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Screwed again.

I've just received the last of the 2006 releases, so we can get this kickstarted. I can organize again this year (I'm formerly Langlois68).

I propose the following categories/rules. Give me feedback.

Release of the Year - Participants are to select five DVDs, in order or not.

Participants select one choice for each of the following:

Best Reissue - Eligible titles: Seven Samurai, Amarcord, Brazil, Playtime, Grey Gardens/The Beales of Grey Gardens Box Set

Most Disappointing Release

Best Commentary

Best Single Supplement - Non-commentary

Best Package Design - Includes packaging and menu screens

Best Surprise - For a film which you knew little or nothing about the CC release

Forum Member of the Year - For the member who contributed best

Richard Cranium Award - Self-explanatory

2006 Criterion Releases:

Seven Samurai
Amarcord
Brazil
Playtime
Grey Gardens/The Beales of Grey Gardens Box Set
The Bad Sleep Well
Young Mr. Lincoln
The Virgin Spring
The Complete Mr. Arkadin
The Children Are Watching Us
La bête humaine
Kind Hearts & Coronets
Metropolitan
3 Films by Louis Malle
Late Spring
Viridiana
Fists in the Pocket
Harlan County
Elevator to the Gallows
Dazed and Confused
À nos amours
Equinox
Yi Yi
Koko: A Talking Gorilla
A Canterbury Tale
Six Moral Tales
Kicking and Screaming
Seduced and Abandoned
The Spirit of the Beehive
Jigoku
Sólo con tu pareja
Clean, Shaven
Hands over the City
Sweetie
The Fallen Idol
Pandora's Box
The Double Life of Veronique
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm

Let me know if I missed anything.

Matt wrote:I'm sure whomever decides to organize the event this year can make room for a "Best Reissue" award.

Matt, shame on you for this slip in grammar. I expect only the best from you in terms of spelling and grammar, so this one threw me.

How did we do this last time around...posting our picks or emailing them to you?

Tribe

EDIT: and a re-issue is eligible for release of the year right?

Hey, who changed my post. I thought it was funny!

Tribe wrote:How did we do this last time around...posting our picks or emailing them to you?

Either is fine.

Tribe wrote:EDIT: and a re-issue is eligible for release of the year right?

Yes.

denti alligator wrote:

Matt wrote:I'm sure whomever decides to organize the event this year can make room for a "Best Reissue" award.

Matt, shame on you for this slip in grammar. I expect only the best from you in terms of spelling and grammar, so this one threw me.

"Who/whom" is my grammatical Achilles tendon.

Post your ballots here are pm them to me.

Release of the Year - Participants are to select five DVDs, in order or not.

Participants select one choice for each of the following:

Best Reissue - Eligible titles: Seven Samurai, Amarcord, Brazil, Playtime, Grey Gardens/The Beales of Grey Gardens Box Set

Most Disappointing Release

Best Commentary

Best Single Supplement - Non-commentary

Best Package Design - Includes packaging and menu screens

Best Surprise - For a film which you knew little or nothing about before the CC release

Forum Member of the Year - For the member who contributed best

Richard Cranium Award - Self-explanatory

2006 Criterion Releases:

Seven Samurai
Amarcord
Brazil
Playtime
Grey Gardens/The Beales of Grey Gardens Box Set
The Bad Sleep Well
Young Mr. Lincoln
The Virgin Spring
The Complete Mr. Arkadin
The Children Are Watching Us
La bête humaine
Kind Hearts & Coronets
Metropolitan
3 Films by Louis Malle
Late Spring
Viridiana
Fists in the Pocket
Harlan County
Elevator to the Gallows
Dazed and Confused
À nos amours
Equinox
Yi Yi
Koko: A Talking Gorilla
A Canterbury Tale
Six Moral Tales
Kicking and Screaming
Seduced and Abandoned
The Spirit of the Beehive
Jigoku
Sólo con tu pareja
Clean, Shaven
Hands over the City
Sweetie
The Fallen Idol
Pandora's Box
The Double Life of Veronique
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm

IF YOU EDIT YOUR BALLOT AFTER POSTING, PLEASE INDICATE WITH A NOTE AT THE BOTTOM, AS I'M TABULATING AS YOU POST.

Please post your ballots here (or pm to me)

Release of the Year:
1. Seven Samurai
2. The Complete Mr. Arkadin
3. The Spirit of the Beehive
4. Pandora's Box
5. Harlan County USA

Best Reissue: Seven Samurai

Most Disappointing Release: Solo con tu pareja

Best Commentary: Jonathan Rosenbaum and James Naremore on The Complete Mr. Arkadin

Best Single Supplement: Tokyo-Ga

Best Package Design: The Spirit of the Beehive

Best Surprise: Fists In the Pocket

Forum Member of the Year: HerrSchreck

Tribe

EDIT: Making a change here to Best Single Supplement...from Mr Arkadin by Orson Welles (novel) to Tokyo-Ga.

