2014 Criterion Forum Awards

[swo17]

The Hellman commentaries are new as well, aren't they?

I don't know where else they would have originated, but Criterion's website doesn't list them as "new." (Every other special feature on that release apparently is "new" though.) They probably do belong on my list, along with some others possibly.

[Ashirg]

BEST RELEASE
1. The Complete Jacques Tati
2. Eraserhead
3. Red River
4. Persona
5. Judex

BEST ECLIPSE
Kinoshita and World War II

BEST BOXED SET
The Complete Jacques Tati

BEST MODERN FILM
The Great Beauty

BEST COMMENTARY
Hellman and film historians Bill Krohn and Blake Lucas (The Shooting/Ride in the Whirlwind)

BEST "BONUS" FILM
Liv & Ingmar (Persona)

BEST BOOKLET
Eraserhead

BEST ON-DISC NON-COMMENTARY EXTRA
Franju le visionnaire (Judex)

BEST R1 RESCUE
Safe

BEST REISSUE
All That Heaven Allows

BEST UPGRADE
Ace in the Hole (no more windowboxed!)

BEST DISCOVERY
Les Blank: Always For Pleasure

BEST COVER
Judex

WORST COVER
Y Tu Mama Tambien

BEST PACKAGING
The Complete Jacques Tati

MOST DISAPPOINTING RELEASE
The Big Chill

[Tommaso]

Tough for me this time, because this is the first year that I didn't buy a single release from the main line. Not because there weren't any fine films, on the contrary, lots of them. But because they are so fine, I already had them in other editions which didn't require quick upgrading in my view. And the only film that I actually WANTED to upgrade at once was the one they f'd up...

So the following is purely based on the films themselves:

BEST RELEASE
1. Breaking the Waves
2. Judex
3. Persona
4. The Innocents
5. Eraserhead

BEST ECLIPSE
Kinoshita

BEST "BONUS" FILM
Hotel des Invalides (Franju)

BEST DISCOVERY
The Home and the World (Ray)

BEST COVER
A Brief History of Time

WORST COVER
It Happened One Night

MOST DISAPPOINTING RELEASE
Master of the House (replaced intertitles!!!)

BEST THREAD
The 80s List Thread. I made lots of fascinating discoveries thanks to it.

MEMBER OF THE YEAR
Sloper


So I take the opportunity and mention a few releases by other labels which I found truly great and much, much more exciting, using the categories suggested by TMDaines.

Label of the Year
Edition Filmmuseum
I guess it's the third or fourth year in a row that I vote for them, but there's no way around it. If it comes to silents, no-one in the world is as adventurous and delivers such constantly high quality in terms of transfer quality and presentation. The Kalatozov and Lamprecht releases, and now also the new Eisenstein and Vertov sets. Admittedly agnes b./Potemkine is a very close second this year (see below).

Best Blu-ray Releases
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (MoC)
Well, obviously. Even though the so-called 'documentary' extra is one of the worst things I've ever seen. Blame Murnau-Stiftung for it, though.

Nymphomaniac Director's Cut (various labels around the world)
Very glad that we didn't have to wait for years to see this in its full form. I'm still not fully sure what to think of the film, but not many directors nowadays manage to make a film which sticks in your mind weeks after you've seen it in the way this one does.

Best DVD (-only) Boxset
The French 8-disc Epstein set (agnes b./Potemkine).
Unbelievably great films finally making their home video debut in an edition that is worthy of them. Even though there are some slight issues with the subs on two of the films, this still feels like the greatest thing since the invention of DVD...

Best DVD (-only) Release
Salt for Svanetia/Nail in the Boot (Kalatozov, Edition Filmmuseum)
Menschen untereinander/ Unter der Laterne (Lamprecht, Edition Filmmuseum)
Each of these releases presents two important films by two great directors which should be much better known. Especially Lamprecht's "Unter der Laterne" was a real discovery.

Stadt der Millionen (Adolf Trotz, Filmmuseum Potsdam/absolut medien)
This is a silent which I had never even heard of before it was released out of the blue. This 1925 UFA-documentary on the city of Berlin precedes Ruttmann's film by two years and is a very strong alternative to it (though it's far less experimental, of course). Beautiful views of the city and its people, re-enactments of the Berlin history, and even a glimpse at the future, Metropolis-style. Great stuff, fine edition, and it even has English subs.

Best Extras
Als ich tot war (Lubitsch , bonus film on MoC's "Madame Dubarry)
Another rare Lubitsch rescued from oblivion.

