On Thursday, June 26th in Piazzetta Pier Paolo Pasolini the winners of Il Cinema Ritrovato Blu-ray and DVD Awards 2025 were announced. The competition was open to DVDs and Blu-rays released between February 2024 and March 2025 of critically acclaimed films made before 1995.
The jury, composed by Lorenzo Codelli, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Philippe Garnier, Pamela Hutchinson, Miguel Marías and Paolo Mereghetti (president) assigned the following awards.
Best Film (The Peter von Bagh Award)
ALL THE HAUNTS BE OURS: A COMPENDIUM OF FOLK HORROR, VOL.2 (Severin Films) — Blu-ray Box Set
Whatever one feels about horror, ghost, or zombie flicks, one can only admire the gang at Severin for curating this ambitious anthology with the same care and seriousness as Criterion or Studio Canal applies to classic cinema, but with a good measure of nuttiness added. Peter Von Bagh would have loved this adventurous collection which runs the gamut from Japanese ghost film to lycanthropy in Lapland to British Seventies biker schlock (complete with stone circles and a ghostly George Sanders, three months from suicide). There is a great black and white Estonian horror film (Rainer Sarnet’s 2017 November), lame Sixties folk-singing ghost flicks, and films from many countries not often mentioned here or anywhere. All this was wonderfully packaged and curated under the supervision of Kier-la Janisse, author of the unforgettable book House of Psychotic Women. (Philippe Garnier)
