2011 Criterion Forum Awards

[bigP]

Best Release
1/ Sweet Smell of Success
2/ Insignificance
3/ Secret Sunshine
4/ People on Sunday
5/ The Makioka Sisters

Best Eclipse Release
Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas

Best Reissue
Branded to Kill (based upon screen cap comparison's - I've not bought a reissue this year)

Best Blu-ray Upgrade
Robinson Crusoe on Mars

Best Commentary
James Naremore on The Sweet Smell of Success

Best Supplement
James Naremore's commentary on The Sweet Smell of Success

Best Cover
Insignificance

Best Packaging
The Sweet Smell of Success

Best (Re)Discovery
Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas

Most Disappointing
The lack of extras on the budget releases (Identification of a woman, The Makioka Sisters etc) - though as a silver lining, it's nice to not have to shell out £20+ to import a Criterion Blu (or DVD) for once.

Forum Member of the Year
colinr0380 and MichaelB

Best Non-Criterion Releases
1/ Tales out of School: Four Films by David Leland (Network)
2/ Silent Running (MoC)
3/ The Theo Angelopoulos Collection: Vol.1 (Artificial Eye)
4/ Alice (BFI)
5/ Touch of Evil (MoC)
6/ The Colour of Pomegranates (Second Sight)
7/ In The Realm of the Senses / Empire of Passion (Optimum)
8/ The Pillow Book (Park Circus)
9/ Rififi (Arrow)
10/ Pigs & Battleships (MoC)
11/ Red Psalm (Second Run)
12/ Medea (BFI)
13/ Le Amiche & La Signora Senza Camelie (MoC)
14/ Poetry (Arrow)
15/ Cold Fish (Third Window)

[matrixschmatrix]

Best Release:
1. Sweet Smell of Success
2. Kiss Me Deadly
3. Blow Out
4. Topsy-Turvy
5. the Four Feathers

Best Eclipse Set:
Aki Kaurismäki's Leningrad Cowboys

Best Reissue:
The Naked Kiss

Best Blu Upgrade:
Beauty and the Beast

Best R1 Rescue:
Design for Living

Best (Re)Discovery:
Topsy-Turvy

Most Disappointing
The continuing absence of further Chaplin releases

Best Commentary:
Charles Drazin on The Four Feathers

Best Supplement:
Murder à la Mod, in HD, on Blow Out

Best Cover:
Island of Lost Souls

Best Packaging:
Fanny and Alexander

Best non-Criterion releases (in no particular order):
Laurel and Hardy: The Essential Collection (Vivendi Entertainment)
The Magnificent Ambersons (Warner Brothers)
Touch of Evil blu (Masters of Cinema)
The Indian Tomb/The Tiger of Eschnapur (Masters of Cinema)
Buster Keaton Short Films Collection 1920-1923 blu (Kino)
Mimic blu (LionsGate)
Taxi Driver blu (Sony)

Forum Member of the Year:
swo17

[mfunk9786]

stuff

Night of the Hunter was last year.

[mfunk9786]

Top Five
01. 12 Angry Men
02. Blow Out
03. The Killing
04. Sweet Smell of Success
05. Kes

Best Eclipse: Basil Dearden's London Underground

Best Reissue: Shock Corridor

Best Blu-ray Upgrade: High and Low

Best R1 Rescue: The Killing

Best [Re]Discovery: Blow Out

Best Commentary: Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson, and Jason Schwartzman on Rushmore (if this isn't eligible, just don't count it)

Best Supplement: "Tragedy in a Temporary Town" teleplay on 12 Angry Men

Best Cover Art: The Phantom Carriage

Best Packaging: Three Colors Trilogy

Most Disappointing Release: Life During Wartime, for being released without its essential predecessor, Happiness, in the collection

Forum Member of the Year: you kno it's swo - it's rare that you are guaranteed either a laugh or a succinct "ah ha!" level of information/quality with each and every one of someone's posts.

Richard Cranium Award: James Mills

[tenia]

stuff

Night of the Hunter was last year.

