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The Narrator Returns wrote:Maybe if you wish hard enough, you and I can singlehandedly make that Criterion of Kafka a thing.

Ugh, how long ago was Soderbergh talking about his director's cut? The completist in me is going nuts that I'm one film short of his havin his entire filmography.

The Narrator Returns wrote:

HistoryProf wrote:Now what to obsess over?

Maybe if you wish hard enough, you and I can singlehandedly make that Criterion of Kafka a thing.

Deal!

Bicycle Thieves's cover has been contrast boosted, alert the Blu-ray.com forums!

EDIT: Nevermind. swo edited his initial post to include all covers for March.

I love Paris Belongs A Film By Jacques Rivette To Us

Cover photograph by Edward Yang

A very nice batch of covers.

A Brighter Summer Day is a great cover, the rest are not

Brighter and Manchurian great

domino harvey wrote:A Brighter Summer Day is a great cover, the rest are not

Agree on A Brighter Summer Day, but that Manchurian cover is pretty great as well...

Brighter Summer Day looks fantastic. The rest not so much.

Paris Belongs to Us is an early contender for worst cover of the year. The rest are okay, though I actually really like A Poem is a Naked Person.

Very interesting that they didn't go with the poster from the recent theatrical tour of A Poem is a Naked Person. I really loved it, so much that I bought a shirt with it. This one is alright, but I still like the other one better.

This book, that I own, was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the Rivette cover.

criterion10 wrote:Paris Belongs to Us is an early contender for worst cover of the year. The rest are okay, though I actually really like A Poem is a Naked Person.

I'm not sure I'd go that far with Paris. At least it has an intriguing concept behind it, even if it's not working itself towards aesthetic rapture over the film. I'm somewhat moved by the way the separate cuts of picture seem to be laid out in front of us, as if we're being asked to pull the images together with our eyes and make sense of them. That is something of the way we're meant to approach the film, as well; jumbled pieces the audience has to connect. The lack of illuminating design detail has something of the film's assembly to it, as well.


A Brighter Summer Day looks pretty wonderful. Is it a Kellerhouse design? It looks a lot like the kind of typographic scheme Kellerhouse would employ, and the kind of thematic thinking as well. Really striking. I wonder where the photo comes from? I don't recall it being part of the film, and I've never seen it as a publicity still.

Agreed re the Paris cover - the typography and choice of font are just not good. The others are fine. In fact, I think the Manchurian and Russell covers are particularly excellent.

bearcuborg wrote:This book, that I own, was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the Rivette cover.

A book in which I'm listed in the credits/acknowledgments. (Probably the only one, so far as I know)

It looks as if hazy societal connections, shadowy and paranoid conspiracies and assassinations are going to be Criterion's theme for 2016! Or at least this month!

The one slight problem with the Brighter Summer Day cover is that along with the iconic record and clothing it really should feature the torch as another significant object that plays a key role throughout the film!

It is difficult to describe but it also feels as if the cover is focused on and emphasising the, spoilery, final incident of the film a little too much. But it is also a beautiful cover, so I cannot really complain that hard!

That light looks like it's emanating from a torch/flashlight to me.

The torch travels too fast through the film to be captured by a still camera. It's already passed that cover shoot and is in someone else's hands.

Paris Belongs, a film by Jacques Rivette to us.

EDIT: Sorry Dom, just saw that you already noted this above.

My second favorite film, after Cries (Ingmar Bergman's) and Whispers

sir_luke wrote:My second favorite film, after Cries (Ingmar Bergman's) and Whispers

Coincidentally Sarah Habibi is the credited designer for both Cries and Whispers and Paris Belongs To Us. I just find her approach lacking and dislike most of the covers she's produced.