I can manage Turkey. Even though I’ve read the rules I didn’t fully understand how it’s going to be. Just tell me, do I have to be online all the time?
He’s not just pretty, he is a good actor. If everybody is talking about his performance in a movie with John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton and Richard Jenkins, it means something. Just watch his scene in the car with Malkovich.
You can’t watch Coen Bros comedies? Wow! I think they’ve created the best comedy of all time (The Big Lebowski). Ok, Intolerable Cruelty and Ladykillers were not so good but everbody makes mistakes. They are the best on weird characters and witty dialogs, imo.
I have a problem with the “place of birth” rule. Here are two examples from my possible squad.
Kenji, in the first post you counted Kazan as one of the possible members of Turkish squad. I disagree. Yes, he was born in Turkey but he is originally from Greece and he made all his movies in USA. Even though he would be a very valuable player in my squad and probably the most popular one, I won’t be using him. If he was a Turkish making movies in USA or a Greek making movies in Turkey, I could use him but just because he happens to be born in Turkey, I cannot present his movies as an example of Turkish cinema.
(Dimitris, you can have him if you want ;)
Fatih Akin was born in Germany (like millions of other Turkish people) but he is Turkish and makes movies about our culture. I will be using him in my squad (you guys said it was fair). The manager of Germany should know that I won’t be giving up Fatih Akin!
I’m sure there are smilar examples in other countries. The place of birth is not enough to determine which director should be in which squad, we need some common sense.
I wonder how the votes will be. The biggest problem is popularity. I wanna choose directors like Kavur and Erdem but I doubt if any of you guys has seen any of their movies. Let’s say I chose “My Only Sunshine” from Erdem. The movie is listed on theauteurs and I beleive I’m the only one who voted it. Only a few people saw it even in Turkey and it’s probably impossible to find online..
Dimitris, I have a feeling you’ll love Erdem. Come to Istanbul film festival this year, you are not very far ;)
We show the movies with English subtitles here.
Yes, Kenji those are very good movies but how many have seen them? I mean if Yumurta is against one of
Kurosawa movies people wll just choose Kurosowa’s even if they haven’t seen Yumurta.
Playing against Kubrick and Hitch is not fair! They are like Maradona and Pele. But if there was a World Cup today they wouldn’t be playing right? So maybe we should only select the directors who are still making movies? Hehe, I know it would improve the chances of smaller teams like mine :)
One of the films I’m planning to choose, well it’s not available on DVD, I myself waited for years to see it and catch it in a special screening in a festival, even if I manage to find a copy on internet somehow and send you guys the link, it WONT have English subtitles and I guess most of you guys can’t speak Turkish :) I’m afraid there is a possible 0-0 draw between for example Turkey-Africa in our group and in the games between two lesser known countries.
Stalker always reminds me Uzak by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. You can see the Tarkovsky influence maybe not in the story but in the frames. And there is a scene where the lead character watches porn and when the other one comes in he swithces to stalker on TV :)
UZAK/DISTANT
available on DVD
http://rapidshare-search-engine.com/index-s_submit=Search&sformval=1&s_type=0&what=1&s=uzak&start=0.html
SUSUZ YAZ/DRY SUMMER
auteurs.com (for free)
SONBAHAR/AUTUMN
available on DVD
http://rapidshare-search-engine.com/index-s_submit=Search&sformval=1&s_type=0&what=1&s=sonbahar&start=0.html
CHINA GAME:
UC MAYMUN/THREE MONKEYS
available on DVD and theauteurs.com
http://rapidshare-search-engine.com/index-s_submit=Search&sformval=1&s_type=0&what=1&s=three%2Bmonkeys&start=0.html
ANAYURT OTELI/MOTHERLAND HOTEL
available on youtube. no subtitles :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlfUnlzDEzo
YASAMIN KIYISINDA/THE EDGE OF HEAVEN
available on DVD
http://rapidshare-search-engine.com/index-s_submit=Search&sformval=1&s_type=0&what=1&s=edge%2Bof%2Bheaven&start=0.html
POLAND GAME
IKLIMLER/CLIMATES
available on DVD and theauteurs.com
http://rapidshare-search-engine.com/index-s_submit=Search&sformval=1&s_type=0&what=1&s=iklimler&start=0.html
DUVARA KARSI/HEAD ON
available on DVD
http://rapidshare-search-engine.com/index-s_submit=Search&sformval=1&s_type=0&what=1&s=gegen%2Bdie%2Bwand&start=0.html
YOL/THE WAY
available on DVD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhcd8DIsfyM
http://rapidshare-search-engine.com/index-s_submit=Search&sformval=1&s_type=0&what=1&s=yol&start=0.html
I just enjoyed Tango too. Makes you wonder how they did it almost 30 years ago. I have to see To Live to make up my mind. God we have some homework! But a homework we actually enjoy..
