?).

Day for Night cover is great, too bad I don't like the film. French Lt's Woman is fitting for the film's playful attempts at capturing the self-aware nature of the source text. Dressed to Kill is hilariously awful, a legit swimminghorses cover

Varda set might be my favorite Eclipse color scheme to date. Almost excessively pleasant. A shame this stuff isn't Blu though.

The Varda Eclipse is beautiful, Night and the City quite good too, and while I don't think Day for Night suits the film well, the cover works on its own terms. The others all look like the work of a freshman-year college student who just figured out the basics of Photoshop.

Dressed to Kill is horrible.

I like that they used a poster for Dressed to Kill, but that filter ain't helping it.

cdnchris wrote:I like that they used a poster for Dressed to Kill, but that filter ain't helping it.

Here's an original poster that uses the same effect. Which doesn't make it good, though.

And they are interviewing the poster artist on the release. Probably wouldn't do to go mucking around with it.

PfR73 wrote:And they are interviewing the poster artist on the release. Probably wouldn't do to go mucking around with it.

"First question: Get out."

Day for Night looks like something by Roman Muradov, I like it.

Edit: they just added the info that it is by Roman Muradov. Nice.

I guess Dressed to Kill doesn't bother me as much as it obviously does others. My dad had it on VHS and it used the same image so I guess I'm used to it. The filter is, as domino mentions, something swimminghorses would have done.

My first reaction to the Night and the City cover was: Wait, Tor Johnson was in that movie? then I remembered the Grecian wrestler guy, and it all made sense. Add me to the list of "not impressed" with the Dressed to Kill cover - it just wasn't a very good original poster to begin with (and MGM already did the non-filter image for their blu, so that was out). I think Day for Night is one of the best covers for the year (and of course my S/O will immediately want to see it now, because it has a cat on the cover). Night and the City (Tor and all) is a huge improvement over the old edition's cover.

To be fair, Criterion didn't add that filter on Dressed to Kill, it was on the original poster. But yeah, it looks terrible, and is easily bested by the MGM Blu-ray cover and significantly by Arrow's creative razor design.

Dressed to kill couldn't be lazier.

cdnchris wrote:I guess Dressed to Kill doesn't bother me as much as it obviously does others. My dad had it on VHS and it used the same image so I guess I'm used to it. The filter is, as domino mentions, something swimminghorses would have done.

Since that art was created in 1979 or 1980, we can assume it's not a "filter" though, right? Not that it necessarily makes it any more appealing, but surely that's an original illustration of some kind (pointillism?). Like Chris, after living with that art for decades, it just seems like part of the film.

Jeff wrote:it just seems like part of the film.

I didn't even see the movie -- but I remember this movie poster. Seems a bit weird to complain about something so closely linked to the film's history.

Ugly then is still ugly now

It's too bad that Criterion probably wouldn't want to be seen as mimicking another label because if they adopted Arrow's custom of reversible covers, they'd make so many more people happy.