{"id":75266,"date":"2023-06-30T17:31:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T15:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilcinemaritrovato.it\/?p=75266"},"modified":"2024-06-27T15:15:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T13:15:39","slug":"dvd-awards-i-vincitori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilcinemaritrovato.it\/en\/dvd-awards-i-vincitori\/","title":{"rendered":"DVD Awards 2023 | The winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, July 29th<\/strong> in Piazzetta Pier Paolo Pasolini the winners of Il Cinema Ritrovato DVD Awards 2023<\/strong> were announced. The competition was open to DVDs and Blu-rays released between February 2022 and March 2023 of critically acclaimed films made before 1992.<\/p>\n

The jury, composed by Lorenzo Codelli, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Philippe Garnier, Pamela Hutchinson, Miguel Mar\u00edas<\/strong> and Paolo Mereghetti<\/strong> (president) assigned the following awards.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Best Box Set<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

JONAS MEKAS: Diaries, Notes & Sketches Vol.1-8<\/strong> (1949-2000) by Jonas Mekas \u2013 Re:voir (blu-ray\/DVD Box Set)<\/p>\n

This is a beautiful set, devoted to the great Lithuanian filmmaker and artist Jonas Mekas. In terms of packaging design alone, this elegant box set is an object to covet, but this is also a comprehensive collection of work. The collection gathers together Mekas\u2019s acclaimed diary films, such as Walden, Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania<\/em> and As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty<\/em> along with out-takes, fragments, constituent parts, and texts that support the moving image works. All together, this kaleidoscopic anthology of texts and moving images, the transcendent and the quotidian, is a fine tribute to
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\"\"<\/a>Best Special Features<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

GET CARTER<\/strong> (1971) by Mike Hodges – BFI (blu-ray)<\/p>\n

Among Michael Caine\u2019s favorite anti-heroes, Get Carter \u2013 the acclaimed debut of director Mike Hodges \u2013 gets triumphally resurrected together with its social and cinematographic backgrounds. A book with critical essays, two commentaries, documents, video interviews, memories, tv reports etc. A goldmine.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Best Rediscovery of a Forgotten Film<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

INVADERS FROM MARS<\/strong> (1953) by William Cameron Menzies – Ignite Films (blu-ray)<\/p>\n

Admirably restored in 4k, this misunderstood sci-fi masterpiece returns available in all its freshness and originality: what is going on on the hillside near the home of a young boy to attract his curiosity? A child of 1950s anti-communist paranoia but also determined in the conquest of space, this much-imitated but never equalled film is finally available in a beautiful Blu-ray edition enriched with a series of interesting extras (including the alternative ending that circulated in Europe).<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Best Rediscovery of a Forgotten Film (Box Set)<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

COFFRET KINUYO TANAKA, R\u00c9ALISATRICE DE L\u2019\u00c2GE D\u2019OR DU CIN\u00c9MA JAPONAIS:<\/strong> Koibumi (Love Letter) \/ Tsuki wa noborinu (The Moon Has Risen) \/ Chibusa yo eien nare (Forever a Woman) \/ Ruten no ohi (The Wandering Princess) \/ Onna bakari no yoru (Girls of the Night) \/ Ogin-sama (Love Under the Crucifix) (1953\/1955\/1955\/1960\/1961\/1962) by Kinuyo Tanaka \u2013 Blu-ray Box Set – Carlotta Films (blu-ray Box Set)<\/p>\n

Apart from being one of Japan\u2019s best and most renowned actresses, Tanaka Kinuy\u014d was the first Japanese woman to direct several films, between 1953 and 1962. Her six films she completed as director are reunited in this Box Set, and at long last in very good, digitally restored prints, so that they can become as widely known as they deserve. Although all of them are outstanding on very different themes and moods, all share the same force and intelligence and emotion from a woman\u2019s point of view, and reveal a filmmaker of the stature of the very best ever, in Japan or elsewhere.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Best Single Film Release<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

SLNKO V SIETI<\/strong> (60th Anniversary Edition) (T. Int.: The Sun In a Net, 1963) by \u0160tefan Uher – Slovak Film Institute (blu-ray)<\/p>\n

While many films and filmmakers have been designated as the crucial fountainhead of the 1960\u2019s New Wave in Slovak and Czech cinema, none is as fresh and wonderful a surprise as Stefan Uher\u2019s 1962 The Sun in the Net<\/em>. Set in Bratislava and a nearby country village, it is a tale of two young people from different backgrounds. Fajolo is the city boy, too cool for school, wearing dark glasses and feigning supreme indifference for everything around him, even an upcoming eclipse of the sun. Bela is the girl who will make him come around. There is interaction with parents and Party apparatchiks, but this is really this young couple\u2019s story, their impatience for a more modern and freer life. The film got in trouble at the time of its release more for its tone and indifference to official Slovak life than political sedition. Some even saw the eclipse as a metaphor for the waning attraction and power of the Communist Party.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Best Film (The Peter von Bagh Award)<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

MARTIN SCORSESE\u2019S WORLD CINEMA PROJECT No. 4<\/strong> – Sambizanga<\/em> (1972), Prisioneros de la tierra<\/em> (1939), Chess of the Wind<\/em> (1976), Muna moto<\/em> (1975), Two Girls on the Street (1939), Kalpana<\/em><\/span> (1948) \u2013 The Criterion Collection (blu-ray Box Set)<\/p>\n

The Martin Scorsese\u2019s World Cinema Project No. 4 box set is beautifully designed and produced with remarkable extra features to showcase new restorations of an eclectic selection of six films from different corners of the world that were in danger of falling off the map of public memory including Sambizanga<\/em> from Angola, Prisioneros de la Tierra<\/em> from Argentina, Chess of the Wind<\/em> from Iran, Muna moto<\/em> from Cameroon, Two Girls on the Street<\/em> from Hungary and Kalpana<\/em> from India. A truly worthwhile addition to any cinephile\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n

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