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OVERALL RELEASE
1. Floating Clouds (BFI)
2. I Walked with a Zombie/The Seventh Victim (Criterion)
3. The Golden Coach (Raro)
4. Hatari! (Kino)
5. The Valiant Ones (Eureka)
6. The Roaring Twenties (Criterion)
7. I Was Born, But.../There Was a Father (BFI)
8. Cemetery Man (Severin)
9. Man's Castle (Sony)
10. Witchfinder General (88 Films)
11. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Criterion)
12. The Shootist (Arrow)
13. The Hitcher (Second Sight)
14. Columbia Noir #6: The Whistler (Indicator)
15. Allonsanfan (Radiance)
16. American Gigolo (Arrow)
17. Body and Soul (Kino)
18. Phase IV (Vinegar Syndrome)
19. Close Your Eyes (Film Movement)
20. Bandits of Orgosolo/The Lost World (Radiance)


BEST UPGRADE
1. Matinee (Shout)
2. Nostalghia (Kino)
3. Rolling Thunder (Shout)
4. Cabin in the Sky (Warner Archive)
5. Scarlet Street (Kino)

BOXSET
1. Columbia Noir #6: The Whistler (Indicator)
2. Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials 1913-1918 (Eureka)
3. Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe (Arrow)
4. Nothing Is Sacred: Three Heresies by Luis Buñuel (Radiance)
5. Martin Scorsese: Films of Faith (Imprint)

BEST LABEL
1. Criterion
2. Kino
3. BFI
4. Eureka

BEST SHORTS COLLECTION
Vitagraph Comedies

BEST 88 FILMS RELEASE
Witchfinder General

BEST ARROW RELEASE
The Shootist

BEST BFI RELEASE
Floating Clouds

BEST CRITERION RELEASE
I Walked with a Zombie/The Seventh Victim

BEST EUREKA RELEASE
The Valiant Ones

BEST KINO RELEASE
Hatari!

BEST RADIANCE RELEASE
Allonsanfan

BEST SHOUT RELEASE
Matinee

BEST SONY RELEASE
Man's Castle

BEST STUDIOCANAL RELEASE
Hitchcock: The Beginning

BEST VINEGAR SYNDROME RELEASE
Phase IV

BEST WARNER RELEASE
Cabin in the Sky

BEST COVER
Häxan

WORST COVER
Scarface

As a reminder, you all have until the end of the day Monday to vote!

My ballot:

Best Overall Release
01 Intégrale Otar Iosseliani (Carlotta)
02 I Am Cuba (Criterion)
03 Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials 1913-1918 (Eureka)
04 Allonsanfan (Radiance)
05 Happiness (Criterion)
06 Peter Strickland Collection (Curzon)
07 Nothing Is Sacred: Three Heresies by Luis Buñuel (Radiance)
08 Béla Tarr Collection (Curzon)
09 A Simple Plan (Arrow)
10 Animation Night in Canada, Vol. 1 (Canadian International Pictures)
11 The Tune (Deaf Crocodile)
12 Happy End (Second Run)
13 Red Rock West (Cinématographe)
14 Bandits of Orgosolo/The Lost World (Radiance)
15 Stop Making Sense (A24)
16 Looking for Mr. Goodbar (Vinegar Syndrome)
17 The Kingdom Trilogy (Mubi)
18 π (A24)
19 Michael Powell: Early Works (BFI)
20 Cooking Price-Wise (BFI)
21 Daiei Gothic: Japanese Ghost Stories (Radiance)
22 The Hitcher (Second Sight)
23 Frank Capra at Columbia (Sony)
24 Phase IV (Vinegar Syndrome)
25 Starting Over (Kino)
26 Has Anybody Seen My Gal (Kino)
27 Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembène (Criterion)
28 The Golden Fern (Deaf Crocodile)
29 J-Horror Rising (Arrow)
30 Southern Comfort (Vinegar Syndrome)
31 Paper Moon (Criterion)
32 Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe (Arrow)
33 Hitchcock: The Beginning (StudioCanal)
34 The Tin Star (Arrow)
35 Columbia Noir #6: The Whistler (Indicator)

