2009 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

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Re: 2009 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#126 Post by aox » Thu Jan 07, 2010 5:36 pm

swo17 wrote:
aox wrote:Richard Cranium Award
Whoever was behind Criterion losing the rights to The Third Man
Hasn't this person made you rich though? Or has your $1000 copy still not sold? :wink:
haha. oh man. I completely forgot about that.

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Re: 2009 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#127 Post by Doctor Sunshine » Thu Jan 28, 2010 4:21 am

Release of the Year
1. Repulsion
2. Simon of the Desert
3. Pigs, Pimps and Prostitutes
4. Nikkatsu Noir
5. Hobson's Choice

Best Eclipse Release
Nikkatsu Noir

Best Reissue
The Seventh Seal

Best Commentary
Audio interview with Resnais, Last Year at Marienbad

Best Single Supplement
Multimedia essay by Tag Gallagher, The Taking of Power by Louis XIV

Best Cover
Wise Blood

Best Package Design
Last Year at Marienbad

Best (Re)Discovery
The Golden Age of Television -- Probably the most fun of their "special interest" releases too. The cast and crew's enthusiasm was catching.

Most Disappointing Release
Bergman Island -- The full three-parter would have but nice but mostly for the content redundancy with Seventh Seal. It's nice for those who didn't upgrade but won't anyone think of the completists?

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Re: 2009 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#128 Post by zachhh » Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:27 am

Release of the Year (5 choices)
Repulsion
Wings of Desire
Z
Magnificent Obsession
The Exterminating Angel

Best Eclipse Release:
Dušan Makavejev Free Radical

Best Reissue
The Seventh Seal

Best Commentary (inlcudes selected scene commentaries and visual essays):
Yates' on The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary):
Magnificent Obsession's...From UFA to Hollywood: Douglas Sirk Remembers

Best Cover:
Wings of Desire

Best Package Design (including DVD menus)
Magnificent Obsession

Best (Re)Discovery (for a film you knew little or nothing about before the Criterion release):
The Hit

Most Disappointing Release (for releases that Criterion dropped the ball on: bad transfer, poor supplements, etc.)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Non-Criterion Release (5 Choices)
FOX's Man Hunt
Paramount's Zodiac: Director's Cut
Warner's Northy by Northwest: 50th Anniversary
Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics Vol. 1
MoC's The Complete Fritz Lang Mabuse Box Set

Criterion fantasies for the future :lol:

Seconds 1966
Seance on a Wet Afternoon 1964
The Tenant 1976
Victim 1961
Charly 1968

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Re: 2009 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#129 Post by JAP » Sun Jan 31, 2010 4:03 pm

Release of the Year:
1 - Last Year at Marienbad
2 – Wings of Desire
3 - A Christmas Tale
4 – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5 - Homicide

Best Eclipse Release:
- None bought

Best Reissue:
- The Seventh Seal (BR)

Best Commentary:
- Whit Stilmann rambling on The Last Days of Disco

Best Single Supplement:
- The 1935 Stahl version of Magnificent Obsession

Best Cover:
- A Christmas Tale (the suppressed version)

Best Package:
- Last Year at Marienbad

Best (Re)Discovery:
- The Last Days of Disco

Most Disappointing Release:
- Le Jour se Lève being relegated to the Essential Art House line

Forum Member of the Year:
- The Insiders (peerpee; Bikey; drdoros; MichaelB; et al)

Richard Cranium Award:
- The “Everything! Blu! Now!” brigade and the “There's Nothing Like Plastic for Perfect Packaging” lobby

Best Non-Criterion Release: (I'm gonna cheat a little):
- The 4/5 Borzages – BFI
- Treasures from American Film Archives IV - NFPF
- The GPO Film Unit, Vols. 2 & 3 – BFI
- Bardelys, the Magnificent/Monte Cristo – Flicker Alley
- TCM Archives: Forbidden Hollywood 3 – Warner Brothers (once a great DVD label...)

