2010 Wrapup | Criterion Forum Awards

[matrixschmatrix]

Why? It may be lacking in historical extras, but otherwise I'm sure it works for the fans of the film. L'enfance Nue and The Red Desert are much higher contenders.

This is why I think it's worth splitting categories between film and treatment- if Benjamin Button had come out this year, I would probably vote it worst in spite of the actually pretty deluxe set of features, because it's one of the crappiest movies with Criterion's name on it in a while. I'd consider Crumb one of the best of this year, in spite of the relative weakness of the extras (especially considering the superior commentary was already available.) It's a totally different set of criteria (aha) from a strict consideration of how well Criterion did their job, and it's probably worth distinguishing.

[Cinephrenic]

Why? It may be lacking in historical extras, but otherwise I'm sure it works for the fans of the film. L'enfance Nue and The Red Desert are much higher contenders.

Out of the releases this year.

[movielocke]

anyone have the releases broken down by month?

[colinr0380]

January

Eclipse Series 19: Chantal Akerman In The 70s
Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy
Che (DVD & Blu)
Paris, Texas (DVD & Blu)
8 ½ (Blu upgrade)

February

Eclipse Series 20: George Bernard Shaw On Film
Make Way For Tomorrow
Revanche (DVD & Blu)
Hunger (DVD & Blu)
Lola Montes (DVD & Blu)

March

Dillinger Is Dead
Letters From Fontainhas: Three Films By Pedro Costa
Bigger Than Life (DVD & Blu)
Days Of Heaven (Blu upgrade)
Yojimbo/Sanjuro (Blu upgrade)

April

Essential Art House Volume V (and Kapò available on its own)
The Fugitive Kind
Ride With The Devil (DVD & Blu)
Summer Hours (DVD & Blu)
Vivre Sa Vie (DVD & Blu)

May

Eclipse Series 21: Oshima's Outlaw Sixties
By Brakhage: An Anthology Volume 1 & 2 (DVD & Blu)
Stagecoach (DVD & Blu)
M (Blu upgrade)
Walkabout (Blu upgrade)

June

Night Train To Munich
Close Up (DVD & Blu)
Everlasting Moments (DVD & Blu)
Mystery Train (DVD & Blu)
Red Desert (DVD & Blu)
The Leopard (Blu upgrade)

July

Eclipse Series 22: Presenting Sacha Guitry
The Only Son/There Was A Father: Two Films By Yasujiro Ozu
The Secret of the Grain (DVD & Blu)
Black Narcissus (DVD & Blu upgrade)
The Red Shoes (DVD & Blu upgrade)

August

Eclipse Series 23: The First Films of Akira Kurosawa
L'Enfance nue
Louie Bluie
3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg
Crumb (DVD & Blu)
Black Orpheus (DVD & Blu upgrade)

September

Eclipse Series 24: The Actuality Dramas of Allan King
Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence (DVD & Blu)
The Thin Red Line (DVD & Blu)
Breathless (Blu upgrade)
Charade (Blu upgrade)

October

The Darjeeling Limited (DVD & Blu)
House (DVD & Blu)
The Magician (DVD & Blu)
Paths of Glory (DVD & Blu)
Seven Samurai (Blu upgrade)

November

Antichrist (DVD & Blu)
Modern Times (DVD & Blu)
The Night of the Hunter (DVD & Blu)

December

America Lost and Found: The BBS Story (DVD & Blu)
Cronos (DVD & Blu)
Videodrome (Blu upgrade)

[felipe]

Actullay, Lost and Found blu-ray will be released in Nov and the dvd in Dec.

[cc99999]

My favorites:

002-Seven Samurai
010-Walkabout*
030-M
044-The Red Shoes*
052-Yojimbo
093-Black Narcissus*
140-8½
235-The Leopard
500-Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy
501-Paris, Texas*
516-Stagecoach*
521-Mystery Train*
528-3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg
532-Louie Bluie
533-Crumb*
535-Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence*
536-The Thin Red Line*
538-Paths of Glory*
539-House*
543-Modern Times*


Best Eclipse Releases
19-Chantal Akerman in the Seventies
20-George Bernard Shaw on Film
21-Oshima's Outlaw Sixties

[domino harvey]

So, uh, are we voting this year? Am I volunteering to tally again? Can I write another question into this post?

[zedz]

I guess. I guess. I guess not.

