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Criterion 10th Anniversary DVD Voting Thread

#1 Post by GringoTex » Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:45 am

Cast your ballot for your all-time favorite Criterions here.

Categories:
All-Time Favorite Criterion Release (ranked 1-5)
Best Non-box Set Release (ranked 1-10)
Best Box Sets (ranked 1-5)
Most Disappointing Package (transfer, extras, etc.) (ranked 1-3)
Worst Film (ranked 1-3)
Best Commentary (ranked 1-5)
Best Single Supplement (not a commentary) (ranked 1-5)
Best Package Design (ranked 1-5)
Best Cover Art (ranked 1-10)
Worst Cover Art (ranked 1-5)


Eligible Box Sets:
Orphic Trilogy
Eisenstein: The Sound Years
Dreyer Box Set
The Complete Monterey Pop Festival
I Am Curious...
The Adventures of Antoine Doinel
The BRD Trilogy
A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman
Stage and Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir
John Cassavetes: Five Films
Fanny and Alexander Box Set
Andrzej Wajda: Three War Films
3 Films by Louis Malle
Six Moral Tales
Monsters and Madmen
Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist
Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara
Early Bergman
The Documentaries of Louis Malle
Late Ozu
Raymond Bernard
The First Films of Samuel Fuller
Carlos Saura's Flamenco Trilogy


Eligible Non-Box Set Titles:
All non-box set releases up to and including 414 - Two-Lane Blacktop

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#2 Post by GringoTex » Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:32 pm

All-Time Favorite Criterion Release (ranked 1-5)
1. The Rules of the Game
2. Stage and Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir
3. Adventures of Antoine Doinel
4. BRD Trilogy
5. Notorious

Best Non-box Set Release (ranked 1-10)
1. The Rules of the Game
2. Notorious
3. Trouble in Paradise
4. Band of Outsiders
5. Pickpocket
6. Thieves' Highway
7. by Brakhage
8. Viridiana
9. I Fidanzati
10. Passion of Joan of Arc

Best Box Sets (ranked 1-5)
1. Stage and Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir
2. Adventures of Antoine Doinel
3. BRD Trilogy
4. Dreyer Box Set
5. 5 Films by John Cassavetes

Most Disappointing Package (ranked 1-3)
1. Good Morning
2. Kwaidan
3. Alphaville

Worst Film (ranked 1-3)
1. Man Bites Dog
2. Coup de torchon
3. Border Radio

Best Commentary (ranked 1-5)
1. Scott Eyman - Trouble in Paradise
2. Ian Christie - A Canterbury Tale
3. James Quandt - Pickpocket
4. Philip Kemp - Playtime
5. Alexander Sesonske - Rules of the Game

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary) (ranked 1-5)
1. Visual Glossary - Band of Outsiders
2. Interactive Map of 1930s Paris - Boudu Saved From Drowning
3. Langlois Affair Archives - Adventures of Antoine Doinel
4. Restoration Demonstration - Grand Illusion
5. Miles Davis soundtrack recording session - Elevator to the Gallows

Best Package Design (ranked 1-5)
1. The Adventures of Antoine Doinel
2. BRD Trilogy
3. Two Lane Blacktop
4. Breathless
5. Rules of the Game

Best Cover Art (ranked 1-10)
1. Boudu Saved From Drowning
2. Playtime
3. Salvatore Giuliano
4. Stage and Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir
5. Spirit of the Beehive
6. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
7. Le Corbeau
8. Hiroshima, Mon Amour
9. Diary of a Country Priest
10. A Woman is a Woman

Worst Cover Art (ranked 1-5)
1. Pepe le Moko
2. The Long Good Friday
3. That Obscure Object of Desire
4. Henry V
5. Picnic at Hanging Rock
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#3 Post by criterionsnob » Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:53 pm

All-Time Favorite Criterion Release (ranked 1-5)
1. John Cassavetes: Five Films
2. A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman
3. Six Moral Tales
4. Dreyer Box Set
5. by Brakhage: an anthology

Best Non-box Set Release (ranked 1-10)
1. by Brakhage: an anthology
2. The Battle of Algiers
3. Children of Paradise
4. 8 1/2
5. L’eclisse
6. Hiroshima mon amour
7. L’avventura
8. Late Spring
9. Mala Noche
10. The Passion of Joan of Arc

Best Box Sets (ranked 1-5)
1. John Cassavetes: Five Films
2. A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman
3. Six Moral Tales
4. Dreyer Box Set
5. Fanny and Alexander Box Set

Most Disappointing Package (transfer, extras, etc.) (ranked 1-3)
1. The Samurai Trilogy
2. Good Morning
3. The Sword of Doom

Worst Film (ranked 1-3)
1. Armageddon
2. The Rock
3. Hopscotch

Best Package Design (ranked 1-5)
1. The BRD Trilogy
2. The Adventures of Antoine Doinel
3. The Battle of Algiers
4. Seven Samurai
5. Videodrome

Best Cover Art (ranked 1-10)
1. A Story of Floating Weeds / Floating Weeds
2. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm
3. Onibaba
4. Eyes Without a Face
5. The Battle of Algiers
6. Le Corbeau
7. The Red Shoes
8. The Spirit of the Beehive
9. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
10. In the Mood for Love

Worst Cover Art (ranked 1-5)
1. Pepe le moko
2. The Milky Way
3. Secret Honor
4. Hopscotch
5. And the Ship Sails On

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#4 Post by Des Esseintes » Fri Jan 18, 2008 1:19 am

All-Time Favorite Release

1. John Cassavetes: Five Films
2. The Passion of Joan of Arc
3. 3 Films by Louis Malle
4. La Jetee/Sans Soleil
5. Fanny and Alexander Box Set

Best Non-box Set Release

1. The Passion of Joan of Arc
2. La Jetee/Sans Soleil
3. The Rules of the Game
4. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
5. The Spirit of the Beehive
6. L'avventura
7. The Royal Tenenbaums
8. by Brakhage: an Anthology
9. In the Mood for Love
10. Andrei Rublev

