“Anyway, I look forward to meeting people who DON’T think the American version of [awesome foreign film] is vastly superior because we added more explosions, people who don’t moan at the prospect of reading subtitles or watching a film in (gasp!) black and white, etc.”
You’re in good company.
I figured I would be, though I’m already spotting some backlash against us “elitists.” C’est la vie.
I’m a native San Diegan, father to an 8 year old, husband to a murdered wife (oh no wait, that’s Gladiator) and am pursuing this damning dream of becoming a working filmmaker.
Hey!
I’m from NYC and i record music. you can check out my music here:
www.marthyn.com
I love films and appreciate Criterion!
Thanks
M.
Hi, I’m Chris, and I like to wear silly bunny suits.
Whoa whoa whoa! Don’t you mean Harold Zoid?! (Buster Keaton is far superior to Lloyd though.)
Newbie. Menial laborer from east Tennessee. Love Criterion. The best film I’ve yet seen is ‘Persona’. Or was it ‘2001’? Or was it ’The Phantom of Liberty? Love bunnies.
I’m a writer living in Seattle. I wrote a book called “The Littlest Hitler,” published in 2006 and have a novel called “Misconception” coming out in fall 2009.
I first became aware of Criterion’s magnificence when they released the 3-disc set of “Brazil,” still one of my all-time favorite films. A few years later I got a job at Amazon.com as an editor on the DVD tea Every day the mail cart came by and delivered boxes of DVDs on my desk, up to several hundred a week. We were all assigned to work with specific studios, and I got the Criterion account. This meant that I was responsible for coming up with ways to feature their releases on the site. And it meant that I got every Criterion disc I wanted. I was a kid in a candy store that sold heroin instead of candy. I also worked with Kino Video, Zeitgeist, Ryko, and other studios that sold obscure art house fare. While my colleagues snatched up the latest blockbusters, I feasted on Kino’s Edison box set, the works of Norman McClaren, silents, classics, and crazy animation. I considered myself lucky for the free DVDs, but I reached a point where management and I were not getting along, so I moved on.
Now, in addition to writing, I teach in Goddard College’s MFA program in Port Townsend, WA, am an editor at Expedia, and allow myself to watch a film if I’ve completed my writing for the day. Recently loved “Secret Honor” and “Synecdoche, New York.” I’m reading Roberto Bolanos’ “2666” and listening to an unhealthy amount of AC/DC. I’m stoked to meet more fellow film freaks here.
Howdy there from Montana!
I’m in high school and don’t want to go to film school. I just want to have a crappy job, quit it and start doing films. One of my favorite movies is “Schizopolis”. Keep rockin’ the free world.
Hello peeps. I’m fun and delicious, so let’s have an orgasmic time!
I’m loving the site, btw.
Greetings!
I’m Marina – a second-year Bulgarian student of Business Administration and Philosophy. My fascination with cinema borders complete intimacy and it’s the relationship I’d never give up or ever grow out of! :)
Hope to meet all you, cinephiles, in the forums and round the site!
Hey all, stumbled here from the new Criterion site. Liking what I’m seeing so far. It’s difficult to find people in real life that want to talk about or watch foreign films or read those “pesky subtitles” in “those strange foreign films” so a place like The Auteurs is welcome.
My name’s John E. and I’ve been living in San Jose, CA for 4 years now. My collection of poems, THE DATE FRUIT ELEGIES, was just release today, so I guess I’m a poet by trade. I do teach writing and literature at a small private U. while I anonymously enroll in film classes at one of the local junior colleges. I’m a Criterion collector who pretty much buys Criterion films exclusively. I just bought a Blu-Ray this week, so I’m going to have to start a fresh collection. Looking forward to EL NORTE.
Hello
I’m Derek Wilkerson I am from eastern North Carolina and in my free time I make my own films. They have all been shorts but oneday soon I will branch out and do a feature. I went to film school and am back in school for teaching history.
My name is Dave and I also found this site after checking out the new criterion.com – of course I joined instantly. I have a pretty good and continually growing collection of CC DVDs (and others) and I’m definitely one of those people who enjoys watching movies I like the second or third time more than the first. I’ve been building the video library for several years now and I think this site will be a main hangout for me in the foreseeable future. I have my own blog that I started this summer < criterionreflections.blogspot.com > though I have been lazy about updating it for quite a few weeks now. But it offers a sample of what I have to say about movies when I have the floor all to myself. :o)
Hello!
i was reading my emails during work and the criterion newsletter introduced me to the auteurs. I must say i’m already addicted to it as almost everybody else.
and i am currently working in a small film distributor in brazil (oh yeah….)
This site is a dream come true. I majored in journalism and enjoy watching, discussing, and sometimes reviewing films.
