{"id":26788,"date":"2010-08-20T12:30:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T16:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=26788"},"modified":"2010-08-20T12:46:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T16:46:17","slug":"fake-criterion-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=26788","title":{"rendered":"Fake Criterion Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I love the idea and I love the execution: Viewer-designed covers for Criterion films<\/a>. (Follow the links, there are a ton of covers to look at besides the ones featured at Cinematical).<\/p>\n

The results are a testament to both the power of design in the modern world seriously and the thrall of Criterion’s output.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It reminds me of the awesome “My Penguin” series (I wrote about it here<\/a>), where readers sent in their cover designs for six books. It is incredible to see the creativity, the outside-the-box thinking, and just the ideas themselves. <\/p>\n

My favorite fake Criterion cover (and I haven’t browsed through them all yet) is the one for The Shining<\/i> (see above). I think it’s brilliant. My Chronological Jack Nicholson series<\/a> is far from over, but this week has been insane. It has involved, in no particular order:<\/p>\n

1. Alex<\/a> staying with me as a house guest as she got ready for her gig tonight at Feinstein’s<\/a> in Manhattan.
\n2. Freelance gigs heating up.
\n3. Poetry reading last night at the West Harlem Piers at 125th Street, a beautiful section of Riverside Park. I read my essay about Keith McAuliffe<\/a>, it went over great. Beautiful sunset, nice people.
\n4. Alex and I watched A Decade Under the Influence<\/i> on her first night here, which then began a conversation about 70s cinema that lasted for three days.
\n5. We watched A Woman Under the Influence<\/i>.
\n6. We discussed: politics, Meryl Streep, Inception (Alex kept calling it “Incomprehensible” – “So when I saw Incomprehensible…”), the propensity of current-day actors to whisper<\/i> all their lines thinking that that is more real, parking tickets, Mitchell, Peter Falk, Prop 8, Jason Beghe, our lives, LA vs. NY, her teaching gigs, acting techniques, plans for the future, perfume, religious nutjobs, and Katharine Hepburn.
\n7. An adventure involving the two of us being audited at the Manhattan Center for a certain cult (think exploding volcanoes and South Park) which lasted over four hours. We were lucky to get out of there. It wasn’t a private tour, as we have taken before<\/a>, but we have never before gotten so deeply entrenched. We almost didn’t find our way out. It was a brilliant day, story to follow eventually.
\n8. I’ve been working out every day. I joined Curves and I am in love with it. I still have a long way to go but I feel myself getting stronger.
\n9. A couple of laughing fits with Alex that lasted, no lie, over half an hour. Talk about a workout.
\n10. Driving in Manhattan. I rarely do city-driving – it’s just so much easier to take the bus in, but I’ve been all over Manhattan in my car the last couple of days, and it’s been nuts. Kind of fun though. A fun challenge to resist road-rage, to remain Zen, and yet also to not let anyone push you around. <\/p>\n

So I’ll get back to Chronological Jack when I have time to breathe.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, go check out those Fake Criterion Covers<\/a>. I am in love with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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