Blame Haneke, as he is the one that nixed it.
Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol. 7
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I actually kinda dig the 70s paperback cover vibe of One Sings, but overall a very weak batch.
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Until I looked closer, I honestly thought The Heiress was a Satyajit Ray movie I'd never heard of.
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The Denis deserved better.
I have no problem with the other covers, although I hope BV will be a velvety digipack.
I have no problem with the other covers, although I hope BV will be a velvety digipack.
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Great month of covers imo. Blue Velvet is a little simple but I love the House of Games, The Heiress, and One Sings the Other Doesn't's covers.
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Dudes, House of Games’ cover is like twelve years old
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I have no real opinion on the Haneke, Denis or Mamet, but I think the others are wonderful. Blue Velvet's is perhaps "blandly inoffensive" but it's got a lovely textural quality that I hope is also highlighted by a digibook of some sort. One Sings the Other Doesn't is ridiculous, but I think it fits the film very much and its got a lovely color palette. The Heiress is conceptually and compositionally brilliant even if its execution is slightly wanting in terms of likeness to either the quality of the fabric or de Havilland (although it's far superior to many of the Cary Grant covers).
Edit: I just look up the higher res picture for The Heiress on the Criterion site and I retract my comments about the fabric quality. It looks great in a higher quality still.
Edit: I just look up the higher res picture for The Heiress on the Criterion site and I retract my comments about the fabric quality. It looks great in a higher quality still.
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It's only February and there are already so many contenders for Worst cover of the year.
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I am in LOVE with the artwork for One Sings!
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that binoche cover is genuinely one of the laziest things theyve put out
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We went from a really good month of covers to a really bad month.
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So now that I know what the velvet looks like, why do I even need to watch the movie
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I pray to god it's not made out of actual velvet.HinkyDinkyTruesmith wrote: ↑Fri Feb 15, 2019 6:03 pmBlue Velvet's is perhaps "blandly inoffensive" but it's got a lovely textural quality that I hope is also highlighted by a digibook of some sort.
EDIT: I assume it will be a digipack since all of their previous Lynch releases have been digipacks, with booklets that include interviews excerpted from the Lynch on Lynch book in place of an essay.
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I don't mind The Heiress cover in and of itself but it doesn't really capture the vibe of the film, which I adore. Then again, I'm not sure how one would achieve that.
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This is an awful batch of covers. Part of me wants to like Blue Velvet, but it's as if they took the inner print and slapped it on the outside.
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I KNOW, RIGHT!!!!!???!Big Ben wrote:I'm still not over the fact that Criterion spoiled what color pomegranates were. Really irresponsible.
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Nobody show these guys the Three Colors boxset
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What were the three colors?
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At least Criterion left Le Cercle Rouge untranslated, so non-french speakers had a chance of being surprised.
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It means The Red Circle, and it was on the cover the whole time.
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I tend to think the Venn diagram of English-speaking Criterion viewers and people who understand that translation is a full circle. Perhaps a blue, green, or even a red one.stevewhamola wrote:At least Criterion left Le Cercle Rouge untranslated, so non-french speakers had a chance of being surprised.
SpoilerShowIt means The Red Circle, and it was on the cover the whole time.
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I've been so looking forward to Let the Sunshine In, despite the less than stellar reviews (it never got a screening here in Indianapolis). The cover could've been more artsy, sure--but that's a wonderful portrait of Mme Binoche. I'll take it.
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Kind of how I feel about it too. I wouldn’t say that a lovely portrait of Binoche is quite a foolproof way to get me to see a movie, but it’s surely not a bad way to try.Peter McM wrote:I've been so looking forward to Let the Sunshine In, despite the less than stellar reviews (it never got a screening here in Indianapolis). The cover could've been more artsy, sure--but that's a wonderful portrait of Mme Binoche. I'll take it.
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Third time's evidently not the charm for a Criterion cover of a David Lynch film.
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