Hello, I’m Tommy. I’m a film school drop out that continues to make films in Louisville, Ky. It’s impossible to explain what the cinema means to me. I just love it.
Kinski in Fitzcaraldo
McDowell in A Clockwork Orange
Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood, My Left Foot
Toshiro Mifune in Seven Samurai, Scandal
Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men
Peter Finch – Network
Definitely Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut. EWS would be a far greater film if Kidman didn’t destroy it. Not to say she is a bad actress, but that wasn’t good.
22 – Was an Art history major, and now a film school drop out. May go back eventually, but I don’t know. I was tired of people putting each other down because of what films the like and that’s all it was.
1. The Virgin Spring
2. The Seventh Seal
3. Fanny and Alexander
4. Persona
5. The Silence
6. Hour Of The Wolf
7. Passion of Anna
8. Autumn Sonata
9. Winter Light
10. Shame
Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
Who’s that Knocking At My Door
Boxcar Bertha
Goodfellas
Gangs of New York
The Age Of Innocence
Mean Streets
New York, New York
After Hours
At a young age I remember when The Nightmare Before Christmas came out. That was 1993 so I was 7. I remember having the Jack Skelington doll before I had seen the movie and I took it with me when I fist went to see it.
About four or five years ago I went to see Hitchcock’s Shadow of A Doubt. I just like to watch old films in a theatre because it makes me feel like I’m watching them for the first time in the year they are released.
It really depends on how busy I am during the week. I would like to say 5 – 6 during the week and an additional 3 – 4 on the weekend. So, I’ll say about nine per week. Going by that it would be 468 but that doesn’t include films that I see in the theatre which is very few and the days that I take off work, holidays and vacations. It also doesn’t include short films and films that I watch multiple times.
Among the other Fritz Lang Films, they should have added Metropolis or Murnau’s Faust. I’d like to see more silents on lists. I’m afraid that one day people will forget them
I’m so very sorry that I may have my own opinion on what I think is great cinema. If cinema was about believing in what other people to believe is good, than there is no point to even watch anything. I figured you wouldn’t be able to post anything against an aforementioned master of cinema. I acknowledge the fact that Ozu is a master, but that doesn’t mean I necessarily like his films. there is one thing about watching an Ozu though. There are certain aspects of a single film that you cannot get over. I hated the fact that he rarely inserts a pan or a tracking shot, but he makes up for that in creating amazingly layered shots. If I have to choose any of his films that I consider to be my favorite, it would either be Tokyo Story or Good Morning. And I agree on MAO’s opinion on the forums on imdb. I stopped paying any attention to them after people began telling each other what they should watch and how they’re supposed to watch them. I’m sick and tired of people telling each other what is good and what is bad. It is that reason as well that I dropped out of film school, b/c it’s just a bunch of garbage.
I agree that this is a terribly hard decision to make, so I’ll throw out a few that I wactch constantly:
Dancer In The Dark – Lars Von Trier
The Shining – Stanley Kubrick
Citizen Kane – Orson Welles
Andrei Rublev – Andrei Tarkovsky
Persona – Ingmar Bergman
There Will Bel Blood – PT Anderson
Wings Of Desire – Wim Wenders
Hana-bi – Takeshi Kitano
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest – Milos Forman
Rushmore – Wes Anderson
Fitzcaraldo – Werner Herzog
Nosferatu – FW Murnau
Chunking Express – Wong Kar Wai
The Passion of Joan of Arc – Carl Theodore Dryer
Fargo – Coen Brothers
Survive Style 5+ – Gen Sekeguchi
Nobody Knows – Koreda Hirokazu
Sorry, I could go on all day as well as most of you
Movies That Should Be In the Criterion Collection over 3 years ago
Satyajit Ray’s the Apu Trilogy.
It would be cool to see PT Anderson on the collection with Magnolia, Punch Drunk, or There WIll Be Blood.
More Guy Maddin – Heart of The World, Cowards Bend the Knee(should have been released as a companion to Brand Upon The Brain) , Archangel
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New to The Auteurs? You Belong Here over 3 years ago
Hello, I’m Tommy. I’m a film school drop out that continues to make films in Louisville, Ky. It’s impossible to explain what the cinema means to me. I just love it.