Best Upgrade
01 The Wolf House (KimStim)
02 Bringing Out the Dead (Paramount)
03 Nostalghia (Kino)
04 Archangel (Zeitgeist)
05 Six in Paris (Icarus)
06 Act of Violence (Warner Archive)
07 All That Money Can Buy (Criterion)
08 The Tall Target (Warner Archive)
09 The Walking Dead (Warner Archive)
10 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Arrow)

Best Boxset
01 Intégrale Otar Iosseliani (Carlotta)
02 Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials 1913-1918 (Eureka)
03 Peter Strickland Collection (Curzon)
04 Nothing Is Sacred: Three Heresies by Luis Buñuel (Radiance)
05 Béla Tarr Collection (Curzon)
06 The Kingdom Trilogy (Mubi)
07 Daiei Gothic: Japanese Ghost Stories (Radiance)
08 Frank Capra at Columbia (Sony)
09 Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembène (Criterion)
10 J-Horror Rising (Arrow)
11 Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe (Arrow)
12 Hitchcock: The Beginning (StudioCanal)
13 Columbia Noir #6: The Whistler (Indicator)
14 All the Haunts Be Ours Volume Two (Severin)
15 Martin Scorsese: Films of Faith (Imprint)

Best 88 Films Release
01 Witchfinder General
02 The Project A Collection
03 Blood on Satan's Claw

Best A24 Release
01 Stop Making Sense
02 π
03 The Zone of Interest

Best Arrow Release
01 A Simple Plan
02 J-Horror Rising
03 Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe
04 The Tin Star
05 The Silence of the Lambs
06 Withnail and I
07 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
08 Shawscope: Volume Three
09 The Shootist
10 American Gigolo

Best BFI Release
01 Michael Powell: Early Works
02 Cooking Price-Wise
03 Floating Clouds
04 I Was Born, But.../There Was a Father
05 The Wages of Fear

Best Criterion Release
01 I Am Cuba
02 Happiness
03 Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembène
04 Paper Moon
05 All That Money Can Buy
06 The Roaring Twenties
07 Brief Encounters/The Long Farewell
08 The Runner
09 Lone Star
10 Anselm

Best Deaf Crocodile Release
01 The Tune
02 The Golden Fern
03 Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet

Best Eureka Release
01 Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials 1913-1918
02 The Valiant Ones
03 The Cat and the Canary
04 The Valiant Red Peony: Red Peony Gambler I-III

Best Kino Release
01 Nostalghia
02 Archangel
03 Starting Over
04 Has Anybody Seen My Gal
05 Columbo: The Return
06 Hatari!
07 He Walked by Night
08 Pursued
09 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
10 Daisy Miller

Best Radiance Release
01 Allonsanfan
02 Nothing Is Sacred: Three Heresies by Luis Buñuel
03 Bandits of Orgosolo/The Lost World
04 Daiei Gothic: Japanese Ghost Stories
05 L'Amour fou
06 Häxan
07 Tchao pantin
08 The Man from Majorca
09 Trenque Lauquen
10 Planet of the Vampires

Best Shout Release
01 Matinee
02 Rolling Thunder
03 Darkman

Best Sony Release
01 Frank Capra at Columbia
02 City of Hope
03 Man's Castle

Best StudioCanal Release
01 Hitchcock: The Beginning
02 The Conversation
03 The Lavender Hill Mob

Best Vinegar Syndrome Release
01 Red Rock West
02 Looking for Mr. Goodbar
03 Phase IV
04 Southern Comfort
05 Singapore Sling

Best Warner Release
01 Act of Violence
02 The Tall Target
03 The Walking Dead
04 They Drive by Night
05 North by Northwest

Best Label
01 Radiance
02 Arrow
03 Deaf Crocodile
04 BFI
05 Criterion

Best Commentary
01 Michael Brooke, Face to Face (Imprint)
02 Kim Newman & Sean Hogan, Witchfinder General (88 Films)
03 Howard Berger, The Shootist (Arrow)

Best Bonus Film
01 L'Emission a déjà commencé (She Is Conann, Altered Innocence)
02 If I Should Die Before I Wake (Never Open That Door, Flicker Alley)
03 Old-Fashioned Woman (Not a Pretty Picture, Criterion)

Best Collection of Short Films
01 Animation Night in Canada, Vol. 1 (Canadian International Pictures)
02 Peter Strickland Collection (Curzon)
03 Vitagraph Comedies (Kino)

