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Cinephrenic · #226 Post by **Cinephrenic** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:21 pm

They ran out of things to say. =P~

jbeall · #227 Post by **jbeall** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 1:42 am

Cinephrenic wrote:They ran out of things to say. =P~

The hell they have!!!

They should do a blog entry explaining why they haven't secured the rights to and released the movies I want!!!!

davebert · #228 Post by **davebert** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 1:56 am

Or they could hire a freelance blogger to just stir things up. Like myself.

LightBulbFilm · #229 Post by **LightBulbFilm** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 3:35 am

Why don't they just write a blog listing every title they plan on releasing in the next five years so we have nothing to discuss on this forum other than why the packaging for a certain release sucks or rocks?

Morbii · #230 Post by **Morbii** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:38 am

LightBulbFilm wrote:Why don't they just write a blog listing every title they plan on releasing in the next five years so we have nothing to discuss on this forum other than why the packaging for a certain release sucks or rocks?

Because no matter how much we know in advance, we'd always want to know more!

jbeall · #231 Post by **jbeall** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 4:32 pm

"Oh, but that a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?"
--Robert Browning

Ashirg · #232 Post by **Ashirg** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:39 am

For those who enjoyed Eric Skillman's entry, read his own blog for more Criterion talk about other covers he designed or supervised.

Cinesimilitude · #233 Post by **Cinesimilitude** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:12 am

I really dig the rejected solo con tu pareja image.

[EDIT: Please don't hotlink - Matt]

#234 Post by **cdnchris** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:22 am

Even though I hated that part of the film, I dig it, too. Much more than what they ended up using.

#235 Post by **Matt** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:44 pm

I'm floored that the cover for Yi Yi was restaged using a double! You just don't think about these things.

The amount of work that goes into a Criteiron package design is just amazing, and it almost makes me feel bad that we complain about them so much.

souvenir · #236 Post by **souvenir** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:54 pm

I think Skillman's covers, specifically the ones on his site both that he did and that he served as art director for, are consistently some of the absolute best Criterion has to offer. People don't usually complain here about his work, I don't think. It's the other, uglier ones that draw criticism. (The ones that don't look like they have the same amount of work put into them.)

colinr0380 · #237 Post by **colinr0380** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:15 pm

Matt wrote:I'm floored that the cover for Yi Yi was restaged using a double! You just don't think about these things.

The amount of work that goes into a Criteiron package design is just amazing, and it almost makes me feel bad that we complain about them so much.

Same here. I'd naively thought that would have been one of the easiest covers to make - just slap the title on there! It is fascinating to see the development to the final image and all of the attempts at feeling their way through different ideas. It helps to demystify the process for people without any sense of composition or artistic bone in their body, like me!

sevenarts · #238 Post by **sevenarts** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:32 pm

That's fascinating stuff. I especially enjoyed the discussion of his working methods with Jaime Hernandez. Skillman deserves a lot of credit simply for giving such interesting illustration work to fantastic comic artists like Xaime and Mike Allred, who are simply two of the best artists in the medium. As a big fan of their work, that was really cool to see.

Ashirg · #239 Post by **Ashirg** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 9:13 am

There's a new Eric Skillman blog. "a blast from the past".

sidehacker · #240 Post by **sidehacker** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 1:37 pm

Woah, those are pretty bad. Thank god they went with the design that wasn't completely terrible.

#241 Post by **Jeff** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 4:34 pm

Eric Skillman wrote:Welcome, everyone! I say that because that last post seems to have exponentially increased the readership of this blog. Because sometimes the world is fair, and "Xaime Hernandez" is still a more googled search term than "people who think their jobs are interesting enough to blog about."

Apparently he doesn't realize yet that 75% of his new readership came from here.

a.khan · #242 Post by **a.khan** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 10:50 am

I'm OK with CriterionForum.org being the perpetual underdog. It's part of the charm.

#243 Post by **Jeff** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 4:23 pm

a.khan wrote:I'm OK with CriterionForum.org being the perpetual underdog. It's part of the charm.

I did not mean to indicate that I wanted the forum to receive some sort of credit for increasing his readership. In fact, I'd prefer he didn't notice we were there. I wouldn't want him to censor himself in what he posts.

#244 Post by **Jeff** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:12 am

There should only be a few thousand forum links to change.

kinjitsu · #245 Post by **kinjitsu** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:45 am

Tell me. Earlier today I noticed that they were working on the site and some of their links were disabled. Consequently, all of the old criterionco title links on the forum now redirect to their homepage.

#246 Post by **Mr Sausage** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:52 am

kinjitsu wrote:Tell me. Earlier today I noticed that they were working on the site and some of their links were disabled. Consequently, all of the old criterionco title links on the forum now redirect to their homepage.

Well that's just great.

Sometime later this week I'll go through each thread in the Criterion section and remove the "co" from the hyperlink url in the first post, fixing the problem.

#247 Post by **domino harvey** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 1:03 am

Mr_sausage wrote:
kinjitsu wrote:Tell me. Earlier today I noticed that they were working on the site and some of their links were disabled. Consequently, all of the old criterionco title links on the forum now redirect to their homepage.
Well that's just great.

Sometime later this week I'll go through each thread in the Criterion section and remove the "co" from the hyperlink url in the first post, fixing the problem.

why not just use the phpBB word replacement function to automatically change "criterionco" to "criterion"?

#248 Post by **Mr Sausage** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 1:59 am

domino harvey wrote:
Mr_sausage wrote:
kinjitsu wrote:Tell me. Earlier today I noticed that they were working on the site and some of their links were disabled. Consequently, all of the old criterionco title links on the forum now redirect to their homepage.
Well that's just great.

Sometime later this week I'll go through each thread in the Criterion section and remove the "co" from the hyperlink url in the first post, fixing the problem.
why not just use the phpBB word replacement function to automatically change "criterionco" to "criterion"?

I don't know, I don't have access to phpBB. If that would work, by all means--but only Chris would be able to do it.

#249 Post by **domino harvey** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 2:52 am

Yeah it's in the Admin Panel, the "Word Censor" section... it should do the trick

#250 Post by **cdnchris** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 3:37 am

I think I have to manually go into the DB and change all the links. Hopefully I can do a simple SQL query. Does MySQL have a Replace function??

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