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Re: 2009 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#130 Post by Dadapass » Sun Jan 31, 2010 6:28 pm

Release of the Year:
1) Jeanne Dielman
2) The Human Condition
3) Made in U.S.A.
4) The Last Days of Disco
5) Wings of Desire

Best Eclipse Release:
Dušan Makavejev Free Radical

Best Reissue:
The Seventh Seal

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary):
André Gregory & Wallace Shawn interview by Noah Baumbach

Best Cover:
El Norte

Best Package:
Last Year at Marienbad

Most Disappointing Release:
Bergman Island

Forum Member of the Year:
colinr0380

Best Non-Criterion releases:
From the East - Icarus Films
The Battle of Chile - Icarus Films
La Gueule Ouverte - MOC
Jeanne la Pucelle Part 1: The Battles - Artificial Eye
Philippe Garrel x 2 - Zeitgeist

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Re: 2009 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#131 Post by Flike » Sun Jan 31, 2010 6:48 pm

Release of the Year:

1) Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé
2) The Human Condition
3) My Dinner with Andre
4) Wise Blood
5) A Christmas Tale

Best Eclipse Release:

Eclipse Series 17: Nikkatsu Noir

Best Reissue:

The Seventh Seal

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Re: 2009 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#132 Post by rossen » Mon Feb 01, 2010 1:02 am

Release of the Year (5 choices) (Eclipse titles eligible): 1. Pigs, Pimps, Prostitutes
2. Dušan Makavejev Free Radical : the first two movies in particular - Man is not a Bird and Love Affair
3. The Human Condition: epic in a best sense, like a great Russian novel
4. The Golden Age of Television - of particular interest to me as a recent immigrant to the US
5. Rossellini History Films

Best Eclipse Release: Travels with Hiroshi Shimizu - well, I've cheated a little, but the Eclipse releases this year eclipsed the main line.

Best Reissue: Seventh Seal

Best Commentary (inlcudes selected scene commentaries and visual essays): Peter Cowie on The Seventh Seal, I know it's not new, but his affection for the movie made me appreciated it even more.

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary) Multimedia essay by Tag Gallagher, The Taking of Power by Louis XIV

Best Cover: In the Realm of the Senses

Best Package Design (including DVD menus) Last Year at Marienbad

Best (Re)Discovery (for a film you knew little or nothing about before the Criterion release): Science is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painleve

Most Disappointing Release (for releases that Criterion dropped the ball on: bad transfer, poor supplements, etc.) Le Jour Se Leve not in the main line

Forum Member of the Year: The Moderators

Richard Cranium Award:

Best Non-Criterion Release (5 Choices)1. Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics Vol.1
2. Wagon Master
3. Black Rain Imamura Shohei (Animeigo)
4. Michael Powell Double Feature
5. Husbands

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Re: 2009 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#133 Post by domino harvey » Mon Feb 01, 2010 6:42 am

Voting now closed, results posted eventually

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Re: 2009 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#134 Post by HerrSchreck » Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:47 pm

Crap, I never got to vote for colinnumbers member of the year. Can you toss an old member who lives in a cave a bone and allow me that indulgence? If not I understand.

I owe it to the guy for harrumphing in the face of his makepeace pm's...

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Re: 2009 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#135 Post by GringoTex » Tue Feb 02, 2010 2:19 pm

domino harvey wrote:Voting now closed, results posted eventually
So has the results unveiling been upgraded to "imminently" yet or are we still holding at "eventually"?

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Re: 2009 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#136 Post by Lemmy Caution » Tue Feb 02, 2010 2:29 pm

Apparently there's been a problem with the counting rods, and an abacus is being rushed in.

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Re: 2009 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#137 Post by Tribe » Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:13 pm

HerrSchreck wrote:Well since he's a fellow subject of the British Empire I thought you might have had those specs.. though I'm not sure he's bound for glory in the tally this year.
Aren't they on the metric system?