[Jeff]

So, uh, are we voting this year? Am I volunteering to tally again? Can I write another question into this post?

Your post has all the words mixed up.

We are so into voting this year! I am volunteering to, uh, tally again. Question this post? I can write another!

Thanks for stepping up, Domino!

[Jeff]

I'll kick things off.

Best Release (top 5)
1. The Night of the Hunter
2. Stagecoach
3. Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy
4. America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
5. Bigger Than Life

Best Eclipse
Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties

Best Reissue
The Red Shoes

Best Commentary
The Night of the Hunter

Best Supplement
Charles Laughton Directs The Night of the Hunter

Best Cover
Make Way for Tomorrow

Best Packaging
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story

Best (Re)Discovery
Dillinger is Dead

Most Disappointing Release
L’Enfance Nue

Member of the Year
Michael Kerpan. How has he not won this before?

Richard Cranium Award
Nothing. How has he not won this before?

[domino harvey]

Vote for as many titles as you want, but only the first five count (unless we're changing the rules-- I don't actually care)

[Murdoch]

Best Release
1. Von Sternberg box
2. Night of the Hunter
3. Red Desert
4. Presenting Sacha Guitry
5. The Magician

Best Eclipse
Sacha Guitry

Best Reissue
Black Narcissus

Best Supplement
Charles Laughton Directs The Night of the Hunter

Best Cover
Antichrist

Best Packaging
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story

Best (Re)Discovery
Sacha Guitry

Member of the Year/Richard Cranium Award
zachh

[Jeff]

Vote for as many titles as you want, but only the first five count (unless we're changing the rules-- I don't actually care)

That sounds right. I just copied the categories that Matt posted earlier. Feel free to just use the first five.

[domino harvey]

There's also a best Boxed Set category, isn't there?

Also going to use this soapbox to once more ask for a Best Rescue category for a film already out on DVD in R1 that got the Criterion treatment

[matrixschmatrix]

Should I assume best reissue to include both re-releases and blu upgrades?

[knives]

Best Release (top 10)
1. Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy
2. 3 Silent Classics by Joseph von Sternberg
3. The Night of the Hunter
4. America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
5. Letters From Fontainhas: Three Films By Pedro Costa

Best Eclipse
The Actuality Dramas of Allan King- While these aren't my favorite films released under eclipse this year They remain the most lasting

Best Reissue
The Red Shoes

Best Commentary
A Safe Place

Best Supplement
Charles Laughton Directs The Night of the Hunter-See above

Best Cover
Louie Bluie-Make Way and the Ozus are tough competition, but this cover truly is a piece of art all on it's own

Best Packaging
3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg

Best (Re)Discovery
Dillinger is Dead-This release has single handily given me a new director I can call favorite.

Most Disappointing Release
L’Enfance Nue-How they could screw this up so badly when the elderly MOC is standing right there baffles the mind.

Member of the Year
cdnchris-Have we forgot about the great forum crash of 2010 already? The way he handled that ensures that he was the best. Anyone else is just wrong.

Richard Cranium Award
zachh and alias

[Jeff]

There's also a best Boxed Set category, isn't there?

It doesn't look like it was used last year, but I don't see any reason why we couldn't include it. There were certainly plenty of stunning sets this year. Of course, if people include boxed sets in their top fives, it will be pretty easy to tell which was the favorite.

Also going to use this soapbox to once more ask for a Best Rescue category for a film already out on DVD in R1 that got the Criterion treatment

I like that category. I won't bother adding mine since my number one release of the year would also qualify as the Best Rescue. You're calling the shots this year, Domino. The categories are whatever you say they are.

[SpiderBaby]

Hope I can place my vote:

Best Release
1. Dillinger is Dead
2. America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
3. Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy
4. 3 Silent Classics by Joseph von Sternberg
5. Bigger Than Life / Red Desert

Best Eclipse
Eclipse Series 19 - Chantal Akerman in the Seventies

Best Reissue
Breathless (Godard homer)

Best Commentary
The Night of the Hunter

Best Supplement
Charles Laughton Directs The Night of the Hunter

Best Cover
Dillinger is Dead

Best Packaging
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story

Best (Re)Discovery
Bigger Than Life (Big Ray fan. Love what Criterion has done with this.)

Most Disappointing Release
L’Enfance Nue (too bad. Love Pialat.)

Member of the Year
Sorry. I shouldn't vote on this being a new member. I do read daily for the past 3 years or so though. But feel I should sit this one out, out of respect.

