January 2010

“THE COVE” WINS 3 CINEMA EYE HONORS INCLUDING FEATURE PRIZE
AGNES VARDA NAMED OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR
2 HONORS FOR “BURMA VJ” and “OCTOBER COUNTRY”
“THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE” NAMED AUDIENCE CHOICE
JANUARY 15, 2010 – (New York) The Cinema Eye Honors, celebrating artistic achievement in nonfiction film in 12 categories, were presented tonight at the Times Center in New York City where Louie Psihoyos’ THE COVE – the acclaimed undercover investigation into secret dolphin hunting in Taijii, Japan – was the night’s big winner, receiving three Cinema Eye Honors for Outstanding Nonfiction Feature, Outstanding Production and Outstanding Cinematography.
The third annual event drew a packed house of documentary filmmakers, with presenters including Albert Maysles, Academy Award winners Barbara Kopple and Peter Davis, Ellen Kuras, Amir Bar-Lev and Bill Plympton.  The event was hosted by Cinema Eye co-chairs Esther Robinson and AJ Schnack.
Legendary French filmmaker Agnès Varda was awarded the Cinema Eye for Outstanding Direction for THE BEACHES OF AGNES.  Her longtime production designer, Franckie Diago, accepted the award on Varda’s behalf.
Anders Østergaard’s BURMA VJ received two awards, Outstanding International Feature and Outstanding Achievement in Editing, as did Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher’s OCTOBER COUNTRY, which was named Outstanding Debut and received the award for Original Music Score.
RJ Cutler’s behind-the-scenes look at Vogue Magazine, THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE, took the Audience Choice Prize.  Jessica Oreck received the first Cinema Eye Spotlight Award for her debut feature, BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO.  The Spotlight Award is intended to showcase a film that has not yet received proper attention in the United States.
[Full list of winners below.]
Ross McElwee’s 1986 documentary classic SHERMAN’S MARCH was presented with the first Cinema Eye Legacy Award.  McElwee received his award from two-time Oscar winner Kopple and then discussed the film and his work on stage with Thom Powers, chair of the Cinema Eye Honors Nominations Committee and Documentary Programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival.
The process for selecting the awards began with a list nearly 100 feature length nonfiction films eligible in 2009. The nominees were selected by a panel of documentary programmers from 14 different film festivals in North America and Europe.  More than 150 members of the documentary community – filmmakers, distributors, programmers and critics – voted for this year’s Cinema Eye winners.  Two categories – Original Music Score and the Spotlight Award – were voted on by a select jury.
http://www.cinemaeyehonors.com
2010 Cinema Eye Honorees
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
THE COVE
Directed by Louie Psihoyos
Produced by Paula DuPré Pesman and Fisher Stevens
Outstanding Achievement in Direction
Agnès Varda
THE BEACHES OF AGNES
Outstanding Achievement in International Feature Filmmaking
BURMA VJ
Directed by Anders Østergaard
Produced by Lise-Lense Møller
Outstanding Achievement in Debut Feature Filmmaking
OCTOBER COUNTRY
Directed by Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher
Outstanding Achievement in Production
Paula DuPré Pesman and Fisher Stevens
THE COVE
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
Brook Aitken
THE COVE
Outstanding Achievement in Editing
Janus Billeskov-Jansen and Thomas Papapetros
BURMA VJ
Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score
Danny Grody, Donal Mosher, Michael Palmieri, Ted Savarese and Kenric Taylor
OCTOBER COUNTRY
Original Music Score Jury: Natalia Almada, Laurie Anderson, Brendan Canty, T. Griffin and Craig Wedren

Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation (tie)
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Spotlight Award
BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO
Directed by Jessica Oreck
Spotlight Jury: Pernille Rose Gronkjær, Jason Kohn, David Polonsky and Jennifer Venditti
Audience Choice Prize
THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE
Directed by RJ Cutler
Legacy Award
SHERMAN’S MARCH
Directed by Ross McElwee
2010 Cinema Eye Honorees Press Release

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Hello there!
I’m the gentleman (and I use that term loosely – eyeing myself over my glasses and everything) that worked with Chris and Jimmy to get this new site up and running. Beyond building websites, I work in the film industry as a producer and writer. I’ll be adding occasional posts to the site about film distribution, overlooked work and general pop culture.
I just wanted to put up a quick post regarding the latest insane entertainment corporation move of the New Year – the Sony Spiderman reboot.
In case you haven’t read/heard about this, Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire are off the project – and Sony is gleefully looking forward to a grittier reboot of the franchise. Yes – a reboot on a franchise that is less than 10 years old, and only a few years since the last massive (though flawed) blockbuster. I think it’s appalling, weird and a troubling sign of things to come. Salon.com had their film writers toss out some ideas/reactions on where to take things here (you’ll need to sit through an ad) and Scott Mendelson has some great thoughts on it as well.
What do the fiends think? Travesty? Welcome chance for recovery?
One, perhaps, upside is that we could begin to enter a film comic universe full of the endless plot shifts/parallel dimensions/causal paradoxes of actual comics. That’s the best outlook I’ve got.

