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swo17 wrote: Mon Mar 10, 2025 9:56 pm

swo17 wrote: Tue Mar 04, 2025 4:14 am As a reminder, there are just under two weeks left before I finalize the ballot in the first post of this thread and voting starts. If there is anything you wish you could vote for but you don't see it in the ballot, I would recommend talking it up in this thread in the hope that someone else will second it. If any categories end up with less than two entries, they won't be included in the final ballot

And now there is just under one week. And for the record, I haven't added Adrian Martin's Seven Samurai commentary to the ballot. I'm still waiting for someone to say they second it

Seconding Adrian Martin's Seven Samurai commentary.

Also, I still hope against hope that someone will kindly second my nomination of the 4K UHD Seinfeld set for Best Upgrade. For it is a massive, massive upgrade, though not without some minor flaws.

I second Hatari! (Kino) and The Man I Love (WAC) for upgrades.

There are a few categories that currently have only one or no contenders on the ballot and I'd hope to give them some competition. FYI the following have received nominations and just need to be seconded to be added to the ballot:

BEST COMMENTARY

Howard Berger, The Shootist (Arrow)
Michael Brooke, Face to Face (Imprint)
Barry Jenkins, The Underground Railroad (Criterion)
Kim Newman & Sean Hogan, Witchfinder General (88 Films)
Imogen Sara Smith, Scarlet Street (Kino)

BEST BONUS FILM

L'Emission a déjà commencé (She Is Conann, Altered Innocence)
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy (I Walked with a Zombie/The Seventh Victim, Criterion)
Tamala's Wild Party (Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space, Deaf Crocodile)

BEST BOOK/BOOKLET

All the Haunts Be Ours: Volume Two (Severin)

I'll nominate If I Should Die Before I Wake from Flicker Alley's Never Open That Door release as BEST BONUS FILM. The third Cornell Woolrich adaptation meant for Door, it was expanded and released on its own. Currently streaming in the Criterion Channel's Argentine Noir collection.

Thanks for pointing that out, I just watched the film and hadn't noticed the bonus feature

Best Bonus Film
Shadows in the Dark seconded. Hadn't realised I'd seen this!

I'll second L'Emission a déjà commencé (She Is Conann, Altered Innocence) - lots of fun!

Final round of nominations from me:
Once again nominating Best Thread for The Chantal Akerman Criterion Collection Release alongside TWBB, Knives and Swo17 for Best User.

Best release for Twilight by Arbelos, Felidae by Deaf Crocodile, The Vixen Trilogy by Severin (don’t know if this counts as a 2024 release or a 2025 release), The Red Light Bandit from Severin, Love Me Tonight from Indicator (seconded but never added), Gay U.S.A. from Altered Innocence, Singapore Sling from Vinegar Syndrome, The Runner from Criterion (seconding), Misunderstood from Radiance, Black Moon from Indicator, Typhoon Club from Cinema Guild (seconded), Victims of Sin from Criterion, and the Kira Muratova set from Criterion (seconding).

Best Upgrade for Brokeback Mountain, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and High Noon from Kino alongside The Conversation from Studiocanal.

Best Cover for Deaf Crocodile’s limited edition of Savage Hunt of King Stakh Release and their standard edition cover of The Golden Fern alongside Eureka’s cover/packaging for their Feuillade set and Radiance’s cover/packaging for Nothing Is Sacred.

Second

Release
Love Me Tonight
Singapore Sling
Typhoon Club
Victims of Sin

Upgrade
The Conversation

Love Me Tonight was a late 2023 release that made last year's ballot so it's not eligible this year

Seconding:

BEST BOOK/BOOKLET

All the Haunts Be Ours: Volume Two (Severin)

Best Upgrade:

Brokeback Mountain, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, High Noon (Kino)

Best Cover:

Limited Edition of Savage Hunt of King Stakh, Standard Edition of The Golden Fern (Deaf Crocodile).

Sorry, something came up the last two days. I'm seconding:

BEST COMMENTARY
Howard Berger, The Shootist (Arrow)
Kim Newman & Sean Hogan, Witchfinder General (88 Films)

BEST SHORT FILM
If I Should Die Before I Wake

Ballot forthcoming soon...

