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Roger Ryan wrote: Fri Aug 14, 2026 6:38 pm

FrauBlucher wrote: Fri Aug 14, 2026 6:30 pm I can’t say I love or even like the WILD AT HEART cover. Is it based off a poster?

It is: "New cover by Fred Davis, based on the original theatrical poster"

Nonetheless, it's not a particularly good poster and I think the fire imagery for the insert tray holder would have made a better outer cover... and a better match for Criterion's Blue Velvet cover.

It is possible that they contractually had to feature the actors.

James Stock wrote: Fri Aug 14, 2026 6:46 pm The cover would look a lot better if they'd kept the original background.

The true heads have the Twilight Time edition on their shelf . It actually uses the same alternate shot as the Criterion.

Looks like the photo on the Criterion cover was also used for some European posters.

All of Criterion's Lynch releases except Blue Velvet use some variation of existing poster art for the covers and I'd assumed this was down to his preferences—I can't imagine it was Criterion's idea to reuse the Inland Empire U.S. poster art. I doubt this cover was designed so long ago that Lynch signed off on it before he died, given that he didn't approve the transfer either, but maybe the estate laid down some requirements based on what they think Lynch would've wanted.

The Criterion producer(s) probably broached the subject with him before he passed knowing eventually CC would get to release it

absolutely in love with the Marie Antoinette and K-Pop Demon Hunters packages. note how Tori Huynh subtly elevates the Marie cover with the "cutout" style on the wacky C and uses both the bold pink font and cursive together pretty seamlessly. a great cover, and I don't remember seeing that image of Dunst before. striking and makes up for Criterion's below average cover for The Virgin Suicides. I hope Huynh comes back for the inevitable Lost in Translation release

K-Pop Demon Hunters is just such a fun package. I like that Criterion is trying a little bit more with this kinda thing (I thought of Flow's package when I saw it) and am in favor of them adding sticker sheets and postcards and whatnot, it makes this stuff fun and goes along well with the fandom that this film taps into.

I am very, very grateful Criterion is releasing Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors and feel bad complaining about it but that cover really annoys me. especially because A Brighter Summer Day, Manila in the Claws of Light, etc were also WCF films but they got great covers. and Parajanov is more than worthy of a spectacular cover - Criterion and Second Sight both gave us great efforts for The Color of Pomegranates, so I'm a bit miffed by the mailed in effort here. alas. hopefully the inside is nice

12 Angry Men [4K] (Booklet)
Shoah (Booklet)
The Secret Agent [4K] (Faux Newspaper)
Three Films by Leos Carax [4K] (Booklet)
Nouvelle Vague [4K] (Booklet)
Days and Nights in the Forest [4K]

When A CANTERBURY TALE gets upgraded I hope they keep the cover art. Although the eagle in the upper right hand side could be a problem. Maybe they’ll move it to the other side of the A. Have they kept original art work with a slight modification?

WTF happened to their art department

The Shop Around the Corner isn't the liveliest Lubitsch to begin with, but jeez, that cover is practically moribund.

Grizzly Man cover is one of the worst circa 2017 app screenshots ever

Giftwrapped for Xmas as I said. And with a JWM Turner drawing of the ocean. Billy... Billy... i told you to paint the fucking desert!

The way that grizzly man image is cropped I thought it was a dog and had a moment of utter confusion.

The English Patient is okay but they should have reused the laserdisc cover. At least you could actually tell it’s Ralph Fiennes.

Grizzly Man looks like it's a werewolf movie.

CSM126 wrote: Tue Sep 15, 2026 4:44 pm The English Patient is okay but they should have reused the laserdisc cover. At least you could actually tell it’s Ralph Fiennes.

Even the screenplay cover would have been a better pick!

CSM126 wrote:The way that grizzly man image is cropped I thought it was a dog and had a moment of utter confusion.

The English Patient is okay but they should have reused the laserdisc cover. At least you could actually tell it’s Ralph Fiennes.

Yeah these two are bad! Grizzly Man looks like a closeup of a mischievous Pixar bear cub.

Don’t know what’s going on with English Patient. Maybe it’ll look better in high res in person, but it took me awhile to figure out what I was looking at.

Both are just plain ugly on top of their mystifying concepts.

Something about the "directed by Ernst Lubitsch" on a canted angle on the gift box seems really amateurish to me.

For what it’s worth, the Grizzly Man page does advertise the “new cover featuring photography by Timothy Treadwell”—though I’m not sure that helps much.

It helps in that it reinforces how dangerously and physically close he got to these bears.

Does the first person to spot Prince's 90s glyph on the cover of The English Patient win a prize?
My Rorschach test answer for the bottom of the cover is hippopotamus in a dressing gown sitting at a messy breakfast table looking at a sailing ship in the distance.

'Grizzly Bear' would not have been my first guess for the mammal on that other cover, so I'm glad they gave us a clue in the title.

Brian C wrote: Tue Sep 15, 2026 6:01 pm Yeah these two are bad! Grizzly Man looks like a closeup of a mischievous Pixar bear cub.

I thought it was Ash from The Fantastic Mr. Fox

They're making a big deal out of the cover photo being by Treadwell. But that begs the question: is it a close-up? A crop?

zedz wrote: Tue Sep 15, 2026 8:04 pm My Rorschach test answer for the bottom of the cover is hippopotamus in a dressing gown sitting at a messy breakfast table looking at a sailing ship in the distance.

Ship capsizing on an angry sea with a lighthouse behind it.

Its aint a Grizzly, and the black background for the text looks similar to the ones on Instagram stories.
Horrid cover in my opinion

Brian C wrote: Tue Sep 15, 2026 6:01 pm Grizzly Man looks like a closeup of a mischievous Pixar bear cub.

Not Pixar, but pretty close...