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Re: 2009 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#138 Post by Cinephrenic » Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:31 pm

That's been in his wishlist forever. =P~

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Re: 2009 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#139 Post by strangerinparadise » Tue Feb 02, 2010 10:07 pm

david hare wrote:Schreck, is Rock BIG enough for the memorial cockring?
Perhaps he should answer that.
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Re: 2009 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#140 Post by colinr0380 » Wed Feb 03, 2010 2:36 pm

:oops: Thankfully I may be spared the embarrassment, painful stretching and uncomfortable priapism that such an honor bestows, not to mention the requirement of having to display said bangle during an honorary tickertape parade through my hometown! (Plus it is snowing again at the moment, so it isn't quite the weather for nude parades even if I wasn't feeling modest)

Thanks HerrSchreck! I'll stop bugging you now with my grovelling apologies! I'll just quietly sit over here in the corner after once again mentioning that "I'm an extraordinarily harmless person, in fact"

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Re: 2009 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#141 Post by skuhn8 » Thu Feb 04, 2010 6:03 am

Not sure how many days a tally takes but is there anyone actually doing this?

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Re: 2009 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#142 Post by domino harvey » Fri Feb 05, 2010 1:42 pm

Best Releases
01 Last Year at Marienbad
02 the Human Condition
03 Pigs, Pimps, and Prostitutes
04 Science is Fiction
05 Repulsion
06 the Exterminating Angel
07 Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
07 My Dinner With Andre
09 Eclipse Series 15: Travels with Hiroshi Shimizu
10 Simon of the Desert

Best Eclipse
Eclipse Series 17: Nikkatsu Noir (The most competitive category)

Best Reissue
the Seventh Seal (The least competitive category by far)

Best Commentary
Tony Rayns, In the Realm of the Senses

Best Supplement
Tag Gallagher's visual essay for the Taking of Power by Louis XIV

Best Cover
[img]http://criterion_production.s3.amazonaws.com/release_images/1439/457_box_348x490.jpg[/img]

Best Packaging
Last Year at Marienbad

Best (Re)Discovery
the Friends of Eddie Coyle

Most Disappointing Release
Bergman Island

Member of the Year
Domino Harvey (Don't look at me, I already told you guys I was George C Scott-ing this)

Richard Cranium Award
Swimminghorses, the Tom Hanks of CriteronForum.org

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Re: 2009 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#143 Post by Matt » Fri Feb 05, 2010 1:50 pm

Wow, an unprecedented back-to-back Richard Cranium winner! And richly-deserved, too. What an asshole.

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Re: 2009 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#144 Post by aox » Fri Feb 05, 2010 1:57 pm

Thanks domino for compiling that. =D>

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Re: 2009 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#145 Post by swo17 » Fri Feb 05, 2010 1:57 pm

Thanks for volunteering to tabulate the results, domino, and congrats on finally being recognized for what you are--the shining star of the forum!

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Re: 2009 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#146 Post by perkizitore » Fri Feb 05, 2010 2:03 pm

How many times has Domino won the award?

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Re: 2009 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#147 Post by Cinephrenic » Fri Feb 05, 2010 2:58 pm

Good job Domino. With nearly 8000 posts, advertising still works. lol.

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Re: 2009 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#148 Post by Tribe » Fri Feb 05, 2010 3:00 pm

Excellent top ten and excellent 2009 for CC. Thanks for the work, Domino.

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Re: 2009 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#149 Post by Caged Horse » Fri Feb 05, 2010 3:54 pm

Geez, what has Hanks done to get likened to Swimminghorses?! :roll:

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Re: 2009 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#150 Post by zedz » Fri Feb 05, 2010 3:54 pm

perkizitore wrote:How many times has Domino won the award?
As many times as he's tallied the votes!

Congratulations, domino. That ridiculous accoutrement (too big for a bangle, too small for a hula hoop) is on its way to you via Fairypost.

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