Best Film I've seen this year still waiting for a release in the western world:
Hard to be a God (Alexei German): I simply have to mention this, because honestly, I've never seen anything remotely like this before. A three-hour evocation of the middle ages on a distant planet, with a plot that is almost impossible to follow, but a film that keeps you glued to the screen because of its unbelievable cinematography, sets, direction, and sheer inventiveness and daring. As someone else commented, this also demonstrates how unnecessary 3-D technology really is. German achieves much more stunning (and natural looking) depth effects in 2-D than I've ever seen in a film for which I had to wear those funny glasses in the cinema. I really can't understand why CC, MoC or the BFI haven't jumped on this already.

[Roger Ryan]

The Hellman commentaries are new as well, aren't they?

I don't know where else they would have originated, but Criterion's website doesn't list them as "new." (Every other special feature on that release apparently is "new" though.) They probably do belong on my list, along with some others possibly.

The commentaries were definitely recorded specifically for this release since Hellman comments a number of times on how good the 4K restoration looks on Blu-ray as well as referencing the recent interviews he had conducted with cast and crew members.

[swo17]

Well here are all the other new releases that include commentaries. Maybe someone can identify which ones are new (or at least eliminate which ones are definitely old):

Thief
The Long Day Closes
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Freshman
Breaking the Waves (select scenes)
A Hard Day's Night
All That Jazz
The Innocents
PlayTime (select scenes)
The Shooting
Ride in the Whirlwind
Tootsie
Safe

[domino harvey]

The Freshman's was on the New Line DVD, Safe was on the Sony disc

[matrixschmatrix]

From what I could tell, one of the commentaries on Playtime was repeated, and one was not. Thief was definitely the same commentary from the DVD, and The Innocents was the one from the BFI disc.

[Ishmael]

I'm bored at work, so I searched a few of these on DVD Beaver:

All That Jazz: the Scheider commentary was on an older Fox R1 disc, and the Heim commentary was on a “Music Edition” also by Fox
Fantastic Mr. Fox seems to be new (it certainly wasn’t on the old disc)
Breaking the Waves: all the Criterion commentaries are on the Sandrew Metronome and Artifical Eye discs as well
Tootsie was recycled from Criterion’s laserdisc

I'd look up the rest, but you know what, it's late enough to justify just going to lunch now.

[Ishmael]

Oh, and the commentary on Long Day Closes was recycled from the BFI, because I specifically remember Michael Brooke posting about it.

[Dylan]

BEST RELEASE

1. Sundays and Cybèle
2. La Dolce Vita
3. The Essential Jacques Demy
4. Persona
5. The Innocents

BEST BOXED SET

The Essential Jacques Demy

BEST MODERN FILM

Blue is the Warmest Color

BEST "BONUS" FILM

Le Sourire (Sundays and Cybèle)

BEST BOOKLET

Eraserhead

BEST ON-DISC NON-COMMENTARY EXTRA

Serge Bourguignon on his film Sundays and Cybèle - this film's history has never been well-documented, so this was a real treat.

BEST R1 RESCUE

La Dolce Vita

BEST REISSUE

L'avventura

BEST COVER

Picnic at Hanging Rock

WORST COVER

Y tu mama tambien

BEST PACKAGING

The Essential Jacques Demy

[Roger Ryan]

Back to commentaries: the one on A HARD DAY'S NIGHT is over a decade old (sadly, a number of the participants are now deceased).

[swo17]

So then it seems like all the new commentaries might be:

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Riot in Cell Block 11
Love Streams
My Darling Clementine
The Hidden Fortress
Fantastic Mr. Fox
PlayTime (one scene)
The Shooting
Ride in the Whirlwind

[Jakamarak]

Best Release
1. The Essential Jacques Demy
2. Persona
3. The Long Day Closes
4. [safe]
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox

Best Boxed Set
The Essential Jacques Demy

Best Modern Film
Blue is the Warmest Color

Best Commentary
John Mercer and Tamar Jeffers-McDonald, All That Heaven Allows

Best “Bonus” Film
The Fantastic Mr. Dahl (Fantastic Mr. Fox)

Best Booklet
The Essential Jacques Demy

Best On-Disc Non-Commentary Extra
Jacques Demy, A to Z, a new visual essay by critic James Quandt

Best R1 Rescue
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Best Reissue
All That Heaven Allows

Best Upgrade
Jules et Jim

Best Discovery
The Long Day Closes

Best Cover
Persona

Worst Cover
Y Tu Mama Tambien

Best Packaging
The Fantastic Mr. Fox

Most Disappointing Release
Blue is the Warmest Color

[swo17]

Why would you vote your most disappointing release as the best release of a modern film? For that matter, why vote it most disappointing release when it's nothing more or less than what it promised to be--a rental-only version? And why not wait for Blue Is the Warmest Color's proper release in the next year or two before voting for it as the best modern release?