I'm late to the party on this but just so we get an actual ballot for it, do you mind counting these late seconds for best commentary swo? it's alright if not, just give Adrian Martin his prize:

Maltic wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2025 9:34 pm

Spoiler

RADIANCE
Allonsanfan (Brooke)
Viridiana (Brooke)
Love Letter (William Carroll)

EUREKA
The Cat and the Canary (Stephen Jones and Kim Newman)
The Cat and the Canary (Kevin Lyons and Jonathan Rigby)
The Valiant Ones (Frank Djeng)

KINO
He Walked by Night (Imogen Sara Smith)
Scarlet Street (Imogen Sara Smith)
Nostalghia (Daniel Bird)

BFI
I Was Born, but... (Adrian Martin)
There Was a Father (Adrian Martin)
Floating Clouds (Adrian Martin)
Ikiru (Adrian Martin)

but I don't think everything necessarily had single votes. you can count me for seconding MichaelB on Face to Face if his Allonsanfan and Viridiana tracks didn't get any votes, and the Adrian ones can probably be eliminated since Seven Samurai is on. the only track I can think of that didn't get mentioned at all was Tony Rayns on Indicator's You & Me. we had plenty of time to do this, I know...

Maltic wasn't nominating those titles but merely mentioning them as "promising." I will add to the ballot the couple titles listed there that had received nominations

MY BALLOT

BEST OVERALL RELEASE
1. Shawscope: Volume Three (Arrow)
2. Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials 1913-1918 (Eureka)
3. Looking for Mr. Goodbar (Vinegar Syndrome)
4. Bandits of Orgosolo/The Lost World (Radiance)
5. Floating Clouds (BFI)
6. Nothing Is Sacred: Three Heresies by Luis Buñuel (Radiance)
7. Happiness (Criterion)
8. Peter Strickland Collection (Curzon)
9. Planet of the Vampires (Radiance)
10. Witchfinder General (88 Films)

BEST UPGRADE
North by Northwest (Warner)

BEST BOXSET
1. Shawscope: Volume Three (Arrow)
2. Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials 1913-1918 (Eureka)
3. Nothing Is Sacred: Three Heresies by Luis Buñuel (Radiance)
4. Peter Strickland Collection (Curzon)

BEST 88 FILMS RELEASE
Witchfinder General

BEST A24 RELEASE
Stop Making Sense

BEST ARROW RELEASE
Shawscope: Volume Three

BEST BFI RELEASE
Floating Clouds - simply for taking another chance on Naruse

BEST EUREKA RELEASE
Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials 1913-1918

BEST RADIANCE RELEASE
1. Bandits of Orgosolo/The Lost World
2. Nothing Is Sacred: Three Heresies by Luis Buñuel
3. Planet of the Vampires

BEST VINEGAR SYNDROME RELEASE
Looking for Mr. Goodbar

BEST WARNER RELEASE
North by Northwest

BEST LABEL
Radiance

BEST BONUS FILM
L'Emission a déjà commencé (She Is Conann, Altered Innocence)

BEST COLLECTION OF SHORT FILMS
Vitagraph Comedies (Kino)

MOST DISAPPOINTING RELEASE
Once Upon a Time in the West (Paramount)

BEST COVER
The Golden Fern (Deaf Crocodile)

WORST COVER
Upstream Color (Umbrella)

BEST PACKAGING
Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials 1913-1918 (Eureka)

WRITE-IN CATEGORY - RICHARD CRANIUM AWARD - WRITE-IN CANDIDATE
Me, for failing to nominate Planet of the Vampires LE (Radiance) for Best Cover and Best Packaging

BEST OVERALL RELEASE

Louis Feuillade
I Walked with a Zombie/The Seventh Victim
Allonsanfan
Haxan
Floating Clouds
Witchfinder General
I Am Cuba
Michael Powell
Stop Making Sense
Bandits of Orgoloso
Blood on Satan's Claw
American Gigolo

BEST UPGRADE

The Conversation
North by North West
The Seven Samaurai

BEST BOXSET

Louis Feuillade
Daiei Gothic
All The Haunts Be Ours 2

BEST 88 FILMS

Witchfinder General
Blood On Satan's Claw

BEST A24 FILM

Stop Making Sense

BEST ARROW FILM

American Gigolo
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Withnail and I