We’re extremely humbled by the support that The Masters of Cinema Series has received in some of the big year-end best-of-2009 polls that have hit various media within the last few weeks.
<a href=“http://hcc.techradar.com/news/“>Home Cinema Choice</a> magazine in the UK voted MoC “DVD Label of the Year” in their January issue, and singled out our recent <a href=“http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/sunrise2/“>Blu-ray</a> and <a href=“http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/sunrise”>DVD</a> editions of F. W. Murnau’s <a href=“http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/sunrise2/“>Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans</a> as the “Best Remastering” of the past year.
We were likewise very honoured to learn that the weekly cultural staple <a href=“http://www.timeout.com/film/“>Time Out London</a> had <a href=“http://www.timeout.com/film/features/show-feature/9362/the-dvds-of-2009.html”>acknowledged our releases</a> of Maurice Pialat’s <a href=“http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/la-gueule-ouverte/“>La Gueule ouverte</a> (which package includes nine other shorter Pialat films!) and Al Reinert’s <a href=“http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/for-all-mankind_2/“>For All Mankind</a> as the #1 and #2 DVD releases of the year, respectively.
The UK’s Sight & Sound magazine asked numerous contributors to list their best DVDs of 2009, and <a href=“http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/exclusive/dvdsof2009">over ten of our 2009 releases were chosen here</a>.
Writers for <a href=“http://dvdoutsider.co.uk/“>DVDOutsider</a> and <a href=“http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content/id/72009/dvd-times-top-10-dvds-of-2009.html”>DVDTimes</a> also chose a number of our 2009 releases in their end of year roundups.
Our theatrical releases this year have also been mentioned in end of year roundups, <a href=“http://eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/tokyo-sonata2/“>Tokyo Sonata</a> by John White at <a href=“http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content/id/72027/dvd-times-top-10-films-of-2009.html”>DVDTimes</a>, and <a href=“http://eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/soul-power2/“>Soul Power</a> (second best film of the year) by Jason Solomons at the Guardian (the <a href=“http://eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/soul-power/“>Soul Power DVD</a> was picked out by the Metro).
Last but certainly not least, the cumulative votes by contributors of the <a href=“http://www.dvdbeaver.com/DVDBlu-rayoftheYear2009.htm”>DVDBeaver DVD and Blu-ray of the Year 2009 global poll</a> ranked our release of <a href=“http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/dr-mabuse-der-spieler/“>The Complete Fritz Lang Mabuse Boxset</a> as the #1 worldwide DVD release of the year, and our Blu-ray edition of F. W. Murnau’s <a href=“http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/sunrise2/“>Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans</a> as the #1 worldwide Blu-ray release of the year. (Other MoC DVD placings included Antonioni’s <a href=“http://eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/il-grido/“>Il grido</a>, and Pialat’s <a href=“http://eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/la-gueule-ouverte/“>La Gueule ouverte</a> and <a href=“http://eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/nous-ne-vieillirons-pas-ensemble/“>Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble</a> as numbers 8, 12, and 18 best of the year respectively, while our edition of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s <a href=“http://eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/tokyo-sonata2/“>Tokyo Sonata</a> garnered mention as the #17 best Blu-ray of the year — alongside nods to superlative releases from our friends at Criterion, BFI, Second Run, and Artificial Eye, among others). In the same poll, The MoC Series was also recognised for “Best Cover Design” for our <a href=“http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/das-testament-des-dr-mabuse/“>Complete Fritz Lang Mabuse Boxset</a>; “Best Audio Commentary” for the great David Kalat’s work on our editions of the three Mabuse films and F. W. Murnau’s <a href=“http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/die-finanzen-des-grosherzogs/“>Die Finanzen des Grossherzogs</a>; and “Best Extras” in the way of the short films by Pialat which accompany the <a href=“http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/la-gueule-ouverte/“>La Gueule ouverte</a> release, and the 80-page book that accompanies our edition of Jean-Luc Godard’s <a href=“http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/une-femme-mariee2/“>Une femme mariée, fragments d’un film tourné en 1964 en noir et blanc</a> (which book will also accompany the Blu-ray edition out this month).
Among such commendations we stand flabbergastedly grateful — to our supporters and all of our collaborators. We promise our fans a tremendously exciting 2010 and beyond. Our 80th anniversary Blu-ray of Murnau’s <a href=“http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/city-girl/“>City Girl</a> has given us goosebumps, and we can’t wait to share it. A wonderful way to kick off the new decade, in glorious 1080p…

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