Release of the Year

1. Seven Samurai
2. Six Moral Tales
3. Double Life of Veronique
4. Solo con tu pareja
5. Kicking and Screaming

Best Reissue Seven Samurai
Most Disappointing Release Koko
Best Commentary Amarcord
Best Single Supplement Schroeder interviewing Rohmer for 90 minutes on the Six Moral Tales set.
Best Package Design - Dazed and Confused
Best Surprise - Kind Hearts and Coronets
Forum Member of the Year - HerrSchreck.
Richard Cranium Award - YilmazGuney, posthumously.

It's going to be interesting, already an overlapping of best release and most disappointing release!

Release of the Year

The Complete Mr. Arkadin
The Spirit of the Beehive
Dazed and Confused
Late Spring
Viridiana

Best Reissue - Playtime

Most Disappointing Release - None

Best Commentary - Linklater, D&C

Best Single Supplement - Non-commentary - The Footprints of a Spirit, Spirit of the Beehive

Best Package Design - Includes packaging and menu screens - The Spirit of the Beehive

Best Surprise - For a film which you knew little or nothing about before the CC release - Clean, Shaven

Forum Member of the Year - For the member who contributed best - Matt (yay!)

release of the year:
The Complete Mr. Arkadin
Clean, Shaven
Viridiana
The Spirit of the Beehive
La bête humaine

Best Reissue:
Seven Samurai

Most Disappointing Release:
Jigoku (I still liked it...)

Best Commentary:
Lodge Kerrigan and Steven Soderberg for Clean, Shaven

Best Single Supplement:
alternate versions of Mr.Arkadin/Confidential Report

Best Package Design:
Spirit of the Beehive

Best Surprise:
Clean, Shaven

This has been an excellent year of releases with additions of long awaited and expected films, more modern films, films introduced from previously unrepresented countries, even a silent film!

Some great chances taken as well which was good to see coming off the previous couple of years of issues of respected, unarguable, classics. Inevitably I think this years releases got a much more mixed response, but it certainly adds a breadth of subject matter to the collection - Mr Arkadin, Equinox, Koko, Kicking and Screaming, Metropolitan, Fists In The Pocket, Jigoku, Solo Con Tu Pareja and, from the sound of just the title, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm have certainly given us a lot to talk about, and even though many might have flaws all sound interesting enough to try!

It was also good to see these mixed in with the 'classic' films like Virgin Spring, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Six Moral Tales, La Bete Humaine etc, and from the look of the first two months of next year we are in for a similarly exciting combination of established and celebrated vs worthy but neglected or overlooked titles. My one suggestion would be the same as last year - a little more emphasis on modern and introducing previously unrepresented films, filmmakers, film subjects etc from around the world (although I'd be just as excited about the release of another Iranian film, a couple more Pialat films or Erice's Dream of Light/Quince Tree Sun!)

Release of the year (in order but leaving out reissues until the next category)

1. Six Moral Tales
2. Pandora's Box
3. The Complete Mr Arkadin
4. The Double Life of Veronique
5. The Spirit of the Beehive

Best Reissue

Seven Samurai (but the others were extremely close runners-up! - I think if it was a 'most improved' category I would have gone for Playtime instead, but since it is 'best reissue' overall I have to choose one of my absolute favourite films!)

Most Disappointing Release

Difficult. Rather than choose a release that I don't believe 'deserves' to be in the collection (discussion on the forum has ranged from Metropolitan to Louis Malle, to a no-budget horror film and the importance of the Cuaron film), my vote has to go to one of the discs that had problems that, honestly, I wouldn't have noticed if it hadn't been mentioned on the forum, but which is a more tangible 'disappointment' than having a negative personal reaction to a particular film. This means that I'll probably go for Jigoku since that is the only release to have a scene missing, albeit a short one. I'd also balance that small (but important) criticism against the inclusion of the interesting interviews.

Best Commentary

I'll go for the chat between Steven Soderbergh and Lodge Kerrigan on Clean, Shaven.

Best Single Supplement

I'll choose the Barbet Schroeder chat with Eric Rohmer, just edging out the My Life In Cinema interview on the Seven Samurai disc (though I've a feeling that if I'd gotten to the Hands over the City DVD Neapolitan Diary might be in with a shot at this - after all it is a whole second feature length film!)

Best Package Design

The Complete Mr Arkadin

Best Surprise

A Nos Amours - the first Maurice Pialat film for me!

(just beat out Harlan County, USA)

Release of the Year:
La bête humaine
A Canterbury Tale
The Double Life of Veronique
3 Films by Louis Malle
Hands over the City

Best Reissue: Seven Samurai

Most Disappointing Release:
Young Mr. Lincoln (I felt torn about this one, but I just didn't care for it.)