Best Box Sets
1. John Cassavetes: Five Films
2. 3 Films by Louis Malle
3. Fanny and Alexander Box Set
4. A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman
5. Six Moral Tales

Most Disappointing Package
1. Kwaidan
2. Double Suicide
3. Diary of a Country Priest

Worst Film
1. Armageddon
2. The Rock
3. Man Bites Dog

Best Commentary

1. Michael Jeck, Seven Samurai
2. Peter Cowie, Fanny and Alexander
3. Donald Richie, Crazed Fruit
4. David Gordon Green, Tim Orr, Paul Schneider, George Washington
5. John Lurie, Fishing with John

Best Single Supplement

1. Encounters, by Brakhage: an anthology
2. A.K., Ran
3. Tenth anniversary footage, Slacker
4. Donald Richie Introduction, Au hasard Balthazar
5. Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

Best Package Design

1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. Videodrome
3. Seven Samurai reissue
4. The Man Who Fell to Earth
5. Sansho the Bailiff

Best Cover Art

1. The Battle of Algiers
2. The Rules of the Game
3. Ikiru
4. Seven Samurai reissue
5. Berlin Alexanderplatz
6. Peeping Tom
7. Kagemusha
8. George Washington
9. Sansho the Bailiff
10. Straw Dogs

Worst Cover Art

1. An Angel at My Table
2. Pepe le Moko
3. The Fireman's Ball
4. Insomnia
5. Salo

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#5 Post by kaujot » Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:53 pm

All-Time Favorite Criterion Release (ranked 1-5)
1. Fanny & Alexander
2. if....
3. Two-Lane Blacktop
4. I Fidanzati
5. Hoop Dreams


Best Non-box Set Release (ranked 1-10)
1. The Rules of the Game
2. Two-Lane Blacktop
3. if....
4. The Leopard
5. Hoop Dreams
6. Solaris
7. Straw Dogs
8. Slacker
9. Amarcord
10. The Man Who Fell to Earth


Best Box Sets (ranked 1-5)
1. Fanny & Alexander
2. The Adventures of Antoine Doinel
3. 3 Films by Louis Malle
4. The BRD Trilogy
5. Dreyer Box Set


Most Disappointing Package (transfer, extras, etc.) (ranked 1-3)
1. Diary of a Country Priest
2. Vengeance is Mine (a shame, since the film is excellent)
3. Bad Timing (desperately wanted a commentary from Roeg)


Worst Film (ranked 1-3)
1. I Am Curious (both)
2. Jubilee
3. Armageddon


Best Commentary (ranked 1-5)
1. if.... (Malcolm McDowell and that guy)
2. Contempt (Robert Stam)
3. Tokyo Olympiad (Peter Cowie)
4. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Martin Scorsese and Michael Powell)
5. Fanny & Alexander (Peter Cowie)


Best Package Design (ranked 1-5)
1. The Adventures of Antoine Doinel
2. Two-Lane Blacktop
3. The Rules of the Game
4. Amarcord (reissue)
5. Fanny & Alexander


Best Cover Art (ranked 1-10)
1. Hoop Dreams
2. The Bad Sleep Well
3. F for Fake
4. L'Eclisse
5. La Haine
6. Scenes from a Marriage
7. Pickpocket
8. The Battle of Algiers
9. Days of Heaven
10. Slacker


Worst Cover Art (ranked 1-5)
1. Fishing with John
2. Pepe le moko
3. Shock Corridor
4. Great Expectations
5. Walkabout

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#6 Post by miless » Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:07 pm

All-Time Favorite Criterion Release (ranked 1-5)
01. Solaris
02. John Cassavetes: Five Films
03. Spirit of the Beehive
04. Dreyer Box Set
05. Stranger Than Paradise

Best Non-box Set Release (ranked 1-10)
01. Solaris
02. Spirit of the Beehive
03. Pickpocket
04. Stranger Than Paradise
05. Ivan's Childhood
06. Diary of a Country Priest
07. Days of Heaven
08. The Passion of Joan of Arc
09. Battle of Algiers
10. Down By Law

Best Box Sets (ranked 1-5)
01. John Cassavetes: Five Films
02. Dreyer Box Set
03. Andrzej Wajda: Three War Films
04. A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman
05. Fanny and Alexander Box Set

Most Disappointing Package (transfer, extras, etc.) (ranked 1-3)
01. Andrei Rublev (probably my favorite film in the collection, it just has a weak transfer and really shoddy extras)
02. Diabolique (shoddy transfer, no extras)
03. The Cranes are Flying (Brilliant film, no extras)

Worst Film (ranked 1-3)
01. Armageddon
02. Chasing Amy
03. Sisters

Best Commentary (ranked 1-5)
01. Brazil
02. Naked
03. Days of Heaven
04. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
05. Time Bandits (what? Terry Gilliam is totally entertaining)

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary) (ranked 1-5)
01. Love Conquers All version of Brazil
02. Permanent Vacation (gave me hope as a filmmaker)
03. TV version of Fanny & Alexander
04. alternate cuts of Mr.Arkadin/Confidential Report
05. Orson Welles: One Man Band

Best Package Design (ranked 1-5)
01. Videodrome
02. Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara
03. Seven Samurai (reissue)
04. The Adventures of Antoine Doinel
05. John Cassavetes: Five Films

Best Cover Art (ranked 1-10)
01. YiYi
02. F for Fake
03. Naked Lunch
04. The Man Who Fell To Earth
05. Hiroshima Mon Amour
06. Thieves Highway
07. Seven Samurai (reissue)
08. In The Mood For Love
09. Jubilee
10. Andrzej Wajda: Three War Films

Worst Cover Art (ranked 1-5)
01. The White Sheik
02. Written on the Wind
03. Border Radio
04. The Hidden Fortress
05. Pepe Le moko