BEST BFI RELEASE

Floating Clouds
Michael Power
Ikiru
I Was Born,But...There Was
The Seven Samurai
The Wages of Fear

BEST CRITERION RELEASES

I Walked With A Zombie/The Seventh Victim
Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid
I Am Cuba

BEST EUREKA

Louis Feuillade

BEST RADIANCE RELEASE

Allonsanfan
Bandits of Orgoloso
Haxan
Daiei Gothic
Suzhou River

BEST STUDIO CANAL RELEASE

The Conversation
The Lavender Hill Mob

BEST LABEL

Radiance
Indicator
BFI
Criterion

BEST BONUS

Shadows In The Dark:The Val Lewton Legacy

BEST COVER

In Water
Triangle
Demon Pand
Haxan

WORST COVER

Upstream Colour

BEST PACKAGING

Louis Feuillade
Stop Making Sense
Nothing Is Sacred

BEST OVERALL RELEASE
1. Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials 1913-1918 (Eureka)
2. Paper Moon (Criterion)
3. Starting Over (Kino)
4. I Walked with a Zombie/The Seventh Victim (Criterion)
5. Happiness (Criterion)
6. Singapore Sling (Vinegar Syndrome)
7. Looking for Mr. Goodbar (Vinegar Syndrome)
8. Nothing Is Sacred: Three Heresies by Luis Buñuel (Radiance)
9. Has Anybody Seen My Gal (Kino)
10. City of Hope (Sony)

BEST UPGRADE
Bringing Out the Dead (Paramount)

BEST BOXSET
Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials 1913-1918 (Eureka)

BEST A24 RELEASE
Stop Making Sense

BEST ARROW RELEASE
The Silence of the Lambs

BEST BFI RELEASE
Seven Samurai

BEST CRITERION RELEASE
1. Paper Moon
2. Happiness
3. I Walked with a Zombie/The Seventh Victim
4. I Am Cuba
5. Lone Star

BEST DEAF CROCODILE RELEASE
Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet

BEST EUREKA RELEASE
Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials 1913-1918

BEST KINO RELEASE
1. Starting Over
2. Has Anybody Seen My Gal
3. Columbo: The Return
4. Daisy Miller
5. Archangel

BEST RADIANCE RELEASE
1. Nothing Is Sacred: Three Heresies by Luis Buñuel
2. Allonsanfan
3. Trenque Lauquen
4. Planet of the Vampires

BEST SHOUT RELEASE
1. Matinee
2. Rolling Thunder

BEST SONY RELEASE
City of Hope

BEST STUDIOCANAL RELEASE
The Conversation

BEST VINEGAR SYNDROME RELEASE
1. Singapore Sling
2. Looking for Mr. Goodbar
3. Red Rock West
4. Little Darlings

BEST WARNER RELEASE
1. The Tall Target
2. You're a Big Boy Now
3. Act of Violence
4. North by Northwest upgrade
5. Mr. & Mrs. Smith
6. 3 Godfathers
7. They Drive by Night
8. Cabin in the Sky

BEST LABEL
Warner

BEST BONUS FILM
Old-Fashioned Woman (Not a Pretty Picture, Criterion)

BEST COLLECTION OF SHORT FILMS
Peter Strickland Collection (Curzon)

BEST COVER
1. Gummo (Criterion)
2. Triangle (Umbrella)

WORST COVER
Scarface (Criterion)

BEST PACKAGING
Paper Moon (Criterion)

BEST THREAD
I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun, 2024)

Incidentally, for those posting early, feel free to edit your ballots up until the deadline. I won't be tabulating until then

BEST OVERALL RELEASE
1. Intégrale Otar Iosseliani (Carlotta)
2. Béla Tarr Collection (Curzon)
3. The Tenant (Vinegar Syndrome)
4. Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembène (Criterion)
5. Brief Encounters/The Long Farewell (Criterion)
6. Happiness (Criterion)
7. North by Northwest (Warner)
8. The Runner (Criterion)
9. Daiei Gothic: Japanese Ghost Stories (Radiance)
10. Tchao pantin (Radiance)

BEST UPGRADE
North by Northwest (Warner)

BEST BOXSET
Intégrale Otar Iosseliani (Carlotta)

