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Release of the Year
1. Ace In The Hole
2. Army Of Shadows
3. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
4. Brute Force
5. Overlord

Best Eclipse Release
Raymond Bernard

Best Box Set
Didn't bother with any

Best Reissue
Yojimbo

Most Disappointing Release
Le Haine. Those subtitles are unforgivable.

Best Commentary
Mouchette

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary)
Mining the Archive - Overlord

Best Package Design
Breathless

Best Surprise
Cria Cuervos

Forum Member of the Year
David Ehrenstein

Richard Cranium Award
All the whining haters

Release of the Year:
1. Berlin Alexanderplatz
2. Ace in the Hole
3. Days of Heaven
4. Fires on the Plain
5. Brute Force

Best Eclipse Release
The Documentaries of Louis Malle

Best Package Design
Mala Noche

CC Release of the Year:
1. Mala Noche (despite the fuck-up on Criterions part but it's being fixed)
2. Berlin Alexanderplatz
3. Sansho the Bailiff
4. Army of Shadows
5. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Best Eclipse Release:
Raymond Bernard

Best Box Set:
Berlin Alexanderplatz

Best Single Supplement:
Jutzi's cut of Berlin Alexanderplatz

Best Surprise:
Mala Noche

Best Package Design:
Sansho the Bailiff

Forum Member of the Year:
zedz once again and HerrSchreck for kicking my ass to watch Menilmontant and the Sternbergs

Richard Cranium Award:
marty

Best Release
Cria Cuervos
Fires On the Plain
Sansho the Bailiff
Breathless
Les Enfants Terribles

Best Eclipse Release
Late Ozu

Best Reissue
The Third Man

Most Disappointing Release
---

Best Commentary
---

Best Single Supplement (Not a Commentary)
---

Best Package Design
---

Best Surprise
Carlos Saura's Flamenco Trilogy

Best Boxset
Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara

Release of the Year
Berlin Alexanderplatz

Best Eclipse Release
Raymond Bernard

Best Box Set
Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara

Best Reissue
Yojimbo/Sanjuro

Most Disappointing Release
Border Radio

Best Commentary
Army of Shadows

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary)
Jutzi's Berlin Alexanderplatz film

Best Package Design
Threepenny Opera

Best Surprise
WR: Mysteries of an Organism

Forum Member of the Year
justeleblanc (for letting us know all those wonder forthcoming leaks)

Richard Cranium Award
YilmazGuney & The "penguin guy" (Spheniscus demersus)

Release of the Year
Breathless
Bicycle Thieves
Stranger Than Paradise
La Jetee & Sans Soleil
Mala Noche

Best Eclipse Release
Early Bergman

Best Reissue
The Third Man

Best Package Design
Les enfants terribles

Forum Member of the Year
Herr "I can still pitch the beef horn inta creamy young pieces a college trim strumpet" Schreck

Richard Cranium Award
125100. Although I have to imagine what would've happened had he gotten us to believe the discovery of a workprint of Ambersons as opposed to the lost (and relatively lesser known) Four Devils. The Welles community would've gone completely insane.

Dylan wrote:Forum Member of the Year
Herr "I can still pitch the beef horn inta creamy young pieces a college trim strumpet" Schreck

Jesus I was on something mighty tasty that day... vaguely remember it...

HerrSchreck wrote:

Dylan wrote:Forum Member of the Year
Herr "I can still pitch the beef horn inta creamy young pieces a college trim strumpet" Schreck

Jesus I was on something mighty tasty that day... vaguely remember it...

I was actually trying to remember this exact quote earlier today...weird.