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#7 Post by domino harvey » Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:37 pm

All-Time Favorite Criterion Release (ranked 1-5)
01 Six Moral Tales
02 Mr. Arkadin
03 Pickpocket
04 L'avventura
05 Heaven Can Wait

Best Non-box Set Release (ranked 1-10)
01 Mr. Arkadin
02 Pickpocket
03 L'avventura
04 Heaven Can Wait
05 A Woman is a Woman
06 Kicking and Screaming
07 Fanny and Alexander
08 Contempt
09 the Life and Death of Col Blimp
10 Trouble in Paradise

Best Box Sets (ranked 1-5)
01 Six Moral Tales
02 I Am Curious
03 A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman
04 John Cassavetes
05 Three War Films

Most Disappointing Package (transfer, extras, etc.) (ranked 1-3)
01 Kwaidan

Worst Film (ranked 1-3)
01 Permanent Vacation
02 Chasing Amy
03 Charade

Best Commentary (ranked 1-5)
01 Straw Dogs -- by the way, any answer that isn't this is wrong.
02 House of Games
03 Testament of Dr Mabuse
04 Schizopolis
05 Haxan

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary) (ranked 1-5)
Abstain

Best Package Design (ranked 1-5)
01 Cassavetes
02 Antoine Doinel
03 Amaracord
04 Fanny and Alexander
05 I Fidanzati/Il Posto

Best Cover Art (ranked 1-10)
01 Eyes Without a Face
02 Green For Danger
03 Contempt
04 Notorious
05 Diary of a Chambermaid
06 Miss Julie
07 Scenes From a Marriage
08 Heaven Can Wait
09 WR
10 Le Corbeau

Worst Cover Art (ranked 1-5)
01 Hopscotch
02 Fishing With John
03 Border Radio
04 Pepe le moko
05 Silence of the Lambs


This was a lot harder than I thought it would be!
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#8 Post by Cinephrenic » Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:17 pm

All-Time Favorite Criterion Release (ranked 1-5)
Seven Samurai
Fanny and Alexander
Ugetsu
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Le samourai

Best Non-box Set Release (ranked 1-10)
The Rules of the Game
8 ½
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Hiroshima mon amour
M
Spirit of the Beehive
The 400 Blows
Elevator to the Gallows
Children of Paradise
Ugetsu

Best Box Sets (ranked 1-5)
The Adventures of Antoine Doinel
Six Moral Tales
The BRD Trilogy
John Cassavetes: Five Films
Fanny and Alexander Box Set

Most Disappointing Package (transfer, extras, etc.) (ranked 1-3)
Salo
Walkabout
Andrei Rublev

Worst Film (ranked 1-3)
Border Radio
Hopscotch
Jubilee

Best Package Design (ranked 1-5)
Sanjuro/Yojimbo
Seven Samurai
The Threepenny Opera
Ran
Salvatore Giuliano

Best Cover Art (ranked 1-10)
A Story of Floating Weeds/Floating Weeds
Thieves’ Highway
Sansho the Bailiff
Green for Danger
Tunes of Glory
Le corbeau
Port of Shadows
Night and the City
Ace in the Hole
Eyes Without a Face

Worst Cover Art (ranked 1-5)
Fishing with John
The Most Dangerous Game
Walker
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The King of Kings

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#9 Post by fiddlesticks » Sun Jan 20, 2008 5:16 pm

I'm attempting to honor the distinction between "favorite" (subjective) and "best" (objective, or subjectively objective), at least as far as the first three categories:

All-Time Favorite Criterion Release (ranked 1-5)
1. Fanny and Alexander
2. Early Summer
3. A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman
4. Sullivan's Travels
5. The Battle of Algiers

Best Non-box Set Release (ranked 1-10)
1. The Battle of Algiers
2. Early Summer
3. Pandora's Box
4. Sullivan's Travels
5. Yi Yi
6. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
7. Beauty and the Beast
8. Notorious
9. Late Spring
10. The Seventh Seal

Best Box Sets (ranked 1-5)
1. Fanny and Alexander
2. Six Moral Tales
3. A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman
4. Andrej Wajda: Three War Films
5. Late Ozu

Most Disappointing Package (transfer, extras, etc.) (ranked 1-3)
1. Good Morning
2. Summertime
3. (tie) The Killers and The Lower Depths...because I hate the packaging

Worst Film (ranked 1-3)
1. The Killers (Siegel)
2. I am Curious…Blue
3. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Best Commentary (ranked 1-5)...toughest category by far; I'm almost indifferent to commentaries and have not listened to many of them
1. Peter Cowie, Seventh Seal...as a representative for all of the Cowie commentaries; I'd be happy with five Cowies ranked 1-5 here
2. Jeffrey Angles, Sansho the Bailiff
3. Donald Richie, Late Summer
4. James Quandt, Pickpocket
5. Tony Rayns and Edward Yang, Yi Yi

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary) (ranked 1-5)

1. Philip Glass operatic version of Beauty and the Beast
2. Annotated, illustrated Bergman filmography (Seventh Seal)
3. Gary Giddins and Jon Faddis on Miles Davis and Elevator to the Gallows
4. "The Man Who Fell to Earth" novel by Walter Tevis
5. 'Remembering History' (Battle of Algiers doc.)

Best Package Design (ranked 1-5)
1. BRD Trilogy
2. Battle of Algiers
3. Bicycle Thieves
4. Breathless
5. Ace in the Hole

Best Cover Art (ranked 1-10)
1. Notorious
2. Pandora's Box
3. Boudu Saved from Drowning
4. Army of Shadows
5. Sullivan's Travels
6. Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman
7. Green for Danger
8. Battle of Algiers
9. Ace in the Hole
10. Spirit of the Beehive

Worst Cover Art (ranked 1-5)
1. Dreyer Box Set...chiefly the sleeve
2. Chasing Amy
3. Pepe le Moko
4. Good Morning
5. Ballad of a Soldier...because R and Я are not the same letter!

