The Non-Criterion Boutique Label Battle Royale: There Can Only Be (202)1

[swo17]

RESULTS!

Only the items listed below are eligible for each category. I've listed the minimum number of items that you must vote for in each category, but feel free to vote for as many as you want as runners-up (in order of preference). This will presumably be fun for other people to read, and may help me to determine a winner in the event of a tie.

BEST OVERALL RELEASE (vote for 10+)

Adoption (Second Run)
All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (Severin)
Arrebato (Altered Innocence)
The Assassination Bureau (Imprint)
The Bank Dick (Kino)
Beauty and the Beast (Second Run)
Bedtime Story (Kino)
The Bitter Stems (Flicker Alley)
Blind Beast (Arrow)
Cartoon Saloon's Irish Folklore Trilogy (GKIDS)
Cinema of Discovery: Julien Duvivier in the 1920s (Flicker Alley)
Cinematic Vengeance! 8 Kung Fu Classics from Director Joseph Kuo (Eureka)
Collaborations: The Cinema of Zhang Yimou & Gong Li (Imprint)
Columbia Noir #2-4 (Indicator)
Damnation (Arbelos)
The Dungeon of Andy Milligan (Severin)
Duel to the Death (Eureka)
Dune (Arrow)
Encounter of the Spooky Kind (Eureka)
The Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Collection (Severin)
The Fifth Horseman is Fear (Second Run)
Francisca (Grasshopper)
Full Alert (Eureka)
Giants & Toys (Arrow)
The Hands of Orlac (Masters of Cinema)
Her Smell (Gunpowder & Sky)
Hill of Freedom/Woman on the Beach (Grasshopper)
Hungarian Masters (Second Run)
Irezumi (Arrow)
I Start Counting! (BFI)
Jazz on a Summer's Day (Kino)
Jeremy (Fun City)
Ken Jacobs Collection (Kino)
Lake Mungo (Second Sight)
Nobuhiko Obayashi's Anti-War Trilogy (Third Window)
Out of the Blue (BFI)
Raw (Second Sight)
Roy Andersson Collection (Artificial Eye)
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (Arrow)
Sátántangó (Arbelos)
Shawscope Vol. 1 (Arrow)
Silver Screams Cinema (Imprint)
Son of the White Mare (Arbelos)
Things Change (Indicator)
Thunderbolt (Kino)
Tih-Minh (Gaumont)
Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (Second Run)
Twentieth Century (Indicator)
Viy (Masters of Cinema)
World of Tomorrow: The First Three Episodes (Bitter Films)

BEST UPGRADE (vote for 5+)

Arise My Love (Kino)
Baby Doll (Warner Archive)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Arrow)
A Clockwork Orange (WB)
Come September (Kino)
The Dead Zone (Shout)
Deep Red (Arrow)
Fury (Warner Archive)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Kino)
Good News (Warner Archive)
The Howling (StudioCanal)
It's a Gift (Kino)
Mad Love (Warner Archive)
Millennium Actress (Anime Limited)
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (Kino)
Mr. Jealousy (MVD)
The Naked Spur (Warner Archive)
A Night at the Opera (Warner Archive)
Peter Ibbetson (Kino)
The Plainsman (Kino)
The Servant (StudioCanal)
Some Came Running (Warner Archive)
The Straight Story (Imprint)
Tex Avery Screwball Classics Vol. 3 (Warner Archive)
The Web (Kino)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Disney)
The Window (Warner Archive)
The Woody Allen Collection (Quiver)

BEST BOXSET (vote for 5+)

All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (Severin)
Cartoon Saloon's Irish Folklore Trilogy (GKIDS)
Cinema of Discovery: Julien Duvivier in the 1920s (Flicker Alley)
Cinematic Vengeance! 8 Kung Fu Classics from Director Joseph Kuo (Eureka)
Collaborations: The Cinema of Zhang Yimou & Gong Li (Imprint)
Columbia Noir #2-4 (Indicator)
The Dungeon of Andy Milligan (Severin)
The Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Collection (Severin)
Hungarian Masters (Second Run)
Ken Jacobs Collection (Kino)
Nobuhiko Obayashi's Anti-War Trilogy (Third Window)
Roy Andersson Collection (Artificial Eye)
Shawscope Vol. 1 (Arrow)
Silver Screams Cinema (Imprint)
The Woody Allen Collection (Quiver)

