2007 Criterion Forum Awards

[colinr0380]

Suggestions on how long we should leave voting open?

To the end of the year? Maybe people might vote over the holidays!

[Galen Young]

Release of the Year
1. Breathless
2. Mouchette
3. Berlin Alexanderplatz
5. WR: Mysteries of the Organism / Sweet Movie
5. House of Games

Best Eclipse Release
Early Bergman

Best Box Set
Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara

Best Reissue
The Third Man

Best Commentary
David Mamet & Ricky Jay on House of Games

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary)
Hole in the Soul on WR: Mysteries of the Organism

Best Package Design
The Threepenny Opera

Best Surprise
Raymond Bernard

[denti alligator]

Release of the Year

Paul Robeson: Portraits of an Artist
The Threepenny Opera
Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara
La Haine
49th Parallel

Best Eclipse Release

The First Films of Samuel Fuller

Best Box Set

Paul Robeson: Portraits of an Artist

Best Reissue

The Lady Vanishes

Most Disappointing Release

Mouchette

Best Commentary

Threepenny Opera

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary)

Jutzi's Berlin Alexanderplatz

Best Package Design

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Best Surprise

Martha Graham: Dance On Film

Forum Member of the Year

kinjitsu and Michael B

Richard Cranium Award

numbers dude

[NABOB OF NOWHERE]

Forum Member of the Year:
HerrSchreck - for somehow managing to channel the Gonzo spirit of Hunter S. Thompson from beyond the grave...

Gonzoshreck? Some bizarre slavering mutant Weimar-Nippon monster ?

[Fletch F. Fletch]

Forum Member of the Year:
HerrSchreck - for somehow managing to channel the Gonzo spirit of Hunter S. Thompson from beyond the grave...

Gonzoshreck? Some bizarre slavering mutant Weimar-Nippon monster?

Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

[kinjitsu]

Suggestions on how long we should leave voting open?

To the end of the year

Ditto that. I'm not even close to compling a list...

[GringoTex]

Suggestions on how long we should leave voting open?

To the end of the year

Ditto that. I'm not even close to compling a list...

Then Voting will end Dec 31 or thereabouts.

[fiddlesticks]

Release of the Year

1. Breathless
2. The Burmese Harp
3. Ivan's Childhood
4. Two-Lane Blacktop
5. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Best Eclipse Release

Late Ozu

Best Box Set

Late Ozu

Most Disappointing Release

Brute Force

Best Commentary

Ginette Vincendeau, Army of Shadows

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary)

The book accompanying Sansho the Bailiff

Best Package Design

Ace in the Hole

Best Surprise

Two-Lane Blacktop

[SheriffAmbrose]

Release of the Year

1. Cria Cuervos...
2. Ace in the Hole
3. Breathless
4. if...
5. Sweet Movie

Best Eclipse Release

Malle

Best Box Set

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Best Reissue

The Third Man

Most Disappointing Release

-------

Best Commentary

I only listened to Soderbergh and Gilroy on The Third Man and it wasn't bad.

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary)

Call me crazy but I liked Chambre 12... on Breathless

Best Package Design

The Threepenny Opera, I really dug that cover illustration.

Best Surprise

Cria Cuervos...

Forum Member of the Year

Janet Bergstrom lol

Richard Cranium Award

125100 although there's a part of me that thinks that he totally freaked it.

[jorencain]

Release of the Year:
1) Berlin Alexanderplatz
2) Army Of Shadows
3) Sansho The Bailiff
4) The Threepenny Opera
5) The Burmese Harp

Best Eclipse Release:
Carlos Saura's Flamenco Trilogy

Best Box Set:
Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara

Best Reissue:
The Third Man

Most Disappointing Release:
Vengeance Is Mine

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary):
Fassbinder directing "Berlin Alexanderplatz"

Best Package Design:
Berlin Alexanderplatz

Best Surprise:
49th Parallel

Richard Cranium Award:
125100

[M]

Release of the Year
1. Days of Heaven
2. Berlin Alexanderplatz
3. Army of Shadows
4. Bicycle Thieves
5. Breathless

Best Eclipse Release
Raymond Bernard

Best Box Set
Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara

Most Disappointing Release
Border Radio

Best Commentary
Ginette Vincendeau, Army of Shadows

Best Re-issue
The Third Man

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary)
The book accompanying Bicycle Thieves

Best Package Design
Days of Heaven

Best Surprise
Raymond Bernard Eclipse set

[Buttery Jeb]

First off, didn't really do more than dabble in the Eclipse sets ("Phantom India" and a couple of the Saura films). So, no picks from those.