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#10 Post by Mr Sausage » Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:45 pm

I'm skipping those categories whose contents don't interest me enough to have gone into my memory, or that I otherwise cannot reasonably complete.

All-Time Favorite Criterion Release (ranked 1-5)
1. Eisenstein: the Sound Years
2. Straw Dogs
3. Seven Samurai (three disc reissue)
4. by Brakhage
5. Contempt

Best Non-box Set Release (ranked 1-10)
1. The Passion of Joan of Arc
2. Ran
3. Contempt
4. The Rules of the Game
5. Straw Dogs
6. Pickup on South Street
7. Spartacus
8. by Brakhage
9. Ivan' Childhood
10. 8 1/2

Best Box Sets (ranked 1-5)
1. Eisenstein: the Sound Years
2. A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman
3. Dreyer Box
4. Monsters and Madmen


Most Disappointing Package (transfer, extras, etc.) (ranked 1-3)
1. Diary of a Country Priest

Worst Film (ranked 1-3) [more like least favourite]
1. Armageddon (so far the only release I wouldn't watch twice)
2. First man into Space (kinda fun, and I love the box, but I'm only slightly more likely to rewatch this as the above)
3. Rushmore

Best Commentary (ranked 1-5) [I have a bad memory for this kind of thing, but I'll try]
1. Stephen Prince - Straw Dogs (Domino is right)
2. Donald Trumbo via Michael McConnohie - Spartacus
3. David Cronenberg - Videodrome
4. Alexander Sesonske via Peter Bogdanovich - Rules of the Game
5. Donald Richie - Rashomon

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary) (ranked 1-5)
1. Multimedia Essay on Eisenstein's Visual Vocabulary - Ivan the Terrible
2. Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron - Straw Dogs
3. Stan Brakhage interviews - by Brakhage
4. Love Conquers All cut of Brazil
5. AK - Ran

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#11 Post by domino harvey » Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:58 pm

Mr_sausage wrote:1. Stephen Prince - Straw Dogs (Domino is right)
Good job Mr. S!
I actually forgot two of the best commentary tracks and had to edit my list, but I'd be remiss if I had left Casper's voices and Kalat's heavy-hitting Lang comments off.

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#12 Post by thethirdman » Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:01 pm

All-Time Favorite Criterion Release (ranked 1-5)
1. Notorious
2. The Rules of Game
3. Pickpocket
4. Contempt
5. The BRD Trilogy

Best Non-box Set Release (ranked 1-10)
1. Notorious
2. Seven Samurai
3. The Rules of Game
4. Pickpocket
5. Berlin Alexanderplatz
6. The Complete Mr. Arkadin
7. Contempt
8. The Third Man
9. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
10. Videodrome

Best Box Sets (ranked 1-5)
1. The BRD Trilogy
2. Six Moral Tales
3. The Adventures of Antoine Doinel
4. Fanny and Alexander
5. The Orphic Trilogy

Most Disappointing Package (ranked 1-3)
1. Andrei Rublev
2. Kwaidan
3. High and Low

Worst Film (ranked 1-3)
1. Armageddon
2. Border Radio
3. First Man Into Space

Best Commentary (ranked 1-5)
1. David Kalat - The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
2. Alexander Sesonske -The Rules of the Game
3. Gene Youngblood - L’avventura
4. James Quandt - Pickpocket
5. Peter Cowie - The Seventh Seal

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary) (ranked 1-5)
1. Jean Renoir BBC Documentary – The Rules of the Game and Elena and her Men
2. I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me – BRD Trilogy
3. Orson Welles: The One Man Band – F for Fake
4. The Dinosaur and the Baby – Contempt
5. Six Moral Tales Book

Best Package Design (ranked 1-5)
1. Videodrome
2. Berlin Alexanderplatz
3. Brazil
4. The BRD Trilogy
5. The Adventures of Antoine Doinel

Best Cover Art (ranked 1-10)
1. Le corbeau
2. L’avventura
3. Naked Lunch
4. Videodrome
5. Contempt
6. Berlin Alexanderplatz
7. Hiroshima mon amour
8. Rushmore
9. Eyes Without a Face
10. Grand Illusion

Worst Cover Art (ranked 1-5)
1. Armageddon
2. Border Radio
3. King of Kings
4. The Complete Monterey Pop Festival
5. Hopscotch

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#13 Post by teddyleevin » Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:27 pm

All-Time Favorite Criterion Release (ranked 1-5)
1. Ran
2. John Cassavetes: Five Films
3. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
4. Brazil
5. The Adventures of Antoine Doinel

Best Non-box Set Release (ranked 1-10)
1. Ran
2. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
3. Brazil
4. The Third Man
5. Seven Samurai
6. Ikiru
7. M
8. Berlin Alexanderplatz
9. The Lower Depths
10. Kagemusha

Best Box Sets (ranked 1-5)
1. John Cassavetes: Five Films
2. The Adventures of Antoine Doinel
3. Fanny and Alexander Box Set
4. Six Moral Tales
5. Late Ozu

Most Disappointing Package (ranked 1-3)
1. Kwaidan
2. Sword of Doom
3. Good Morning

Worst Film (ranked 1-3)
1. Armageddon
2. The Rock
3. Border Radio

Best Commentary (ranked 1-5)
1. Terry Gilliam - Brazil
2. David Kalat - The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
3. Stephen Prince - Straw Dogs
4. Kaes/Rentschler - M (for hilarity's sake)
5. Stephen Prince - Ran

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary) (ranked 1-5)
1. Version Comparison - The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
2. Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create - Various
3. The Battle of Brazil - Brazil
4. Fear on Film - Videodrome
5. A.K. - Ran