BEST ARBELOS RELEASE (vote for 1+)

Damnation
Sátántangó
Son of the White Mare

BEST ARROW RELEASE (vote for 1+)

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Blind Beast
Deep Red
Dune
Giants & Toys
Irezumi
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
Shawscope Vol. 1

BEST EUREKA RELEASE (vote for 1+)

Cinematic Vengeance! 8 Kung Fu Classics from Director Joseph Kuo
Duel to the Death
Encounter of the Spooky Kind
Full Alert
The Hands of Orlac
Viy

BEST IMPRINT RELEASE (vote for 1+)

The Assassination Bureau
Collaborations: The Cinema of Zhang Yimou & Gong Li
Silver Screams Cinema
The Straight Story

BEST INDICATOR RELEASE (vote for 1+)

Columbia Noir #2-4
Things Change
Twentieth Century

BEST KINO RELEASE (vote for 1+)

Arise My Love
The Bank Dick
Bedtime Story
Come September
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
It's a Gift
Jazz on a Summer Day
Ken Jacobs Collection
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Peter Ibbetson
The Plainsman
Thunderbolt
The Web

BEST SECOND RUN RELEASE (vote for 1+)

Adoption
Beauty and the Beast
The Fifth Horseman is Fear
Hungarian Masters
Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea

BEST SEVERIN RELEASE (vote for 1+)

All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror
The Dungeon of Andy Milligan
The Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Collection

BEST LABEL (vote for 1+)

Arbelos
Arrow
Eureka
Imprint
Indicator
Kino
Second Run
Severin
StudioCanal
Warner Archive

BEST COMMENTARY (vote for 1+)

Michael Brooke (Viy, Masters of Cinema)
Irene González-López (Giants & Toys, Arrow)
Stephen Jones & Kim Newman (The Hands of Orlac, Eureka)
Alex Ross Perry & Elisabeth Moss (Her Smell, Gunpowder & Sky)

BEST BONUS FILM (vote for 1+)

The Battle of Midway (Midway, Indicator)
Crying Blue Sky (All the Haunts Be Ours, Severin)
India: Matri Bhumi (The River, BFI)

BEST COLLECTION OF SHORT FILMS (vote for 1+)

All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (Severin)
Marcell Jankovics' Early Works (Son of the White Mare, Arbelos)

BEST OTHER ON-DISC EXTRA (vote for 1+)

Deleted scenes with optional commentary by Joe Dante (Explorers, Shout)
Extremities: Video essay by filmmakers David Cairns and Fiona Watson (The Hands of Orlac, Masters of Cinema)

BEST BOOK (winner by default)

All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (Severin)

BEST COVER (vote for 1+)



WORST COVER (winner by default)



BEST PACKAGING (vote for 1+)

Damnation (Arbelos)
Her Smell (Gunpowder & Sky)
Shawscope Vol. 1 (Arrow)

BEST LATE DISCOVERY (vote for 1+)

The Revenge of Frankenstein (Indicator, 2019)
Review (Comedy Central, 2020)
The Wolf House (Kimstim, 2020)

BEST ALTERNATIVE TO A CRITERION RELEASE (vote for 1+)

The Bank Dick (Kino)
Days of Heaven (Imprint)
Do the Right Thing (Universal)
Ingmar Bergman Vol. 1-2 (BFI)
Mulholland Dr. (StudioCanal)
Naked (BFI)
The River (BFI)
The Seventh Seal (BFI)
The Silence of the Lambs (Kino)
Spartacus (Universal)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Masters of Cinema)

Skeleton ballot:

Code: Select all

[u]Best Overall Release[/u]
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[u]Best Upgrade[/u]
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[u]Best Boxset[/u]
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[u]Best Arbelos Release[/u]

[u]Best Arrow Release[/u]

[u]Best Eureka Release[/u]

[u]Best Imprint Release[/u]

[u]Best Indicator Release[/u]

