I’d love to have a source for short films. Do you plan on making the ones featured already on the site watchable? It would be a really great thing to have a place to go to see and read about good shorts, and also ones that are making waves in the festival circuit.
Miller’s Crossing is my personal number 1. It’s perfect. I really gotta say though Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch don’t belong on any Great Gangster Films list. It’s just my opinion, but I think they are both over-edited, derivative, stylish non-sense.
I recently had the chance to see The Magician in the theatre. It quickly became my favorite. It’s religion versus reason. Max von Sydow playing some heavy tricks. It was so amazing. I really hope Criterion will get around to releasing it.
Smiles of a Summer Night is great too. Perfect if you’re trying to introduce someone to Bergman.
I recently had the chance to see The Magician in the theatre. It quickly became my favorite. It’s religion versus reason. Max von Sydow playing some heavy tricks. It was so amazing. I really hope Criterion will get around to releasing it.
Smiles of a Summer Night is great too. Perfect if you’re trying to introduce someone to Bergman.
I recently had the chance to see The Magician in the theatre. It quickly became my favorite. It’s religion versus reason. Max von Sydow playing some heavy tricks. It was so amazing. I really hope Criterion will get around to releasing it.
Smiles of a Summer Night is great too. Perfect if you’re trying to introduce someone to Bergman.
I have to agree The Celebration is my favorite. The story is so enthralling that I think it could be filmed any way and be great, but it also lent well to the limitations. The scene towards the beginning when they are in the room of the dead sister. Yikes.
Also, I’m not sure how people feel about it being a true “Dogma Film,” but Julien Donkey Boy is great.
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis for The Proposition. It’s a really haunting, cruel movie, and the sort of deeper, “rusty” string instrument sounds that play throughout really get under your skin and make the whole effect pretty jarring.
The Deer Hunter might be considered the best Vietnam movie if it weren’t for the viability of the final half hour or so.
There’s often these decisions that the great directors make that just seem to be “fuck yous” to the movie goers. Cameron Diaz in Gangs of New York is the epitome maybe.
looking for good examples of brothers quarreling in film. something that captures the distinct relationship of siblings, and the various grievances than can come up between them. any ideas?
i got to see amarcord at the film forum recently, and it was wonderful. i took my girlfriend who had only ever seen 8 1/2 and she was really blown away by it. i think it has now become my favorite fellini.
i walked into rachel getting married not all that excited about it, but about ten minutes into it i realized i was watching a really great performance by anne hathaway. everyone in the film is great, and it centers around one of the most unique and fun weddings that i’ve ever heard of. she really desrves to win for that performance. i’m keeping my fingers crossed.
I ride the packed subway in New York City and think about how easy it would be to push a button and kill a random stranger often. Throw money in… you got a deal. Just how could I make sure that the random stranger is that guy that stands in the doorway at a crowded stop, or the person who stands on the side of the escalator that is clearly the one people walk up?
Auteurs should host an online film festival where users or anybody for that matter submit their work, they make the selections and we watch and maybe vote for Audience Award or something. What do you think?
i’ll start.
1. open call for submissions. shorts, features, and docs.
2. auteurs selects from submissions. keep it small: 5 features. 5 docs and 20 shorts
3. each film has a little profile like films already do on the auteurs where people can leave comments.
4. pay per view of each film or buy a festival pass where you can watch all of them.
5. users vote on their favorite films and the winner gets audience award in each category.
I know there are other threads, but it seemed to be full of people just hating “mumblecore.” I think that term is unfortunate and though I’ve only seen one of the films in question, I can already see it’s a catch-all and a cynical one at that. I mean it is kind of funny. They did certainly have trouble spitting anything out in Mutual Appreciation. There are not many people I know that aren’t pre-disposed to dislike something as silly as the term "mumblecore’ seems to suggest. I found it a relief that most of the filmmakers reject the term. Anyway, I digress…
I decided to watch some of these films after I read David Denby’s article in The New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2009/03/16/090316crci_cinema_denby
Mutual Appreciation is the first one I got around to.
