Criterion 10th Anniversary DVD Award Results

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GringoTex · #1 Post by **GringoTex** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:36 am

All-Time Favorite Criterion Release
1. John Cassavetes: Five Films
2. The Rules of the Game
3. Fanny and Alexander
4. The Passion of Joan of Arc
5. (tie) Contempt
Six Moral Tales

Best Non-box Set Release
1. The Rules of the Game
2. Seven Samurai
3. The Battle of Algiers
4. by Brakhage
5. The Passion of Joan of Arc
6. The Spirit of the Beehive
7. L’avventura
8. Contempt
9. The Complete Mr. Arkadin
10. 8 1/2

Best Box Set
1. Six Moral Tales
2. John Cassavetes: Five Films
3. BRD Trilogy
4. Fanny and Alexander
5. Dreyer Box Set

Most Disappointing Package
1. Good Morning
2. Kwaidan
3. Andrei Rublev
4. Diary of a Country Priest
5. Alphaville

Worst Film
1. Armageddon
2. The Rock
3. Chasing Amy
4. Border Radio
5. Jubilee

Best Commentary
1. Stephen Prince - Straw Dogs
2. Gene Youngblood - L’avventura
3. Robert Stam - Contempt
4. Alexander Sesonske - The Rules of the Game
5. (tie) James Quandt - Pickpocket
Peter Cowie - The Seventh Seal

Best Single Supplement
1. (tie) A.K. - Ran
Permanent Vacation - Stranger than Paradise
Blood of the Beasts - Eyes Without a Face
4. Orson Welles: One Man Band - F for Fake
5. Interactive Map of 1930s Paris - Boudu Saved From Drowning

Best Package Design
1. The Adventures of Antoine Doinel
2. Videodrome
3. Seven Samurai
4. The Rules of the Game
5. BRD Trilogy

Best Cover Art
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Worst Cover Art
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denti alligator · #2 Post by **denti alligator** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:20 pm

So we're not going to extend the deadline?

And why not show us more than just the top 5. I'd like to see a little down the list, since the top ones are a bit too predictable.

#3 Post by **kinjitsu** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:53 pm

denti alligator wrote:So we're not going to extend the deadline?

Indeed. No date was set for an extended deadline so we had no idea when our last chance was for submission. My list was almost finished last night.

And why not show us more than just the top 5. I'd like to see a little down the list, since the top ones are a bit too predictable.

D'accordo...

HerrSchreck · #4 Post by **HerrSchreck** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:32 pm

Oh well. Thought the voting was going to be extended so was planning to wing it right now.

Eyes Without A Face (this film is sooooooo beyond wonderful) nowhere to be found, but at least Blood of the Beasts did well.

GringoTex · #5 Post by **GringoTex** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:36 pm

denti alligator wrote:So we're not going to extend the deadline?

And why not show us more than just the top 5. I'd like to see a little down the list, since the top ones are a bit too predictable.

I must have missed all the talk of extending deadlines. Go ahead and submit your ballot and I'll update the tally.

Michael · #6 Post by **Michael** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:39 pm

Eyes Without A Face (this film is sooooooo beyond wonderful) nowhere to be found, but at least Blood of the Beasts did well.

Blood of the Beasts is the best extra in the entire collection.

#7 Post by **domino harvey** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:49 pm

I don't want to live in a world where Eyes Without A Face isn't generally regarded as the best Criterion cover

Soothsayer · #8 Post by **Soothsayer** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:11 pm

or where the Pickpocket cover doesn't get near the top 10...

#9 Post by **zedz** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:32 pm

Thanks for posting the covers in there. The Best / Worst contrast really speaks for itself.

colinr0380 · #10 Post by **colinr0380** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:43 pm

I have not seen the film itself yet so I don't know how appropriate it is which might be the main problem, but what exactly is so bad about the Pepe Le Moko cover?