Release of the Year : Sansho The Bailiff

Best Eclipse Release : Ozu

Best Box Set : Hiroshi Teshigahara

Best Reissue : The Third Man

Most Disappointing Release : as much as I loved "Breathless", hate the cover and orange spine

Best Commentary : Sansho The Bailiff

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary) : "Permanent Vacation"

Best Package Design : Sansho The Bailiff

Best Surprise : MGM and Paramount titles

Release of the Year
1. Sansho the Bailiff
2. Bicycle Thieves
3. Threepenny Opera
4. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
5. Ace In the Hole

Best Eclipse Release
Raymond Bernard

Best Reissue
Yojimbo/ Sanjuro

Most Disappointing Release
Naked City - Package was fine but was really looking forward to it and just didn't like the film anywhere near as much as any other Dassins

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary)
'Life as it is' on Bicycle Thieves

Best Package Design
Sansho the Bailiff

Forum Member of the Year
zedz, schreck, peerpee

Via_Chicago wrote:

HerrSchreck wrote:

Dylan wrote: Forum Member of the Year
Herr "I can still pitch the beef horn inta creamy young pieces a college trim strumpet" Schreck
.

Jesus I was on something mighty tasty that day... vaguely remember it...

I was actually trying to remember this exact quote earlier today...weird.

I may get it tattooed somewhere. still the funniest thing I've ever read here.

HerrSchreck wrote:

Dylan wrote:Forum Member of the Year
Herr "I can still pitch the beef horn inta creamy young pieces a college trim strumpet" Schreck

Jesus I was on something mighty tasty that day... vaguely remember it...

I like to read your posts in Captain Beefheart's voice... this quote works especially well

Bongo Fury--

"Sam was a showing scalp flat-top particular about the point it made.

(...)

So this was a drive in rest'rant in Hollywood, so THIS was a drive in rest'rant in Hollywood, so this..."

God I love that album. Two glorious freaks for the price of one.

mikeohhh wrote:

HerrSchreck wrote:

Dylan wrote:Forum Member of the Year
Herr "I can still pitch the beef horn inta creamy young pieces a college trim strumpet" Schreck

Jesus I was on something mighty tasty that day... vaguely remember it...

I like to read your posts in Captain Beefheart's voice... this quote works especially well

Too funny...I always imagined Zappa's voice circa Overnite Sensation. "She had that Camarillo brillo/Flamin out along her head/I mean her mendocino bean-o/By where some bugs had made it red."

Tribe

Release of the Year
W.R. Mysteries Of The Organism
Ace In The Hole
La Jete/Sans Soleil
When A Woman Ascends The Stairs
Berlin Alexanderplatz

Best Eclipse Release
Late Ozu

Best Box Set
Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara

Best Reissue
The Third Man

Most Disappointing Release
The Naked City

Best Commentary
Mamet/Jay commentary on House Of Games.

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary)
Jarmusch Q&A on Night On Earth.

Best Package Design
Sansho The Bailiff.

Best Surprise
Overlord

Release of the Year:
Ace in the Hole
Days of Heaven
The Threepenny Opera
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Sansho the Bailiff

Best Eclipse Release:
Raymond Bernard

Best Box Set:
Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara

Best Reissue:
Yojimbo/Sanjuro Set

Most Disappointing Release:
…

Best Commentary:
…

Best Single Supplement:
A Test of Violence -- Overlord

Best Package Design:
Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara

Best Surprise:
Cria Cuervos – My introduction to Saura. This thing gave me chills. Utterly gorgeous.

Forum Member of the Year:

HerrSchreck, for giving my brain a workout on a regular basis. I suppose it wouldn't be as nearly a struggle if I had the amount of knowledge of cinema that you do.

Special mention goes to zedz, davidhare and MichaelB (for the same reason as schreck) and Michael (for displaying such passion for the films that he watches).

Also, to the mods/administrators of this board, for keeping things orderly on a consistent basis and for making this a wonderful community to learn about movies.

Release of the Year
Army of Shadows
Ivan's Childhood
Fires on the Plain
Mala Noche
Ace in the Hole

Best Eclipse Release
The First Films of Samuel Fuller

Best Commentary
Vincendeau on Army of Shadows

Best Package Design
Breathless

Best Surprise
Cria Cuervos

Forum Member of the Year
A tie between zedz, davidhare, MichaelB and HerrShreck. It's you guys who compel us whippersnappers to spare no haste in ordering all sorts of Stiller silents, Polish animation anthologies, Sokurov elegies and battered VHS copies of Leisen comedies/melodramas from the library purely because they sound fucking essential (and invariably are). Hats off.

