2008 Criterion Forum Awards - RESULTS

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Re: 2008 Criterion Forum Awards - RESULTS

#26 Post by mfunk9786 » Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:33 pm

You've been promoted to the Tony Dow of the forum

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Re: 2008 Criterion Forum Awards - RESULTS

#27 Post by Gregory » Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:48 pm

Thanks, GringoTex, for crunching the numbers.
Tommaso wrote:I'm more surprised that no Eclipse release (they were eligible, after all) made in into the top ten.
I think I knew they were eligible but somehow forgot this when I compiled my list. Likely a lot of others did the same.
swo17 wrote:Perhaps this could be solved in the future by replacing the release of the year category with two new ones--best films to enter the collection, and best Criterion treatments.
I think this is a fine idea. swo17, you should try to remember to bring this suggestion up again next time around. This time I found myself wanting to give preference to titles that were new-to-DVD at the expense of some excellent films just because I was a little frustrated this year by how many Criterion releases already were easy to obtain with fine transfers, including many already available in R1.
Perkins Cobb wrote:Surprised to see Touch of Evil place so high after all the aspect ratio bitching.
Yeah, clearly a lot of people don't care at all about seeing how it looked in academy, even though they were excited to be able to see alternate cuts. Those who feel strongly to the contrary could only express our preference in this poll by voting for other titles, dispersing our votes over a lot of different choices. It's such a popular film that I would have been surprised it if didn't get a lot of votes.
HerrSchreck wrote:No props to Janet Bergstrom viz non-CC releases? No FORD or MURbORZ? Cue E. E. Horton voice: "Have you all gone maaaaaaad?"
I noticed that both of these got a lot of votes, so it seemed at first like at least one of them should have ranked. But I guess there were ballots submitted via PM that threw off what I was expecting from reading the thread. Also the confusion factor, already noted.

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Re: 2008 Criterion Forum Awards - RESULTS

#28 Post by Tom Hagen » Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:08 pm

HerrSchreck wrote:No props to Janet Bergstrom viz non-CC releases? No FORD or MURbORZ? Cue E. E. Horton voice: "Have you all gone maaaaaaad?"
I imagine that the big Fox boxes are getting the shaft around here because of their release dates. Ford is like an Oscar contender that was released in the previous January before the ceremony; people probably forgot about it by this point. And Murnau/Borzage is like a year-end top ten contender that hit wide release four weeks after critics begin publishing their top ten lists; only the initiated made the effort to buy it, rent it, get through it, etc. in time for voting.

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Re: 2008 Criterion Forum Awards - RESULTS

#29 Post by HerrSchreck » Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:11 pm

In other words-- you've all gone maaaaadddddd.

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#30 Post by zedz » Tue Jan 13, 2009 5:40 pm

Well, thanks everybody.

But I'm still not an eponym like my opposite number. Are you sure you guys don't need a snappy word for a long boring film that you're never going to see? As in, "I'm not going to drive three hours in the snow to the Lithuanian Documentary Film Festival just to catch some zedz!"

Now I think I've earnt that bucket of cow urine, Schreck. Slosh away!

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Re: 2008 Criterion Forum Awards - RESULTS

#31 Post by HerrSchreck » Tue Jan 13, 2009 5:43 pm

Five minutes with the crown not even on his head yet and he wanta be a fuckin buzzword awreddy furchrissakes. There's humility for ya. What's next on the agenda-- Operation Barbarossa?

I mean sheeesshhh...

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Re: 2008 Criterion Forum Awards - RESULTS

#32 Post by zedz » Tue Jan 13, 2009 6:20 pm

Hey Schreck, I just received the courier package with the crown in it, and I have to say: what have you been doing with it the past year? I know David wouldn't have left it in that condition. It looks like you've pawned all the baubles and smeared it with something. And now I can't get the smell of it out of my hairshirt. Thanks a lot, mate.

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Re: 2008 Criterion Forum Awards - RESULTS

#33 Post by HerrSchreck » Tue Jan 13, 2009 6:36 pm

zedz wrote:Hey Schreck, I just received the courier package with the crown in it, and I have to say: what have you been doing with it the past year? I know David wouldn't have left it in that condition. It looks like you've pawned all the baubles and smeared it with something. And now I can't get the smell of it out of my hairshirt. Thanks a lot, mate.
Good god man, are you so entrenched in your *cough* "film essays" (jesus laughs and points) that you cant remember anything? That-- what you're mistaking for a crown-- happens to have been David's (he won the year before me and sent it with the crown) cockring which turned out to be way too small. I blew the stones straight off it with a single heartbeat-bloodpulse pounding incredibly thru my magesterial wank viz the first blinding stroke of my Ceremonial Win Bounce. The smell you're jiving is the nourishing fermented aroma of my Ceremonial Win Whore (we buried her in the backyard under a grey rain of tears). Enjoy it... the crystals of her left-behind residue are considered currency in the swampy highlands of The South Sandwich Islands.

You'll get the crown itself when I'm feeling good and expansive. So you just be patient.

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Re: 2008 Criterion Forum Awards - RESULTS

#34 Post by domino harvey » Tue Jan 13, 2009 6:40 pm

This is the most esoteric slash fic ever

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#35 Post by zedz » Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:23 pm

david hare wrote:Dude! CU at the Marguerite Duras Triple Bill later tonite!
If I'm running late, can you pick me up some Lobster Thermidor from the concession stand?

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#36 Post by HerrSchreck » Wed Jan 14, 2009 9:06 am

Lobster Cantonese-- ahh.. my favorite way to eat them Giant Underwater Roaches. Always has been.

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Re: 2008 Criterion Forum Awards - RESULTS

#37 Post by tojoed » Wed Jan 14, 2009 9:52 am

Herr Shreck hears the news of the Forum Member of the Year.

