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VOTING CLOSES ON JANUARY 15th
Please either post your votes in this thread or PM me. You may or may not vote in most categories, but you must provide a ranked Top Five to be counted at all. No ties will be counted in any category, so make the hard decision if you want your vote to matter.

And your 2014 Criterion Awards categories are...
BEST RELEASE Numbered in order from 1-5. Must vote for five titles to have your ballot counted
BEST ECLIPSE Flip a coin (Sadly C+Ped from last year's explanation)
BEST BOXED SET Not including Eclipse
BEST MODERN FILM "New" (within the last three years) films released by Criterion
BEST COMMENTARY New commentaries only, not ports of existing discs from other labels/studios (see list here)
BEST "BONUS" FILM See list below
BEST BOOKLET Let's try it this way this year
BEST ON-DISC NON-COMMENTARY EXTRA
BEST R1 RESCUE For a film already released in R1 by a label other than Criterion
BEST REISSUE
BEST UPGRADE
BEST DISCOVERY Dear Criterion, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar
BEST COVER
WORST COVER Limit your responses to no more than one, though the pool of candidates is hearty and vast
BEST PACKAGING
MOST DISAPPOINTING RELEASE For Criterion's treatment, not the film itself (Love the sinner, hate the sin)

BEST THREAD The discussion or topic which generated the most interesting discussion this year. Film Club won last year. This year, who knows? Maybe this thread! (Don't vote for this thread)
MEMBER OF THE YEAR Past winners of this award are, in order: David Hare, HerrSchreck, zedz, domino harvey, Cold Bishop, Michael Kerpan, swo17, MichaelB, Mr Sausage. Every single one us would love to win again, but we'd love it even more if you voted for someone else. Follow your heart on this one and you can't go wrong
RICHARD CRANIUM AWARD For the member who was ribbed without pleasure for anyone


2014 RELEASES
691 Thief
692 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
693 La vie de boheme
694 the Long Day Closes
695 Blue is the Warmest Color
696 Foreign Correspondent
697 Tess
698 King of the Hill
699 A Brief History of Time
700 Fantastic Mr Fox
701 Persona
702 the Great Beauty
703 the Freshman
704 Riot in Cell Block 11
705 Breaking the Waves
706 Master of the House
707 Il sorpasso
708 Like Someone in Love
709 Red River
710 Judex
711 A Hard Day's Night
712 Scanners
713 the Essential Jacques Demy
-714 Lola
-715 Bay of Angels
-716 the Umbrellas of Cherbourg
-717 the Young Girls of Rochefort
-718 Donkey Skin
-719 Une chambre en ville
720 the Big Chill
721 Love Streams
722 Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
723 Y tu mama tambien
724 All That Jazz
725 Eraserhead
726 Macbeth
727 the Innocents
728 Sundays and Cybele
729 the Complete Jacques Tati
-730 Jour de fete
-731 Parade
732 My Darling Clementine
733 La dolce vita
-- 2 Westerns by Monte Hellman
-734 the Shooting
-735 Ride in the Whirlwind
736 It Happened One Night
737 Les Blank: Always For Pleasure
738 Tootsie
739 Safe

REISSUES
029 Picnic at Hanging Rock
037 Time Bandits
047 Insomnia
059 the Night Porter
095 All That Heaven Allows
098 L'avventura
110 Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
111 Mon oncle
112 Playtime
115 Rififi
116 the Hidden Fortress
133 the Vanishing
156 Hearts and Minds
190 Throne of Blood
288 F For Fake
439 Trafic

UPGRADES
152 George Washington
198 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
278 L'eclisse
281 Jules et Jim
300 the Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
314 Pickpocket
382 Overlord
384 Vengeance is Mine
396 Ace in the Hole

ECLIPSE
40 Late Ray
41 Kinoshita and World War II

BONUS FILMS
Rock Hudson's Home Movies (All That Heaven Allows)
Les Horizons morts / Le Sabotier du Val de Loire / Ars / La Luxure / The World of Jacques Demy / The Young Girls Turn 25 (The Essential Jacques Demy)
Six Men Getting Sick / The Alphabet / The Grandmother / The Amputee / Premonitions Following an Evil Deed (Eraserhead)
The Marathon / An Eastern Westerner / High and Dizzy (The Freshman)
The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (A Hard Day's Night)
Near Winter / Close to Home (Insomnia)
Fultah Fisher's Boarding House (It Happened One Night)
Hôtel des Invalides / Le Grand Méliès (Judex)
The Underneath (King of the Hill)
Bandit's Wager (My Darling Clementine)
Women of the Resistance (The Night Porter)
Liv & Ingmar (Persona)
Homesdale (Picnic at Hanging Rock)
The Suicide (Safe)
Stereo (Scanners)
Le Sourire (Sundays and Cybèle)
You Owe Me One (Y tu mamá también)
Bonus films compiled by swo17

Well, when it's all there in color like that, it's hard to deny this label is basically a slightly snootier Shout Factory at this point

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! had a R1 release from Anchor Bay, so unless I'm mistaken should be eligible for the "rescue" category.

domino harvey wrote:Well, when it's all there in color like that, it's hard to deny this label is basically a slightly snootier Shout Factory at this point

What American niche label isn't not counting those that primarily deal with new films such as Cinema Guild?

It's almost like the category should be changed now to Best New-to-R1 Release (flip a coin).

Gregory wrote:Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! had a R1 release from Anchor Bay, so unless I'm mistaken should be eligible for the "rescue" category.

Thanks, I couldn't tell since Amazon's search system is now basically worthless. It's been added in

What changed on throne of blood? I thought it was an upgrade

Documentary on the making of the film was added

"BEST MODERN FILM" ...contemporary would be more suitable

All That Heaven Allows seems to be missing.

I don't know if this counts as an R1 rescue, but A Brief History of Time used to be a Discovery Channel Store exclusive DVD. Here is a link to an old blog page showing it in a list of top sellers.

Def counts. Thanks for all the catches guys, I was pretty much winging this one

Ashirg wrote:Documentary on the making of the film was added

Also brand new restoration, not just a straight port of the same HD transfer.

Does Fantastic Mr. Dahl from The Fantastic Mr. Fox release count as a bonus film?

Looks like they sneaked in Kinoshita and World War II Eclipse at the last minute so that we have a choice in that category...

Wow, it feels like Criterion is releasing more of the same old more than ever, but that list really illustrates it.

Not certain how important the categorization is, but this year's F FOR FAKE reissue contains an hour-long "Tomorrow With Tom Snyder" interview not included on the initial DVD release.

I think the test of a reissue vs. an upgrade is if the old DVD is replaced with a new edition, regardless of whether the Blu-ray adds a special feature or two. (It's not necessarily just an upgrade in picture quality.) By this measure, F for Fake would not be a reissue, since they're leaving the old DVD in circulation.

I'm considering any Blu with new features a Reissue

(Edited for less confusion)

Sorry if I was unclear--you have F for Fake listed as a reissue when it seems like it should only be considered an upgrade, per your own definition. (The Blu is an upgrade from the DVD both in terms of PQ and in adding an extra, but they aren't putting out a new DVD that also adds this extra.)

I meant a Reissue. I shouldn't board between classes!

I don't see Insomnia itself on any of the lists, tho' its short films are on the 'Bonus Films' section.

The list is also missing Hearts and Minds.

Shouldn't shorts from Complete Jacques Tati be added to Bonus Films?