2010 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

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Re: 2010 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#176 Post by otis » Sat Jan 22, 2011 9:13 pm

Wu.Qinghua wrote:I can try to.
Thanks for the details. Didn't know they were unconverted - that's disappointing. They do have English subtitles, though, right?

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Re: 2010 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#177 Post by Jean-Luc Garbo » Sat Jan 22, 2011 10:15 pm

Release of the Year
Letters from Fontainhas
War Trilogy
Close-Up
Vivre sa vie
Dillinger Is Dead

Best Eclipse Release
Presenting Sacha Guitry

Best Reissue
Black Narcissus

Best Commentary
Gary Giddins on Paths Of Glory

Best Single Supplement
Janet Bergstrom’s 3 Silent Classics visual essay

Best Cover
House

Best Package Design
3 Silent Classics

Best (Re)Discovery
The Magician

Most Disappointing Release
Crumb

Forum Member of the Year
Colinr0380

Best Non-Criterion Release
Institute Benjamenta (BFI)
Metropolis (MOC)
Martin (Arrow)
Morgiana (Second Run)
Daria: Complete Animated Series (Paramount)

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Re: 2010 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#178 Post by Doctor Sunshine » Sun Jan 23, 2011 1:34 am

Best Releases
1.The Night of the Hunter
2. 3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg
3. Paths of Glory
4. Stagecoach
5. Modern Times

Best Eclipse
Presenting Sacha Guitry

Best Reissue
Black Narcissus

Best Commentary
Lars von Trier and Murray Smith on Antichrist

Best Supplement
The Famous Artists Talent Test with Crumb and Illustrations by Howard Armstrong on Louie Bluie

Best Cover
The Magician

Best Packaging
3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg

Best (Re)Discovery
House

Most Disappointing Release
It would have been so nice to have had 3 Silent Classics on blu. But I forgive them.

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Re: 2010 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#179 Post by Wu.Qinghua » Sun Jan 23, 2011 6:14 am

otis wrote:They do have English subtitles, though, right?
Yes, they have. There are optional French and English subtitles for the main features, but there are no subtitles for the short French introductions.

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Re: 2010 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#180 Post by domino harvey » Sun Jan 23, 2011 8:33 pm

Finally gentlemen you receive a standardized mail from me where I ask you which of the named Criterions you've seen. Obviously these are the top placed Criterions you haven't voted for (except for any mistakes I may have made), alphabetically sorted by cover designer. If you have seen a Criterion and don't remember it well enough not having it revisited for this off the cuff, allegedly fun list, then there are two different options
a) you remembered that the film wasn't anything special and didn't think it necessary to buy the Criterion because it wouldn't have made the list anyway, then it counts as seen
b) the ownership status of the Criterion has dissolved completely in your mind that you couldn't say whether it's in your kevyip or not, then it does count as not seen.

The faster I get your PMs the faster the final list appears here, it's just that I want to see to which degree lesser known and more difficult to access Criterions suffered from this handicap. In the previous list we had far less Criterions and a few voters less, so it didn't play a major role though e.g. Resnais or Bunuel profited from their wider exposure. This time it may be different, the replies are strictly confidential, no need to be embarassed.

Please sacrifice the 5 minutes of your time for an answer with an exact list of Criterions, so that the hours I've sacrificed are not in vain.

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Re: 2010 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#181 Post by knives » Sun Jan 23, 2011 8:37 pm

You deserve these good sir
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Re: 2010 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#182 Post by domino harvey » Sun Jan 23, 2011 8:39 pm

2010 CRITERION FORUM AWARD WINNAHS

Best Releases
01 Night of the Hunter
02 Rossellini's War Trilogy
03 3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg
04 Letters From Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa
05 America Lost and Found: the BBS Story
06 Bigger Than Life
07 the Thin Red Line
08 Stagecoach
09 Eclipse Series 21: Oshima's Outlaw Sixties
10 by Brakhage: An Anthology, Vols 1 and 2

Best Eclipse
Eclipse Series 21: Oshima's Outlaw Sixties

Best Reissue
the Red Shoes

Best Commentary
TIE: Night of the Hunter / Vivre se vie

Best Supplement
Charles Laughton Directs Night of the Hunter

Best Cover

Image

Best Packaging

Image

Best R1 Rescue
Night of the Hunter

Best (Re)Discovery
Louie Bluie

Most Disappointing Release
L'Enfance nue

Member of the Year
THREE WAY TIE: Cold Bishop, Michael Kerpan, and swo17

Richard Cranium Award
Nothing

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Re: 2010 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#183 Post by jbeall » Sun Jan 23, 2011 9:12 pm

So do Michael Kerpan, Cold Bishop and swo17 have a deathmatch to determine who takes home the crown?

"There can be only one!"

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Re: 2010 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#184 Post by LQ » Sun Jan 23, 2011 9:16 pm

Hopefully the inevitable death match will be scripted by HerrSchreck...!

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Re: 2010 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#185 Post by swo17 » Sun Jan 23, 2011 9:34 pm

Figures for this forum it'd be a three-way...though I'm honored to be in such esteemed company. Just, um, not sexually...erm, yeah. (Feel free to retract your votes, people!)

Thanks for tabulating, domino!

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Re: 2010 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#186 Post by Michael Kerpan » Sun Jan 23, 2011 9:47 pm

I'm touched (and no -- NOT in the head). ;~}

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Re: 2010 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#187 Post by Cold Bishop » Sun Jan 23, 2011 11:16 pm

What's all this, then!? :-k

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Re: 2010 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#188 Post by Jean-Luc Garbo » Sun Jan 23, 2011 11:25 pm

I've got my bets on Cold Bishop. Unless swo switches his avatar to The Bride in which case you guys are fucked.

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Re: 2010 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#189 Post by swo17 » Sun Jan 23, 2011 11:55 pm

It's on, Bishop.

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Re: 2010 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#190 Post by domino harvey » Sun Jan 23, 2011 11:58 pm

Shit just got real

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Re: 2010 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#191 Post by zedz » Mon Jan 24, 2011 12:01 am

Cold Bishop pulls stone.

Swo responds with paper, wrapping stone in a mess of trouble!

Kerpan takes paper, folds it into a most attractive lotus blossom and sends swo sobbing back to his abacus.

Bishop smashes lotus blossom with stone.

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Re: 2010 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#192 Post by Cold Bishop » Mon Jan 24, 2011 12:17 am


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Re: 2010 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#193 Post by dad1153 » Mon Jan 24, 2011 2:27 pm

domino harvey wrote:Best Releases
01 Night of the Hunter
02 Rossellini's War Trilogy
03 3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg
04 Letters From Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa
05 America Lost and Found: the BBS Story
06 Bigger Than Life
07 the Thin Red Line
08 Stagecoach
09 Eclipse Series 21: Oshima's Outlaw Sixties
10 by Brakhage: An Anthology, Vols 1 and 2
You can tell 2010 was a good year when the bottom five of the Top 10 list could have easily been the Top 5 of any previous year and we would have all been delighted. Bring on 2011 although, three months worth of announcements in, I don't think Criterion will be able to match 2010.

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Re: 2010 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#194 Post by knives » Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:17 pm

dad1153 wrote: Bring on 2011 although, three months worth of announcements in, I don't think Criterion will be able to match 2010.
In all honesty if the only good thing they put out is the Naruse eclipse(I think they've already done better than that though with the YiYi blu and Fuller reissues)2011 is still going to be a great year by default.

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Re: 2010 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

#195 Post by Morbii » Sat Feb 12, 2011 9:10 am

Better late than never, I suppose, but my vote for best supplement goes to "Constructing a House" from House.

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