Best Boxed Set (for Domino)
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story (though could be a 4-way battle with the silents, War Trilogy and Costa.)

[domino harvey]

T O P F I V E
01 Bigger Than Life
02 Antichrist
03 BBS
04 Stagecoach
05 Che

Eclipse Oshima
Reissue Black Orpheus
Commentary Adrian Martin (Don't even care if this is cheating, which it is)
Supplement Tag Gallagher visual essay on Stagecoach
Cover Close-Up
Packaging Letters From Fontainhas
(Re)Discovery Louie Bluie
Rescue Night of the Hunter
Disappointing Release L'Enfance Nue

[matrixschmatrix]

Best Releases
Night of the Hunter
Paths of Glory
Bigger Than Life
Modern Times
Louie Bluie

Honorable Mention
3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg
Stagecoach
Night Train to Munich
Paris, Texas
House

Best Reissue
Yojimbo/Sanjuro

Best Commentary
Yojimbo/Sanjuro

Best Supplement
Charles Laughton Directs The Night of the Hunter

Best Cover
The Night of the Hunter

Best Packaging
3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg

Best (Re)Discovery
Louie Bluie

[James]

When is the deadline?

[Minkin]

Best Releases
1.War Trilogy
2.House
3.Bigger Than Life
4.Stagecoach
5.BBS

Best Eclipse
The First Films of Akira Kurosawa

Best Bluray upgrade to catalog title (there were more of these than normal reissues, so why not?)
The Leopard

Best Reissue
Black Orpheus

Best Commentary
Letters from Fontainhas- In Vanda's Room

Best Supplement
Into the Future- Tag Gallagher- War Trilogy

Best Cover
By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes 1 and 2 (Bluray)

Best Packaging
Stagecoach

Best Discovery
3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg

Most disappointing release
L 'Enfance Nue/ Kapo thrown onto EAH

Member of the year
ianungstad

Richard Cranium
zq333zq (Every post was classic although I think he might be a little more Richard than Cranium...)

Best Rescue
Night of the Hunter

Highlight: October and November releases, MGM deal and going Blu with most every title plus a lot of hilarious meltdowns.
Worst of year: Studio Canal OOP fiasco, continuance of EAH line and major boxsets still in SD + Pictureboxed
Future: Miramax deal, Branded to Kill/Tokyo Drifter, more MGM- Leningrad Cowboys, etc

Did we also give up on "non-Criterion top tens/fives" ? I suppose MoC and others deserve better than an afterthought category on a Criterion poll.

[movielocke]

Best Releases
1. Paths of Glory
2. Night of the Hunter
3. Make Way for Tomorrow
4. Stagecoach
5. The Only Son/There Was a Father

Best Eclipse
Presenting Sacha Guitry

Best Bluray upgrade to catalog title (there were more of these than normal reissues, so why not?)
Seven Samurai

Best Reissue
Red Shoes

Best Commentary
--

Best Supplement
Charles laughton Directs Night of the Hunter

Best Cover
Make Way for Tomorrow

Best Packaging
The Only Son/ There Was a Father

Best Discovery
The Magician

Best (re)discovery
Ride with the Devil

Most disappointing release
Make Way for Tomorrow only on DVD

Best Rescue
Make Way for Tomorrow

(that's hard, with Bigger than Life and Only Son/There Was a Father competing as well for me, four of the biggest R1 rescues Criterion's made in the last four years, all in one year)

Best Boxset
Rossellini War Trilogy

Best Month of releases:
July (bought everything but Secret of the Grain, which I haven't seen yet)

Worst Month of releases:
December (only month of 2010 I bought no criterion releases)

[skuhn8]

Keeping it simple for the tally. only bought a couple CCs this year due to being blu-region locked. CC's loss has definitely been MOC's gain.

Best Release
1. 3 Silent Classics by Joseph von Sternberg--cannot emphasize enough how utterly mind-blowing this set is.
2. Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy

Best Cover
3 Silent Classics by Joseph von Sternberg

Best Packaging
3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg

Best (Re)Discovery
3 Silent Classics by Joseph von Sternberg. Knew nothing about his silents prior to getting this set. Heavenly.

Most Disappointing Release
Definitely NOT 3 Silent Classics by Joseph von Sternberg

[mfunk9786]

*votes for only one title throughout*

Good lord