Best Commentary: Double Life of Veronique

Best Single Supplement: Neapolitan Diary (from Hands Over the City)

Best Package Design: Amarcord (beats the old package by a mile)

Best Surprise: Harlan County, U.S.A. (close second: Clean, Shaven)

Forum Member of the Year: SncDthMnky (helped me out on a couple of things)

Release of the Year
(1) The Complete Mr. Arkadin
(2) Seven Samurai
(3) Pandora's Box
(4) Young Mr. Lincoln
(5) Equinox

Re-Release: Seven Samurai

Dissapointing: Viridiana

Commentary: Mr. Arkadin

Package: Amarcord

Surprise: Seduced & Abandoned

Member of the Year: Herr Schreck

Richard Cranium: Yilmaz Guney

Release of the Year:

1. The Complete Mr. Arkadin
2. Seven Samurai
3. The Double Life of Veronique
4. Six Moral Tales
5. Young Mr. Lincoln

Best Reissue: Seven Samurai

Most Disappointing Release: Pandora's Box (disc art, packaging, poorly planned and redundant commentary, transfer)

Best Commentary: The Complete Mr. Arkadin

Best Single Supplement: Tokyo-Ga (runner-up: Listen to Britain)

Best Package Design: La bête humaine

Best Surprise: A Canterbury Tale - barely missing the top five (honorable mention: Clean, Shaven)

Member of the Year: SncDthMnky


Based on:

37 Spines Purchased
8 Spines Rented

Release of the Year:
1. Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales
2. Seven Samurai
3. The Complete Mr. Arkadin
4. Pandora's Box
5. The Double Life of Veronique

Best Reissue: Seven Samurai

Most Disappointing Release: Solo con tu pareja

Best Commentary: Rosenbaum and co. on Arkadin

Best Single Supplement: BBC interview with Alec Guiness on Kind Hearts and Coronets

Best Package Design: Six Moral Tales (and I like the roomier first pressing)

Best Surprise: The Fallen Idol

Forum Member of the Year: Bikey

Release of the Year:
1. The Double Life of Veronique
2. Six Moral Tales
3. Yi Yi
4. Clean, Shaven
5. Dazed and Confused

Best Reissue - Seven Samurai

Most Disappointing Release - Grey Gardens/The Beales of Grey Gardens Box Set

Best Commentary - The Double Life of Veronique

Best Single Supplement - Schroeder interviewing Rohmer on the Six Moral Tales.

Best Package Design - The Double Life of Veronique

Best Surprise - Clean, Shaven

Forum Member of the Year - davidhare

Release of the Year - Late Spring, Seven Samurai, Sweetie, Metropolitan, and Dazed and Confused

Best Reissue - Seven Samurai. I haven't seen it before this release, but it's an amazing package and an amazing film.

Most Disappointing Release nothing really, just that there is an error with Jigoku. I didn't watch it, just sent it in to get a corrected copy, but I don't even know if I'll get one, I don't recall and official notice for it.

Best Commentary Mr Pena on Late Spring. I forgot that I listened to this one. While it is the only one I have heard, it is really good.

Best Single Supplement - The only supplement I checked out was the soundtrack for Clean, Shaven. I hope for more future titles to come with soundtracks this way, less cost for them to put out the actual soundtrack offer it to you to make a copy if you want, and it doesn;t tak emuch space...

Best Package Design - Dazed and Confused

Best Surprise - A toss up between Metropolitan and Sweetie, I think I enjoyed Metropolitan more.

Forum Member of the Year - I like SncDthMnky (read as "Stink-da-Dinky") He's very positive and perceptive, I liked Zedz too.

Richard Cranium Award - There's this one person who I feel works on Criterions graphic design team that posts here, I think it;s a girl, she seems crabby.

PS, I dug Equinox, Kicking and Screaming, and Clean, Shaven as well.....

Release of the Year
1) Six Moral Tales
2) Spirit of the Beehive
3) Late Spring
4) Pandora's Box
5) The Complete Mr. Arkadin

Best Reissue - Seven Samurai

Most Disappointing release - Koko, A Talking Gorilla

Best Commentary - Rosenbaum & Naremore on Arkadin

Best Single Supplement - Wim Wenders' Tokyo-Ga, Late Spring

Best Package Design - Seven Samurai

Best Surprise - Metropolitan

Forum Member of the Year - HerrSchreck

Release of the Year -

1.six moral tales box set
2.Seven samurai
3.Pandora's Box
4.Playtime
5.Amarcord

Best Reissue: Seven Samurai

Best Package Design: Six moral tales.

Best Surprise - Jigoku

Forum Member of the Year - HerrSchreck

Release of the Year:
1. Metropolitan
2. Six Moral Tales
3. The Spirit of the Beehive
4. Dazed & Confused
5. Yi Yi

Best Reissue: Seven Samurai

Most Disappointing Release: Kicking and Screaming

Best Commentary: Metropolitan

Best Single Supplement: Dazed & Confused 10 years later

Best Package Design: Six Moral Tales when it was fixed

Best Surprise: Hands Over the City

Forum Member of the Year: Zedz

Release of the Year (no order):

Seven Samurai
Six Moral Tales
Equinox
Complete Mr. Arkadin
Pandora's Box

Best Reissue: Seven Samurai

Most Disappointing: Koko: A Talking Gorilla

Best Package Design: Seven Samurai

Best Surprise: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm

Member o' the Year: Zedz (with props to peerpee, Bikey, and MichaelB for their contributions to the home viewing experience)

Richard Cranium: You gots you a PM, GringoTex...

-Toilet Dcuk

jon wrote:Hey, who changed my post. I thought it was funny!

Actually, it was.

Tribe