Release of the Year
Sansho the Bailiff
Bicycle Thieves
Breathless
WR: Mysteries of the Organism
Stranger Than Paradise

Best Eclipse
Late Ozu

Best Supplement
Hole in the Soul

Best Package
Sansho the Baliff

Best Surprise
Cria Cuervos

Release of the Year:
1 Sansho the Bailiff
2 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
3 Threepenny Opera
4 Fires on the Plain
5 The Burmese Harp

Best Eclipse Release: Late Ozu

Best Box Set: Three Films by Teshigahara

Most Disappointing Release: None

Best Commentary: Donald Richie - When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Best Single Supplement: L'Opera de quat'sous

Best Package Design: Sansho the Bailiff (Breathless a close second)

Best Surprise: Fires on the Plain

Forum Member: zedz

Release of the Year
Sansho the Bailiff
Stranger Than Paradise
Breathless
La Haine
Days of Heaven

Best Eclipse Release
Late Ozu

Best Box Set
Three Films by Teshigahara

Best Reissue
Yojimbo/Sanjuro

Most Disappointing Release
None.

Best Commentary
If...

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary)
The Quandt video essays on Teshigahara.

Best Package Design
So many. Sansho, just for the quote, followed by Monsters and Madmen.

Best Surprise
I'm a filmic idiot, so half of the releases are new/introductions to me. I'd say I enjoyed 3-Penny Opera much more than I thought I would.

Forum Member of the Year
The Whole Forum. You guys all rock.

Release of the Year
Days of Heaven
Late Ozu
La Jetee & Sans Soleil
Breahtless
Stranger Than Paradise
Mouchette
Ivan's Childhood
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Ace In the Hole
Mala Noche

Best Eclipse Release
Late Ozu

Best Box Set
Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara

Best Reissue - The Third Man

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary)
"Actors" - Days of Heaven
"Q & A with Jim" - Night on Earth
Kirk Dougless Interview - Ace in the Hole

Best Package Design
Breathless

Best Surprise
The First Films of Samuel Fuller

Forum Member of the Year
zedz

Release of the Year
ACE IN THE HOLE

Best Eclipse Release
RAYMOND BERNARD

Best Box Set
MONSTERS AND MADMEN

Best Reissue
THE THIRD MAN

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary)
The James Sanders piece on NAKED CITY

Best Package Design
MONSTERS AND MADMEN

Best Surprise
MONSTERS AND MADMEN

Release of the Year:
1. Days of Heaven
2. Two-Lane Blacktop
3. House of Games
4. Stranger Than Paradise
5. Ace In the Hole

Best Eclipse Release:
The First Films of Samuel Fuller

Best Box Set:
Monsters and Madmen

Best Reissue:
The Third Man

Most Disappointing Release:
Border Radio

Best Commentary:
House of Games (David Mamet & Ricky Jay)

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary):
Jim Jarmusch's Q&A on the Night on Earth DVD

Best Package Design:
Two-Lane Blacktop

Best Surprise:
Cria Cuervos

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

Suggestions on how long we should leave voting open?

Release of the Year:
1. Ace In the Hole
2. Berlin Alexanderplatz
3. The Threepenny Opera
4. The Two of Us
5. WR: Mysteries of the Organism

Hon. Mention: Two-Lane Blacktop (don't have it yet)

Best Eclipse Release:
Raymond Bernard

Best Box Set:
Paul Robeson: Portraits of an Artist

Best Reissue:
--

Most Disappointing Release:
Night on Earth
Otherwise the most disappointing thing was that I already had more than a dozen 2007 CC releases.
2006 was a better year.

Best Commentary:
Ginette Vincendeau -- Army of Shadows
(I listen to few commentaries, but this one caught my attention and was very good)

Best Single Supplement (not a commentary):
Phil Jutzi's Berlin Alexanderplatz

Best Package Design:
Days of Heaven

Best Surprise:
WR: Mysteries of the Organism

Forum Member of the Year:
I don't know, I usually pay more attention to avatars than names (picture-fixation, I guess)
But I did learn a lot from Gregory, the Michaels (B, plain Michael & Kerpan) + Scharphedin2.