Best Package Design (ranked 1-5)
1. John Cassavetes: Five Films
2. Breathless
3. The Royal Tenenbaums
4. Videodrome
5. Yojimbo/Sanjuro

Best Cover Art (ranked 1-10)
1. Ran
2. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
3. The Third Man
4. M
5. Harakiri
6. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
7. The 3 Penny Opera
8. Beastie Boys Video Anthology
9. Ikiru
10. Rushmore

Worst Cover Art (ranked 1-5)
1. Pepe Le Moko
2. Picnic at Hanging Rock
3. The King of Kings
4. Walker
5. The Most Dangerous Game
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#14 Post by Cabiria21 » Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:28 am

All-Time Favorite Criterion Release (ranked 1-5)
01 Nights of Cabiria
02 Passion of Joan of Arc
03 Hiroshima mon Amour
04 Sansho the Baliff
05 Jules and Jim

Best Non-box Set Release (ranked 1-10)
01 Hiroshima mon Amour
02 Spirit of the Beehive
03 I Fidanzati
04 Passion of Joan of Arc
05 Nights of Cabiria
06 Le Samourai
07 Playtime
08 La Jetee/Sans Soliel
09 Mamma Roma
10 In the Mood for Love

Best Box Sets (ranked 1-5)
01 Cassavetes
02 Antoine Doinel
03 Six Moral Tales
04 3 Films by Teshigahara
05 Three War Films

Most Disappointing Package (transfer, extras, etc.) (ranked 1-3)
01 Good Morning
02 Black Narcissus
03 Andrei Rublev

Worst Film (ranked 1-3)
01 Armaggedon
02 Dazed and Confused
03 Jigoku

Best Commentary (ranked 1-5)
????

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary) (ranked 1-5)
01 A.K. - Ran
02 Miles Davis Recording Session - Elevator to the Gallows
03 Blood of the Beasts - Eyes Without a Face


Best Package Design (ranked 1-5)
01 Cassavetes Set
02 Battle of Algiers
03 Antoine Doinel
04 Spirit of the Beehive
05 Rules of the Game

Best Cover Art (ranked 1-10)
01 Hiroshima mon Amour
02 Nights of Cabiria
03 Late Spring
04 Throne of Blood
05 Discreet Charm of the Burgiose
06 Straw Dogs
07 A Woman is a Woman
08 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
09 Elevator to the Gallows
10 Jules and Jim

Worst Cover Art (ranked 1-5)
01 Naked Kiss/Shock Corridor
02 Diary of a Chambermaid
03 Cries and Whispers
04 Pepe le moko
05 Peeping Tom

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#15 Post by bjeggert82 » Mon Jan 21, 2008 3:00 am

All-Time Favorite Criterion Release (ranked 1-5)
1. Brazil (3-disc)
2. Seven Samurai (3-disc)
3. Notorious
4. Sullivan's Travels
5. The Third Man (2-disc)

Best Non-box Set Release (ranked 1-10)
1. Brazil (3-disc)
2. Seven Samurai (3-disc)
3. Fanny and Alexander
4. Mr. Arkadin
5. Notorious
6. Trouble in Paradise
7. Videodrome
8. Ace in the Hole
9. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
10. Naked Lunch

Best Box Sets (ranked 1-5)
1. Yojimbo and Sanjuro (Special Editions)
2. Three Films by Louis Malle
3. A Film Trilogy: Ingmar Bergman
4. The Adventures of Antoine Doinel
5. Jean Renoir: Stage and Spectacle

Worst Film (ranked 1-3)
1. Equinox
2. Jubilee
3. Armageddon

Best Commentary (ranked 1-5)
1. Scott Eyman, Trouble in Paradise
2. Michael Jeck, Seven Samurai
3. Martin Scorsese and Michael Powell, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
4. Peter Cowie, Fanny and Alexander
5. Alexander Sesonske, Rules of the Game


Best Package Design (ranked 1-5)
1. Seven Samurai (3-disc)
2. Fanny and Alexander (5-disc)
3. Mr. Arkadin
4. Videodrome
5. Brazil

Best Cover Art (ranked 1-10)
1. Throne of Blood
2. Mr. Arkadin
3. Trouble in Paradise
4. Boudu Saved from Drowning
5. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
6. Rushmore
7. Night and the City/Thieves' Highway
8. Ran
9. Shoot the Piano Player
10. Rules of the Game

Worst Cover Art (ranked 1-5)
1. Peke le Moko
2. And the Ship Sails On
3. Picnic at Hanging Rock
4. The White Sheik
5. Overlord

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#16 Post by devlinnn » Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:55 am

Just five favourites from me - with the greatest respect, the mind's too foggy to give a shit about the rest. After all these years - it's just the films that count. Just wrap in brown paper CC, I'll be happy.

1. Notorious
2. Cassavetes
3. Contempt
4. Charade
5. Trouble in Paradise

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#17 Post by Tommaso » Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:07 am

All-Time Favorite Criterion Release ( note: purely based on the films themselves, not on the edition or transfer quality)

1. A Canterbury Tale
2. The Red Shoes
3. The Rules of the Game
4. Ran
5. Spirit of the Beehive


Best Non-box Set Release

1. A Canterbury Tale
2. The Rules of the Game
3. Spirit of the Beehive
4. The Threepenny Opera
5. Rashomon
6. The Tales of Hoffmann
7. Beauty and the Beast
8. Trouble in Paradise
9. Häxan
10. The River


Best Box Sets

1. Orphic Trilogy
2. Dreyer Box
3. Eisenstein Sound Years
4. Fanny and Alexander
5. Stage and Spectacle


Most Disappointing Package

1. Autumn Sonata
2. The Magic Flute
3. Summertime

(all bad transfers, these)


Worst Film

1. The Rock
2. Armageddon
3. Jigoku


Best Commentary (ranked 1-5)

1. Ran
2. A Canterbury Tale
3. I know where I'm going
4. Trouble in Paradise
5. Army of Shadows


Best Single Supplement (not a commentary)