BEST A24 RELEASE
Stop Making Sense

BEST ARROW RELEASE
Withnail and I

BEST BFI RELEASE
Michael Powell: Early Works

BEST CRITERION RELEASE
1. Werckmeister Harmonies
2. Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembène
3. Brief Encounters/The Long Farewell
4. Happiness
5. The Runner

BEST EUREKA RELEASE
Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials 1913-1918

BEST KINO RELEASE
Nostalghia

BEST RADIANCE RELEASE
1. Daiei Gothic: Japanese Ghost Stories
2. Tchao pantin
3. Nothing Is Sacred: Three Heresies by Luis Buñuel
4. Bandits of Orgosolo/The Lost World
5. L'Amour fou

BEST VINEGAR SYNDROME RELEASE
The Tenant

BEST WARNER RELEASE
North by Northwest

BEST LABEL
1. Criterion
2. Radiance

BEST BONUS FILM
Old-Fashioned Woman (Not a Pretty Picture, Criterion)

BEST COLLECTION OF SHORT FILMS
Peter Strickland Collection (Curzon)

BEST BOOK/BOOKLET
The Underground Railroad (Criterion)

BEST COVER
All That Money Can Buy (Criterion)

WORST COVER
Scarface (Criterion)

BEST PACKAGING
Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials 1913-1918 (Eureka)

BEST OVERALL RELEASE

Intégrale Otar Iosseliani (Carlotta)
Brief Encounters/The Long Farewell (Criterion)
Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet (Deaf Crocodile)
Daiei Gothic: Japanese Ghost Stories (Radiance)
The Man from Majorca (Radiance)
A Simple Plan (Arrow)
The Hitcher (Second Sight)
Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials 1913-1918 (Eureka)
Red Rock West (Cinématographe)
Fallen Leaves (Mubi)
Floating Clouds (BFI)
Häxan (Radiance)
The Tenant (Vinegar Syndrome)
The Silence of the Lambs (Arrow)
The Tin Star (Arrow)
Cemetery Man (Severin)

BEST UPGRADE

The Conversation (StudioCanal)
North by Northwest (Warner)
Seven Samurai (Criterion)
Seven Samurai (BFI)
Withnail and I (Arrow)
All That Money Can Buy (Criterion)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Arrow)
The Long Good Friday (Arrow)
Prime Cut (Kino)
Matinee (Shout)
Peeping Tom (Criterion)
Ikiru (BFI)

BEST BOXSET

Intégrale Otar Iosseliani (Carlotta)
Daiei Gothic: Japanese Ghost Stories (Radiance)
Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials 1913-1918 (Eureka)
All the Haunts Be Ours Volume Two (Severin)
Nothing Is Sacred: Three Heresies by Luis Buñuel (Radiance)
The Kingdom Trilogy (Mubi)

BEST 88 FILMS RELEASE

Blood on Satan's Claw
Witchfinder General

BEST ARROW RELEASE

A Simple Plan
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Withnail and I
American Gigolo
The Silence of the Lambs
The Long Good Friday
The Tin Star
The Shootist

BEST BFI RELEASE

Floating Clouds
Seven Samurai
Cooking Price-Wise
I Was Born, But.../There Was a Father
Ikiru
The Music Lovers

BEST CRITERION RELEASE

Brief Encounters/The Long Farewell
Seven Samurai
All That Money Can Buy
Peeping Tom
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Anselm

BEST DEAF CROCODILE RELEASE

Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet

BEST EUREKA RELEASE
Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials 1913-1918

BEST KINO RELEASE

Prime Cut

BEST RADIANCE RELEASE

Daiei Gothic: Japanese Ghost Stories
The Man from Majorca
Häxan
Nothing Is Sacred: Three Heresies by Luis Buñuel
Tchao pantin
Allonsanfan

BEST SHOUT RELEASE

Matinee

BEST SONY RELEASE

Frank Capra at Columbia

BEST STUDIOCANAL RELEASE

The Conversation

BEST VINEGAR SYNDROME RELEASE

The Tenant
Red Rock West

BEST WARNER RELEASE

North by Northwest

BEST LABEL

Radiance
Deaf Crocodile
BFI
Criterion
Arrow
88 Films
Vinegar Syndrome

BEST COMMENTARY

Michael Brooke, Face to Face (Imprint)
Adrian Martin, Seven Samurai (BFI)
Kim Newman & Sean Hogan, Witchfinder General (88 Films)