[u]Best Kino Release[/u]

[u]Best Second Run Release[/u]

[u]Best Severin Release[/u]

[u]Best Label[/u]

[u]Best Commentary[/u]

[u]Best Bonus Film[/u]

[u]Best Collection of Short Films[/u]

[u]Best Other On-Disc Extra[/u]

[u]Best Cover[/u]

[u]Best Packaging[/u]

[u]Best Late Discovery[/u]

[u]Best Alternative to a Criterion Release[/u]

[swo17]

ROUND 1 FOR NOMINATIONS ENDS MARCH 15. ROUND 2 FOR VOTING PROPER WILL RUN THROUGH THE END OF MARCH.

While we're still waiting for All Our Haunts to arrive, let's gradually kick off this year's voting by starting the nomination process. Anything that is both nominated and seconded through the end of January will be eligible for the final ballot. Depending on what is nominated, I will create additional categories at that time (best boxset, best label, best release by label, etc.). In this first post I will keep a running tally of everything that has been made eligible for the final ballot by being both nominated and seconded. If you already see it here, then there is no need to mention it again until final voting starts.

The idea behind having a whole month for each round is to give people time to make thoughtful recommendations about worthwhile releases and extras, and to give other people time to check out those recommendations.

IN LIMBO
Has nominations as both Best Overall Release and Best Format Upgrade--won't be eligible unless 2+ people agree on a category

Piccadilly (BFI)

BEST OVERALL RELEASE
All parts of a series released during 2021 may be nominated as a single entry

Adoption (Second Run)
All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (Severin)
Arrebato (Altered Innocence)
The Assassination Bureau (Imprint)
The Bank Dick (Kino)
Beauty and the Beast (Second Run)
Bedtime Story (Kino)
The Bitter Stems (Flicker Alley)
Blind Beast (Arrow)
Cartoon Saloon's Irish Folklore Trilogy (GKIDS)
Cinema of Discovery: Julien Duvivier in the 1920s (Flicker Alley)
Cinematic Vengeance! 8 Kung Fu Classics from Director Joseph Kuo (Eureka)
Collaborations: The Cinema of Zhang Yimou & Gong Li (Imprint)
Columbia Noir #2-4 (Indicator)
Damnation (Arbelos)
The Dungeon of Andy Milligan (Severin)
Duel to the Death (Eureka)
Dune (Arrow)
Encounter of the Spooky Kind (Eureka)
The Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Collection (Severin)
The Fifth Horseman is Fear (Second Run)
Francisca (Grasshopper)
Full Alert (Eureka)
Giants & Toys (Arrow)
The Hands of Orlac (Masters of Cinema)
Her Smell (Gunpowder & Sky)
Hill of Freedom/Woman on the Beach (Grasshopper)
Hungarian Masters (Second Run)
Irezumi (Arrow)
I Start Counting! (BFI)
Jeremy (Fun City)
Ken Jacobs Collection (Kino)
Lake Mungo (Second Sight)
Nobuhiko Obayashi's Anti-War Trilogy (Third Window)
Out of the Blue (BFI)
Raw (Second Sight)
Roy Andersson Collection (Artificial Eye)
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (Arrow)
Sátántangó (Arbelos)
Shawscope Vol. 1 (Arrow)
Silver Screams Cinema (Imprint)
Son of the White Mare (Arbelos)
Things Change (Indicator)
Thunderbolt (Kino)
Tih-Minh (Gaumont)
Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (Second Run)
Twentieth Century (Indicator)
Viy (Masters of Cinema)
World of Tomorrow: The First Three Episodes (Bitter Films)

BEST FORMAT UPGRADE
For titles, perhaps mostly barebones or with no new extras, that you are just glad to finally have on Blu-ray or UHD

