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swo17 wrote:Y'know, if Criterion were really so ashamed of Jellyfish Eyes, they could have easily had one of those clouds be passing over the wacky C...

They're counting on that wacky C (and the lower price point) to do the heavy lifting on this one.

Has anyone here actually seen this? Just wondering...

domino harvey wrote:I cannot believe Criterion had another opportunity to use the original poster art for the Downhill Racer upgrade and instead stuck with that monstrosity

I was going to say I prefer the Criterion cover, but it would have been nice if they used this, provided they got rid of that silly logo on the bottom and used something more muted.

Rosemary's Racer

The Honeymoon Killers
A Room with a View

The Brood
My Own Private Idaho

Wow. The Brood is just flat out terrible, in and out and all around

Not a fan of the leaflet art, but otherwise, I think it actually looks pretty good.

Criterion seems to have added "A Film by Masaki Kobayashi" at the bottom of the front cover of Kwaidan (photo courtesy of a poster at the Blu-Ray.com forums):

Kwaidan
A Special Day
Mulholland Dr.

I had a feeling Mulholland Dr might be a digipak so to match Eraserhead. A very lovely effort even if the cover isn't so great. Certainly getting my package design of the year vote.

Maybe a Lynch box set in the future?

That`s one great Mulholland Dr. package

carmilla mircalla wrote:Wow. The Brood is just flat out terrible, in and out and all around

It's certainly a letdown compared to the packaging for Naked Lunch, Scanners, and Videodrome.

I spent much of today really hoping that Yuko Shimizu would have done the Lady Snowblood artwork, but I can't say I'm disappointed with the artwork they've given us.

Might be just because I'm happy to see the film among this month's releases, but I like The American Friend's cover quite a bit.

The cover for Inside Llewyn Davis is terrific.

Gilda's cover art looks terrible, but all the rest are actually quite good, Inside Llewyn Davis especially.

Yeah... Gilda is just awful (maybe my worst of the year). This is a cover that could've really benefited from the original poster art. Even the DVD cover is better. To Criterion's credit, Lady Snowblood looks incredible and makes me grubble at how plain my Arrow blu ray is.

Really good designs this time! Hopefully Gilda is some kind of temp image? I wouldn't mind that same layout if it was a painting or illustration, and the Typography was only changed completely.

If only I liked the Lady Snowblood movies. I think the only ones I'll be getting out of these will be The American Friend and Gilda.

criterion10 wrote:Gilda's cover art looks terrible, but all the rest are actually quite good, Inside Llewyn Davis especially.

Agree.

There were so many stunning promotional stills taken of Rita Hayworth for 'Gilda', and they selected the most unflattering photo.

It's one of the most iconic images from the film, but probably would have worked better if it weren't so zoomed in.