DVDBEAVER2007年度最佳DVD评选

First Place with 144 pts – is Fox's; Region 1, 21-disc package of 24 John Ford classics. He is often regarded as the most influential director of sound films and his legacy is best noted for a long string of successful westerns that revolutionized and uplifted that genre to respectable heights. Many great directors list John Ford as their most influential including Martin Scorsese, Bernardo Bertolucci and Akira Kurosawa (who worshipped Ford). During extensive work in the silent era (70 films) Ford eventually perfected his 'modus operandi' of storytelling using a detailed and subtly pure brand of simplicity. This beautifully packaged collection also includes the documentary 'Becoming John Ford', an exclusive hard-cover book which features rare, unpublished photographs from Ford’s career, lobby card reproductions and production stills.


Second Place with 90 pts – is Fantoma's Region 1 collection of The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. 2. Cinematic magician, legendary provocateur, author of the infamous Hollywood Babylon books and creator of some of the most striking and beautiful works in the history of film, Kenneth Anger is a singular figure in post-war American culture. Covering the second half of Anger's career, from his legendary Scorpio Rising to his breathtaking phantasmagoria Lucifer Rising, Fantoma should take great pride in completing the cycle with this long-awaited final volume of films by this revolutionary and groundbreaking maverick - painstakingly restored and presented in wonderful DVD package. .

	Third Place with 81pts – is Fantoma's The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. 1. Restored by the UCLA Film Archive, Kenneth Anger's clandestine early films are meticulously presented on an NTSC, Region 0 DVD (under Anger's supervision) with revealing optional commentaries by the director. Film fans have lived through decrepit VHS DUP's of these works for long enough and they now look better than ever before. Kenneth Anger's filmic vision shows a stylized expression that can both repel and allure. Watching these selections will only justify his timeless contribution to the world of cinema. .

Fourth Place with 74pts – is Criterion's Berlin Alexanderplatz directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It's a controversial, fifteen-hour-plus Magnum Opus, based on Alfred Döblin's great modernist novel, and was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at age thirty-four, had already made forty films. Fassbinder’s immersive epic, restored in 2006 and is now available on DVD. It follows the hulking, childlike ex-convict Franz Biberkopf (Günter Lamprecht) as he attempts to "become an honest soul" amid the corrosive urban landscape of Weimar-era Germany. With equal parts cynicism and humanity, Fassbinder details a mammoth portrait of a common man struggling to survive in a viciously uncommon time.

	Fifth Place with 65pts – is BFI's magnificent package of three highly important Mikio Naruse films. Supplementing the Masters of Cinema Mikio Naruse Vol. 1 boxset, followed by Criterion's *When a Woman Ascends the Stairs* - we have only the third ever DVD release of Naruse films for English friendly audiences. Almost unanimously they are considered to contain his most important works. Mikio Naruse demands a certain deserved reverence with film fans. His non-judgmental cinema creates a kind of pragmatic balance between compassion and sensitivity... steeped in subtly deep melodrama but frequently with an overall bleak and pessimistic outlook.

Sixth Place with 64pts – is the Eclipse Series 3 Boxset Late Ozu. Master filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu directed fifty-three feature films over the course of his long career. Yet it was in the final decade of his life, his “old master” phase, that he entered his artistic prime. Centered more than ever on the modern sensibilities of the younger generation, these delicate family dramas are marked by an exquisite formal elegance and emotional sensitivity about birth and death, love and marriage, and all the accompanying joys and loneliness.

	Seventh Place with 56pts – is Warner's fourth volume of their Film Noir Classics Collection which boasts ten unheralded gem titles on five double-sided discs. Black cinema auteurs Anthony Mann and Nicholas Ray lead the way with some debatable Noir B-classics rounding out the package. Many of the films include professional commentaries, including contributions by Drew Casper, Alain Silver, Elizabeth Ward, James Ellroy and Eddie Muller and Audrey Totter (on Tension). As a primer on the Dark Cinema or simple vintage entertainment this Classic Collection delivers in spades.

Eighth Place with 54pts – is the 2-disc, Region 1 Killer of Sheep: The Charles Burnett Collection from New Yorker Video/Milestone Cinematheque. A masterpiece of African American filmmaking and one of the finest debuts in cinema history, Killer of Sheep was chosen for the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. In the Los Angeles community of Watts, Stan, a sensitive dreamer, is growing detached and numb from the toll of working at a slaughterhouse. Frustrated by money problems, he finds respite in moments of simple beauty: the warmth of a teacup against his cheek, slow dancing with his wife, holding his daughter. Combining lyrical moments with neorealist style, Burnett unfolds his story with compassion and humor. Killer of Sheep's haunting images and extraordinary soundtrack are a revelation in this new high-definition transfer from the UCLA Film & Television Archive's brilliant 35mm restoration. .

	Ninth Place with 53pts – is Paramount's *Twin Peaks Definitive Gold Box* directed by David Lynch. The highly anticipated complete series of one of the most acclaimed events in television history finally comes to DVD in one glorious complete package. This definitive *Twin Peaks Definitive Gold Box* Edition has been carefully supervised by Lynch and includes, for its digital debut, the original and European versions of the pilot. This 10-disc groundbreaking series features all 30 newly re-mastered episodes, all-new 5.1 Surround Sound and is loaded with exclusive featurettes, new interviews, introductions and much much more! .

Tenth Place with 48pts – is the Criterion Collection's treatment of Kenji Mizoguchi's immortal classic Sansho Dayu (Sansho the Bailiff). Based on an ancient legend, as recounted by celebrated author Mori Ogai (in his short story of the same name, written in 1915), and adapted by Japanese master director Mizoguchi. Sansho Dayu is both distinctively Japanese and as deeply affecting as a Greek tragedy. Described in its opening title as “one of the oldest and most tragic in Japan’s history”, Mizoguchi depicts an unforgettably sad story of social injustice, family love, personal sacrifice, and fateful tragedy.