Best Book/Booklet
01 The Underground Railroad (Criterion)
02 All the Haunts Be Ours: Volume Two (Severin)

Best Cover
01 Gummo (Criterion)
02 Animation Night in Canada, Vol. 1 (Canadian International Pictures)
03 Häxan (Radiance)
04 Slap the Monster on Page One (Radiance)
05 Triangle (Umbrella)

Best Packaging
01 Nothing Is Sacred: Three Heresies by Luis Buñuel (Radiance)
02 Stop Making Sense (A24)
03 Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials 1913-1918 (Eureka)
04 Paper Moon (Criterion)
05 π (A24)

Best Thread
01 I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun, 2024)
02 CC40

Best Overall Release
Stop Making Sense (A24)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (Vinegar Syndrome)
The Hitcher (Second Sight)
American Gigolo (Arrow)
Little Darlings (Cinématographe)

Best Upgrade
Seven Samurai (Criterion)
Withnail and I (Arrow)
The Tenant (Vinegar Syndrome)

Best Boxset
The Kingdom Trilogy (Mubi)
Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembène (Criterion)

Best 88 Films Release
The Project A Collection

Best A24 Release
Stop Making Sense

Best Arrow Release
American Gigolo
The Silence of the Lambs
Withnail and I
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
A Simple Plan

Best BFI Release
Watership Down

Best Criterion Release
Seven Samurai
Risky Business
Lone Star
The Roaring Twenties
The Runner

Best Eureka Release
Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials 1913-1918

Best Kino Release
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Best Radiance Release
Nothing Is Sacred: Three Heresies by Luis Buñuel
Bandits of Orgosolo/The Lost World
L'Amour fou

Best Shout Release
Matinee
Darkman
Rolling Thunder

Best StudioCanal Release
The Conversation
Hitchcock: The Beginning
The Lavender Hill Mob

Best Vinegar Syndrome Release
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Little Darlings

Best Warner Release
North by Northwest

Best Label
Criterion
Radiance
Arrow
Shout
Sony
VS
Studiocanal
BFI
88 Films
…
Kino

Most disappointing:
Once Upon a Time in the West (Paramount)
Chantal Akerman Masterpieces 1968-1978 (Criterion)
Tales of the Four Seasons (Criterion)

Best Cover
Gummo (Criterion)

Worst Cover
Scarface (Criterion)

Best Packaging
Stop Making Sense (A24)

[Best Thread
Ball of ConFus1on (That’s What the Board is Today) &
This thread dedicated to my wonderful activities on this board.]

BEST OVERALL RELEASE
Daiei Gothic: Japanese Ghost Stories (Radiance)

honorary mentions to:

Häxan (Radiance)
I Walked with a Zombie/The Seventh Victim (Criterion)
Man's Castle (Sony)
Nothing Is Sacred: Three Heresies by Luis Buñuel (Radiance)
Paper Moon (Criterion)
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Criterion)
The Project A Collection (88 Films)
Shawscope: Volume Three (Arrow)
Southern Comfort (Vinegar Syndrome)

BEST UPGRADE
Darkman (Shout)

BEST BOXSET
The Bounty Hunter Trilogy (Radiance)

BEST 88 FILMS RELEASE
The Project A Collection

BEST ARROW RELEASE
Shawscope: Volume Three

BEST BFI RELEASE
Floating Clouds

BEST CRITERION RELEASE
Paper Moon

BEST DEAF CROCODILE RELEASE
Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet

BEST EUREKA RELEASE
The Cat and the Canary

BEST KINO RELEASE
He Walked by Night

BEST RADIANCE RELEASE
Daiei Gothic: Japanese Ghost Stories
(honorary mentions for Häxan + Nothing Is Sacred: Three Heresies by Luis Buñuel) (that was a brutal category to decide)

BEST SHOUT RELEASE
Darkman


BEST SONY RELEASE
Man's Castle

BEST STUDIOCANAL RELEASE
The Conversation

BEST VINEGAR SYNDROME RELEASE
Southern Comfort

BEST WARNER RELEASE
North by Northwest 4K
Act of Violence BD

BEST LABEL
Radiance

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

BEST COVER
All That Money Can Buy (Criterion)