[AfterTheRain]

Best Release:
1. Il Sorpasso
2. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
3. Red River
4. Macbeth
5. Persona

Best Eclipse:
Kinoshita and WWII

Best Boxed Set:
The Complete Jacques Tati

Best Modern Film:
The Great Beauty

Best Commentary:
The Shooting/Ride in the Whirlwind

Best "Bonus" Film:
Le Sourire

Best On-Disc Non-Commentary Extra:
Ben Burtt & Craig Barron on the visual & sound effects of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Best R1 Rescue:
Red River

Best Reissue:
Picnic at Hanging Rock

Best Upgrade:
Ace in the Hole

Best Discovery:
Il Sorpasso

Best Cover:
Sundays and Cybele

Worst Cover:
Y Tu Mama Tambien

Best Packaging:
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Most Disappointing Release:
Blue is the Warmest Color

Member of the Year:
knives

[ptatler]

BEST RELEASE
1. Les Blank: Always For Pleasure
2. Eraserhead
3. The Shooting/Ride in the Whirlwind
4. The Long Day Closes
5. Judex

BEST ECLIPSE
Late Ray

BEST BOXED SET
Les Blank: Always For Pleasure

BEST MODERN FILM
Like Someone In Love

BEST "BONUS" FILM
The Underneath

BEST DISCOVERY
Les Blank: Always for Pleasure

BEST COVER
Persona

WORST COVER
The Shooting/Ride in the Whirlwind

BEST PACKAGING
Eraserhead

MOST DISAPPOINTING RELEASE
Pickpocket (was hoping for a more substantive reissue, not just an upgrade)

[ptatler]

Richard Cranium Award
Amazon Marketplace

Seconded. They certainly deserve it, having effed over anyone who wants to sell DVDs without having to produce more paperwork than required by US Immigration Services.

[mallo543]

BEST RELEASE
1. La Dolce Vita
2. Persona
3. The Essential Jacques Demy
4. The Complete Jacques Tati
5. Les Blank: Always for Pleasure

BEST ECLIPSE
Late Ray

BEST BOX SET
The Essential Jacques Demy

BEST MODERN FILM
The Great Beauty

BEST COMMENTARY
--

BEST BONUS FILM
Liv & Ingmar

BEST BOOKLET
Hard Day's Night

BEST ON-DISC NON-COMMENTARY EXTRA
--

BEST R1 RESCUE
La Dolce Vita

BEST REISSUE
Picnic at Hanging Rock

BEST UPGRADE
L'eclisse

BEST DISCOVERY
Il Sorpasso

BEST COVER
Judex

WORST COVER
Macbeth

BEST PACKAGING
Complete Jacques Tati (misfolded covers notwithstanding)

MOST DISAPPOINTING RELEASE
Big Chill (bad movie, bad cover)

MEMBER OF THE YEAR
domino harvey (cracks me up)

RICHARD CRANIUM AWARD
--

[colinr0380]

BEST RELEASE
1. Les Blank: Always For Pleasure
2. King of the Hill
3. Il Sorpasso
4. Love Streams
5. My Darling Clementine

BEST ECLIPSE
Despite having only fondled the box so far it has to be Kinoshita and World War II (Late Ray was good, although the big problem with the set is that it was extremely disappointing that Ray’s penultimate film Branches Of A Tree was not included, which suggests that it will not turn up anywhere now)

BEST BOXED SET
Les Blank: Always For Pleasure

BEST MODERN FILM
Like Someone In Love

BEST COMMENTARY
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World by Mark Evanier, Michael Schlesinger, and Paul Scrabo

BEST "BONUS" FILM
Bandit’s Wager on My Darling Celementine

BEST BOOKLET
Scanners

BEST ON-DISC NON-COMMENTARY EXTRA
The actor interviews on Breaking The Waves

BEST R1 RESCUE
Lots of choices here, but it kind of has to be It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World for all the care and attention paid to the film. Hopefully better films will get the same attention though! (Although I suppose I could live with a similarly lovingly restored edition of John Wayne’s Alamo film!)

