My name is Kevin. I do a small immature online store called Underground Collector, and I’m the creator of the mixtape “debris.” and when I’m not watching really awful movies (predominately 80’s VHS tapes), I enjoy stimulating my mind with the occasional Criterion. I keep to myself to avoid allowing people to know how unintelligent I am, but I pipe in once in awhile when I truly grasp the subject.
My name is Matthias Galvin. What I enjoy in a film most is the presence of innovation, style, and things unique to film, making a second consideration to the story and (written) literary content. To put it simply: While I enjoy both, I will always choose Citizen Kane over The Rules of the Game . My favorite directors are Jean-Pierre Melville, Michael Mann, but I think that the greatest directors are Jean Renoir, Orson Welles, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Guy Maddin, and few others. Some of my favorite films are Le Samourai , Collateral , L.A. Confidential , Menilmontant , Vampyr , and Yojimbo .
My name’s Peet Gelderblom. By day, I direct for a production company in Amsterdam. By night, I draw a weekly webcomic called Directorama, which chronicles the afterlife of a pantheon of legendary directors duking it out for artistic supremacy. Among many other auteurs, it stars Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut and Alan Smithee. Read it at www.directorama.net.
Name’s Sean. I work in the video game industry but I’m a bit of a media junkie all around. Books, film, art, you name it – I find it all fascinating. Looking forward to spending some time here and exploring the Criterion collection with you all. :)
I work retail in Tulsa, love Kurosawa and Fellini but also ‘Crash’ and ‘White Men Can’t Jump’. I think ‘The Rules of the Game’ and ‘Showgirls’ are both classics in their own (completely different) ways
Hello all! Name is Alvin, 43 year old graphic artist, illustrator and photographer. My childhood years were defined by saturday trips to the $1 movie theater around the corner from where I grew up, to be followed by weekly excursions to the movie theaters during my immediate post-college years (averaging 2-3 a week on occasion) and eventually culminating in the slow, methodical amassing of my DVD collection. Needless to say movies as a whole have had a profound effect on my life. It has only been the last several years that I have dipped into the foreign film pool, with Criterion’s Nights of Cabiria being my first real connection. It is comforting to see a strong community of like-minded individuals for whom films are more than just an over-priced trip to the local theater.
Movie junkie? Perhaps. Obsession with the celluloid arts? Possibly. Cinephile? Certainly!
Hey all! I’m from Minneapolis MN. I spend most my time watching movies, bicycling, and sitting in a art museum to feed my addiction of Japanese horror/shock films.
“I am driver. I go left, I go right, I go straight ahead – that’s it.”
Hello there, I’m from Toronto, and I simply love films, and really enjoy the fact you’ve put this site together. I’ll certainly participate more soon.
Favourite films: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Lawrence of Arabia (aka, the Essential Desert Adventure Trilogy, as I call it), Three Colours Trilogy, the Third Man, Miller’s Crossing, Diary of a Lost Girl, The Scarlet Empress, The Big Heat, The Thing and many, many, many more.
Favourite directors: Huston, Lang, Kieslowski, Welles, Melville, Hitchcock, Lean and others.
I like all kinds of films, from the classy to the trashy (within reason), and quite often find myself searching out more obscure titles. I do consider myself a cinephile. Thank you for letting me take part in this site, in whatever capacity!
Hello, I’m from Michigan but I am a studying English at BYU-Idaho right now.
I think that I watch a film everyday.
I’m in love with European films… and literature… and art.
Here! The movie that made me fall in love with “good” movies was The Double Life of Veronique. What a beautiful movie- it made me think and think about the paradoxes for weeks. Now my favorite movies tend to be beautifully shot (I love the Wong Kar-wai Christopher Doyle combo), though I always fall for a good Hitchcock murder mystery.
I didn’t see this intro thread before I started posting, so to catch up:
My name is as you see; I’m 48, from Denmark, living in the US since 1980. “King Kong” was my first “wow” moment at the power of film, and I haven’t stopped since.
At 12, I found a copy of “The Parade’s Gone By” by Kevin Brownlow at the library. I fell in love with silents and worked my way forward from there…….
Love Stroheim, Gance, also Bunuel, Bergman, Wells, Ozu, Tarr…..way too many to list.
