The Auteurs' Fake Criterion Covers

And my favorite film of 2008

for a Jerry Schatzberg double bill (where is he now?)

@Fitzcarraldo

I like both of your covers, they’re especially great if it’s your first stab at photoshop. Keep it up.

NICE Tron covers Josh! I can’t decide which one I like more. And I really like all of your covers, Chris Anthony.

Thanks. With the first one I was playing with the amazing color pallet in that film. The idea for the second one came just as I was posting the first and taking another look at that vertical line.

Of course now that I’m home (on a screen with better resolution) I noticed a glaring mistake on the second one. Have to fix that when I get back in tomorrow.

I like the Tropic Thunder cover. Nice rich colors.

Damn it all! Is there any way to produce something like these if you don’t have Photoshop? My creative juices are pooling around my feet! Oh yeah: great Heat cover…

Neil…my covers are by no means the best…actually far from it…I feel like the Salieri of covers…good ideas, no idea what do with them

I don’t have photoshop either…I make the cover in powerpoint, save it as a jpg and then upload it to photobucket.com (you can do some editing there too if you want). Once it’s there, I copy the link to this site.

I don’t know what I’m doing other than that (which is why my covers have extra white space).

PS – this is addictive…I’m a couple covers away from pilfering the Don Knotts filmography

Hey Neil’s Brother and anyone else who wants to make cover art: GIMP looks like a pretty decent (and free) photo editing program. It’s available for both PC and Mac and you can get it here: http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
Now you don’t have any excuses . . . Let’s see more covers!

There. Fixed it. My apologies for foisting my ineptitude upon you ;)

I think all of those TRONS are excellent

I’m not a big fan of Tron, but Josh, that cover is gorgeous!

I’m not a big fan of Tron, but Josh, that cover is gorgeous!

Has ANYONE ever seen this movie?

YIKES! EXCELLENT CHRIS!

thank you man

funny ass tropic thunder!

Painting by James Cameron

Damn good stuff. Here’s one close to my heart… or something.

Jaspar, I love that Black Sunday and Urgh! I am ashamed to say that I love all of those bands and have never heard of that film.
Josh, those Trons are incredible and that Lost in Translation is damn good too! Alex, good job on Tropic Thunder. Chris, good job on They Live

Great “They Live” Chris.

I would like to see a cover from The Conformist (bertolucci)

The Conformist. Wow—so many beautiful images here, tho I admit I’ve never seen it. Shall have to remedy that.

1970, not 2003. Oops.