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Apologies for the crappy picture editing.

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Re: 2008 Criterion Forum Awards - RESULTS

#38 Post by HerrSchreck » Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:43 am

Poor Max always gets his last name mispelled.

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Re: 2008 Criterion Forum Awards - RESULTS

#39 Post by tojoed » Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:34 pm

Poor misspelled always.... etc.

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Re: 2008 Criterion Forum Awards - RESULTS

#40 Post by HerrSchreck » Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:50 pm

Don't you love it when someone fucks up like that?

Anyhow.

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Re: 2008 Criterion Forum Awards - RESULTS

#41 Post by HerrSchreck » Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:13 am

Emcee: Okay.. is everybody here? I call Mister Schreck to the podium.
(Schreck staggers up to the lectern in a tux reeking of smoke and terrible gin, his suspenders connected sloppily to his underwear showing the waistband above the cummerbund. Silence but for glass tinking.)

Schreck: "Okay.. er.. Scharpharden isn't here? Well he's always working anyway. I'm gonna get started. The five hunnert n ninety ninth session of the Malevolent Association of Digital Video Vermin-- or as we so affectionately refer to it "MALADIVIVUH" tee hee-- must now come to order... Friends, enemies, and trolls... verily I say unto you that this hallowed organization, our sanctified group, was started all those many millennia ago back during the ice age for a reason. And this reason remains manife, manifuh, manifest. Sorry. Where was I. Ah yes, naked prehistoric folks in rags. Our dear hallowed savages, our revered bestial forefathers, came together stinking and drooling around an idea-- that watching Mizoguchi during the fucking stone age rampant sucked. In fact it was downright intolerable. And it was hardly better by the Ice Age. Kino was not preconverting. Carlotta never subbed, and gave MoC a job. Telecine was in a primitive state, and in fact was encoded for playback at a very low bitrate on the magnetized uh cartilage of a rare form of flying lobster. Faux grain and digital noise a big problem then as now. Combing so rampant nobody went to the hair stylist haw haw h--". (Flumping sound)

David Hare: "Someone help schreck back onto the lectern. He fell off the stage."

MichaelB: "This reminds me of a video I'm producing.. May I take a moment--?"

Domino Harvey: "I feel an urge to forget a period coming on"

Swimminghorses: "Swimminghorses objekts to your damnable insinuations.."

Colin: "I'm an extraordinarily harmless person, in fact."

Furmanek & Threakston in chorus: "And still not a single document among them, the swine.."

David Hare: "Okay, they're putting Schreck in a wheelchair-- they're looking for a midget lectern to put him in fronta as we speak. Anyone for rimming inna meantime?"

Tommasso: "Sure-- if it involves MoC as a label!"

kevyip1: (vomiting; pauses, looks up from toilet, a strand dangling from his chin) "First world capitalist slavering, in foulest personificiation."

ThomasJ: (Index finger raised) "There's something here that you're all not seeing; I just have to laugh.."

Mr_sausage: (Pushing [quote] button madly) "Foulest fucking affront to academy, this is!"

zedz: "My crown-- you've all forgotten my crown!"

(Sound of rusty squeaking. Schreck wheels up at tiny lectern)

Schreck: "Through a head filled with concussion I say unto zedz-- and I mean this from the heart: dmurgosfirsk. Urbfrrrbl."

Michael Kerpan: "This is _not_ my idea of how this MIGHT go. I recall a shimpa play by Taketukitishiyama that is MUCH better than _this_ ceremony. O well ;~{ "

Schreck: "Zedz? Come up here." zedz lopes to stage. "Where's the queen? We need the queen to dink his head and shoulders with the sword with religious seriousness as the torch is passed.."

David Hare: "Here I am. Sorry, I was delayed by the image squishing." (Removes a four foot sword from inner coat pocket) "Ready when you are."

Schreck (rolls over to zedz seated on a golden chair adorned with antelope heads, begins incantations): "Victoria Imago..."

(David dings zedz lightly on head and shoulders.)

(Zedz recoils, touches his shoulder and comes away with blood on his finger.)

Zedz: "you did that on purpose."

Hare: "Be late with my disc burns one more time and the whole head comes off!"

Schreck: "caveat... Castoroides ohioensis"

Hare: (dings zedz)

Schreck: "Give him the crown, the baubles and the uh, y'know, ring."

Hare: "Here, kid."

Schreck: (to crowd) "Behold the man... the Grand---------WAZOO!"

(Huge applause)

billy feldman: "I feel like going wilding. Where's Yunda?"

(Curtain)

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Re: 2008 Criterion Forum Awards - RESULTS

#42 Post by accatone » Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:27 am

=D>

(I think i am reading NOT too much into this :D - Very Funny Mr. Schreck!)

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Re: 2008 Criterion Forum Awards - RESULTS

#43 Post by skuhn8 » Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:17 am

That's what I hate about living way out in Europe's armpit: I never get invited to anything! :cry:

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Re: 2008 Criterion Forum Awards - RESULTS

#44 Post by Michael » Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:36 am

Whew, glad I wasn't invited. Could'nt imagine what words HerrSchreck would have pulled out of my mouth.

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Re: 2008 Criterion Forum Awards - RESULTS

#45 Post by HerrSchreck » Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:34 pm

To all mimickry ansd chopsbusting, there is a season.

Good luck as Target Numero Uno, z.

PS: you can't use zedz as a buzzword for obscure cinema, because the word is not original like kevyip. Greenaway might get in a huff.

(Schreck exits the cermemony and leaps from his wheelchair, punching at the sky:)

"Free at last, free at last-- thank godalmighty... I am Free At Last!"

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Re: 2008 Criterion Forum Awards - RESULTS

#46 Post by zedz » Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:20 pm

Stop him before he kills again.

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