Animation, ducumentary and fantasy are up there too.
Shot Super-8 from age 15 forward, and got to college knowing I had to do something like that. Wound up becoming a free-lance broadcast videographer.
Am lucky to be married to a woman who loves film as much as I do, and who tolerates my 16mm projectors at home.
Hello from a big shot town in the Midwest. I’ve been in The Auteurs for a few days. Fill in the blanks however you like.
I have a lot of movies to catch up with before I can be a genuine film buff.
Hi! I’m a student from new york and I love to watch movies.
Hello from New York!
I was corrupted by Film Forum, Anthology Film Archives, BAM Cinemas, Walter Reade and Alliance Française. I have a favorite seat at MoMA.
I play a quasi misanthrope in real life but occasionally exhibit a sense of humor.
I joined a few days ago. My details are on my profile page, so I won’t bore you with repetition. Anyone who wants to chat movies, feel free to get in touch!
Hello from Manchester, UK. I have just joined this week, thanks to a recommendation from the guy above me.
I’m way out of my league here. Hoping to pick up ideas for films that don’t normally cross my path.
Mary
I’ve been here a week. Details on profile.
Hey everybody! It is great to finally be in a culture where Donnie Darko isn’t the greatest indie film of all time. My name is Sumner, and I work in intelligence for the US Navy. Drop me a line.
Hello
Opened different thread by mistake so decided to drop by and re introduced myself.
PS
Donnie Darko was kind of OK but the ending is terrible…
I’m from the UK, I’m a high school English teacher, came here after searching for “Let The Right One In discussion” on Google.
Glad to be somewhere with serious intelligent people.
We don’t have the Criterion Collection in the UK.
PLEASE BRING OUT THE CC IN THE UK!!
But you have Eureka and Second Run!
hi never introduced myself very rude. glad there are some people i can watch talk about film who are intelligent and articulate rather than every review being – THAT ROCKED!, or -THAT SUCKED! people who appreciate film as ART and as entertainment which my circle of people sorely lacks (i am sick of explaining why i hate the SAW FRANCHISE every time a new SAW movie comes out.) anyway, hi to all, i love this site, and the UK also has BFI and they too are great.
im from minnesota, working for the FAA (just training in okc right now though). just really started to develop more opinions and tastes as far as movies go. ive always loved cinema, but havent really had time to explore it thoroughly. i found this site, and it seems to echo things i find myself thinking about and saying to others. since i signed up i have done something and been interested almost every day, so heres to the start of a beautiful friendship!
Welcome guys and gals, glad to have you on the site!
Bump.
Just so newer users can use it.
Pity there’s no way to keep this permanently at the top of the front page …
We need a designated bumper.
Aha! Thanks to Adam for bumping …
I joined last week. I’m working on a math Ph.D. (mathematical logic, specifically), studying at the University of Michigan, though right now I’m in Palo Alto until August. First found my way here because of the fake Criterion covers (those are awesome) and decided to join when I saw the Cannes winners program.
Hi all.
mmoore
An old futzer, semi-retired, but still watching movies.
In my past, mostly words: editor, publisher — of books and magazines. But always a movie-goer. Living deep inside a middle-sized city out west as a child, with a movie-goer father and five theaters (two of them baroque beauties) within walking distance, I saw, ready or not, almost every (American) movie of the late-40s and early 50s. (I was six when I first saw LOST WEEKEND, for instance, and I believe the DTs sequence haunted my young dreams for years.) Then in the later 50s a teenager at the drive-in double-features (sometimes we watched the movies; sometimes we didn’t — who remembers THE IMMORAL MR. TEES?). And so on.
I came to this place a couple of weeks ago, arriving via the Criterion newsletter. I’m not yet certain what this place is — a film student lounge? a Criterion focus group?
All this youth … It does seem a new age.
I do have one old man’s lament: that we no longer, or seldom, crowd into proper theaters and, in that deep darkness have the communal experience of giving ourselves over to whatever is up there flashing on the screen, most of the film venues now being little more than oversized screening rooms.
Of course it is also a wonder and wonderful what we do have: the opportunity to view, on our little computer monitors and television screens, all of best of cinema from its beginnings, each of us with our own private revival house. But this wonder comes at a price.