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Chasing Ice: The 45 Years Photographs
By Anthony Gerace
In late 2016, I was commissioned by the Criterion Collection to photograph the cover and interiors for the edition of Andrew Haigh’s masterful 45 Years. I’m a photographer and artist based in the UK, and I had first worked with Criterion last . . . Read more »
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The Road to Hell: Designing Lone Wolf and Cub
By Eric Skillman
The Lone Wolf and Cub film series has its roots in Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima’s manga of the same name, which was itself a major influence on Western cartooning and illustration in the 1980s. It felt only natural to pay homage to that . . . Read more »
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Designing for del Toro
By Eric Skillman
Guillermo del Toro has worked with an incredibly deep bench of talented visual effects artists, production designers, storyboard artists, and creature designers over the years, and of course his own visual imagination is second-to-none. When . . . Read more »
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Criterion Designs: Dr. Strangelove
By Eric Skillman
How we riffed on the design of Stanley Kubrick’s classic satire. Read more »
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Criterion Designs: Bitter Rice by Ken Laager
By Eric Skillman
In the two oil paintings he created for our release of Bitter Rice, renowned illustrator Ken Laager conveys the, ahem, ample charms of Giuseppe De Santis’s film with deliciously pulpy flair. Read more »
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Criterion Designs: Kwaidan by Sean Freeman
By Eric Skillman
The particular challenge of designing covers for anthology films like Kwaidan lies in finding a way to represent the set without favoring any one piece over the others. Fortuitously, we found a perfect point of departure in Kobayashi’s own . . . Read more »
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Criterion Designs: The French Lieutenant’s Woman
By Eric Skillman
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Criterion Designs:
Les Blank: Always for PleasureBy Eric Skillman
Criterion’s Eric Skillman writes about the challenge of designing the box set Les Blank: Always for Pleasure. Read more »
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