Arise My Love (Kino)
Baby Doll (Warner Archive)
Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Arrow)
A Clockwork Orange (WB)
Come September (Kino)
The Dead Zone (Shout)
Deep Red (Arrow)
Fury (Warner Archive)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Kino)
Good News (Warner Archive)
The Howling (StudioCanal)
It's a Gift (Kino)
Mad Love (Warner Archive)
Millennium Actress (Anime Limited)
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (Kino)
Mr. Jealousy (MVD)
The Naked Spur (Warner Archive)
A Night at the Opera (Warner Archive)
Peter Ibbetson (Kino)
The Plainsman (Kino)
The Servant (StudioCanal)
Some Came Running (Warner Archive)
The Straight Story (Imprint)
Tex Avery Screwball Classics Vol. 3 (Warner Archive)
The Web (Kino)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Disney)
The Window (Warner Archive)
The Woody Allen Collection (Quiver)

BEST COMMENTARY
Only those appearing on disc for the first time

Michael Brooke (Viy, Masters of Cinema)
Irene González-López (Giants & Toys, Arrow)
Stephen Jones & Kim Newman (The Hands of Orlac, Eureka)
Alex Ross Perry & Elisabeth Moss (Her Smell, Gunpowder & Sky)

BEST BONUS FILM

The Battle of Midway (Midway, Indicator)
Crying Blue Sky (All the Haunts Be Ours, Severin)
India: Matri Bhumi (The River, BFI)

BEST COLLECTION OF SHORT FILMS

All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (Severin)
Marcell Jankovics' Early Works (Son of the White Mare, Arbelos)

BEST OTHER ON-DISC EXTRA

Deleted scenes with optional commentary by Joe Dante (Explorers, Shout)
Extremities: Video essay by filmmakers David Cairns and Fiona Watson (The Hands of Orlac, Masters of Cinema)

BEST BOOK/BOOKLET

All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (Severin)

BEST COVER



WORST COVER



BEST PACKAGING

Damnation (Arbelos)
Her Smell (Gunpowder & Sky)
Shawscope Vol. 1 (Arrow)

BEST LATE DISCOVERY
For a title released prior to 2021 that was not eligible in 2020 or 2019

The Revenge of Frankenstein (Indicator, 2019)
Review (Comedy Central, 2020)
The Wolf House (Kimstim, 2020)

BEST ALTERNATIVE TO A CRITERION RELEASE
My intent is to list everything here that qualifies, so rather than making a nomination, please chime in if you know of anything I've missed

The Bank Dick (Kino)
Days of Heaven (Imprint)
Do the Right Thing (Universal)
Ingmar Bergman Vol. 1-2 (BFI)
Mulholland Dr. (StudioCanal)
Naked (BFI)
The River (BFI)
The Seventh Seal (BFI)
The Silence of the Lambs (Kino)
Spartacus (Universal)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Masters of Cinema)

To get the ball rolling, I would like to nominate the following:

BEST OVERALL RELEASE

All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (Severin)
The Assassination Bureau (Imprint)
Beauty and the Beast (Second Run)
Blind Beast (Arrow)
Cinema of Discovery: Julien Duvivier in the 1920s (Flicker Alley)
Cinematic Vengeance! 8 Kung Fu Classics from Director Joseph Kuo (Eureka)
Collaborations: The Cinema of Zhang Yimou & Gong Li (Imprint)
Columbia Noir #2-4 (Indicator)
The Daimajin Trilogy (Arrow)
Damnation (Arbelos)
Duel to the Death (Eureka)
Dune (Arrow)
The Dungeon of Andy Milligan (Severin)
Early Universal Vols. 1-2 (Masters of Cinema)
The Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Collection (Severin)
The Fifth Horseman Is Fear (Second Run)
Filibus (Milestone)
Flesh for Frankenstein (Vinegar Syndrome)
Forbidden City Cop (88 Films)
Francisca (Grasshopper)
Full Alert (Eureka)
The Hands of Orlac (Masters of Cinema)
Hill of Freedom/Woman on the Beach (Grasshopper)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Kino)
Hungarian Masters (Second Run)
Ingmar Bergman Vol. 1-2 (BFI)
The Invisible Man Appears (Arrow)
I Start Counting! (BFI)
Johnny Guitar (Masters of Cinema)
Karloff at Columbia (Eureka)
Ken Jacobs Collection (Kino)
Lake Mungo (Second Sight)
Little Fugitive: The Collected Films of Morris Engel & Ruth Orkin (Kino)
LA Plays Itself: The Fred Halsted Collection (Altered Innocence)
Love Rites (Kino)
Moments Without Proper Names (Kino)
Over the Edge (Arrow)
Play for Today: Vol. 2 (BFI)
A Reflection of Fear (Imprint)
Roy Andersson Collection (Artificial Eye)
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (Arrow)
Shawscope Vol. 1 (Arrow)
Sicilia! & Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? (Grasshopper)
Silver Screams Cinema (Imprint)
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (88 Films)
Son of the White Mare (Arbelos)
Southland Tales (Arrow)
Space: 1999 (Imprint)
Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (Second Run)
Twentieth Century (Indicator)
Viy (Masters of Cinema)
What Happened Was... (Oscilloscope)
World of Tomorrow: The First Three Episodes (Bitter Films)
Yokai Monsters Collection (Arrow)