Corrected. I shouldn't do this type of thing in early morning. #-o

[Harmonov]

Best Release
1) Sweet Smell of Success
2) The Killing
3) Cul-de-sac
4) Le beau Serge
5) The Complete Jean Vigo

Best Eclipse Release
Aki Kuarismaki's Leningrad Cowboys & Basil Dearden's London Underground (tied)

Best Reissue
Diabolique

Best R1 Rescue
Blow Out

Best Commentary
James Naremore on The Sweet Smell of Success

Best Cover
Pale Flower

Best Packaging
The Sweet Smell of Success

Best (Re)Discovery
Island of Lost Souls

Richard Cranium Award
harmonov (for starting all of that "minor"/"major" nonsense)

[Tom Hagen]

Best Release
1. The Music Room
2. Sweet Smell of Success
3. The Complete Jean Vigo
4. Carlos
5. The Three Colors Trilogy

Best Eclipse: Have not viewed enough to vote meaningfully

Best Reissue: Diabolique

Best Blu-ray Upgrade: Le Cercle Rouge

Best R1 Rescue: The Killing

Best [Re]Discovery: Leon Morin, Priest

Best Commentary: Have not listened to enough to vote meaningfully

Best Supplement: Maison de France in Carlos

Best Cover Art: Carlos

Best Packaging: Sweet Smell of Success

Most Disappointing Release: Cul-de-sac for lack of satisfying supplements

Forum Member of the Year: knives and matrix have both done excellent work all year

[Professor Wagstaff]

Best Releases
1) Broadcast News
2) The Sweet Smell of Success
3) Fish Tank
4) Kes
5) The Complete Jean Vigo

Best Eclipse Set
Silent Naruse

Best Reissue
Shock Corridor

Best R1 Rescue (for title already available in R1 and re-released by Criterion)
The Killing

Best (Re)Discovery
Pale Flower

Most Disappointing Release (for Criterion's treatment, not the film itself)
Cul-de-sac

Best Cover
Design for Living

Best Packaging
Three Colors Trilogy

Member of the Year
swo17

Richard Cranium Award
Gary Gnu

[knives]

Forum Member of the Year: knives

You misspelled Swo.

[jwd5275]

Best Release
1 Complete Jean Vigo
2 the Music Room
3 Phantom Carriage
4 Zazie dans le metro
5 Still Walking

Best Eclipse Set
Basil Dearden's London Underground

Best Reissue
Orpheus

Best Blu-ray Upgrade
Rushmore

Best R1 Rescue (for title already available in R1 and re-released by Criterion)
Blow Out

Best [Re]Discovery
People on Sunday

Most Disappointing Release (for Criterion's treatment, not the film itself)
the Double Life of Veronique - for removing the Zizek and Cowie essays from the booklet

Best Supplement
The Benegal Satyajit Ray doc
(though if for pure entertainment value, all the Sam Fuller interviews on the re-issues of Shock Corridor and Naked Kiss)

Best Cover
Phantom Carriage

Members of the Year
It's a toss up between matrixschmatrix, MichaelB and swo17 -- so I'll go with matrixschmatrix

[Tom Hagen]

Forum Member of the Year: knives

You misspelled Swo.

[domino harvey]

Reminder that people voting for more than one person or title in a category which calls for only one (ie everything except the Top 5 List) are not getting any of their choices cast for that category. Pick one or pick none

[SpiderBaby]

Best Release:
1. The Complete Jean Vigo
2. The Music Room
3. People on Sunday
4. Zazie dans le metro
5. Island of Lost Souls

Best Eclipse: Basil Dearden's London Underground

Best Reissue: Tokyo Drifter

Best Blu-ray Upgrade: Beauty and the Beast

Best R1 Rescue: The Music Room

Best [Re]Discovery: Island of Lost Souls

Best Commentary: no vote

Best Supplement: "Satyajit Ray" documentary by Shyam Benegal on The Music Room

Best Cover Art: The Music Room

Best Packaging: The Complete Jean Vigo

Most Disappointing Release: Cul-de-sac

Best Non-Criterion Releases:
1. Despair blu-ray (Olive Films release with The Cinema and Its Double doc)
2. Coeur fidèle (MoC)
3. Landmarks of Early Soviet Film (Flicker Alley)
4. A Man Vanishes (MoC)
5. I Only Want You to Love Me (Olive Films)

[bjeggert82]

Best Release
1. Blow Out
2. Sweet Smell of Success
3. The Killing
4. Kiss Me Deadly
5. Cul-de-sac

Best Eclipse Set
Sabu!

