san soliel – chris marker !!!!!!!
anything cassavetes
anything argento
i watched an excellent film last night called “the diving bell and the butterfly”( in english though it’s french ) anyone who’s watched already please reply i think the cinematography was astonishing!!!
I watched it on a big screen and thought it was wonderful. I’m rarely moved to tears while watching a film and avoid melodramas but this one made me cry and I still like it. In fact, it is one of my favorite films… but I would have to watch it again to be able to comment on the cinematography. Of course, the camera’s eye adopts the visual perspective of the protagonist, which makes the viewers identify more with the protagonist and his struggle despite the fact that he was not a very likable person prior to the accident.
Kubrick films (2001, The Shining, Barry Lyndon)
Bunuel films (Los Olvidados, Viridiana)
Scorsese films (Goodfellas, Raging Bull)
Hitchcock films (Vertigo, Strangers on a Train)
Kurosawa films (Ran, Throne of Blood, Yojimbo)
Sansho the Bailiff
Apocalypse Now
The Godfather
Some more I’d like to see:
More Philippe Garrel (anything really, but “The Inner Scar” especially)
Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s shorts (Good Boys Use Condoms & La Bouche de Jean-Pierre)
Je t’aime, je t’aime (Resnais)
Alain Robbe-Grillet (any and all)
Andrzej Zulawski (any and all)
Il Mistero di Oberwald & Beyond the Clouds (Antonioni)
Hey Marionn,
I’ve just flown from London to Tokyo and watched 5 films during the flight.
I saw Diving Bell and the Butterfly finally which I missed in Cannes last year.
Mathew Amalric is the most interesting French actor at the moment
and his acting only by blinking his one eye was incredible.
Cinematography and sound from his POV was also very effective.
I was also amused to see Max von Sydow,
whom I remember his as a priest in Exorcist.
He has been performing as an old man for several decades!
I also watched the films below. They all were not bad at all
but I particularly liked Kite Runner.
The original fiction sold 700,000 in UK.
I wish everyone watch it.
http://www.kiterunnermovie.com/
-Sweeney Todd
Good music score though very dark in every sense.
-Brave One directed by Neil Jordan
Jodie Foster is still acting a surviver since in her teen…
-Michael Clayton
I never fancy George Clooney. Has he ever been a great actor or director?
Another thing I want to see in The Auteurs
PLAYTIME, by Jacques Tati.
Mon Oncle by Jacques Tati… if Playtime is not available.
Most importantly, Masculin Feminin. Also more Kieslowski, in particular, Trois Coleurs and the Short Films About Love and Murder. Scenes from a Marriage. Thirty-two Short Films About Glenn Gould. Last Night. The Up! Series. Withnail and I. How to Get Ahead in Advertising. Dawn of the Dead. Shaun of the Dead. The Five Obstructions. Visitor Q. Happiness of the Katakuris. Gozu. In My Skin. Dead Alive. No Bruno Dumont? Maybe I’ve overrated him.
A ROOM WITH A VIEW (JAMES IVORY)
CET OBSCUR OBJET DU DESIR (LUIS BUNUEL)
LA CERIMONIE (CLAUDE CHABROL)
LE FLOR DE MI SECRETO (PEDRO ALMODOVAR)
HOWARDS END (JAMES IVORY)
8 WOMEN AND HALF (PETER GREENAWAY)
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (ROBERT MULLIGAN)
THE DREAMERS (BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI)
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (TOBE HOOPER)
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF TEH THIRD KIND (STEVEN SPIELBERG)
Also I’d like to see some New Zealand films! :D
Eagle Vs. Shark
An Angel At My Table
Whale Rider
Once Were Warriors
Heavenly Creatures
It would be great to see some Czech new wave like the beautifully bizarre and erotic Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. Now with the random suggestions:
Repulsion
Kieslowski’s Three Colors trilogy
F for Fake
Some more Wong Kar-Wai (As Tears Go By, Fallen Angels, etc.)
