2018 Criterion Forum Awards
- Malickite
- Joined: Wed Dec 28, 2016 5:47 pm
- Location: United States
Re: 2018 Criterion Forum Awards
BEST RELEASE
1. The Tree of Life
2. The Magnificent Ambersons
3. The Color of Pomegranates
4. Midnight Cowboy
5. sex, lies, and videotape
BEST BOXED SET: Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood
BEST MODERN FILM: Graduation
BEST "BONUS" FILM: The Tree of Life [Extended Cut]
BEST BOOKLET: Ingmar Bergman's Cinema
BEST REISSUE: The Silence of the Lambs
BEST UPGRADE: The Virgin Spring
BEST COVER: The Magnificent Ambersons
WORST COVER: Graduation
BEST PACKAGING: El Sur
BEST DISCOVERY: The Color of Pomegranates
MOST UNNECESSARY RELEASE: Female Trouble
MOST FLAWED RELEASE: sex, lies, and videotape (Chosen for the packaging alone. Everything else was great. Including the booklet)
1. The Tree of Life
2. The Magnificent Ambersons
3. The Color of Pomegranates
4. Midnight Cowboy
5. sex, lies, and videotape
BEST BOXED SET: Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood
BEST MODERN FILM: Graduation
BEST "BONUS" FILM: The Tree of Life [Extended Cut]
BEST BOOKLET: Ingmar Bergman's Cinema
BEST REISSUE: The Silence of the Lambs
BEST UPGRADE: The Virgin Spring
BEST COVER: The Magnificent Ambersons
WORST COVER: Graduation
BEST PACKAGING: El Sur
BEST DISCOVERY: The Color of Pomegranates
MOST UNNECESSARY RELEASE: Female Trouble
MOST FLAWED RELEASE: sex, lies, and videotape (Chosen for the packaging alone. Everything else was great. Including the booklet)
- DarkImbecile
- Ask me about my visible cat breasts
- Joined: Mon Dec 09, 2013 6:24 pm
- Location: Albuquerque, NM
Re: 2018 Criterion Forum Awards
Fair enough; curious whether it was dislike for the film itself or something flawed about the release.
- Skrmng Skll Th Thd
- Joined: Sat Oct 20, 2018 12:32 pm
Re: 2018 Criterion Forum Awards
DRW.mov wrote: ↑Sun Jan 06, 2019 3:03 amThat movie was horrendous enough at 2 1/2 hours, with the amount of human rights violations and worsening climate this year, the world did not also need an extended cut of this dreck inflicted upon it.DarkImbecile wrote: ↑Sun Jan 06, 2019 1:55 amWhat’s your reasoning is behind this one, if you don’t mind me asking?
"Fair enough"? How about not fair at all, as he gives no example or reasoning whatsoever for disliking the film or why the set might be flawed. I don't understand what Tree of Life has to do one way or another with "human rights violations and worsening climate." It's possibly Malick's least political film; there are elements of politics - or, more broadly, "social concern" - in Days of Heaven, Thin Red Line, The New World, To The Wonder, Knight of Cups, the longer cut of Voyage of Time, but such issues are almost entirely absent from TOL, and any representation of them (perhaps the awareness of blacks, the poor, criminals and other classes of people) are presented through the eyes of the children as a sort of awakening or loss of innocence. But hopefully those kids don't grow up into the kind of turds who inject strident, unnecessary and unevidenced politics into everything they see or hear or read.DarkImbecile wrote: ↑Sun Jan 06, 2019 10:17 amFair enough; curious whether it was dislike for the film itself or something flawed about the release.
- Never Cursed
- Such is life on board the Redoutable
- Joined: Sun Aug 14, 2016 12:22 am
Re: 2018 Criterion Forum Awards
She's just saying that it sucks in a comparable amount to those worldly catastrophes, not that it has any political relation to them or to anything
Last edited by Never Cursed on Mon Jan 07, 2019 1:31 am, edited 1 time in total.
- DarkImbecile
- Ask me about my visible cat breasts
- Joined: Mon Dec 09, 2013 6:24 pm
- Location: Albuquerque, NM
Re: 2018 Criterion Forum Awards
So true; we certainly don’t need any more of those kind of people.Skrmng Skll Th Thd wrote: ↑Sun Jan 06, 2019 5:51 pmBut hopefully those kids don't grow up into the kind of turds who inject strident, unnecessary and unevidenced politics into everything they see or hear or read.
- domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
- Joined: Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:42 pm
Re: 2018 Criterion Forum Awards
What an awards season this has been. First Kevin Hart, now Richard Cranium campaigning in the voting thread. Pearls on permanent clutch status
- tenia
- Ask Me About My Bassoon
- Joined: Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:13 am
Re: 2018 Criterion Forum Awards
I understand really disliking a movie, but comparing it to climate warning and human rights violations ?
- domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
- Joined: Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:42 pm
Re: 2018 Criterion Forum Awards
Hyperbole, on the Internet?!
- DRW.mov
- Joined: Thu Sep 15, 2016 2:43 pm
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
Re: 2018 Criterion Forum Awards
Skrmng Skll Th Thd wrote: ↑Sun Jan 06, 2019 5:51 pmDRW.mov wrote: ↑Sun Jan 06, 2019 3:03 amThat movie was horrendous enough at 2 1/2 hours, with the amount of human rights violations and worsening climate this year, the world did not also need an extended cut of this dreck inflicted upon it.DarkImbecile wrote: ↑Sun Jan 06, 2019 1:55 amWhat’s your reasoning is behind this one, if you don’t mind me asking?"Fair enough"? How about not fair at all, as he gives no example or reasoning whatsoever for disliking the film or why the set might be flawed. I don't understand what Tree of Life has to do one way or another with "human rights violations and worsening climate." It's possibly Malick's least political film; there are elements of politics - or, more broadly, "social concern" - in Days of Heaven, Thin Red Line, The New World, To The Wonder, Knight of Cups, the longer cut of Voyage of Time, but such issues are almost entirely absent from TOL, and any representation of them (perhaps the awareness of blacks, the poor, criminals and other classes of people) are presented through the eyes of the children as a sort of awakening or loss of innocence. But hopefully those kids don't grow up into the kind of turds who inject strident, unnecessary and unevidenced politics into everything they see or hear or read.DarkImbecile wrote: ↑Sun Jan 06, 2019 10:17 amFair enough; curious whether it was dislike for the film itself or something flawed about the release.
Taking one last dip into this sudden dumpster fire to point out to problem of assuming gender.
I have a profile image for a reason
- FrauBlucher
- Joined: Mon Jul 15, 2013 8:28 pm
- Location: Greenwich Village
Re: 2018 Criterion Forum Awards
My favorite part of the recent posts was Malicklite was up next with his list after DRW.mov and you know what he picked as his best. Nice going.
- Skrmng Skll Th Thd
- Joined: Sat Oct 20, 2018 12:32 pm
Re: 2018 Criterion Forum Awards
Who gives a fuck what sex you are? That wasn't the point of my post and you damn well know it. Pedantry as a way of eliding the issue is essentially trolling.
Still waiting to hear what Tree of Life has to do with the end of the world, or why it was a flawed release... or maybe you're too busy studying Princess Bride and its secrets about the coming Armageddon?
- DarkImbecile
- Ask me about my visible cat breasts
- Joined: Mon Dec 09, 2013 6:24 pm
- Location: Albuquerque, NM
Re: 2018 Criterion Forum Awards
Jesus, lady, you’re starting to make me want to make hyperbolic comparisons to disasters and human rights abuses.Skrmng Skll Th Thd wrote: ↑Mon Jan 07, 2019 12:27 am
Who gives a fuck what sex you are? That wasn't the point of my post and you damn well know it. Pedantry as a way of eliding the issue is essentially trolling.
Still waiting to hear what Tree of Life has to do with the end of the world, or why it was a flawed release... or maybe you're too busy studying Princess Bride and its secrets about the coming Armageddon?
- domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
- Joined: Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:42 pm
Re: 2018 Criterion Forum Awards
Skrmng Skll Th Thd wrote: ↑Mon Jan 07, 2019 12:27 amWho gives a fuck what sex you are? That wasn't the point of my post and you damn well know it. Pedantry as a way of eliding the issue is essentially trolling.
Still waiting to hear what Tree of Life has to do with the end of the world, or why it was a flawed release... or maybe you're too busy studying Princess Bride and its secrets about the coming Armageddon?
I will 100% take ownership of this trainwreck, as I'm the only mod that thought this poster would one day contribute more than bilge. Well, at least we've freed up some time for Skrmng Skll Th Thd to watch Tree of Life more frequently
- DRW.mov
- Joined: Thu Sep 15, 2016 2:43 pm
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
Re: 2018 Criterion Forum Awards
Well. I’m sorry that gender, kindness, and disliking Terence Malick are this provocative. Tbh I thought the most controversial thing in my list was putting Byrne above Welles. I sincerely hope this extended bit of chaos hasn’t scared anyone off from adding their lists to this thread. Though, I must admit, I was at least moderately entertained.