Best Release:
1. "Ace in the Hole"
2. "Army of Shadows"
3. "Berlin Alexanderplatz"
4. "Breathless"
5. "Paul Robeson: Portraits of an Artist"

Best Box Set: "Paul Robeson: Portraits of an Artist"

Most Diappointing: "Stranger Than Paradise" (just didn't feel that it really did justice to such an important film, even with "Permanent Vacation" as an extra)

Best Commentary: "if...." (McDowell gets much love with his commentaries this year; Mamet and Ricky Jay were a close second)

Best Re-issue: "The Third Man"

Best Single Supplement: the '30s "Berlin Alexanderplatz"

Best Design: the Darwyn Cooke covers for "Monsters & Madmen"

Best Surprise: "House of Games"

Richard Cranium Award: Buttery Jeb (hey, I never win anything...)

-BJ

[geoffcowgill]

Pardon for interrupting, but where are the results for the previous polls? On the locked archive thread it goes from voting to comments on the results for 2006 without the actual results being available.

[colinr0380]

Here

[geoffcowgill]

Thanks. Sorry I wasn't more observant.

[Eurotrash]

Release of the Year
1. Ace in the Hole
2. The Burmese Harp
3. If....
4. Bicycle Thieves
5. La Jetee/Sans Soleil

Best Eclipse Release
Raymond Bernard box set

Best Box Set
Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara

Most Disappointing Release
Border Radio

Best Commentary
Ginette Vincendeau, Army of Shadows

Best Re-issue
The Third Man

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary)
Mystery Train on The Lady Vanishes

Best Package Design
Days of Heaven

Best Surprise
Two-Lane Blacktop

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

Release of the Year
1. The Threepenny Opera, hard choice as so many great films were out this year.
2. La Jetee/San Soleil
3. House of Games
4. Cria Cuervos
5. Mala Noche

Best Eclipse Release
Late Ozu

Best Reissue
The Third Man (was it really necessary though?)

Most Disappointing Release
Sweet Movie (I thought it was going to be so much better)

Best Commentary
House of Games

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary)
Hole in the Soul on WR: Mysteries of the Organism disc

Best Package Design
La Jetee/Sans Soleil

Best Surprise
Mala Noche

Forum Member of the Year
HerrSchreck.
As much as I love you guys, this man is great! Great humor and consistently great posts.

Richard Cranium Award
I want to say 125100, but maybe everyone knows something I don't. Did he or not find the film? Besides the, the bashing of all things seventies wasn't a good move, nor was the Hitler avatar.
If he does find the film, I elect the one guy who enjoyed Siamese cats.

[skuhn8]

Release of the Year (tough as I haven't been able to buy very many this year)
1. Ace In the Hole
2. The Threepenny Opera
3. Two-Lane Blacktop
4. Mala Noche
5. Green for Danger

Best Eclipse Release
Late Ozu (only one I've bought so far so not a fair vote perhaps)

Best Reissue
The Third Man

Most Disappointing Release
Happy with all the ones I got so far

Best Commentary
Army of Shadows (I have the BFI but same commentary)

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary)
Can't think of any right now

Best Package Design
Two-Lane Blacktop

Best Surprise
Two-Lane Blacktop (but with Mala Noche coming in only a hair behind)

Forum Member of the Year
This is the only non-work related forum that I frequent and the reason i come back again and again is because of the chemistry of its contributors. Some great writing, insights, and the occasional peek into the industry. But on the top of the heated heap I would have to put HerrSchreckino and MichaelB. And who has not run afoul of the cantankerous Schreck? Only keep in mind, here is a guy that manages to digest an amazing amount of cinema, write thorough posts, play music AND handle PR/Marketing for the dogged (sometimes dodgy) operation we have come to know and love for their silents catalogue (I thank Schreck and Tomasso for whetting my appetite for silents). My hats off HerrSchreck! (kersplatt....sniff sniff...I'm taking what their given'/cause I'm schillin for a livin'....burrrrrp).

Richard Cranium Award
Noone here: maybe the Assclown Collective known as Facets?

[JabbaTheSlut]

Release of the Year
1. Army of Shadows
2. Mouchette
3. Cria Cuervos
4. The Two of Us
5. Breathless

Best Eclipse Release
Raymond Bernard

Best Package Design
Breathless

Best Surprise
House of Games

[souvenir]

Release of the Year
Ace in the Hole
Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara
Fires on the Plain
Army of Shadows
Under the Volcano

Best Eclipse Release
The First Films of Samuel Fuller

Best Box Set
Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara

Best Reissue
Yojimbo

Most Disappointing Release
Vengeance Is Mine (for lack of supplements, not for it being released)
Border Radio (for it being released at all)

Best Commentary
Neil Sinyard on Ace in the Hole

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary)
Portrait of a 60% Perfect Man (Ace in the Hole)

Best Package Design
Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara

Best Surprise
all the Paramount titles

[kinjitsu]

A reminder: Only two days left to cast your votes. You can post here or send an email to GringoTex

[Lemmy Caution]

I didn't realize that so many had issues with Border Radio. Guess I'll have to go to the BR thread and see what that's all about.

[domino harvey]

I believe the biggest complaint is that the movie sucks

[Cinephrenic]

Lowest rated film in the collection according to IMDB? Not even 100 votes.

User Rating: 5.1/10 (87 votes)