First of all let me say that I am 27 years old, I live in Brooklyn, I went to film school and aspire to make films, and I work a boring job that is only slightly related to what I studied and want to do and it frustrates me. In other words, from reading many of the reviews and descriptions of this film, I’m supposed to see myself and my peers in it. Well, I don’t. It really didn’t appeal to me at all, and I say that while having respect for it and the filmmaker. I’m glad it exist. It’s impressive on many levels, but I just wasn’t pulled into it. Also, I suspect that the “mumbling” and difficulty to communicate that the film seems to take on as its subject is more a consequence of the production than a style. Meaning, I think they were a little camera shy.
I’m curious to hear what people have to say about it. I have seen comparisons to Stranger Than Paradise, which is one of my favorites as well as Woody Allen and Rohmer. What do you guys think?
Help make The Auteurs totally awesome over 3 years ago
I’d love to have a source for short films. Do you plan on making the ones featured already on the site watchable? It would be a really great thing to have a place to go to see and read about good shorts, and also ones that are making waves in the festival circuit.
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Top 20 Best Gangster Movies over 3 years ago
Miller’s Crossing is my personal number 1. It’s perfect. I really gotta say though Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch don’t belong on any Great Gangster Films list. It’s just my opinion, but I think they are both over-edited, derivative, stylish non-sense.
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What Is Your Ultimate Bergman Film & Why?? over 3 years ago
I recently had the chance to see The Magician in the theatre. It quickly became my favorite. It’s religion versus reason. Max von Sydow playing some heavy tricks. It was so amazing. I really hope Criterion will get around to releasing it.
Smiles of a Summer Night is great too. Perfect if you’re trying to introduce someone to Bergman.
There are so many good ones.
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What Is Your Ultimate Bergman Film & Why?? over 3 years ago
I recently had the chance to see The Magician in the theatre. It quickly became my favorite. It’s religion versus reason. Max von Sydow playing some heavy tricks. It was so amazing. I really hope Criterion will get around to releasing it.
Smiles of a Summer Night is great too. Perfect if you’re trying to introduce someone to Bergman.
There are so many good ones.
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What Is Your Ultimate Bergman Film & Why?? over 3 years ago
I recently had the chance to see The Magician in the theatre. It quickly became my favorite. It’s religion versus reason. Max von Sydow playing some heavy tricks. It was so amazing. I really hope Criterion will get around to releasing it.
Smiles of a Summer Night is great too. Perfect if you’re trying to introduce someone to Bergman.
There are so many good ones.
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DOGMA films over 3 years ago
I have to agree The Celebration is my favorite. The story is so enthralling that I think it could be filmed any way and be great, but it also lent well to the limitations. The scene towards the beginning when they are in the room of the dead sister. Yikes.
Also, I’m not sure how people feel about it being a true “Dogma Film,” but Julien Donkey Boy is great.
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GREAT USE OF MUSIC IN FILMS over 3 years ago
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis for The Proposition. It’s a really haunting, cruel movie, and the sort of deeper, “rusty” string instrument sounds that play throughout really get under your skin and make the whole effect pretty jarring.
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GREAT FLAWED FILMS over 3 years ago
The Deer Hunter might be considered the best Vietnam movie if it weren’t for the viability of the final half hour or so.
There’s often these decisions that the great directors make that just seem to be “fuck yous” to the movie goers. Cameron Diaz in Gangs of New York is the epitome maybe.
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What films do you always catch shit for for not liking? over 3 years ago
Donnie Darko.
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Films with brothers quarreling over 3 years ago
looking for good examples of brothers quarreling in film. something that captures the distinct relationship of siblings, and the various grievances than can come up between them. any ideas?
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IF WE IGNORE 81/2 AND DOLCE VITA, WHAT'D BE THE BEST FELLINI MOVIE? over 3 years ago
i got to see amarcord at the film forum recently, and it was wonderful. i took my girlfriend who had only ever seen 8 1/2 and she was really blown away by it. i think it has now become my favorite fellini.