BEST REISSUE
Lots of choices here too, of a lot of favourite films. I’m torn between Time Bandits for it being the first chance to get the film in its Criterion edition with all of its extras and L’Avventura. But I think I will finally go for Insomnia for being an amazing film beautifully upgraded and with a host of extras that far surpasses the original edition (even if I have to still keep the old DVD for its ‘music video’ menu screen!)

BEST UPGRADE
Got to be L’eclisse!

BEST DISCOVERY
Il Sorpasso wins this hands down for me

BEST COVER
La Dolce Vita

WORST COVER
Sadly Y Tu Mama Tambien.

BEST PACKAGING
Red River

MOST DISAPPOINTING RELEASE
I don’t have too many burning issues this year, despite a general wish for more commentaries and original extras rather than reissues of existing ones. The new extras have provided Criterion’s greatest moments of what otherwise has felt like a tidying up year in which Criterion (much appreciated I hasten to add) sorted out both their own back catalogue a bit as well as other label’s releases for them, got extras brought together into one package (as with All That Jazz) and generally treated pre-existing films with the respect that they needed to have had from the outset. I’m not disappointed in this year at all in terms of what we got, especially the huge titles such as Eraserhead, Fantastic Mr Fox and, yes, Tootsie, but I hope that Criterion is able to be a little more adventurous and innovative next year (a second World Cinema Foundation set would be a start!)

Having said that any year in which Il Sorpasso, King of the Hill and Love Streams gets released isn’t all bad in terms of adventurousness!

So in lieu of any particular personal gripe, I’ll add to the disappointment with the English intertitles on Master of the House.

BEST THREAD
It is going to have to be the Camera Obscura: Walerian Boroczyk Collection thread, for the regular updates on the Kickstarter.

MEMBER OF THE YEAR
I think that I will go for flyonthewall2983 this year, for the always interesting posts.

Best Non-Criterion Releases:
1. Alain Robbe-Grillet: Six Films 1963-1974 (BFI)
2. Chris Marker Collection (Soda Films)
3. Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide Volume 2 (Nucleus Films)
4. White of the Eye (Arrow)
5. Vincent Price in Six Gothic Tales (Arrow)
6. The Werner Herzog Collection (BFI)
7. Norte, The End of History (New Wave Films)
8. Wings / The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (two essential silent from Masters of Cinema)
9. Halloween: The Complete Collection (Shout! Factory)
10. Out of the Unknown (BFI)
11. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Cinema Guild)
12. Ms 45 (Drafthouse Films)
13. Usagi Drop (MVM)
14. For Ever Mozat / Hail Mary (Cohen)
15. Independencia (Second Run)
16. Planet of the Vampires (Kino Lorber)
17. The Nikkatsu Roman Porno series from Synapse Films/Impulse Pictures. While it would be difficult to call any of the films excellent or essential (more eye-popping and crazy!), these throw a fascinating light on Japanese cinema of the era, and the filming in urban locations is often as interesting to watch as the foreground action! I do hope that this series releases Race Across The Drenched Wetland sooner rather than later, as it looks amazing from its trailer!
18. Computer Chess (Masters of Cinema), which also inspired me to pick up the BBC series of The Master Game (series 6 and 7)
19. Lesson of Evil (Third Window)
20. The Complete Dr Phibes (Arrow).
21. Night Breed: The Director’s Cut: Limited Edition (Shout! Factory)
22. Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery (Paramount)
23. The Inspector Lavardin Collection (Cohen)
24. Sullivan’s Travels and L’Assassino (Arrow)
25. Deadly Eyes (Shout! Factory)/Curtains (Synapse)/ Without Warning (Shout! Factory)
26. The Swimmer (Grindhouse Releasing)
27. Memoirs of A Survivor (Network)

Honourable mentions to all of the BFI releases this year, particularly John Mackenzie’s Red Shift, The Epic of Everest and the disc of the single surviving episode of the Out Of This World series.

Also to Arrow’s edition of The Long Goodbye and Grindhouse’s edition of The Big Gundown / La resa di conti (Grindhouse) which came out at the very end of last year, but is a fantastic set.

