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Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 6:58 pm
by toiletduck!
justeleblanc wrote:Dude, I went to high school with someone like you. Not that that's a bad thing.
HA! I think I just peed a little... and I'm not entirely sure why. But still -- HA!
-Toilet Dcuk
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:03 pm
by justeleblanc
... and with you I went to summer camp.
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:10 pm
by domino harvey
how in the world is disagreeing with someone considered trolling
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:52 pm
by justeleblanc
domino harvey wrote:how in the world is disagreeing with someone considered trolling
who knows... i've had to deal with godardslave since high school so i've gotten used to him.
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 8:54 pm
by Matt
godardslave wrote:i think its time for a padlock to appear on this thread, dont you moderators?
Are you implying that this thread has somehow gone downhill? Let's not forget it's a thread devoted to complaining about cover art.
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:38 pm
by zedz
I think we've been tunnelling for eight pages at least. Take that, Jules Verne!
The cover is the cover. Does anybody have anything to say about
the movie?
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:11 pm
by Theodore R. Stockton
No, we judge a movie by it's cover.
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:16 pm
by Cinephrenic
We got a new cover for Viridiana and convinced a major DVD company to favor its consumers. So can we just move on and talk about Spielberg or something.
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:58 pm
by justeleblanc
I sent JM a note about how many people complained and he hasn't responded. This was a while ago. Is JM answering anyone's emails?
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:11 am
by kekid
It appears that the useful role of this thread is over. There was an unprecedented level of concern about the original cover design. Criterion changed it, whether due to our protests or some other reason we will never know. It is most unlikely they will change it again. Hence posts on this thread now have only a therapeutic value of expressing our individual joy or frustration at the change. That can be entertaining, but opportunities for entertainment abound elsewhere on this forum as well. Perhaps the moderator should consider closing this one.
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 2:21 am
by duck duck
How long did you guys bitch until they changed the Viridiana cover? I wasn't familiar with that film so I just let it go, but Malkovich is a silly film and could work with a marionette cover like all the clues have been.
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 3:56 am
by mfunk9786
The original Viridiana cover was so wonderful.
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 4:22 am
by kinjitsu
Just in case anyone has forgotten or has never seen it:
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 4:24 am
by knives
I love that cover so much and if I were to buy the movie I'd probably slip that over the actual cover.
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 4:25 am
by Brian C
Might have been all right without so much headroom.
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:26 am
by Cremildo
The infamous pink Viridiana cover! First time I lay my eyes on it and boy... Am I sorry! Ugh.
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 2:00 pm
by colinr0380
It still looks like they pasted Viridiana's picture over a dirty copy of their King of Kings artwork!
Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 5:04 pm
by Matt
duck duck wrote:How long did you guys bitch until they changed the Viridiana cover?
3 months
Re: Oh, That Viridiana Cover!
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2026 8:16 pm
by mfunk9786
Anyone have an image file of the original pink cover? I can't seem to find it
anywhere outside of this potato vision resolution that surely wasn't what Criterion originally put online:
Somehow still angry that it never went to the printer. Would love to own a copy.
Re: Oh, That Viridiana Cover!
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2026 8:36 pm
by eerik
mfunk9786 wrote: Fri Feb 13, 2026 8:16 pm
Anyone have an image file of the original pink cover? I can't seem to find it
anywhere outside of this potato vision resolution that surely wasn't what Criterion originally put online:
Somehow still angry that it never went to the printer. Would love to own a copy.
This is the best I found. I don't think it is the original. According to Wayback Machine, large covers on criterioncollection.com were 348x490 pixels (they do not have Viridiana archived unfortunately), this one is 338x480 pixels.
Re: Oh, That Viridiana Cover!
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2026 8:50 pm
by Saturnome
Here's a 348x490 file I have :
Re: Oh, That Viridiana Cover!
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2026 8:55 pm
by mfunk9786
Thank you!!!
Re: Oh, That Viridiana Cover!
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2026 9:23 pm
by Matt
T-Mobile presents: Luis Buñuel's VIRIDIANA
It's even worse than I remembered. All the weird grime on the image, was that supposed to represent her sullied innocence or something?
Re: Oh, That Viridiana Cover!
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2026 9:31 pm
by mfunk9786
I adore it. One of my favorite covers in Criterion history, and I’m not being sarcastic or ironic. Captures the spirit of the film much better than the ‘official’ one.
Re: Oh, That Viridiana Cover!
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2026 9:56 pm
by Matt
mfunk9786 wrote: Fri Feb 13, 2026 9:31 pm
Captures the spirit of the film much better than the ‘official’ one.
I will actually concede that point. Radiance's cover uses the same color and the same image, but with a shadowy Fernando Rey looking over Pinal's shoulder, which I think captures the predatory nature of his character perfectly and thus captures the spirit of the film even more.