BEST BOOK/BOOKLET

All the Haunts Be Ours: Volume Two (Severin)

MOST DISAPPOINTING RELEASE

Once Upon a Time in the West (Paramount)
Aliens (20th Century)
True Lies (20th Century)

BEST COVER

The Savage Hunt of King Stakh (Deaf Crocodile)
All That Money Can Buy (Criterion)
Häxan (Radiance)
Slap the Monster on Page One (Radiance)
Irresistible (Umbrella)

WORST COVER

Upstream Color (Umbrella)

BEST PACKAGING

Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials 1913-1918 (Eureka)

BEST RELEASE
1. Nothing Is Sacred: Three Heresies by Luis Bunuel
2. Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials 1913-1918
3. Frank Capra at Columbia
4. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
5. All the Haunts Be Ours Volume 2
6. I Walked with a Zombie/The Seventh Victim
7. Otar Iosseliani Set
8. Haxan
9. Floating Clouds
10. I Am Cuba
11. Stop Making Sense
12. Cemetery Man
13. Adela Has Not Had Her Supper Yet
14. Animation Night in Canada
15. Bandits of Orgosolo

BEST UPGRADE
1. The Conversation
2. Fear and Desire
3. North by Northwest
4. Matinee
5. Archangel
6. All That Money Can Buy

BEST BOX SET
1. Otar Iosseliani Set
2. Frank Capra at Columbia
3. Louis Feuillade
4. All the Haunts Be Ours Volume 2
5. Hitchcock: The Beginning
6. Nothing Is Sacred

BEST 88 FILMS RELEASE
1. Witchfinder General

BEST A24 RELEASE
1. Stop Making Sense
2. Pi

BEST ARROW RELEASE
1. The Shootist
2. The Tin Star
3. Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe

BEST BFI RELEASE
1. Floating Clouds
2. The Music Lovers
3. Cooking Price-Wise

BEST CRITERION RELEASE
1. Pat Garrett
2. Val Lewton Double Feature
3. I Am Cuba
4. Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembene
5. Happiness

BEST DEAF CROCODILE RELEASE
1. Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
2. The Golden Fern

BEST EUREKA RELEASE
1. Louis Feuillade
2. The Cat and the Canary

BEST KINO RELEASE
1. Archangel
2. Has Anybody Seen My Gal!
3. Hatari!
4. High Noon
5. Fear and Desire

BEST RADIANCE RELEASE
1. Nothing Is Sacred
2. Haxan
3. Bandits of Orgosolo
4. Planet of the Vampires
5. Allonsanfan

BEST SHOUT RELEASE
1. Matinee

BEST SONY RELEASE
1. Frank Capra at Columbia
2. Man's Castle

BEST STUDIOCANAL RELEASE
1. The Conversation
2. Hitchcock: The Beginning

BEST VINEGAR SYNDROME RELEASE
1. The Tenant
2. Looking for Mr. Goodbar
3. Singapore Sling

BEST WARNER RELEASE
1. North by Northwest
2. They Drive by Night
3. The Tall Target

BEST LABEL
1. Radiance
2. Deaf Crocodile
3. Criterion
4. Eureka

BEST SHORTS COLLECTION
1. Animation Night in Canada
2. Vitagraph Comedies

MOST DISAPPOINTING RELEASE
1. True Lies

BEST COVER
1. Haxan
2. Savage Hunt of King Stakh
3. Hundreds of Beavers
4. Demon Pond
5. All That Money Can Buy
6. Animation Night in Canada

WORST COVER
1. Upstream Color

BEST PACKAGING
1. Louis Feuillade
2. Paper Moon

BEST THREAD
I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun, 2024)

Did I miss where we nominated best labels? Because Imprint deserves to be on the list at any rate

We didn't directly nominate labels. I made every label that had at least 3 releases on the ballot a contender for the Best Label category. There was only one Imprint release that made the ballot (the Scorsese box). Another perhaps surprising exclusion was Indicator. That suggests to me that if Imprint were on the ballot for Best Label, it wouldn't get much support. But maybe we can handle this differently in the future

Makes sense. Next year I’ll have nominate them more!