Best Reissue
The Rules of the Game

Best Blu-ray Upgrade
Rushmore

Best R1 Rescue
Blow Out

Best (Re)Discovery
Kiss Me Deadly

Best Supplement
Interview with De Palma by Baumbach

Best Cover
Blow Out

Best Packaging
Sweet Smell of Success

[criterionsnob]

Release of the Year
1. The Music Room [BD]
2. Three Colors [BD]
3. Kes [BD]
4. Zazie dans le métro [BD]
5. Senso [BD]

Honourable Mention
Everything else.

Best Eclipse Set
Basil Dearden’s London Underground

Best Reissue
The Battle of Algiers [BD]

Best R1 Rescue
The Killing [BD]

Best (Re)Discovery
Identification of a Woman [BD]

Most Disappointing Release
The Makioka Sisters [BD]

Best Commentary
Haven’t listened to any.

Best Supplement
Satyajit Ray feature doc on The Music Room [BD]

Best Cover
Tokyo Drifter

Best Packaging
Three Colours Trilogy

Best Non-Criterion Release
1. The Terrorizers [BD]
2. Good Morning [BFI BD]
3. The Tree of Life [BD]
4. Vive l’amour [BD]
5. The Ballad of Narayama [MOC BD]

Honourable Mentions
Szindbád [Second Run DVD]
Taxi Driver [Sony BD]
Silent Running [MOC BD]
Taxi Zum Klo [Peccadillo Pictures DVD]

[cdnchris]

Release of the Year
1. Sweet Smell of Success [BD] (I'm bias, though -- it's one of my favourite films)
2. Three Colors [BD]
3. Broadcast News [BD]
4. 12 Angry Men [BD]
5. Kiss Me Deadly [BD]

Best Eclipse Set
Runaway Melodramas

Best Reissue
Orpheus [BD] (At least packed everything from box set plus more)

Best Blu-ray Upgrade
Rushmore [BD] (In terms of picture quality upgrade)

Best R1 Rescue
The Killing [BD]

Best (Re)Discovery
Island of Lost Souls [BD]

Most Disappointing Release
Black Moon [BD]

Best Commentary
James Naremore on Sweet Smell of Success

Best Supplement
Sterling Hayden interview on The Killing [BD]

Best Cover
Sweet Smell of Success

Best Packaging
Sweet Smell of Success

[AALFW]

Best Release (1-5, in order of preference)
1. Pale Flower
2. Sweet Smell of Success
3. People on Sunday
4. The Complete Jean Vigo
5. Three Colors Trilogy

Best Eclipse Set: Silent Naruse

Best Reissue: Branded to Kill
Best Blu-ray Upgrade: Yi-Yi

Best R1 Rescue (for title already available in R1 and re-released by Criterion): Blow Out
Best (Re)Discovery: Insignificance
Most Disappointing Release (for Criterion's treatment, not the film itself): The Makioka Sisters

Best Supplement: Documentary about Satyajit Ray, The Music Room

Best Cover: Sweet Smell of Success
Best Packaging: Carlos

Member of the Year: CSM126, for his posts here.

