{"id":8909,"date":"2010-08-22T06:10:45","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T05:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=8909"},"modified":"2010-08-22T06:10:45","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T05:10:45","slug":"fake-criterion-covers-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/08\/22\/fake-criterion-covers-star-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Criterion Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/1499650@N23\/pool\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8910\" title=\"Fake Star Wars Criterion Covers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Fake-Star-Wars-Criterion-Covers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine if George Lucas decided to release the original Star Wars trilogy through the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Criterion_Collection\">Criterion Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The home video company are renowned for their editions of &#8220;important classic and contemporary films&#8221; and their tasteful covers.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/mubi.com\/topics\/2132?page=29\">thread over at MUBi<\/a> has highlighted a lot of imaginative redesigns of notable films in the &#8216;Criterion style&#8217;, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8579251@N04\/4891153855\/\">Star Wars<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27559310@N04\/4865433297\/\">Die Hard<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27559310@N04\/4866051022\/\">2001: A Space Odyssey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This gallery features some of the more notable examples:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"offsite=true&amp;lang=en-us&amp;page_show_url=%2Fgroups%2F1499650%40N23%2Fpool%2Fshow%2F&amp;page_show_back_url=%2Fgroups%2F1499650%40N23%2Fpool%2F&amp;group_id=1499650@N23&amp;jump_to=&amp;start_index=\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=71649\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=71649\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"offsite=true&amp;lang=en-us&amp;page_show_url=%2Fgroups%2F1499650%40N23%2Fpool%2Fshow%2F&amp;page_show_back_url=%2Fgroups%2F1499650%40N23%2Fpool%2F&amp;group_id=1499650@N23&amp;jump_to=&amp;start_index=\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/speakeasy\/2009\/11\/10\/fake-criterion-cover-artists-get-their-due\/\">WSJ article on Fake Criterion covers<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.criterion.com\/\">Official Criterion site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collection of fake Criterion covers that have surfaced online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,36],"tags":[1514],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}