Uzak/Distant (Nuri Bilge ceylan) – My favoritte Turkish movie ever. Ceylan got recognition with this one when it won the Grand Prize in Cannes. It gives us two great characters, very distant to each other despite coming from the same family, and great scenery of Istanbul under the snow. Two leads are amazing here, they shared the best actor award in Cannes, sadly the young one couldn’t live to see it because he died in a car accident shortly after the movie. By the way they are not prefessional actors, they are relatives of the director.
Susuz Yaz/Dry Summer (Metin Erksan) – I have two favorittes among Erksan movies, Time to Love and Dry Summer. I chose this one because it was available on theauteurs to watch for free. It’s the finest example of early Turkish cinema. You will witness a universal problem, handled in a different culture and meet the young Erol Tas, the best villain of Turkish cinema. This is also the first Turkish movie to win an international award (Golder Bear at Berlin).
Sonbahar/Autumn (Ozcan Alper) – It very well maybe one of the best debuts in the film history. The director says it was like a mission for him to shoot this movie. And he probably won’t be able to make a movie this good again. This is a political movie and has some things to say but it says them so delicately, without rasing its voice. The director uses the nature of the Black Sea perfectly.
Uc Maymun/Three Monkeys (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) – His third consecutive movie to win an award in Cannes, this time The Best Director. He puts his digital camera in a family and works some miracles in there. The father takes the blame of a hit and run because his boss offers him money for it. This is going to change lots of things but will the family be the three monkeys?
Anayurt Oteli/Motherland Hotel (Omer Kavur) – Based on a novel that stands out in Turkish literature, this movie is considered to be one of the best movies of Turkish cinema, maybe the best one. Zebercet, a middle aged man runs a hotel, which is an old mension in a small town. One day a woman checks in stays for one nights, checks out and says she will be back in a couple of days. He falls in love with this woman at once and desperately waits for her to come but she never comes and the man slowly looses his mind.
Yasamin Kiyisinda/Auf der anderen Seite (Fatih Akin) – Turkish director born in Germany does what he does best in here, gives us a few interesting characters and moves them back and forth between Turkey and Germany. Next to his basic theme, cultural differances, he adds political issues here, even though he can’t please everybody with this view, he manages to please the jury in Cannes and wins The Best Screenplay Award.
Iklimler/Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) – Love/hate relationship between husband and wife is shown perfectly here. Ceylan doesn’t only write and direct this, but he also stars in it with his wife. Stunning cinematography in different seasons and different locations over Turkey.
Duvara Karsi/Gegen die Wand/Head-On (Fatih Akin) – Fatih Akin’s masterpiece. A suicidal Turkish girl living in Germany decides to marry a half Turksih guy to get rid of the pressure she’s getting from her family. She thinks this is the step to her freedom but is it? This is a very hardcore film, in every sense. Fantastic peformances by Unel and Kekilli. Punk is not dead!
Yol/The Way (Yilmaz guney) – Yilmaz Guney started his career as an actor and starred in many films and he was called “the ugly king”. Then he started directing and also he got into left political movement. It was a difficult time for the country and he always had problems with the goverments and spent years in prison. The way, is about the journey of 5 prisoners to their homes, when they were given permission to visit their families for one week. Guney went in again during the shooting so another director had to finish the movie with his instructions. Then he managed to flee from Turkey to France where he won the Golden Palm at Cannes with this film.
I watched Belgium’s “The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short” yesterday, enjoyed it very much but thought the ending was a bit weird. It reminded me Coen Brothers’ “The Man Who Wasn’t There”. Not only because of the hair cut, but also because of cinematography and the lead character being in every single scene just like Coen’s movie.