1. The Sorcerer's apprentice (on "Tales of Hoffmann")
2. Jean Renoir/Jacques Rivette interviews (on "Stage and Spectacle")
3. Ingmar Bergman documentary (on "Wild Strawberries")
4. Hole in the Soul (on "WR")
5. Bezhin Meadow reconstruction (on Eisenstein box)


Best Package Design

1. Spirit of the Beehive
2. Eisenstein Sound Years
3. Beauty and the Beast
4. Bergman Film Trilogy
5. Bicycle Thieves



Best Cover Art


1. The Virgin Spring
2. Pandora's Box
3. Sansho the Bailiff
4. Beauty and the Beast
5. The River
6. Brief Encounter
7. Spirit of the Beehive
8. Wild Strawberries
9. Sweet Movie
10. Children of Paradise


Worst Cover Art

1. The Bad sleep well
2. 49th Parallel
3. Rebel Samurai Box Set
4. The hidden fortress
5. Salo

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#18 Post by Napoleon » Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:17 am

All-Time Favorite Criterion Release (ranked 1-5)

1. Six Moral Tales
2. Rules Of The Game
3. A Canterbury Tale
4. L'Avventura
5. I Fidanzanti

Best Non-box Set Release (ranked 1-10)

1. Rules Of The Game
2. A Canterbury Tale
3. L'Avventura
4. I Fidanzanti
5. Il Posto
6. Seven Samurai (reissue)
7. Tokyo Olympiad
8. Carnival of Souls
9. Gimme Shelter
10. Shoot The Pianist

Best Box Sets (ranked 1-5)

1. Six Moral Tales
2. Fanny & Alexander
3. A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman
4. John Cassavetes: Five Films
5. Andrzej Wajda: Three War Films

Most Disappointing Package (transfer, extras, etc.) (ranked 1-3)

1. Golden Carriage
2. Kwaiden
3. Le Haine

Worst Film (ranked 1-3)

1. The Atomic Submarine
2. Elena & Her Men
3. Jigoku

Best Commentary (ranked 1-5)

1. Straw Dogs
2. L'Avventura
3. Wild Strawberries
4. Gimme Shelter
5. Rashomon

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary) (ranked 1-5)

1. Eyes Without a Face: Blood Of The Beasts
2. A Woman Is a Woman: All Boys Are Called Patrick
3. F For Fake: One Man Band
4. Straw Dogs: Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
5. Tunes of Glory: video interview with director Ronald Neame

Best Package Design (ranked 1-5)

1. Seven Samurai (Reissue. Obviously.)
2. Battle Of The Algiers
3. Rules of the Game
4. Andrzej Wajda: Three War Films
5. Dazed & Confused

Best Cover Art (ranked 1-10)

1. Robinson Crusoe On Mars
2. Kanal
3. Carnival of Souls
4. Ran
5. Shoot The Pianist
6. A Woman is a Woman
7. Il Posto
8. Naked Lunch
9. Gimme Shelter
10. Early Summer

Worst Cover Art (ranked 1-5)

1. Pepe Le Moko
2. Rififi
3. Trouble In Paradise
4. Quai Des Orfevres
5. Hearts and Minds
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#19 Post by tavernier » Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:59 am

devlinnn wrote:Just five favourites from me - with the greatest respect, the mind's too foggy to give a shit about the rest. After all these years - it's just the films that count. Just wrap in brown paper CC, I'll be happy.
It's called Eclipse.

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#20 Post by Lemmy Caution » Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:58 am

Favorites:
1. Cléo from 5 to 7
2. The Shop on Main Street
3. I Vitelloni
4. Stray Dog
5. Veronika Voss

Best Releases (with emphasis on films
I otherwise might never have seen)
:
1. Cléo from 5 to 7
2. The Shop on Main Street
3. The BRD Trilogy
4. Ace in the Hole
5. The Spirit of the Beehive
6. Harakiri
7. Young Torless
8. Fists in the Pocket
9. I Vitelloni
10. Man Bites Dog

Worst Films
1) The Rock
2) Night on Earth
3) Beastie Boys Video Anthology

Best Cover Art
1. Nanook of the North
2. Testament of Dr. Mabuse
3. Seduced and Abandoned
4. The Spirit of the Beehive
5. M
6. Monsters and Madmen box cover
7. 3 Penny Opera
8. Sullivan’s Travels
9. I Vitelloni
10. Cleo

Worst Covers
1. Importance of Being Earnest
2. The Last Wave
3. Le Million
4. Hopscotch
5. The Devil and Daniel Webster

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#21 Post by Lemdog » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:51 pm

All-Time Favorite Criterion Release (ranked 1-5)
1.In The Mood For Love
2.The Adventures of Antoine Doinel
3. Tokyo Story
4. 8 ½
5.For All Mankind

Best Non-box Set Release (ranked 1-10)
1.In The Mood For Love
2.Tokyo Story
3. 8 ½
4. For All Mankind
5.Hiroshima mon amour
6. Mr. Arkadin
7. by Brakhage
8. Tokyo Olympiad
9. The Killer
10.When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Best Box Sets (ranked 1-5)
1.The Adventures of Antoine Doinel
2.John Cassavetes: Five Films
3. Late Ozu
4. The First Films of Samuel Fuller
5.Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara

Most Disappointing Package (transfer, extras, etc.) (ranked 1-3)
1.Good Morning
2.High and Low
3.Variety Lights

Worst Film (ranked 1-3)
1.Armageddon
2.I Am Curious Blue
3.The Element of Crime

Best Commentary (ranked 1-5)
1.Straw Dogs - Stephen Prince
2.Charade - Stanley Donen and screenwriter Peter Stone
3. Slacker - Richard Linklater and members of the cast and crew
4.Crazed Fruit - Donald Richie
5.Chasing Amy - Kevin Smith (yea I know)