BEST FORMAT UPGRADE

The Amazing Mr. X (Film Detective)
Arise, My Love (Kino)
Baby Doll (Warner Archive)
Bedtime Story (Kino)
The Browning Version (Imprint)
Drunken Master II (Warner Archive)
L'Étrange Monsieur Victor (Pathé)
Fury (Warner Archive)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Kino)
Good News (Warner Archive)
It's a Gift (Kino)
Mad Love (Warner Archive)
Modern Vampires (Ronin Flix)
Mr. Jealousy (MVD)
The Naked Spur (Warner Archive)
A Night at the Opera (Warner Archive)
The Plainsman (Kino)
Some Came Running (Warner Archive)
The Straight Story (Imprint)
Tex Avery Screwball Classics Vol. 3 (Warner Archive)
The Web (Kino)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Disney)
The Window (Warner Archive)
The Woody Allen Collection (Quiver)

BEST COMMENTARY

James Flower (Crimewave, Indicator)
David Kalat (Skinner's Dress Suit, Masters of Cinema)

BEST BONUS FILM

František Hrubín (Beauty and the Beast, Second Run)

BEST COVER



WORST COVER



BEST PACKAGING

The Brown Bunny (Enjoy the Ride)
The Daimajin Trilogy (Arrow)
Damnation (Arbelos)
Dead & Buried (Blue Underground)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder Collection Vols. 1-2 (Arrow)
Shawscope Vol. 1 (Arrow)

BEST LATE DISCOVERY

Dark August (Arrow, 2019)
Ken Jacobs: 3x3D (Re:voir, 2015)
Knock Off (88 Films, 2020)
Last and First Men (Deutsche Grammophon, 2020)
Monstrosity (Garage House, 2019)
Ninja Busters (Garage House, 2018)
Puzzle of a Downfall Child (Kino, 2020)
Rage (Imprint, 2020)
Review (Comedy Central, 2020)
White Fire (Arrow, 2020)
The Wolf House (Kimstim, 2020)

[brundlefly]

There was a McBride commentary on Kino's Straight Shooting blu from last year. Is the MoC one different?

Also want to qualify that, as hideous as that DoD artwork is, at least its lenticular slipcase gives you the tactile pleasure of zipzipzipping your fingernails across it.

[swo17]

True. And I think you're right that the McBride commentary is not new, so I've removed that nomination

[alacal2]

Very happy to get these Best Overall Releases done and dusted:
Hungarian Masters (Second Run)
I Start Counting (BFI)

[Maltic]

Here are the 2021 commentaries I've listened to so far. I nominate the top 4. Different styles, but I really enjoyed all four of them.

1. Adrian Martin (City of Fear - Indicator)
2. Nora Fiore (Tight Spot - Indicator)
3. Stephen Jones & Kim Newman (The Hands of Orlac - Eureka)
4. David Desser (Irezumi - Arrow)
5. Eddy von Mueller (Larceny - KL)
6. Alexandra Heller-Nicholas & Josh Nelson (Pushover - Indicator)
7. Imogen Sara Smith (Framed - Indicator)
8. Nick Pinkerton (The Last Sunset - KL)
9. Earl Jackson (Blind Beast - Arrow)
10. Nora Fiore (The Criminal Code - Indicator)
11. David Della Valle & Miles Hunter (Peter Ibbetson - KL)
12. Steve Haberman & Constantine Nasr (The Dead Zone - Shout)
13. David Della Valle & Nathaniel Bell (Desire - KL)
14. Farran Nehme (Murder by Contract - Indicator)
15. Farran Nehme (Twentieth Century - Indicator)
16. Samm Deighan (Desire - KL)