Seven Samurai 1 – Brothers 0 (not that the samurais needed more votes)
Maborosi 1 — Epidemic 0 ( Trier’s Epidemic would be too weak against any of Koreeda’s)
What is your most memorable film going experience? (Only one per post please!) almost 3 years ago
Seeing Matrix for the first time in theatre. It was the first day it was out and I didn’t know anything about it. I was like WTF!
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Movies you hated that everyone else loves almost 3 years ago
Crash by Paul Haggis and anything by Soderbergh
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The Auteurs Film World Cup almost 3 years ago
Fatih Akin has to be in our (Turkey) squad even though he was born in Germany.
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The Auteurs Film World Cup almost 3 years ago
I can manage Turkey. Even though I’ve read the rules I didn’t fully understand how it’s going to be. Just tell me, do I have to be online all the time?
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Is Brad Pitt a good actor? almost 3 years ago
He’s not just pretty, he is a good actor. If everybody is talking about his performance in a movie with John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton and Richard Jenkins, it means something. Just watch his scene in the car with Malkovich.
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Is Brad Pitt a good actor? almost 3 years ago
You can’t watch Coen Bros comedies? Wow! I think they’ve created the best comedy of all time (The Big Lebowski). Ok, Intolerable Cruelty and Ladykillers were not so good but everbody makes mistakes. They are the best on weird characters and witty dialogs, imo.
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Who do you think the most overrated director is? almost 3 years ago
Steven …wait for it… SODERBERGH
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The Auteurs Film World Cup almost 3 years ago
I have a problem with the “place of birth” rule. Here are two examples from my possible squad.
Kenji, in the first post you counted Kazan as one of the possible members of Turkish squad. I disagree. Yes, he was born in Turkey but he is originally from Greece and he made all his movies in USA. Even though he would be a very valuable player in my squad and probably the most popular one, I won’t be using him. If he was a Turkish making movies in USA or a Greek making movies in Turkey, I could use him but just because he happens to be born in Turkey, I cannot present his movies as an example of Turkish cinema.
(Dimitris, you can have him if you want ;)
Fatih Akin was born in Germany (like millions of other Turkish people) but he is Turkish and makes movies about our culture. I will be using him in my squad (you guys said it was fair). The manager of Germany should know that I won’t be giving up Fatih Akin!
I’m sure there are smilar examples in other countries. The place of birth is not enough to determine which director should be in which squad, we need some common sense.
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The Auteurs Film World Cup almost 3 years ago
I wonder how the votes will be. The biggest problem is popularity. I wanna choose directors like Kavur and Erdem but I doubt if any of you guys has seen any of their movies. Let’s say I chose “My Only Sunshine” from Erdem. The movie is listed on theauteurs and I beleive I’m the only one who voted it. Only a few people saw it even in Turkey and it’s probably impossible to find online..
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The Auteurs Film World Cup almost 3 years ago
Dimitris, I have a feeling you’ll love Erdem. Come to Istanbul film festival this year, you are not very far ;)
We show the movies with English subtitles here.
Yes, Kenji those are very good movies but how many have seen them? I mean if Yumurta is against one of
Kurosawa movies people wll just choose Kurosowa’s even if they haven’t seen Yumurta.
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The Auteurs Film World Cup almost 3 years ago
333 posts in one day. Not bad man! If we cant’t find manager for these countries, can we transfer from them? ;)
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The Auteurs Film World Cup almost 3 years ago
Playing against Kubrick and Hitch is not fair! They are like Maradona and Pele. But if there was a World Cup today they wouldn’t be playing right? So maybe we should only select the directors who are still making movies? Hehe, I know it would improve the chances of smaller teams like mine :)
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The Auteurs Film World Cup almost 3 years ago
No Dimitris, we can’t beat them! If any of my directors are facing Kubrick movies, I tell you now, I’m gonna vote for him :)
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The Auteurs Film World Cup- Phase 2 almost 3 years ago
One of the films I’m planning to choose, well it’s not available on DVD, I myself waited for years to see it and catch it in a special screening in a festival, even if I manage to find a copy on internet somehow and send you guys the link, it WONT have English subtitles and I guess most of you guys can’t speak Turkish :) I’m afraid there is a possible 0-0 draw between for example Turkey-Africa in our group and in the games between two lesser known countries.