Hard Boiled and the Killer
Bergman’s Faith trilogy
The Story of Qiu Ju
My Life to Live
some Samuel Fuller movies
and Hiroshi Teshigahara
Gun Crazy
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
The Blue Kite
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis
The Bad Sleep Well
Insomnia (1997)
Bottle Rocket
Kicking and Screaming (Noah Baumbach)
Brick
Naked Lunch
Solaris
Clean, Shaven
Double Suicide
Ichi the Killer
Rififi
anything else Hitchcock
A History of Violence and other Cronenberg
Before the Rain
Ozu movies
Masculin Feminin
and these two are long shots, but I’m putting them on: High Fidelity and Dark City
Thirty-two Short Films a about Glenn Gould suggested by Jason Tarnowski would interest me as I love Gould’s music and have been curious about these documentary films on him for some time.
One of the best films i have ever seen was “Mes petites amoureuses” (1974) by Jean Eustache at a retrospect but then it has never resurfaced on DVD. Translated to “My little love affairs” this is his only other feature with The mother and the whore and is really a perfect film about adolescence. if you like Bresson and Pialat this film is remarkable and more should see it!!
Año Uña, by Jonas Cuaron.
I saw this today.
Such a young promising director, just like his daddy.
How about Laurence Olivier’s Shakespeare trilogy (Henry V/Hamlet/Richard III)?
I just saw “Mes petites amoureuses” last night and it was charming and terrific. I agree that it’s remarkable and very near perfect; it (along with some of Eustache’s also-unavailable shorts) would make a great addition to The Auteurs.
I saw that yesterday too Dave, a great film!
Terry Gilliam’s movies (Tideland, Baron Munchausen)
All Kubrick’s
Darren Aronofsky : Pi
More Scorsese: Alice doesn’t live here anymore, Who’s that knocking at my door, New York New York
Haute Tension by Alexandre Aja
Cashback by sean ellis
There is so much good movies… by the way thanks for Into the Wild
India Song by Duras is so hard to find would be nice! How are films selected for the site ? Do they need to be films where the rights are easy to obtain??
ASHES AND SNOW
Vampyr, anyone?
Criterion just announced they’ll release the DVD in July!
Jules Dassin’ Rififi and night and the city
Huston’s the maltese falcon, the asphalt jungle…
Bresson’s A man escaped
STATIONS OF THE ELEVATED,1979 (Manfred Kirchheimer)
Seriously underrated and difficult to acquire film, documents the early phase of graffiti writing and urban decay in the South Bronx to a soundtrack of Charles Mingus. Beautiful.
STAN BRAKHAGE
Garden of Earthly Delights
Mothlight
The Dante Quartet
Stan Brakhage was a unique filmmaker, working directly with the film surface to collage, scratch and paste a visionary landscape.
Shock Corridor
Touch of Evil
Dead of Night (1945)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (anything by Cassavetes)
Performance
El Baron del Terror
Grey Gardens
Bad Timing
Rolling Thunder (for Dr. Rutledge)
The Killing
Last Tango in Paris
After Hours
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
The Swimmer
Fear in the Night
The Conversation
Here are some that I’d like to see…well mainly British directors films as I am indeed British and there’s hardly any Brit films on here…
More Mike Leigh films for example…
-Vera Drake
-Secrets and Lies
Something of Anthony Minghella…
-The Talented Mr Ripley
-The English Patient
Martin Scorsese
-Raging Bull
-Mean Streets
-Goodfellas
Steven Spielberg
-Schindler’s List
-Close Encounters of the Third Kind
-Ridley Scott’s Alien(1979)
-Roman Polanski’s Repulsion(1965) and The Pianist(2002)
-Joe Wright’s Atonement(2007)
More David Lean films
-Bridge on The River Kwai
-In Which We serve
-Lawrence of Arabia
-Doctor Zhivago
Hope that’s enough….^_^
Hiroshi Teshigahara:
women in the dune
The face of another
pitfall
Antonio Gaudi
Louis Malle:
Au revoir les enfants
murmur of the heart(Le souffle au coeur)
zazie dans le métro
Ascenseur pour l’échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows )
Le feu follet(The Fire Within)
Michel Brault:
Les ordres(The orders)
Claude Jutra:
Mon oncle Antoine
Andrei Zvyagintsev:
Izgnanie(the banishment)
Rica
Histoires extraordinaires (1968)