I'd also like to nominate Irezumi (Arrow) for overall release, Desire (KL) for upgrade, and Encounter of the Spooky Kind (Eureka) for either one of those categories (I haven't delved into the extras)

[therewillbeblus]

I'll second the following from swo's post

BEST OVERALL RELEASE

Blind Beast (Arrow)
Cinema of Discovery: Julien Duvivier in the 1920s (Flicker Alley)
Columbia Noir #2-4 (Indicator)
Damnation (Arbelos)
Duel to the Death (Eureka)
Francisca (Grasshopper)
Hill of Freedom/Woman on the Beach (Grasshopper)
I Start Counting! (BFI)
Shawscope Vol. 1 (Arrow)
Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (Second Run)
Twentieth Century (Indicator)
Viy (Masters of Cinema)
World of Tomorrow: The First Three Episodes (Bitter Films)

BEST FORMAT UPGRADE

Baby Doll (Warner Archive)
Bedtime Story (Kino)
Fury (Warner Archive)
Good News (Warner Archive)
It's a Gift (Kino)
Mad Love (Warner Archive)
Mr. Jealousy (MVD)
The Naked Spur (Warner Archive)
A Night at the Opera (Warner Archive)
Some Came Running (Warner Archive)
The Straight Story (Imprint)
Tex Avery Screwball Classics Vol. 3 (Warner Archive)
The Web (Kino)
The Window (Warner Archive)
The Woody Allen Collection (Quiver)

BEST COVER

Damnation (Arbelos)
Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (Second Run)
Twentieth Century (Indicator)

BEST PACKAGING

Damnation (Arbelos)
Shawscope Vol. 1 (Arrow)

[Finch]

BFI's Naked qualifies as Best New Release and Best Alternative to the Criterion Release.

[Finch]

BEST OVERALL RELEASE
The Bitter Stems (Flicker Alley)
The Beast Must Die (Flicker Alley)
Out Of The Blue (BFI)
Naked (BFI)
Piccadilly (BFI)
The Bank Dick (Kino)
Jazz on a Summer Day (Kino)
Son of the White Mare (Arbelos)
Close Encounter of the Spooky Kind (Eureka)
Irezumi (Arrow)
Things Change (Indicator)
Cartoon Saloon's Irish Folklore set (GKIDS)
Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes (TWF)
Deep Red 4k (Arrow)
Bird with the Crystal Plumage 4k (Arrow)
Battle Royale 4k (Arrow)

Also a vote for:
Columbia Noir Vol 2 & 3 (Indicator)
It's a Gift (Kino)
Duel To The Death (Eureka)
Joseph Kuo set (Eureka)
Twentieth Century (Indicator)
Lake Mungo (Second Sight)
Full Alert (Eureka)
Julien Duvivier set (Flicker Alley)

BEST FORMAT UPGRADE
The Naked Spur (WAC)
Mad Love (WAC)
A Night At The Opera (WAC)
Fury (WAC)

BEST COVER
Twentieth Century (Indicator)

BEST PACKAGING
Cartoon Saloon's Irish Folklore set (despite the foam hubs)

BEST LATE DISCOVERY
N/A

(Gamera The Heisei Era (Arrow) & Shohei Imamura Set (Arrow) were nominated last year but I only caught up with them this year)

BEST ALTERNATIVE TO A CRITERION RELEASE
Naked (BFI)

[therewillbeblus]

[I'll second Things Change (Indicator)]

I'd like to nominate the following:

BEST OVERALL RELEASE

Arrebato (Altered Innocence) *
Giants and Toys (Arrow)
Her Smell (Gunpowder & Sky) *
Jeremy (Fun City)
Light Sleeper (Indicator)
The Power of Kangwon Province (Grasshopper)
Satantango (Arbelos)
Yourself and Yours (Cinema Guild)

UPGRADE

Athena (Warner Archive)
Come September (Kino Lorber)
Elizabethtown (Paramount)
The Man Who Would Be King (Warner Archive)
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (Kino Lorber)
State and Main (Shout! Factory)
What's Up Doc? (Warner Archive)

BEST OTHER ON-DISC EXTRA

Pardon My French! (Tremors)

WORST OVERALL RELEASE

Ishtar (Indicator)


*I imagine these count for 2021, since they were released just before the new year direct from VG's site, even though the street date is listed as Jan. elsewhere?

