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    The Virgin Suicides: “They Hadn’t Heard Us Calling” By Megan Abbott

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    [The Daily] Back in a Bit By David Hudson

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  • Chasing Ice: The 45 Years Photographs

    By Anthony Gerace

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    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 »

    Photo Galleries, Criterion Designs

    • Posted on March 13, 2017
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  • The Road to Hell: Designing Lone Wolf and Cub

    By Eric Skillman

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    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 »

    Criterion Designs

    • Posted on November 30, 2016
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  • Designing for del Toro

    By Eric Skillman

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    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 »

    Criterion Designs

    • Posted on October 26, 2016
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  • Criterion Designs: Dr. Strangelove

    By Eric Skillman

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    How we riffed on the design of Stanley Kubrick’s classic satire. Read more »

    Criterion Designs

    • Posted on June 30, 2016
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  • Criterion Designs: Bitter Rice by Ken Laager

    By Eric Skillman

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    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 »

    Criterion Designs

    • Posted on January 28, 2016
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  • Criterion Designs: Kwaidan by Sean Freeman

    By Eric Skillman

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    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 »

    Criterion Designs

    • Posted on October 30, 2015
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  • Criterion Designs: Blind Chance by Gérard DuBois

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    By Eric Skillman

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    Criterion Designs, On Five, Photo Galleries

    • Posted on September 29, 2015
  • Criterion Designs: The French Lieutenant’s Woman

    By Eric Skillman

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    Criterion Designs, On Five, Video

    • Posted on September 24, 2015
  • Criterion Designs: The Black Stallion by Nicolas Delort

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    Criterion Designs, On Five, Photo Galleries

    • Posted on July 29, 2015
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  • Criterion Designs: A Master Builder by Riccardo Vecchio

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    On Five, Photo Galleries, Criterion Designs

    • Posted on June 26, 2015
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  • Criterion Designs:
    Les Blank: Always for Pleasure

    By Eric Skillman

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    Criterion’s Eric Skillman writes about the challenge of designing the box set Les Blank: Always for Pleasure. Read more »

    Criterion Designs, On Five

    • Posted on May 15, 2015
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  • Criterion Designs:
    Don’t Look Now by Fred Davis

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    On Five, Photo Galleries, Criterion Designs

    • Posted on April 09, 2015
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  • Criterion Designs:
    Fellini Satyricon by Edward Kinsella

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    By Eric Skillman

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    On Five, Photo Galleries, Criterion Designs

    • Posted on February 25, 2015
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    Video, Criterion Designs

    • Posted on December 05, 2014
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    Announcements, On Five, Photo Galleries, Criterion Designs

    • Posted on October 28, 2014
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