WORST COVER
Scarface (Criterion)

BEST PACKAGING
Paper Moon (Criterion)

Best Overall Release:
01 Allonsanfan (Radiance)
02 Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials 1913-1918 (Eureka)
03 Frank Capra at Columbia (Sony)
04 Hitchcock: The Beginning (StudioCanal)
05 Paper Moon (Criterion)
06 The Valiant Ones (Eureka)
07 I Am Cuba (Criterion)
08 The Tin Star (Arrow)
09 Nothing Is Sacred: Three Heresies by Luis Buñuel (Radiance)
10 Daisy Miller (Kino)
11 Has Anybody Seen My Gal (Kino)
12 Starting Over (Kino)
13 The Golden Coach (Raro)
14 Body and Soul (Kino)
15 Bluebeard (Kino)
16 The Kingdom Trilogy (Mubi)

BEST UPGRADE
01 You're a Big Boy Now
02 Six in Paris (Icarus)
03 the Tall Target
04 Mr and Mrs Smith
05 Cabin in the Sky
06 Three Godfathers
07 the Walking Dead
08 Act of Violence

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

BEST ARROW RELEASE
the Tin Star

BEST CRITERION RELEASE
Paper Moon

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

BEST KINO RELEASE
Daisy Miller

BEST RADIANCE RELEASE
Allonsanfan

BEST SONY RELEASE
Frank Capra at Columbia

BEST STUDIOCANAL RELEASE
Hitchcock: The Beginning

BEST WARNER RELEASE
You're a Big Boy Now

BEST LABEL
Kino

MOST DISAPPOINTING RELEASE
Tales of the Four Seasons (Criterion)

BEST COVER
Triangle

WORST COVER
Upstream Color

BEST PACKAGING
Paper Moon

BEST THREAD
CC 40

(I accidentally looked at the wrong lists when first compiling. I think I fixed everything but if I put anything into an ineligible category, please just disregard any inaccurate votes)

Final call for ballots! I'll be tabulating in the morning, maybe about 8 hours from now. I'll accept anything submitted before I post again in this thread!

Best Overall Release
1. Looking For Mr Goodbar
2. Hollywood 90028
3. Laurel and Hardy Year Two
4. I Am Cuba
5. I Walked With a Zombie
6. Paper Moon
7. Allonsonfan
8. Hundreds of Beavers
9. The Roaring Twenties
10. Never Open That Door

Best Upgrade
Rolling Thunder

Best Boxset
Shawscope vol 3

Best Label
Radiance

Best Cover
Demon Pond

Worst Cover
Upstream Color

Best Packaging
Paper Moon

Worst cover is a tie! If you haven't voted yet and want to chime in on just this category, please post your choice in the next couple hours or so while I wrap up the rest of the tabulations

Thanks everyone for participating!

BEST OVERALL RELEASES OF 2024

01 Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials 1913-1918 (Eureka)
02 Nothing Is Sacred: Three Heresies by Luis Buñuel (Radiance)
03 I Walked with a Zombie/The Seventh Victim (Criterion)
04 Allonsanfan (Radiance)
05 Floating Clouds (BFI)
06 I Am Cuba (Criterion)
07 Paper Moon (Criterion)
08 Looking for Mr. Goodbar (Vinegar Syndrome)
09 Bandits of Orgosolo/The Lost World (Radiance)
10 Häxan (Radiance)
11 Intégrale Otar Iosseliani (Carlotta)
12 Happiness (Criterion)
13 Daiei Gothic: Japanese Ghost Stories (Radiance)
14 Stop Making Sense (A24)
15 The Hitcher (Second Sight)
16 American Gigolo (Arrow)
17 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Criterion)
18 Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet (Deaf Crocodile)
19 Witchfinder General (88 Films)
20 The Valiant Ones (Eureka)
21 Frank Capra at Columbia (Sony)
22 Michael Powell: Early Works (BFI)
23 Cemetery Man (Severin)
24 The Roaring Twenties (Criterion)
25 Starting Over (Kino)

