Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol. 7

[dwk]

Didn't notice at first, but Risky Business is an illustration, not a cap, from the artist that did Criterion's Police Story and Throw Down covers.

[Matt]

Le Samouraï seems to be a rare example of giving a completely new cover to what is a simple format upgrade and not a new addition with more supplements.

The old cover was perfect, one of their best.

[therewillbeblus]

None are great, none are horrible - a curious choice for Perfect Days, but it's both in step with the spirit of the film and made me laugh in its bald irony

[Kracker]

and of course the Concubine cover gets to be the one that looks like garbage, dont recall that being original poster art or anything.

[Walter Kurtz]

I find the empty space on the Farewell cover baffling, too

Maybe the bifurcation between the colorful left-top and pure-red bottom-right is meant to visually highlight the political bifurcation/end of the happy/good times contrasted with the new austerity under the little RED book waving commies of Chairman Mao?

[Walter Kurtz]

Or is it simply that everyone who is in love (red) with Gong's acting is shocked (thus a shocking bifurcation) that she's finally in the collection?

[Randall Maysin Again]

Farewell, My Concubine is a thoroughly decent effort and the Rocha cover is actually pretty terrific!

[dwk]

I find the empty space on the Farewell cover baffling, too, and the placement of the word Farewell is really awkward. Skillman could have applied some shadow to the title fonts if he was concerned about the title not standing out enough against the busy background.

Yeah, the title treatment is the real issue with Farewell's cover. Farewell crossing out of the red into the picture just looks sloppy.

[zedz]

Le Samouraï seems to be a rare example of giving a completely new cover to what is a simple format upgrade and not a new addition with more supplements.

If memory serves, this was the first such instance:

[zedz]

Farewell, My Concubine is a thoroughly decent effort and the Rocha cover is actually pretty terrific!

That's the original poster, so Criterion only deserves credit for not screwing it up.

[Walter Kurtz]

But that may be shortchanging the genius of the person at Criterion who changed the red color from Pantone #485a to Pantone #485b!

[afilmcionado]

I don’t aesthetically love the Farewell My Concubine cover but the idea is strong: the yellow and red combo is symbolic of the CCP, and it cuts through the image like a knife, with all the red almost like blood spilled.

[Murdoch]

The Le Samouraï cover is terrible. The old cover was one of my earliest memories of seeing a Criterion cover, it's a shame they changed it.

[cdnchris]

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