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary) (ranked 1-5)
1. Late Spring - Tokyo-Ga
2. @ In the Mood for Love - In the Mood for Love
3. Walter Tevis’s original novel - The Man Who Fell to Earth
4. Luck, Trust and Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country - Short Cuts
5.Orson Welles: The One Man Band – F for Fake

Best Package Design (ranked 1-5)

1.Antoine Doinel
2.Battle of Algiers
3.Seven Samurai
4. The Man Who Fell to Earth
5.Rules of the Game

Best Cover Art (ranked 1-10)
1.Hiroshima Mon Amour
2.A Story of Floating Weeds
3.In The Mood For Love
4.And God Created Woman
5.The Killer
6.Shoot the Piano Player
7.Throne of Blood
8.Berlin Alexanderplatz
9.Withnail and I
10.Green for Danger

Worst Cover Art (ranked 1-5)
1.Hopscotch
2.The Horse's Mouth
3.Kind Hearts & Coronets
4. Maitresse
5.Fishing With John

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#22 Post by Elephant » Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:49 pm

All-Time Favorite Criterion Release (ranked 1-5)
1. Five Films by John Cassavetes
2. Six Moral Tales
3. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
4. Naked
5. Fanny & Alexander

Best Non-box Set Release (ranked 1-10)
1. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
2. Naked
3. Andrei Rublev
4. by Brakhage
5. Straw Dogs
6. Mon Oncle
7. Written on the Wind
8. Tokyo Story
9. Samurai Rebellion
10. Scenes from a Marriage

Best Box Sets (ranked 1-5)
1. Five Films by John Cassavetes
2. Six Moral Tales
3. Dreyer Box
4. Late Ozu
5. Raymond Bernard

Most Disappointing Package (ranked 1-3)
1. Good Morning
2. Andrei Rublev
3. And the Ship Sails On

Worst Film (ranked 1-3)
1. Armageddon
2. The Rock
3. Chasing Amy
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#23 Post by pauling » Mon Jan 21, 2008 3:22 pm

All-Time Favorite Criterion Release (ranked 1-5)
These are my five favorite films regardless of their presentation…
1.The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
2. Playtime
3. The Spirit of the Beehive
4. Slacker
5. Alphaville
and because I can’t leave these out, honorable mentions:
- Solaris
- 8 ½
- Three films by Hiroshi Teshigahara

Best Non-box Set Release (ranked 1-10)
I ranked these as the most comprehensive, “important” releases
1. Seven Samurai
2. The Battle of Algiers
3. Rules of the Game
4. The Complete Mr. Arkadin
5. Slacker
6. Playtime
7. M
8. The Third Man
9. Berlin Alexanderplatz
10. Breathless

Best Box Sets (ranked 1-5)
1. 5 Films by John Cassavetes
2. BRD Trilogy
3. Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara
4. Six Moral Tales
5. A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman

Most Disappointing Package (ranked 1-3)
The pre-2000 releases were just too easy…
1. Good Morning
2. Kwaidan
3. Koko: A Talking Gorilla

Worst Film (ranked 1-3)
1. Armageddon
2. Jubilee
3. I am Curious - either

Best Commentary (ranked 1-5)
1. Stephen Prince – Straw Dogs
2. Gene Youngblood – L’avventura
3. Robert Stam - Contempt
4. Peter Cowie – The Seventh Seal
5. Terry Gilliam - Brazil

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary) (ranked 1-5)
1. Short Cuts by Raymond Carver (companion book) – Short Cuts
2. Blood of the Beasts – Eyes Without a Face
3. Camera - Videodrome
4. Polanski shorts – Knife in the Water
5. Interactive Map of 1930s Paris - Boudu Saved From Drowning

Best Package Design (ranked 1-5)
1. Videodrome
2. The Adventures of Antoine Doinel
3. Rules of the Game
4. Berlin Alexanderplatz
5. Three films by Hiroshi Teshigahara

Best Cover Art (ranked 1-10)
1. Boudu Saved From Drowning
2. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
3. Le Corbeau
4. M
5. Port of Shadows
6. Man Bites Dog
7. F for Fake
8. Wild Strawberries
9. Divorce Italian Style
10. Solaris

Worst Cover Art (ranked 1-5)
1. The Children are Watching Us
2. King of Kings
3. The White Sheik
4. Unfaithfully Yours
5. Indiscretion of an American Wife / Terminal Station

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#24 Post by colinr0380 » Mon Jan 21, 2008 4:56 pm

OK, I'll try but I reserve the right to have completely changed my mind tomorrow!:

All-Time Favorite Criterion Release (ranked 1-5)

1. Solaris
2. Contempt
3. Straw Dogs
4. L’Eclisse
5. The Battle Of Algiers

Best Non-box Set Release (ranked 1-10)

1-5 as above, then:

6. Red Beard
7. Seven Samurai (Reissue)
8. The Rules Of The Game
9. L’Avventura
10. Tokyo Olympiad

(and just for fun my 11-15 list:)

11. Ran
12. In The Mood For Love
13. Slacker
14. Grand Illusion
15. Flesh For Frankenstein

Best Box Sets (ranked 1-5)

1. The BRD Trilogy
2. Andrzej Wajda: Three War Films
3. Six Moral Tales
4. The Adventures Of Antoine Doinel
5. A Film Trilogy By Ingmar Bergman

Most Disappointing Package (ranked 1-3)

1. Kwaidan
2. How To Get Ahead In Advertising
3. Koko: A Talking Gorilla

Worst Film (ranked 1-3)

1. Armageddon (sorry!)
2. The Atomic Submarine

Couldn’t think of any others!