[zedz]

Another middling year from Criterion, with few genuinely exciting releases and lots of slightly superior - or slightly inferior - editions of stuff that's already out there. So here goes:

Best Release: I feel like I'm really struggling to come up with five selections without venturing into the territory of releases with some glaring flaw (e.g. transfer issues on the Demy and Tati sets), an underwhelming release of a great film (e.g. Like Someone in Love) or a great release of an underwhelming film (e.g. King of the Hill).
1. Les Blank: Always for Pleasure - one of the few releases this year that's actually breaking new ground for home video, and a classic, Criterion-level presentation as well.
2. 2 Westerns by Monte Hellman - A Criterion-worthy rescue project. Arguably, these films have never looked this good, not even on original release (if that even counts as a release!) Hellman taking charge of the extras gives the project a warm, personal touch.
3. Persona - Classy from top to toe, and a luminous transfer.
4. La Vie de Boheme - One of Kaurismaki's best films, and - wonder of wonders - one that isn't already available everywhere else!
5. Eraserhead, I guess. Good solid release with decent extras (if you overlook the glitch with the first pressing).

Worst Release - I know it's not an official category, but come on, we're all thinking it: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. A turd so big it makes you fear for the health of the guy who shat it. Fancypants release and all, but what kind of pervert giftwraps a turd?

Best Eclipse - Kinoshita. I haven't even got this set yet, but the chances of it containing films that are worse than the last two on the Ray set are pretty remote.

Best Box Set - Blank, hands down. The other biggies, Demy and Tati, were variants on boxes that have already been released, and they didn't even manage to get decent transfers for all the films. Uncommonly sloppy for Criterion, but not uncommon enough nowadays, unfortunately. The Hellman twofer is a more than worthy runner-up.

Best Modern Film - Like Someone in Love

Best Commentary - I haven't actually listened to all of them yet, but nothing's really blown me away. The Hidden Fortress, I suppose. The Hellmans are great, but marred by Bill Krohn getting his oar in all the fucking time.

Best Bonus Film - Rock Hudson's Home Movies, simply because I never thought I'd see it on home video.

Best booklet - slash pamphlet, slash lame pseudo-poster. The only thing I can remember especially is the fine Lynch interview in Eraserhead, so even though that's a reprint, I'll go with that.

Best Extra - There's way too many I haven't got to yet, but I'll vote for the Hellman interviews on 2 Westerns, or if there's one specific one that's attracted other votes, that one.

Best R1 Rescue - The Shooting. No contest. Here's a classic film that's never had an acceptable R1 release. Well, I guess Ride in the Whirlwind is just as eligible.

Best Reissue - Playtime, for the transfer upgrade.

Best Upgrade - pass

Best Discovery - Easiest category of them all. Il Sorpasso, because it's the only film that even qualified as a discovery (except for the Kinoshitas, which I haven't received yet). Which is a problem in and of itself.

Best Cover - Persona. Simple, but a suitably iconic image that hasn't been overused. Very tempted to vote for Hearts and Minds as well.

Worst Cover - Y tu mama tambien. This steaming heap managed the difficult task of actually appearing even worse in person than it did online. What were they thinking?

Best Packaging - I was all set to vote for the Tati set, and then remembered that the cases didn't actually fit in the box, which is Bad Packaging 101. So I'll just enter a shrug for this category.

Most Disappointing Release - The Complete Jacques Tati. For Criterion fumbling the chance to actually issue a definitive set by getting saddled with inferior transfers. From now on, that title is always going to carry a tragic mental asterisk.

Best non-Criterion Release - Too many to choose from, as usual. In any normal year, the Epstein set would rule the roost. I've been waiting for that release forever, and it didn't disappoint. But this year, this category was bulldozed by Borowczyk. Another dream release, but not even Michael Brooke dreamed it would be this good. I feel a bit like it's betraying a confidence, but let's assume that the secrecy requirement has lapsed after all this time: when Michael told me that the Borowczyk shorts were going to be his follow-up project to the Svankmajer set (still definitive after all these years! buy it now!), I couldn't be more excited . . . or more disappointed when the project fell through. Our patience has been well-rewarded with one of the finest box sets ever conceived and released. Congratulations to all involved.

EDIT: How could I forget to nominate rrenault for the Richard Cranium Award? I normally try to avoid giving the satisfaction to anybody who's campaigned for it so relentlessly but hoo boy. . .

