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Criterion has changed the cover for Breathless.



I don't care a lot for this cover. I think it's even more boring then before. They could have done so much more with a still.

Criterion has changed the cover for Breathless.

You're gonna have to help me out here...

What exactly did they change? I'm not seeing a difference from the previous.

keeproductions wrote:What exactly did they change? I'm not seeing a difference from the previous.

The old cover, still online at Amazon:

I'm not sure what you're driving at; aside from the two red CC logos, it's the same cover. Meanwhile, I agree that it sucks.

I was unimpressed with the Night on Earth cover, but after seeing the covers of other releases in DVD Beaver's review, I appreciate it a bit more.

Dylan wrote:I'm not sure what you're driving at; aside from the two red CC logos, it's the same cover. Meanwhile, I agree that it sucks.

The logo color change is, I believe, what he is referring to. Although the change is subtle, it does affect the feel of the piece, mainly because it is completely in greyscale now. It has a even more of "newspapery" feel than it did before. I think I preferred the red. I hated it when was first released, but it had grown on me. Perhaps this will too.

No doubt in my mind - the new grey version looks hot!

deck chairs, Titanic

So Stranger Than Paradise is totally NOT a digipack and is instead one of the figure 8 cases. I think maybe they did this so it would match up with the look of Night On Earth, but this is incredibly disappointing.

Several months since the last digipak (not counting the Teshigahara box). Breathless seems like a prime candidate though.

souvenir wrote:Several months since the last digipak (not counting the Teshigahara box). Breathless seems like a prime candidate though.

Don't forget Berlin Alexanderplatz!

Latest posts from Eric Skillman's blog, on The Wages of Fear and Hands Over The City.

He mentions in the Hands Over The City piece that the launch of the new logo was brought forward, which might explain why it felt like some of the earlier covers didn't intergate the wacky C properly.

Good thing that the Breathless cover is changed. This looks better than it did with the ugly red.

TheGodfather wrote:Good thing that the Breathless cover is changed. This looks better than it did with the ugly red.

Personally I preferred that red, I can see why some saw it has garish though and I suppose the grey is more "fitting" to the overall ascetic of the cover.

I really like what Criterion are doing (artwork-wise) these days, it's actually making me buy releases I probably wouldn't have before seeing the covers.

The red worked a little better, it kept the Criterion content on one level and the film content on another. Eitherway, I think its cool to have a typographic cover for once.

Could someone tell me what kind of packaging is used for Threepenny Opera and Robinson Crusoe? Digi or keep?

Chull wrote:Could someone tell me what kind of packaging is used for Threepenny Opera and Robinson Crusoe? Digi or keep?

They are both keepcases.

I wish the criterion site would post pictures of their releases like that.

What about the Martha Graham?

I'm just about to pick up the "Monsters & Madman" set and noticed it comes in 2 keep cases even though the Criterion website as individual artwork for all 4 films. I don't suppose anyone could tell me, or even better knows where there's pics of, what artwork the cases use?

125100 wrote:I'm just about to pick up the "Monsters & Madman" set and noticed it comes in 2 keep cases even though the Criterion website as individual artwork for all 4 films. I don't suppose anyone could tell me, or even better knows where there's pics of, what artwork the cases use?

Front and back of each case includes a cover.

denti alligator wrote:Front and back of each case includes a cover.

Ahh, I was thinking it'd be reversible or something

What's up with the clear cases?

I read somewhere that it's an attempt at branding, but forgetting for a moment that UK labels release most of their titles in clear cases already, plenty of American labels have been releasing clear cases, such as THINKFilm. They were better when they had the wide 2-Disc sets, I miss those more than anything.

I suppose I'm part of the minority here when I saw I love the clear cases. Especially for sets where the art work continues on the otherside of the insert.

I especially love the lack of 2 discs in widers cases, and are instead put in digipacks.

Looks a lot slicker.