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ten films based on ten films almost 3 years ago
Stalker always reminds me Uzak by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. You can see the Tarkovsky influence maybe not in the story but in the frames. And there is a scene where the lead character watches porn and when the other one comes in he swithces to stalker on TV :)
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Astounding Debuts almost 3 years ago
Blood Simple (Coen Bros)
Sonbahar (Ozcan Alper)
A nyomozó (Attila Galambos)
In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
Blinkende Lygter (Anders Thomas Jensen)
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You choose the book to make into a film. Then choose the director. Go! almost 3 years ago
My Name Is Red (Orhan Pamuk) – Terry Gilliam
Leviathan (Paul Auster) – David Fincher
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Greatest director that only made a few films? almost 3 years ago
maybe not the greatest but Fabián Bielinsky, Argentinian director who made two great movies and died very young..
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What do you believe is the most visually impressive film of all time? almost 3 years ago
2001, El Topo and The Fall
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A Serious Man (2009, Joel/Ethan Coen) Trailer almost 3 years ago
Can’t wait! And all you people who said The Big Lebowski was not good, well, f.ck off and see it again!
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WORLD CUP FILM LINKS almost 3 years ago
Turkish Movies
AFRICA GAME:
UZAK/DISTANT
available on DVD
http://rapidshare-search-engine.com/index-s_submit=Search&sformval=1&s_type=0&what=1&s=uzak&start=0.html
SUSUZ YAZ/DRY SUMMER
auteurs.com (for free)
SONBAHAR/AUTUMN
available on DVD
http://rapidshare-search-engine.com/index-s_submit=Search&sformval=1&s_type=0&what=1&s=sonbahar&start=0.html
CHINA GAME:
UC MAYMUN/THREE MONKEYS
available on DVD and theauteurs.com
http://rapidshare-search-engine.com/index-s_submit=Search&sformval=1&s_type=0&what=1&s=three%2Bmonkeys&start=0.html
ANAYURT OTELI/MOTHERLAND HOTEL
available on youtube. no subtitles :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlfUnlzDEzo
YASAMIN KIYISINDA/THE EDGE OF HEAVEN
available on DVD
http://rapidshare-search-engine.com/index-s_submit=Search&sformval=1&s_type=0&what=1&s=edge%2Bof%2Bheaven&start=0.html
POLAND GAME
IKLIMLER/CLIMATES
available on DVD and theauteurs.com
http://rapidshare-search-engine.com/index-s_submit=Search&sformval=1&s_type=0&what=1&s=iklimler&start=0.html
DUVARA KARSI/HEAD ON
available on DVD
http://rapidshare-search-engine.com/index-s_submit=Search&sformval=1&s_type=0&what=1&s=gegen%2Bdie%2Bwand&start=0.html
YOL/THE WAY
available on DVD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhcd8DIsfyM
http://rapidshare-search-engine.com/index-s_submit=Search&sformval=1&s_type=0&what=1&s=yol&start=0.html
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The Auteurs' World Cup: Comments and reviews almost 3 years ago
I just enjoyed Tango too. Makes you wonder how they did it almost 30 years ago. I have to see To Live to make up my mind. God we have some homework! But a homework we actually enjoy..
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The Auteurs' World Cup - Managers, Introduce Your Team Rosters! almost 3 years ago
TURKEY
Uzak/Distant (Nuri Bilge ceylan) – My favoritte Turkish movie ever. Ceylan got recognition with this one when it won the Grand Prize in Cannes. It gives us two great characters, very distant to each other despite coming from the same family, and great scenery of Istanbul under the snow. Two leads are amazing here, they shared the best actor award in Cannes, sadly the young one couldn’t live to see it because he died in a car accident shortly after the movie. By the way they are not prefessional actors, they are relatives of the director.
Susuz Yaz/Dry Summer (Metin Erksan) – I have two favorittes among Erksan movies, Time to Love and Dry Summer. I chose this one because it was available on theauteurs to watch for free. It’s the finest example of early Turkish cinema. You will witness a universal problem, handled in a different culture and meet the young Erol Tas, the best villain of Turkish cinema. This is also the first Turkish movie to win an international award (Golder Bear at Berlin).