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When I say "A Perfect Film", What One Film Pops Into Your Head First? over 3 years ago
Eternal Sunshine has beautiful moments
Red Beard
Fitzcaraldo
Short Cuts
Andrei Rublev
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My Top 25 Performances of All Time over 3 years ago
Kinski in Fitzcaraldo
McDowell in A Clockwork Orange
Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood, My Left Foot
Toshiro Mifune in Seven Samurai, Scandal
Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men
Peter Finch – Network
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Film Education over 3 years ago
I think Breakfast at Tiffany’s is a very good movie, but some people that I know like it so much and don’t even really get it.
The Great Dictator and Modern Times
Any Billy Wilder really
Good Sidney Lumet like Dog Day Afternoon, 12 Angry Men, The Pawnbroker, Network
Treasure of The Sierra Madre
All Akira Kurosawa and Ingmar Bergman
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Favorite Werner Herzog Film over 3 years ago
Aguirre, Fitzcaraldo, Nosferatu, Woyzeck
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What is Kubrick's Most Under-Appreciated Film? over 3 years ago
Definitely Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut. EWS would be a far greater film if Kidman didn’t destroy it. Not to say she is a bad actress, but that wasn’t good.
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Who do you read? over 3 years ago
Just finished Woman in The Dunes by Kobo Abe
Dostoyevsky
Nietzsche
John Irving
Shakespear
Will christopher Baer
Craig Clevenger
Walt Whitman
Albert Camus
Kurt Vonnegut
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What was the first Criterion movie you watched? over 3 years ago
The Seventh Seal was the first watched and the first bought was Straw Dogs
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Age / Level of education? (An informal poll) over 3 years ago
22 – Was an Art history major, and now a film school drop out. May go back eventually, but I don’t know. I was tired of people putting each other down because of what films the like and that’s all it was.
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Your Favorite Godard Film? over 3 years ago
Pierrot Le Fou
Vvire Se Vie
Breathless
Weekend
A Woman is A Woman
Band of Outsiders
Alphaville
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Best of Recent Asian Cinema over 3 years ago
Recent to me would probably be within the last 8 to 10 years or so.
Tony Takitani – 2004
Oldboy, Sympathy for My Vengence, Lady Vengence – 2002-2005
I’m A Cyborg, but that’s Ok – 2006
Nobody Knows – 2004
Postman Blues – 1997 (close enough)
Survive Style 5+ – 2004
Tae Guk Gi – 2004
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Movies That Should Be In the Criterion Collection over 3 years ago
Brothers Quay Shorts especially “Streets of Crocodiles”
Any Jan Svankmajer – Alice, Lunacy and so on
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TOP BERGMAN over 3 years ago
1. The Virgin Spring
2. The Seventh Seal
3. Fanny and Alexander
4. Persona
5. The Silence
6. Hour Of The Wolf
7. Passion of Anna
8. Autumn Sonata
9. Winter Light
10. Shame
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The longest movie you've ever sat through over 3 years ago
I watched the tv version of Fanny and Alexander all the way through, only getting up to change discs.
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Worst Criterion DVDs over 3 years ago
Aside from the Michael Bay films:
Samurai Spy
Jubilee
A Lot of Prople Like Green For Danger but I didn’t
Started out not liking Metropolitan, but very much liked the ending
Chasing Amy is a good movie but doesn’t deserve to be on the list
House Of Games
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Rate The Last Film You Watched over 3 years ago
Lunacy by Jan Svankmajer
80/100, A strange film and an ode to Edgar Allen Poe and the Marquis de Sade
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Whats your favourite actor,and what actor is so bad you cant look at him over 3 years ago
Favorite – Daniel Day Lewis and Jack Lemmon
Worst – Jack Black in most movies except for the original tv show of Tenacious D.