And Wendy you’re right, Au Hasard has one of the most heart-wrenching endings I’ve ever seen. I think it is also one of the most beautiful films I’ve ever seen. How cool this is to be able to mention a movie like Au Hasard and have people know what you’re talking about! Yea, I’m going to be addicted too.
Howdy Everybody
I found the auteurs website through Criterion’s new webpage. Background info on me:
I am 18 year old Canadian and currently in my last year of highschool. I’m going to study film in University and I hope to meet more people around the same age that share a passion in film as I do.
Byye
*I feel young among all the older folks q=
Greetings!
I found The Auteurs website through facebook (don’t ask) and found it to be one of the best websites in a long time. It felt good to be surrounded by like-minded people who appreciate arthouse films and what not. Being a student at film-school in Melbourne, Australia, alot of my colleagues don’t seem to know any of the movies I talk about (sounds snobbish I know) so I like the fact I can carry out conversations with people about films I really like or don’t.
I am a roughneck in Alberta and trying to talk to someone about Ozu or Resnais during an H2S alarm isn’t the easiest thing to do. I am very happy to have found a site that shares my love of ALL things cinema and exposes me to all sorts of new films; not just the newest 80s revival or comicbook adaptation. Hurray for all of you!
Sorry, I am too busy right now watching a long list of must see films, gotten from the library, many are Criterions. I have been wasting too much valuable film viewing time posting all over the place to this forum and Criterion.com forums. Oh yes, I am a retired library worker, under-achiever, and would be first time memoir writer living in Vancouver. Why are there so many Canadian cinephiles? Is it our long, cold winters??? I am also a post-modernist, because it sounds so cool. I am erudite, profound, and simple-minded, all at the same time. How about YOU?
Hello I am Jon Paul and I am a Junior in a High School in New Jersey. I have always had a love for movies of almost all genres but many of my favorites are ones that are talked about around this forum so this is a great haven for me to just came and mingle with all of you.
Hi, I’m Kevin from Houston. I have no background in film nor can I offer any scholastic opinion. But many of these films rock my face off. I’m 31 and I only wish I had gotten into these movies earlier, but that’s ok. I love Fellini’s early period up to 8 1/2… I’m lost after Juliet … maybe others can help me out.
Greets.
I’m a service-sector worker bee from North Carolina. Though a dazzling DVD collection is a tad beyond my service-sector budget, I’ve seen thousands of things, and am a lifeling cinephile. I’ve made some (very) sporadic contributions to varied sites, and once helped to co-author a grad level film theory syllabus and film list for a course being taught at a university I can’t get into.
At varied points in life, I’ve been a punk musician, retail stooge, buyer for an indie music distro, small-town newspaper writer, convenience store clerk, and assorted other unimpressive sorts of things.
Fave filmmakers would include lots of familiar names, though I would specifically single out Nagisa Oshima and Satyajit Ray as two particularly revered filmmakers.
This is looking like a great site, and it has already been quite marvelous to explore. Thanks to everyone involved!
Hi everyone. I’m a longtime English lit major (seriously, I’m one of those obnoxious college students who refuses to leave or grow up) in the entertainment capital known as El Paso. Film has been my passion my whole life. All kinds: the good, the bad and the in-between. This site is downright thrilling to someone like me who yearns to be exposed to more yet has to put up with a video store stocked with The Happening and little else.
Hi, I’m a theater critic in Austin, Texas and have been a fan of film for quite some time, but have never had the opportunity to dive head first and explore some of the more obscure classics out there. I can’t wait to peruse this site and see just what they have to offer. My favorite filmmakers include Jan Svankmajer, Wong Kar-Wai and Todd Solondz.
MFA Poet in Alabama who’s gaga for Welles, the Coen Brothers, and most anything silent. I think this site is going to be great!
Greetings to all here. I’m a computer programmer but my academic training is in Archaeology. Have loved film all my life, growing up in Jersey City in the fifties, going to the Central theater almost every Saturday afternoon. Got to the sixties and was always in the Stanley, The Loews, The State and The Pix. Criterion has been there for so long now. Favorites are Antonioni, Tarkovsky, Fellini, Kurosawa and Wong Kar-Wai. How many here love Ozu, after Criterion’s Eclipse Series release? This site will be a daily visit for me…
MrE2Me
Nice to find a place where the film snobs of the world can unite and bicker without the fear of being heckled by the mindless masses. I’ve been a Criterion buff for years, though my budget doesn’t allow me to buy nearly as many of their DVDs as I’d like. Anyway, I look forward to meeting people who DON’T think the American version of [awesome foreign film] is vastly superior because we added more explosions, people who don’t moan at the prospect of reading subtitles or watching a film in (gasp!) black and white, etc. Let this be to other film forums what art-house cinemas are to the soulless multiplexes that litter the landscape. Keep up the good work!