The 2024 All Labels Matter Awards

[Maltic]

I do think some of these "release" and "upgrade" should be the other way around. like I see both Seven Samurai as "upgrades" as they were already on BD and are mostly a format upgrade (BFI adding a new commentary + booklet, though). I personally see Arrow's Silence of the Lambs as a whole new release as they did tons from the ground up. so I'll vote accordingly

We seem to touch on this every year.

Some of it will be subjective too, as we all have our own (peculiar) preferences.

The Shootist and The Tin Star are somewhat similar releases (from Arrow US), but I happened to like the on-disc extras on the former release a lot, while those on the latter seemed to me... fine, just not "my thing" to the same degree.

Hence I rated The Tin Star mostly on the basis of the film itself, the presentation of it, and how much I had "missed it". Which is to say, I rated it more as an upgrade than as a full release.

I realise that from an "objective" POV, the extras on The Tin Star are just as exhaustive as those on The Shootist, an equal amount of care seems to have been taken, and I'm totally fine with swo putting both in the Overall Release bracket (if that was intentional).

Same with Nostalghia, I leave it up to swo, happily.

[swo17]

I've been judgmentally assigning some things to release vs. upgrade that got nominations in the other category. If anyone takes issue with where I've placed anything, bring it up and I can reassess

[Maltic]

How come you moved Daisy Miller and Has Anybody Seen My Gal in one direction and Nostalghia in the other (while Body and Soul has remained in 'upgrade')? They all seem to have gotten the "extended KL treatment" with a new commentary and one or two archival programmes.

Again, I'm not questioning the choices, just curious about criteria.

[swo17]

The first two are new Kino releases. They released Nostalghia before. I was thinking they'd already released Body and Soul and had just updated the transfer, but now that I think about it, that was Olive

[Maltic]

I see, I hadn't thought of label-switch as a criterion.

[im_online]

I’d like to nominate The Battle of Chile for Best Upgrade

Best Release:
Man’s Castle (Columbia)

I would like to second both of these.

I will nominate:

Best upgrade:
The Man I Love (Warner Archive)

Best Cover:
Nicole Kidman's face is To Die For (Criterion)

Best Thread (title):
I Love UHD, Alice B. Toklas!

[Therewolf]

I would like to nominate for best release:

Hollywood 90028 (Grindhouse Releasing)
Laurel and Hardy Year Two (Flicker Alley)
Close Your Eyes (Film Movement)
Hundreds of Beavers (Cartuna)
Zone of Interest (A24)
The Bounty Hunter Trilogy (Radiance)
Shinobi (Radiance)
Roaring Twenties (Criterion)
Risky Business (Criterion)

and second Columbo the Return

Nominate Aliens (Sony) for most disappointing

Second for best cover:
Slap the Monster on Page One (Radiance)
Demon Pond (Criterion)

[TechnicolorAcid]

I second the Laurel and Hardy release, Hundreds of Beavers, and The Roaring Twenties for best release and in the same category I’d like to nominate Severin’s All the Haunts Volume 2 and their 4K releases for the Vixen trilogy.

[Yakushima]

I second the Laurel and Hardy release, Hundreds of Beavers, and The Roaring Twenties for best release and in the same category I’d like to nominate Severin’s All the Haunts Volume 2 and their 4K releases for the Vixen trilogy.

SECONDING:

BEST RELEASE:
Close Your Eyes (Film Movement)
Zone of Interest (A24)
The Bounty Hunter Trilogy (Radiance)
Shinobi (Radiance)
Severin’s All the Haunts Volume 2
Allonsanfan (Radiance)
The Kingdom Trilogy (Mubi)
Tchao pantin (Radiance)
Silence of the Lambs (Arrow)
The Valiant Ones (Eureka)
Phase IV (VS)
Pursued (Kino)
Bluebeard (Kino)
Scarlet Street (Kino)
He Walked by Night (Kino)
Southern Comfort (VS)
Michael Powell: The Early Works (BFI)
Ikiru (BFI)

Best Upgrade:
The Long Good Friday (Arrow)
Withnail and I (Arrow)

Most Disappointing:
Aliens

NOMINATING:

For Best Release:
Fallen Leaves (Mubi)

For Best Cover:
Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet (Deaf Crocodile)
I Vampiri (Radiance)

[Finch]

Seconding Fallen Leaves (Mubi)

[beamish14]

Risky Business and Phase IV are certainly near the top for me

[therewillbeblus]

I'd like to nominate Paper Moon for Best Packaging

[domino harvey]

Could have sworn I already nominated that but apparently didn’t, so, yes— seconded!