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Top Scorsese over 3 years ago
Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
Who’s that Knocking At My Door
Boxcar Bertha
Goodfellas
Gangs of New York
The Age Of Innocence
Mean Streets
New York, New York
After Hours
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favourite scene from any film over 3 years ago
The Jester sequence in Andrei Rublev.
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FANTASY ARTHOUSE DOUBLE FEATURE over 3 years ago
The Maltese Falcon/Le Samurai
Paris, Texas/Motorcycle Diaries
Nosferatu/Metropolis
Bad Education/Matador
Yojimbo/A Fistful of Dollars
Magnolia/Short Cuts
The 400 Blow/Breathless
Persona/Hour of The Wolf or Cries and Whispers
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What is your most memorable film going experience? (Only one per post please!) over 3 years ago
At a young age I remember when The Nightmare Before Christmas came out. That was 1993 so I was 7. I remember having the Jack Skelington doll before I had seen the movie and I took it with me when I fist went to see it.
About four or five years ago I went to see Hitchcock’s Shadow of A Doubt. I just like to watch old films in a theatre because it makes me feel like I’m watching them for the first time in the year they are released.
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How Many Movies Do You Watch in a Year? over 3 years ago
It really depends on how busy I am during the week. I would like to say 5 – 6 during the week and an additional 3 – 4 on the weekend. So, I’ll say about nine per week. Going by that it would be 468 but that doesn’t include films that I see in the theatre which is very few and the days that I take off work, holidays and vacations. It also doesn’t include short films and films that I watch multiple times.
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Cashiers du Cinema's 100 Greatest Film List over 3 years ago
Among the other Fritz Lang Films, they should have added Metropolis or Murnau’s Faust. I’d like to see more silents on lists. I’m afraid that one day people will forget them
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Who do you think the most overrated director is? over 3 years ago
Sorry, so very, very sorry. Yasujiro Ozu. I’ve seen so many and tried to make myself like him, but I can’t
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Who do you think the most overrated director is? over 3 years ago
I’m so very sorry that I may have my own opinion on what I think is great cinema. If cinema was about believing in what other people to believe is good, than there is no point to even watch anything. I figured you wouldn’t be able to post anything against an aforementioned master of cinema. I acknowledge the fact that Ozu is a master, but that doesn’t mean I necessarily like his films. there is one thing about watching an Ozu though. There are certain aspects of a single film that you cannot get over. I hated the fact that he rarely inserts a pan or a tracking shot, but he makes up for that in creating amazingly layered shots. If I have to choose any of his films that I consider to be my favorite, it would either be Tokyo Story or Good Morning. And I agree on MAO’s opinion on the forums on imdb. I stopped paying any attention to them after people began telling each other what they should watch and how they’re supposed to watch them. I’m sick and tired of people telling each other what is good and what is bad. It is that reason as well that I dropped out of film school, b/c it’s just a bunch of garbage.
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The Best Films of 2008 over 3 years ago
My Winnipeg and Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
Although I sometimes don’t like Kevin Smith, I think Zack and Miri has been his best since Mallrats.
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Sven Nykvist over 3 years ago
Agnes of God
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Books over 3 years ago
A Dead Man’s Memoir by Mikhail Bulgakov
Just finished Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
Getting ready to start either Amerika by Franz Kafka or Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turganev
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What's your Top 10? over 3 years ago
I agree that this is a terribly hard decision to make, so I’ll throw out a few that I wactch constantly:
Dancer In The Dark – Lars Von Trier
The Shining – Stanley Kubrick
Citizen Kane – Orson Welles
Andrei Rublev – Andrei Tarkovsky
Persona – Ingmar Bergman
There Will Bel Blood – PT Anderson
Wings Of Desire – Wim Wenders
Hana-bi – Takeshi Kitano
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest – Milos Forman
Rushmore – Wes Anderson
Fitzcaraldo – Werner Herzog
Nosferatu – FW Murnau
Chunking Express – Wong Kar Wai
The Passion of Joan of Arc – Carl Theodore Dryer
Fargo – Coen Brothers
Survive Style 5+ – Gen Sekeguchi
Nobody Knows – Koreda Hirokazu
Sorry, I could go on all day as well as most of you
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