[FrauBlucher]

Best Releases
1- Persona
2- A Hard Days Night
3- La dolce Vita
4- Love Streams
5-Safe
Eclipse
Late Ray
Best Boxset
The Complete Jacques Tati
Best Modern Release
The Great Beauty
Best Comentary
Michael Ventura (Love Streams)
Best Bous Film
Liv and Ingmar (Persona)
Best Booklet
A Hard Days Night
Best On-Disc Non-Commentary Extra
In Their Own Voices (A Hard Days Night)
Best Rescue
Foreign Correspondent
Best Reissue
All That Heaven Allows
Best Upgrade
Ali:Fear Eats the Soul
Best Discovery
Il Sorpasso
Best Cover
The Complete Jacque Tati
Worst Cover
Tootsie
Best Packaging
The Complete Jacque Tati
Best Thread
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (It was so good last year, had to carry it over. Where have you gone Moe Dickstein? Hum it to Mrs Robinson)
Member of the Year
Eddie Larkin

[teddyleevin]

BEST RELEASE
1. The Complete Jacques Tati
2. The Essential Jacuqes Demy
3. The Long Day Closes
4. Judex
5. Scanners

BEST ECLIPSE
Kinoshita and World War II

BEST BOXED SET
The Complete Jacques Tati

BEST MODERN FILM "New"
The Great Beauty

BEST COMMENTARY
The Hidden Fortress - Stephen Prince

BEST "BONUS" FILM
Le Grand Melies (on Judex)

BEST BOOKLET
Scanners

BEST ON-DISC NON-COMMENTARY EXTRA
The South Bank Show interviews with Terence Davies (The Long Day Closes)

BEST R1 RESCUE
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

BEST REISSUE
Mon Oncle (because I had to pick just one Tati)

BEST UPGRADE
Jules et Jim

BEST DISCOVERY
The Long Day Closes

BEST COVER
Persona

WORST COVER
TOOTSIE

BEST PACKAGING
Scanners (if only the Tati box hadn't had size issues)

MOST DISAPPOINTING RELEASE
Vengeance is Mine (for not surpassing MOC.... AGAIN...)

BEST THREAD
1990s List Discussion and Suggestions

MEMBER OF THE YEAR
mfunk9786

RICHARD CRANIUM AWARD
mfunk9786

[aox]

BEST RELEASE
The Complete Jacques Tati
La dolce vita
My Darling Clementine
A Hard Day's Night
It Happened One Night

BEST ECLIPSE
Kinoshita and World War II

BEST BOXED SET
The Complete Jacques Tati

BEST MODERN FILM "New"
Like Someone in Love

BEST COMMENTARY
My Darling Clementine

BEST "BONUS" FILM
Bandit's Wager

BEST BOOKLET
A Hard Day's Night

BEST R1 RESCUE
Persona

BEST DISCOVERY
The Freshman

BEST REISSUE
L'avventura

BEST UPGRADE
Ace in a Hole

BEST COVER
My Darling Clementine

WORST COVER
It Happened One Night

BEST PACKAGING
Red River

[The Narrator Returns]

BEST RELEASE
1. A Hard Day's Night
2. King of the Hill
3. The Essential Jacques Demy
4. Eraserhead
5. The Complete Jacques Tati

BEST BOXED SET
Jacques Demy

BEST MODERN FILM
Blue is the Warmest Color

BEST "BONUS" FILM
The Underneath (contrary to what Soderbergh probably wanted, its inclusion only made me like it more)

BEST ON-DISC NON-COMMENTARY FEATURE
Picturewise, on A Hard Day's Night

BEST R1 RESCUE
Safe

BEST REISSUE
Picnic at Hanging Rock

BEST UPGRADE
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

BEST DISCOVERY
The Long Day Closes

BEST COVER
The Vanishing

WORST COVER
It Happened One Night (it was a dead heat between this and Macbeth)

BEST PACKAGING
The Complete Jacques Tati

MOST DISAPPOINTING RELEASE
The Big Chill

FORUM MEMBER OF THE YEAR
colinr0380

RICHARD CRANIUM
rrenault

[criterionsnob]

BEST RELEASE
1. The Essential Jacques Demy
2. The Complete Jacques Tati
3. Love Streams
4. Les Blank: Always for Pleasure
5. [Safe]

BEST ECLIPSE
Late Ray

BEST BOXED SET
The Complete Jacques Demy

BEST MODERN FILM
Like Someone in Love

BEST COMMENTARY
(Didn't listen to any yet)

BEST "BONUS" FILM
Le Grand Melies (on Judex)

BEST BOOKLET
The Essential Jacques Demy

BEST ON-DISC NON-COMMENTARY EXTRA
Jacques Demy, A to Z

BEST R1 RESCUE
Breaking the Waves

BEST REISSUE
L’avventura

BEST UPGRADE
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

BEST DISCOVERY
La vie de boheme

BEST COVER
Mon oncle

WORST COVER
Y tu mama tambien

BEST PACKAGING
The Complete Jacques Tati

MOST DISAPPOINTING RELEASE
Blue is the Warmest Color