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Oscar Nominations - 2009 over 3 years ago
i walked into rachel getting married not all that excited about it, but about ten minutes into it i realized i was watching a really great performance by anne hathaway. everyone in the film is great, and it centers around one of the most unique and fun weddings that i’ve ever heard of. she really desrves to win for that performance. i’m keeping my fingers crossed.
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Most Accomplished and Cinematically Complete Woody Allen Film? almost 3 years ago
nobody mentioned Sweet and Lowdown? I thought that was really great.
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Favourite film of the decade (so far)? almost 3 years ago
Aaron,
Why say you dislike him if you like his film? Just curious. I like him.
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Which directors have the worst fanboys? almost 3 years ago
Kevin Smith. I really want to get a tattoo that says, “Never seen Mall Rats.”
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder almost 3 years ago
Fox and his Friends is great. I saw one not available on DVD yet I don’t think called I Only Want You to Love Me that is brilliant.
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Any one for Harmony Korine's Lonely Man, the michael Jackson Movie almost 3 years ago
Herzog’s got this great subplot flying around with nuns. It’s amazing. I liked the movie quite a bit.
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The Box (2009, Richard Kelly) trailer almost 3 years ago
I ride the packed subway in New York City and think about how easy it would be to push a button and kill a random stranger often. Throw money in… you got a deal. Just how could I make sure that the random stranger is that guy that stands in the doorway at a crowded stop, or the person who stands on the side of the escalator that is clearly the one people walk up?
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Auteurs Film Festival almost 3 years ago
Auteurs should host an online film festival where users or anybody for that matter submit their work, they make the selections and we watch and maybe vote for Audience Award or something. What do you think?
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Auteurs Film Festival almost 3 years ago
we’ll just list off ideas and hopefully the auteurs people will see what a good opportunity it would be.
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Auteurs Film Festival almost 3 years ago
i’ll start.
1. open call for submissions. shorts, features, and docs.
2. auteurs selects from submissions. keep it small: 5 features. 5 docs and 20 shorts
3. each film has a little profile like films already do on the auteurs where people can leave comments.
4. pay per view of each film or buy a festival pass where you can watch all of them.
5. users vote on their favorite films and the winner gets audience award in each category.
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STOP THE LISTS! almost 3 years ago
samantha,
sour cream just as dip on it’s own? uhhhh.
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Andrew Bujalski almost 3 years ago
I know there are other threads, but it seemed to be full of people just hating “mumblecore.” I think that term is unfortunate and though I’ve only seen one of the films in question, I can already see it’s a catch-all and a cynical one at that. I mean it is kind of funny. They did certainly have trouble spitting anything out in Mutual Appreciation. There are not many people I know that aren’t pre-disposed to dislike something as silly as the term "mumblecore’ seems to suggest. I found it a relief that most of the filmmakers reject the term. Anyway, I digress…
I decided to watch some of these films after I read David Denby’s article in The New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2009/03/16/090316crci_cinema_denby
Mutual Appreciation is the first one I got around to.
First of all let me say that I am 27 years old, I live in Brooklyn, I went to film school and aspire to make films, and I work a boring job that is only slightly related to what I studied and want to do and it frustrates me. In other words, from reading many of the reviews and descriptions of this film, I’m supposed to see myself and my peers in it. Well, I don’t. It really didn’t appeal to me at all, and I say that while having respect for it and the filmmaker. I’m glad it exist. It’s impressive on many levels, but I just wasn’t pulled into it. Also, I suspect that the “mumbling” and difficulty to communicate that the film seems to take on as its subject is more a consequence of the production than a style. Meaning, I think they were a little camera shy.
I’m curious to hear what people have to say about it. I have seen comparisons to Stranger Than Paradise, which is one of my favorites as well as Woody Allen and Rohmer. What do you guys think?
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