Sonbahar/Autumn (Ozcan Alper) – It very well maybe one of the best debuts in the film history. The director says it was like a mission for him to shoot this movie. And he probably won’t be able to make a movie this good again. This is a political movie and has some things to say but it says them so delicately, without rasing its voice. The director uses the nature of the Black Sea perfectly.
Uc Maymun/Three Monkeys (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) – His third consecutive movie to win an award in Cannes, this time The Best Director. He puts his digital camera in a family and works some miracles in there. The father takes the blame of a hit and run because his boss offers him money for it. This is going to change lots of things but will the family be the three monkeys?
Anayurt Oteli/Motherland Hotel (Omer Kavur) – Based on a novel that stands out in Turkish literature, this movie is considered to be one of the best movies of Turkish cinema, maybe the best one. Zebercet, a middle aged man runs a hotel, which is an old mension in a small town. One day a woman checks in stays for one nights, checks out and says she will be back in a couple of days. He falls in love with this woman at once and desperately waits for her to come but she never comes and the man slowly looses his mind.
Yasamin Kiyisinda/Auf der anderen Seite (Fatih Akin) – Turkish director born in Germany does what he does best in here, gives us a few interesting characters and moves them back and forth between Turkey and Germany. Next to his basic theme, cultural differances, he adds political issues here, even though he can’t please everybody with this view, he manages to please the jury in Cannes and wins The Best Screenplay Award.
Iklimler/Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) – Love/hate relationship between husband and wife is shown perfectly here. Ceylan doesn’t only write and direct this, but he also stars in it with his wife. Stunning cinematography in different seasons and different locations over Turkey.
Duvara Karsi/Gegen die Wand/Head-On (Fatih Akin) – Fatih Akin’s masterpiece. A suicidal Turkish girl living in Germany decides to marry a half Turksih guy to get rid of the pressure she’s getting from her family. She thinks this is the step to her freedom but is it? This is a very hardcore film, in every sense. Fantastic peformances by Unel and Kekilli. Punk is not dead!
Yol/The Way (Yilmaz guney) – Yilmaz Guney started his career as an actor and starred in many films and he was called “the ugly king”. Then he started directing and also he got into left political movement. It was a difficult time for the country and he always had problems with the goverments and spent years in prison. The way, is about the journey of 5 prisoners to their homes, when they were given permission to visit their families for one week. Guney went in again during the shooting so another director had to finish the movie with his instructions. Then he managed to flee from Turkey to France where he won the Golden Palm at Cannes with this film.
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Turkish LIst almost 3 years ago
Reha Erdem’s last film “My Only Sunshine” is very good too. Use of music and sound is very interesting.
Ceylan with his crafty camera and Akin with cultural clash issues are the obvious ones.
Another director to look for right now is Zeki Demirkubuz. His hardcore drama “Masumiyet” and the sequel “Kader” are
remarkable.
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009, Terry Gilliam) Trailer almost 3 years ago
great! but after all those great names written in the trailer I waited to see “and .. Tom fukking Waits!”
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The Auteurs' World Cup: Comments and reviews almost 3 years ago
I watched Belgium’s “The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short” yesterday, enjoyed it very much but thought the ending was a bit weird. It reminded me Coen Brothers’ “The Man Who Wasn’t There”. Not only because of the hair cut, but also because of cinematography and the lead character being in every single scene just like Coen’s movie.
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World Cup update over 2 years ago
damn! time goes so fast. I didnt do too well on the waching but will catch you guys up.
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World Cup: Voting- Belgium v South East Asia (Group 1) over 2 years ago
1. The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short 1 – Mysterious Object at Noon 0
sorry, not able to vote for other match ups..
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World Cup: Voting- USA V Czech Republic (Group 1) over 2 years ago
GOODFELLAS 1 – The Ear 0
The Ear was very good too but I had to give it to Goodfellas.
Can’t vote for other match ups :(
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WORLD CUP: VOTING- JAPAN V DENMARK (GROUP 3) over 2 years ago
Seven Samurai 1 – Brothers 0 (not that the samurais needed more votes)
Maborosi 1 — Epidemic 0 ( Trier’s Epidemic would be too weak against any of Koreeda’s)
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