BEST UPGRADES

01 North by Northwest (Warner)
02 The Conversation (StudioCanal)
03 Seven Samurai (Criterion)
04 Nostalghia (Kino)
05 Withnail and I (Arrow)
06 Matinee (Shout)
07 All That Money Can Buy (Criterion)
08 Bringing Out the Dead (Paramount)
09 Rolling Thunder (Shout)
10 Six in Paris (Icarus)

BEST BOXSETS

01 Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials 1913-1918 (Eureka)
02 Nothing Is Sacred: Three Heresies by Luis Buñuel (Radiance)
03 Intégrale Otar Iosseliani (Carlotta)
04 Daiei Gothic: Japanese Ghost Stories (Radiance)
05 All the Haunts Be Ours Volume Two (Severin)
06 The Kingdom Trilogy (Mubi)
07 Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembène (Criterion)
08 Columbia Noir #6: The Whistler (Indicator)
09 Shawscope: Volume Three (Arrow)
10 Peter Strickland Collection (Curzon)

BEST 88 FILMS RELEASE

Runner-up: The Project A Collection

BEST A24 RELEASE

Runner-up: π

BEST ARROW RELEASE


01 Withnail and I
02 American Gigolo
03 The Tin Star
04 The Silence of the Lambs
05 The Shootist
06 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
07 Shawscope: Volume Three
08 A Simple Plan
09 Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe
10 The Long Good Friday

BEST BFI RELEASE


01 Floating Clouds
02 Michael Powell: Early Works
03 Seven Samurai
04 Cooking Price-Wise
05 I Was Born, But.../There Was a Father

BEST CRITERION RELEASE


01 Paper Moon
02 I Walked with a Zombie/The Seventh Victim
03 I Am Cuba
04 Happiness
05 Brief Encounters/The Long Farewell
06 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
07 Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembène
08 Seven Samurai
09 Werckmeister Harmonies
10 The Roaring Twenties

BEST DEAF CROCODILE RELEASE

Runner-up: The Golden Fern

BEST EUREKA RELEASE

Runner-up: The Cat and the Canary

BEST KINO RELEASE


01 Has Anybody Seen My Gal
02 Hatari!
03 Nostalghia
04 Archangel
05 Daisy Miller

BEST RADIANCE RELEASE


01 Nothing Is Sacred: Three Heresies by Luis Buñuel
02 Allonsanfan
03 Bandits of Orgosolo/The Lost World
04 Daiei Gothic: Japanese Ghost Stories
05 Häxan
06 Planet of the Vampires
07 L'Amour fou
08 Tchao pantin
09 The Man from Majorca
10 Suzhou River

BEST SHOUT RELEASE

Runner-up: Darkman

BEST SONY RELEASE

Runner-up: Man's Castle

BEST STUDIOCANAL RELEASE

Runner-up: Hitchcock: The Beginning

BEST VINEGAR SYNDROME RELEASE


01 Looking for Mr. Goodbar
02 The Tenant
03 Red Rock West
04 Singapore Sling
05 Phase IV

BEST WARNER RELEASE


01 North by Northwest
02 The Tall Target
03 Act of Violence
04 You're a Big Boy Now
05 They Drive by Night

BEST LABEL


01 Radiance
02 Criterion
03 BFI
04 Deaf Crocodile
05 Arrow

BEST COMMENTARY: Michael Brooke

Runner-up: Adrian Martin (Seven Samurai, BFI)

BEST BONUS FILM: Old-Fashioned Woman

Runner-up: L'Emission a déjà commencé (She Is Conann, Altered Innocence)

BEST COLLECTION OF SHORT FILMS

Runner-up: Peter Strickland Collection (Curzon)

BEST BOOK

Runner-up: All the Haunts Be Ours: Volume Two (Severin)

MOST DISAPPOINTING RELEASE

Runner-up: True Lies (20th Century)

BEST COVER


01 Häxan (Radiance)
02 All That Money Can Buy (Criterion)
03 Demon Pond (Criterion)
04 Triangle (Umbrella)
05 Gummo (Criterion)

WORST COVER
?????

BEST PACKAGING

Runner-up: Paper Moon (Criterion)

BEST THREAD
01 I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun, 2024)
02 CC40

Thanks swo! Maybe some of the people who deservedly voted for Allonsanfan in so many categories would like to weigh in with their thoughts on the film itself in its dedicated thread?

Well done, swo.

Criterion did quite well in this first direct match-up.