Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:22 am
I like the canted title card, not a big fan of the wasted space
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:46 pm
I second that. I find the template to be quite simple and lovely. Dead space is alive and well, and living at Eclipse!
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:25 pm
Very simple and stylish. Love it
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:29 pm
yea i love the design, and the idea of keeping it basically the same from one box to the next. i can see a whole shelf full of eclipse titles in my future.
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:31 pm
Yeah, why don't we fill it full of skywriting!domino harvey wrote:I like the canted title card, not a big fan of the wasted space
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:10 pm
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:20 pm
that's the first cover in months that feels like a real Criterion and not someone from the .com forum's fan artcriterionsnob wrote:Vengeance is Mine
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:20 pm
Everything I would ask for. All beautiful, expecially Army of Shadows and Sansho!!!
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:28 pm
Sansho's is gorgeous.
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:35 pm
Vengeance is Mine is ok. The MoC is, I think, much better.
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:38 pm
I actually enjoy the Criterion version much more.denti alligator wrote:Vengeance is Mine is ok. The MoC is, I think, much better.
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:42 pm
That Vengeance is Mine cover is hot! I'm not crazy about the Army of Shadows cover though. The gradient in the title text is so Macromedia Freehand 1995. I wish they could have done something similar to the way the text in the title card appears.
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:42 pm
Army of Shadows looks rotten. Really, really bad. He looks like he's been tortured with MS Paintbox. I do like Vengeance is Mine, even though it has a certain colouring of the Lord of War poster. Sansho is kinda blah, and I realise they have to produce a new cover for The Third Man, but losing the iconic shot of Welles in the doorway and replacing it with something that could just as well be The Signalman is a shame.
I'm not really fussed about any of the releases this month since they all (or will soon) have very high quality editions in the UK. The monthly rush has passed.
I'm not really fussed about any of the releases this month since they all (or will soon) have very high quality editions in the UK. The monthly rush has passed.
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:44 pm
i think i prefer the MoC "Vengence" cover to the criterion, but the criterion cover is one that i wouldn't mind of other people saw that i owned it. that MoC one makes me nervous.
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:45 pm
Other than Vengeance is Mine (from wich I like the MoC version better) I love all the other 3 covers! All brilliant!
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:47 pm
There's something about the starkness of the cover for Army of Shadows that works for me. Not great like the one for Sansho, but effective. (The swastika on the floor may be a little over-the-top, though.)
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:49 pm
I actually like thattryavna wrote: (The swastika on the floor may be a little over-the-top, though.)
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:51 pm
What all that wasted blue space needs is a nice Hitler mugshot.TheGodfather wrote:I actually like thattryavna wrote: (The swastika on the floor may be a little over-the-top, though.)
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:52 pm
One thing that makes the new Third Man cover better than the original is that it keeps with the spirit of the film about the mystery enshrouding who the third man is. The original cover, which I adore, does ruin the movie's key scene for the uninitiated.
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:29 pm
What, and the title card isn't so 1985 stencil?Matt wrote:That Vengeance is Mine cover is hot! I'm not crazy about the Army of Shadows cover though. The gradient in the title text is so Macromedia Freehand 1995. I wish they could have done something similar to the way the text in the title card appears.
Am I the only one who likes the cover? I think it goes hand in hand with the stylized world of Melville's films.
It feels very Dead Zone to me.Nihonophile wrote:One thing that makes the new Third Man cover better than the original is that it keeps with the spirit of the film about the mystery enshrouding who the third man is. The original cover, which I adore, does ruin the movie's key scene for the uninitiated.
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:33 pm
Nope, I love the cover. And I`m sure we`re not alonejusteleblanc wrote:Am I the only one who likes the cover?
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 10:10 pm
Posted in the Army of Shadows thread (by people who ought to know better):
Buttery Jeb wrote:Looking forward to this disc. Shame the artwork is so weak; but I think the style might come out better on a digipak. God I hope it does, at least.
justeleblanc wrote:The artwork is great, BJ. Were you hoping for a gun?
Buttery Jeb wrote:I dunno... maybe it's the awkward blue-on-blue-on-blue color scheme. Or the use of the shackled prisoner that, while iconic for the film, seems to be the only image anyone ever uses for it (the BFI disc has roughly the same image as its cover; and virtually every review I read when the film was reissued used it as well). As I said, the texture given the art by being printed on a Digipak might help; but, looking at it on a computer screen leaves me cold.
Again, this is all personal preference on my part, and I'll be picking this up regardless of what it looks like. The artwork just doesn't work for me, and it's probably my least favorite cover from Criterion in a while.
jbeall wrote:I agree that the artwork seems underwhelming. I think they want it to look similar to Le Cercle Rouge. I don't think it's bad per se, but they've had some fantastic covers lately (Green for Danger, 49th Parallel) that I feel kinda let down by this one. Doesn't matter, I'll still buy it. I'm even more excited about this purchase now that I've seen the features.
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 10:46 pm
I have pretended for years that the CC covers don't matter, but now I have to come out of the closet. The Fucking Army of Shadows and Bailiff covers are ugly.
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:30 pm
I like all the new CC covers. I don't know what some people are complaining about. I like the minimalistic look... less is more.
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:36 pm
Yap, Ok less is more and more is less. Call me a luddite but the quick-cheap-sterile-computer-freehand-so-'98-style doesn't look too good to me. Lazy stuff. Not minimalistic at all, I find. Just sparse, undefined and quite uninspired. It's semi-Ok, but the CC looks have been better in the past. But... the film is a masterpiece and this babble is just babble.