Also it might be better to put up the final Hopscotch cover - the one where Matthau dressed as an Indian was changed for him at a typewriter. It is still bad (I much prefer the cover of the about to be released UK disc) but we should perhaps not put up earlier covers as an example of a final release - if that were the case we could put up that pink Viridiana cover!

denti alligator · #11 Post by **denti alligator** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:47 pm

colinr0380 wrote:I have not seen the film itself yet so I don't know how appropriate it is which might be the main problem, but what exactly is so bad about the Pepe Le Moko cover?

Yeah, I mean it's bad, but it's no Mouchette.

#12 Post by **domino harvey** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:53 pm

The fuck?

colinr0380 · #13 Post by **colinr0380** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:01 pm

I'd agree with all but Pepe, but I had never noticed it before that it looks as if in the Fishing With John cover one of the people in the boat is getting slapped in the face by the other person's oar!

HerrSchreck · #14 Post by **HerrSchreck** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:16 pm

This voting thing is the first time I ever even heard anyone express the idea that Pepe was bad cover art. I never thought it was.

Colin-- RUN DONT WALK AND GRAB THIS RELEASE!!!

colinr0380 · #15 Post by **colinr0380** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:25 pm

I've actually had the DVD in my to watch pile since (rifles through papers) Friday 6th June 2003 but *ahem* haven't yet sat down to watch it.

GringoTex · #16 Post by **GringoTex** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:26 pm

Pepe was the overwhelming vote getter in the category, outdistancing the runner-up by a 3-to-1 margin.

HerrSchreck · #17 Post by **HerrSchreck** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:30 pm

colinr0380 wrote:I've actually had the DVD in my to watch pile since (rifles through papers) Friday 6th June 2003 but *ahem* haven't yet sat down to watch it.

I'm not your friend anymore... nope..

.. not until you've seen the sublime Pepe!

My god what a world that film conjures. Seriously-- if you're home, log off NOW and watch this masterpiece!

colinr0380 · #18 Post by **colinr0380** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:35 pm

By the way HS did you know that Saadi Yacef from Battle of Algiers (the real events and the film!

) was a child actor in Pepe Le Moko? He mentions it during his interview for the later film.

#19 Post by **domino harvey** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:39 pm

Shreck's just practicing his favorite lines from Pierrot le fou. How's it go, "Pepe le moko! Don't you know anything?"

HerrSchreck · #20 Post by **HerrSchreck** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:40 pm

Who said we were friends again?

(yeah I knew that, I watched the extras on both of those discs until the plastic laminate was raw.)

Cinephrenic · #21 Post by **Cinephrenic** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:18 pm

I think the cover selection should have been divided to best original and best creative design. Criterion graphic artists taking another's original poster art and pasting into the cover shouldn't have been equally selected. But too late now. Just my opinion.

Michael · #22 Post by **Michael** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:30 pm

Schreck, what happened to The Scarlet Empress? No longer a favorite? Certainly the CC disc is very lackluster. So is the old Cleo but that didn't stop me from voting it as one of my top favorites. I remain nuts about Cleo since it came out from CC.

Lemmy Caution · #23 Post by **Lemmy Caution** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:28 am

The cover concept of Pepe Le Moko is fine, and the font is great, but there is something awkward in the execution. It has to do with the way the photo doesn't interact with the border and how their heads are cut off. The almost use of color doesn't help.

I'm really surprised to see Hiroshima, MA on the best list, as I always thought of that as a rather nothing cover.

Those goofy Importance of Being Earnest and The Devil and Daniel Webster covers always horrify me.

Nanook, 8.5, and Monsters and Madmen are the only Criterions I've used as desktop wallpaper ... thanks to the Dungeon.

martin · #24 Post by **martin** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:54 pm

How many users have voted?

Notorious would get my vote for best cover!

Noir of the Night · #25 Post by **Noir of the Night** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 6:06 pm

How is And the Ship Sails On not in the top 5 worst covers?