[Ribs]

I’ll have a thought for some other titles, but I definitely want to be here to second Silver Screams Cinema, the first (and possibly only?) Imprint release that feels in any way essential. Not that the seven films therein are in any way particularly remarkable, but simply rescuing these mostly unreleased on Blu (Olive did two I think?) titles from the Republic vault and linking them together paints a great picture of a piece of the history of that studio that I was not really cognizant of before.

[ryannichols7]

almost everything I would nominate has been covered but I'd like to nominate Irene Gonzalez Lopez' commentary on Giants and Toys for Arrow for best commentary. extraordinary stuff and definitely new to disc.

Adrian Martin for Days of Heaven is also a new track, only added to my appreciation of one of my favorite movies

overall releases:
Days (Grasshopper)
Days of Heaven (Imprint)
Straight Shooting / Hell Bent (MOC)

[therewillbeblus]

Isn’t Days a 2022 release?

[Glowingwabbit]

Isn’t Days a 2022 release?

The limited edition isn't even out yet so I don't know how/why someone would nominate it for 2021.

[swo17]

I forgot Sátántangó had been released right at the start of 2021--seconded!

almost everything I would nominate has been covered

You should second the ones you agree with (that haven't already been seconded and listed in the first post of this thread) so they can be eligible for the final vote.

Isn’t Days a 2022 release?

Yes, it is.

Also, What's Up Doc? and The Man Who Would Be King weren't new releases--they just put them back in print

I imagine these count for 2021, since they were released just before the new year direct from VG's site, even though the street date is listed as Jan. elsewhere?

Yes.

BEST LATE DISCOVERY
Gamera The Heisei Era (Arrow)
Shohei Imamura Set (Arrow)

Glad you were able to catch up to these releases, but they were eligible and awarded last year, so aren't eligible for this category

[Finch]

Ah sorry, I had forgotten that they were already honored last year. I can't think of anything else I got that would be eligible for Late Discovery so I'll remove that from my OP.

[Nw_jahrles]

I’ll second The Dungeon of Andy Milligan and The Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee. Severin has gone in the last two years as a label I was only interested in a handful of titles from, to one that is must-watch for their announcements every month.

[Calvin]

BEST OVERALL RELEASE
Out of the Blue (BFI)
Maeve (BFI)
Tih-Minh (Gaumont)
Nobuhiko Obayashi's Anti-War Trilogy (Third Window)
Raw (Second Sight)
Bayan Ko (Le chat qui fume)
Satantango (Arbelos)


I'll second:
Collaborations: The Cinema of Zhang Yimou & Gong Li (Imprint)
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (Arrow)
Jeremy (Fun City)
The Fifth Horseman is Fear (Second Run)


BEST FORMAT UPGRADE
Millennium Actress (4K UHD) (Anime Limited)

BEST BONUS FILM(S)
The Early Films of Marcell Jankovics (on Arbelos' Son of the White Mare release)
India Matri Bhumi (on BFI's The River)
Irish Cinema – Ourselves Alone? (on BFI's Maeve)
The Battle of Midway (Indicator's Midway)

BEST OTHER ON-DISC EXTRA

Remembering Out of the Blue (BFI's Out of the Blue release)

BEST BOOK/BOOKLET

Out of the Blue (BFI)
Maeve (BFI)
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (Arrow)
Raw (Second Sight)

BEST COVER



WORST COVER



BEST ALTERNATIVE TO A CRITERION RELEASE

The Seventh Seal (BFI)
Do the Right Thing (Universal UHD)