Best Non-Criterion: MoC's Touch of Evil

[magicmarker]

Best Release
1. Sweet Smell of Success
2. The Complete Jean Vigo
3. The Killing
4. The Phantom Carriage
5. Three Colors Trilogy

Best Eclipse Set: Silent Naruse

Best Reissue: Branded to Kill

Best Blu-ray Upgrade: Rushmore

Best (Re)Discovery: Pale Flower

Best Commentary: Naremore on Sweet Smell of Success

Best Supplement: Sterling Hayden interview on The Killing

Best Cover: Sweet Smell of Success

Best Packaging: Sweet Smell of Success

Best Non-Criterion:
1. Touch of Evil (MOC)
2. Coeur fidele (MOC)
3. The Sacrifice (Kino)
4. Level Five (Optimum)
5. The Soviet Influence: From Turksib to Night Mail (BFI)

[James43]

Release of the Year
1. Three Colors Trilogy
2. The Music Room
3. The Complete Jean Vigo
4. People on Sunday
5. Kiss Me Deadly

Best Eclipse Set
Basil Dearden's London Underground

Best Reissue
Shock Corridor

Best Blu-ray Upgrade
Rushmore

Best R1 Rescue
Blow Out

Best Discovery
Pale Flower

Most Disappointing Release
Fanny and Alexander (BD)

Best Commentary
Adrian Martin on Les Cousins

Best Supplement
Sterling Hayden interview on The Killing

Best Cover
Still Walking

Best Packaging
Carlos

[aox]

Release of the Year

1. Sweet Smell of Success
2. The Killing
3. 12 Angry Men
4. Carlos
5. People on Sunday

Best Eclipse Set
Silent Naruse

Best Reissue
Solaris

Best Blu-ray Upgrade
High and Low

Best R1 Rescue
The Killing

Best (Re)Discovery
Solaris

Most Disappointing Release
Fanny and Alexander (BD)

Best Commentary
Kiss Me Deadly

Best Supplement
Killers Kiss on the Killing disc
(if that doesn't count since it is a feature film, please change my vote to the Sterling Hayden interview)

Best Cover
The Killing

Best Packaging
Sweet Smell of Success

[Professor Wagstaff]

Best Supplement
Killers Kiss on the Killing disc
(if that doesn't count since it is a feature film, please change my vote to the Sterling Hayden interview)

Is there any way to vote for Criterion's general decision to start releasing entire films as bonus material (Killer's Kiss, Cathy Come Home, Murder a la Mod, the teleplays on the 12 Angry Men disc)? Criterion seemed to be doing films as features more than ever this year and I want to encourage this trend.

[swo17]

I don't know that I'd call it a recent trend.

[aox]

I don't know that I'd call it a recent trend.

Some of those to me seem like a stretch to call a "feature" film.

[Cronenfly]

Best Release
1. Sweet Smell of Success
2. Kes
3. Kiss Me Deadly
4. The Music Room
5. The Killing

Best Reissue
Branded to Kill

Best Blu-Ray Upgrade
Naked

Best Eclipse
The Warped World of Koreyoshi Kurahara

Best R1 Rescue (for title already available in R1 and re-released by Criterion)
Kiss Me Deadly

Best (Re)Discovery
Les Cousins

Most Disappointing Release (for Criterion's treatment, not the film itself)
Cul-de-Sac

Best Commentary
Adrian Martin on Les Cousins

Best Supplement
Killer’s Kiss on The Killing

Best Cover
Tokyo Drifter

Best Packaging
Sweet Smell

Member of the Year
MichaelB

Richard Cranium Award
Nothing (RIP)

[Ashirg]

Best Release
1. Three Colors Trilogy
2. The Complete Jean Vigo
3. Island of Lost Souls
4. The Killing
5. The Music Room

Best Eclipse Release
Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas

Best Reissue
The Naked Kiss

Best Blu-ray Upgrade
Beauty and the Beast

Best R1 Rescue
Kiss Me Deadly

Best Commentary
James Naremore on The Sweet Smell of Success

Best Supplement
Killer’s Kiss on The Killing

Best Cover
Sweet Smell of Success

Best Packaging
Three Colors Trilogy

Best (Re)Discovery
Pale Flower

Best Non-Criterion Releases
Touch of Evil (Master of Cinema BD)
Coeur Fidele (Master of Cinema BD)
Santa sangre (Severin BD)
Blue Velvet (MGM BD)
Mimic (Lionsgate BD)
Laurel & Hardy - The Essential Collection (Vivendi DVD)
The Prowler (VCI DVD)