- swo17
- Bloodthirsty Butcher
- Joined: Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:25 am
- Location: SLC, UT
- domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
- Joined: Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:42 pm
Re: 2018 Criterion Forum Awards
Okay, let me make this as clear as possible: I will salt the earth of any member talking shit about someone else's votes, and/or continuing this particular unnecessary pile-on of DRW
- NABOB OF NOWHERE
- Joined: Thu Sep 01, 2005 12:30 pm
- Location: Brandywine River
Re: 2018 Criterion Forum Awards
If civil war should erupt as a result of this threat enrol me please in the Malick Bushwhackers. Pictures of me in Zouave confederate uniform are available on request.
- Lowry_Sam
- Joined: Mon Jul 05, 2010 3:35 pm
- Location: San Francisco, CA
Re: 2018 Criterion Forum Awards
IMHO, 2018 was a much better year than 2017, if only for the fact that Criterion finally released many titles that people had been pining for for over a decade. IBC is without a doubt their best box yet (in spite of neglecting a few titles), but I decided to leave it out of my best releases as it’s in a category all it’s own.
BEST RELEASE
1. Night of the Living Dead
2. Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood
3. The Magnificent Ambersons
4. Female Trouble
5. True Stories
BEST BOXED SET
Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema
BEST ECLIPSE SET
Ingrid Bergman’s Swedish Years
BEST MODERN FILM
I, Daniel Blake
BEST "BONUS" FILM
Steamroller And Violin
BEST BOOKLET
Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema
BEST REISSUE
Andrei Rublev
BEST UPGRADE
Elevator To The Gallows
BEST COVER
Andrei Rublev
WORST COVER
My Man Godfrey
BEST PACKAGING
True Stories
BEST DISCOVERY
The Ballad Of Gregorio Cortez
MOST UNNECESSARY RELEASE
The Tree Of Life
BEST ARROW US
Deep Red
BEST NON-CRITERION, NON-ARROW AMERICAN RELEASE
Melies’ Fairy Tales In Color [Flicker Alley]
BEST RELEASE
1. Night of the Living Dead
2. Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood
3. The Magnificent Ambersons
4. Female Trouble
5. True Stories
BEST BOXED SET
Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema
BEST ECLIPSE SET
Ingrid Bergman’s Swedish Years
BEST MODERN FILM
I, Daniel Blake
BEST "BONUS" FILM
Steamroller And Violin
BEST BOOKLET
Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema
BEST REISSUE
Andrei Rublev
BEST UPGRADE
Elevator To The Gallows
BEST COVER
Andrei Rublev
WORST COVER
My Man Godfrey
BEST PACKAGING
True Stories
BEST DISCOVERY
The Ballad Of Gregorio Cortez
MOST UNNECESSARY RELEASE
The Tree Of Life
BEST ARROW US
Deep Red
BEST NON-CRITERION, NON-ARROW AMERICAN RELEASE
Melies’ Fairy Tales In Color [Flicker Alley]
- DarkImbecile
- Ask me about my visible cat breasts
- Joined: Mon Dec 09, 2013 6:24 pm
- Location: Albuquerque, NM
- DRW.mov
- Joined: Thu Sep 15, 2016 2:43 pm
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
Re: 2018 Criterion Forum Awards
The resistance grows.
- Lowry_Sam
- Joined: Mon Jul 05, 2010 3:35 pm
- Location: San Francisco, CA
Re: 2018 Criterion Forum Awards
I won’t go on about how tedious I found Tree Of Life here, but while my New Year’s clue comment on the endless speculation about the significance of the tree in the pic was in jest (a Super Deluxe edition), I do feel the movie is one of the more likely titles Criterion would upgrade to UHD when it starts to do so.
- tenia
- Ask Me About My Bassoon
- Joined: Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:13 am
Re: 2018 Criterion Forum Awards
I actually wonder if it sold well or not. I could suppose there are movies within the collection with far less commercial appeal, but I'm not sure if there aren't better (and more representative of the collection) contenders. Technically wise, however, it probably would be a very good choice indeed.
-
- Joined: Sat Dec 15, 2012 11:50 pm
Re: 2018 Criterion Forum Awards
I think it’s a pretty big seller. Last I saw my library system had 5 copies (all DVD, alas) in the first weeks it came out, and rarely more than one copy of any other titles.
- Morbii
- Joined: Sat Nov 27, 2004 3:38 am
Re: 2018 Criterion Forum Awards
Isn’t that like saying its reward for being so good is that it loses your vote?
On a similar note, I wonder why there’s not a BEST FILM category.