Best Commentary (ranked 1-5)

1. Contempt – Robert Stam
2. Flesh For Frankenstein – Paul Morrisey, Udo Keir and Maurice Yacowar
3. L’Avventura – Gene Youngblood
4. Red Beard – Stephen Prince
5. Tokyo Olympiad – Peter Cowie

And my choices for 6-16!:

6. Solaris - Graham Petrie and Vida Johnson (I disagree with a number of points but love their commentary all the same)
7. Brazil - Terry Gilliam
8. Hearts and Minds - Peter Davis
9. The Rules Of The Game - Alexander Sesonke read by Peter Bogdanovich
10. Hoop Dreams - Peter Gilbert, Steve James and Frederick Marx
11. Clean, Shaven - Lodge Kerrigan and Steven Soderbergh
12. The Passion of Joan Of Arc - Casper Tybjerg
13. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Philip Kaufman, Jean-Claude Carrière, Walter Murch and Lena Olin
14. It's Impossible To Learn To Plow By Reading Books - Richard Linklater
15. Night and the City - Glenn Erickson
16. Ashes And Diamonds - Annette Insdorf

There are so many interesting commentaries I’d have trouble doing a top 50 (and I haven’t yet included one by David Cronenberg! I limited myself to one Stephen Prince and Peter Cowie commentary! :wink: )

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary) (ranked 1-5)

1. Gillo Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship Of Truth – The Battle Of Algiers
2. My Life In Cinema – Seven Samurai
3. It’s Impossible To Learn To Plow By Reading Books – Slacker
4. A.K. - Ran
5. Letter To Jane – Tout Va Bien

And my 6-11!:

6. Gina Marchetti essay – In The Mood For Love
7. Version comparison and scene analysis by Christopher Faulkner - The Rules Of The Game (and 8. Eric Rohmer and Jean Douchet Cinéastes du Notre Temps discussion on Boudu Saved From Drowning)
9. Luck, Trust And Ketchup – Short Cuts
10. Audio interview with Walter Tevis – The Man Who Fell To Earth
11. Audio interview with Gus Van Sant by Todd Haynes – My Own Private Idaho

Like the commentaries this is another impossible list to make but each of these features proved how valuable extra material can be (and how it shouldn’t be so easily dismissed) – all of those listed and many more helped me to better appreciate the films (I’m not a great fan of My Own Private Idaho but the Van Sant/Haynes discussion and the Kings of the Road feature are fantastic), helped me learn more about either the filmmaking process or get deeper into the subject matter (The Battle Of Algiers is a beautifully produced set tackling the material from several angles and every extra feature could make a top five), let me see essential associated material (Letter To Jane, A.K.), and the most recent 100-150 Criterions have struck a delicate balance between bought in material and new features produced just for their discs.

Best Package Design (ranked 1-5)

1. The Rules Of The Game
2. Videodrome
3. The BRD Trilogy
4. Fanny And Alexander
5. Berlin Alexanderplatz

Best Cover Art (ranked 1-10)

1. Contempt
2. The BRD Trilogy
3. Story Of A Prostitute
4. The Man Who Fell To Earth
5. In The Mood For Love
6. L’Eclisse
7. Seven Samurai
8. First Man Into Space
9. The Testament Of Dr Mabuse
10. The Battle Of Algiers

11-15

11. Early Summer
12. Videodrome
13. Slacker
14. Ran
15. Pandora’s Box

with a special mention to the Armageddon cover (ironically the only subtle thing about the entire film!)

Worst Cover Art (ranked 1-5)

1. Viridiana (though at least it is better than that first one!)
2. The Bank Dick
3. The Devil And Daniel Webster


I want to finish on a positive note so I want to mention some of my most valued Criterions that I haven't mentioned: Insomnia, Crazed Fruit, The Killers, Double Suicide, Harlan County USA, The Pornographers, the Seijun Suzuki discs, Man Bites Dog, The Lower Depths, Yi Yi, Harakiri, Variety Lights, Tati, Fellini and everything else I'm forgetting are all great releases - the only trouble was that others were slightly greater!
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#25 Post by denti alligator » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:48 am

All-Time Favorite Criterion Release (ranked 1-5)
1. Dreyer Box Set
2. Yi Yi
3. A Canterbury Tale
4. The Spirit of the Beehive
5. The Passion of Joan of Arc

Best Non-box Set Release (ranked 1-10)
1. Yi Yi
2. A Canterbury Tale
3. The Spirit of the Beehive
4. The Passion of Joan of Arc
5. This is Spinal Tap
6. Le Trou
7. by Brakhage
8. Rushmore
9. Early Summer
10. Rebecca

Best Box Sets (ranked 1-5)
1. Dreyer Box Set
2. Five Films by John Cassavetes
3. Six Moral Tales- Rohmer
4. Paul Robeson
5. Teshigahara

Most Disappointing Package (ranked 1-3)
1. Diary of a Country Priest
2. Alphaville
3. Great Expectations

Worst Film (ranked 1-3)
1. Metropolitan
2. Bad Timing
3. Charade

Best Commentary (ranked 1-5)
1. This is Spinal Tap
2. Threepenny Opera
3. Straw Dogs
(these are the only three I’ve listened to all the way through)

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary) (ranked 1-5)
1. Renoir/Rivette interview in 3 parts (Stage & Spectacle)
2. Blood of the Beasts
3. Video introduction to Pickpocket by Paul Schrader
4. Interactive map (Boudu)
5. Gary Giddins and Jon Faddis on Miles Davis and Elevator to the Gallows

Best Package Design (ranked 1-5)
pass (not a fan of the digipack, which really only leaves covers)

Best Cover Art (ranked 1-10)
1. Boudu Saved from Drowning
2. Divorce Italian Style
3. Equinox
4. Spirit of the Beehive
5. The First Man in Space
6. Late Spring
7. Le Corbeau
8. Yi Yi
9. Richard III
10. WR: Mysteries of the Organism

Worst Cover Art (ranked 1-5)
1. Mouchette
2. Alphaville
3.The Milky Way
4. The Beales of Grey Gardens (missed opportunity)
5. A Canterbury Tale

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