[domino harvey]

TWBB and swo, Bedtime Story never had a legal physical release, so it’s actually not a format upgrade. But assuming you’d vote for it for best general release, I second/third it

[therewillbeblus]

TWBB and swo, Bedtime Story never had a legal physical release, so it’s actually not a format upgrade. But assuming you’d vote for it for best general release, I second/third it

Yes, I'll first, second, third, or whatever to that category replacement

[swo17]

Done. Also seconded Tih Minh, Early Films of Marcell Jankovics, Battle of Midway, and Halloween

[Maltic]

I second bonus film India: Matri Bhumi (BFI) and overall release Straight Shooting / Hell Bent (Eureka)

BEST LATE DISCOVERY

First Name: Carmen (KL, 2019)
Mo' Better Blues (KL, 2020)
The Revenge of Frankenstein (Indicator) was quite a revelation. It was in Hammer Volume IV in 2019, but released individually in 2021, so perhaps it doesn't qualify anywhere

[swo17]

I'll second these:

Giants & Toys
Her Smell
Jazz on a Summer Day
Nobuhiko Obayashi's Anti-War Trilogy
Come September
Night Has a Thousand Eyes

I'd also like to nominate Thunderbolt for best release and David Kalat on What Happened to Jones? for best commentary

[alacal2]

Best Overall Release

Seconded:
Raw (Second Sight)
Nominated:
Madchen in Uniform (BFI)
Session 9 (Second Sight)

[feihong]

So many of the discs I wanted to nominate turn out to come from previous years, some going as far back as 2016––which shows you how many new blu rays I bought this year. The numbers have gone way, way down.

Best Overall Release

Suzhou River (Welcome Music)
Tokyo Heaven (Bandai Visual)
Wild Search (Eureka)
I Am Cuba (Potemkine)

...and I'll second

Shawscope Volume I (Arrow)
Sailor Suit & Machine Gun (Arrow)


Best Format Upgrade

Tokyo Heaven (Bandai Visual)
L'Amour Braque (KL Studio Classics)

...and I'll second

Some Came Running (Warner Archive)


I've hardly listened to any new audio commentaries, but my nomination for Best Audio Commentary this year is

Kat Ellinger (L'Amour Braque, KL Studio Classics)


Best Packaging

Shawscope Volume I (seconding the nomination)


For fun, here's my list of
Discs I Thought Were Released This Year, and Wanted to Nominate, But It Turns Out I Only Bought Them This Year, and They're Too Old To Qualify

Flip Flappers (Sentai Filmworks)
The Elo Havetta Collection (Slovak Film Institute)
Bend of the River (Explosive Media)
Giant Robo: The Animation (Diskotek)
L'important C'est D'aimer... (Film Movement)

And here's a list of
Films I Thought Were On Blu Ray When I Was Making These Lists But It Was Only In My Imagination

I, The Executioner
Black God, White Devil
Luminous Woman
She Ra and the Princesses of Power
The Eyes, The Mouth
Matalo!
The Golden Boat
The Travelling Players
The 13 Steps of Maki: The Young Aristocrats

My list of
Most Anticipated Releases of 2022

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! (Sentai Filmworks)


And another, my list called
Another Year, and Still No Blu Ray

The Mission
Magic Hunter
The Blade
It's Now or Never
Typhoon Club
P.P. Rider
Eureka (2000)
Goyokin
Whispering Corridors II: Memento Mori
Bound for the Fields, The Mountains, and the Seacoast
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
The Valiant Ones
Pedicab Driver
Flaming Ears
Nomad
Green Snake
Angel Dust
The Mattei Affair
Together Brothers
The Travelling Players
Capone Cries Hard
Mr. T and the T-Force


And, while I'm at it, going crazy tonight, here's my list of
Blu Rays That Need A Redo in 2022 (because the quality is lacking)
Incredibly, 4 of these came out just this previous year.

Swallowtail Butterfly
Bitter Victory
Final VIctory
Illustrious Corpses
La Guerre est Finie
Children of Paradise
The Cherry Orchard
Lost Chapter: Passion in Snow
The Fun, The Luck & the Tycoon