I can take up Belgium, if its vacant and if you guys agree. (though I’m a newbie to the forum and have not yet set my profile). Akerman, Dardenne bros and Haneke are my favs.
And guys, talking about caucasus region, though I do not want to make this place politically charged, just want to say “OUT with the control freaks and fascists in Chechnya.” For more here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8156433.stm
this might be a kiddie question, but do you have any movie posters hanging in your room?
I’ve JLG’s “In Praise for Love” and Pasolini’s “Mamma Roma”.
// my next thought is trading of posters, if anyone desires. Ofcourse, I will never trade my JLG. But the other might, just might, be a possibility. :)
Hi, could someone summarize for me a basic approach and rules for this “tournament”? I read the first thread, but there were recommendations for changes later on, I presume? So, it would be helpful to summarize. Thanks!
ok, I feel theauteurs forum does not have the “feel” of a forum. You know, the dirty, basic, low-end aspects that the forums present on the internet have. This website forum design looks too snazzy. Too “yuppie-fied”. Am I alone here?
ok, instead of speaking in generalities. Specifics:
Why not make use of the entire frame available on the screen? Here we have just less than 2/3rd of the screen being used. Which personally I feel is poor website designing. Wastage of space.
Can we list out expectations from managers of each group? Like, in addition to selecting 3 films strategically for the initial phase, what else is expected of them? Thank you!
I second “In Praise of Love” – though that is not a Criterion one for sale. // I’ve a huge poster of this film in my room.
Folks at the Criterion – Thou arth being partial to 60’s JLG. Why oh why. :P
for me, as the belgium manager, the problem with providing rare and unknown films is almost next to impossible. Its neither available on torrent nor do I’ve time to buy the DVDs (almost all of them are R2, and none of them available in the States). I’d seen most of the unknown belgian films at film festivals.
how are people dealing with such scenarios?
the way i’m going ahead with the availability factor towards a selection of a film: I’m going to give preference to availability of a film (in any form of media – legal or otherwise – heh) over a film that I love but is unavailable. Because, it defeats the purpose of selecting a film that is not available and asking for the public to vote.
hopefully, i’m able to find enough of them to stick around past the 1st round. I’m in a tough draw against the enigmatic Czechs, the active and minimalist south east asians, and the vigorous Americans! :P
Am watching the “world football challenge” ( http://www.worldfootballchallenge.com ) – chelsea vs. club america going on right now. And I thought, how coincidental! So, i did a small writeup – a rousing – on what makes soccer close to movies. Its a bit over the top, at worse; without an ounce of lie, at best:
“We know it isn’t the truth.
There is an apparent randomness in the coordinated movements of soccer as in the set of images in a movie. The act kicking a ball with the foot looks so easily performed and facile as in the point-and-shoot effort of making a movie.
Let the naysayers harp its not an art form. Let them say that the movies are a sell-out. We will stay the course, through the offsides, through the low blows, through the bad referring and critiquing, through the nights of butterflies in anticipation of a new movie as in the next match, feel the pain when our favorite filmmaker makes a bad movie, feel ecstacy when otherwise. We will endure it.
Because when it kicks off and the lights beam, we know this – the truth lies in the image."
—> I’m the weak link in the group
—> I need to go all guns in order to atleast reach the next stage
—> I’ve found potential weapons to counter the American and SE Asian attacks, formidable as they are.
—> I need to find one for getting the Czechs.
Its 11PM here. I’m planning on catching a film that has apparitions and ghosts in the plot. And my fastidious roomie has turned out all the lights in the house.
As I understand, even Imamura, early on in his career, rebelled against Ozu’s portrayal of Japanese societal life. Imamura had the chops, though. I don’t know about Sono.
I’ll be submitting my selections sometime today or tomorrow.
I’m raring to put my films against the Americans and SE Asians. Looking forward to how the public will respond to the pairing of them.
Also, as managers, are you guys soliciting anybody out there yet? You know, “marketing” your teams. I will be starting mine soon! :)
2) Its like poetry – a month down, you will get the significance of that monologue (or dialogue. heh). Still another month down, you look at it in a different sense.
Hence
3) It is existential in matter. (political (!) in form).
“Knowledge is always gained gradually.” – JLG (paraphrase)
I heart Rivette!
But, I need to catch his mid-70’s films, post Out-1. Not seen Noroit, and others of 70s. (Have seen Out-1 and was deliriously gleeful after.)
Guru Dutt
Tony Leung!
Djimon Hounsou
Gene Hackman
Harvey Keitel
Amitabh Bacchan
Naseeruddin Shah
Daniel Day-Lewis
Robert Duvall
Jerry Lewis
Johnny Depp
Jacques Dutronc
Michel Piccoli
Poetry from this millenium:
2 authors that need to be read: one packs a solid punch with a quite understatement to his words, the other takes you through troughs and crests with wonderful amazement:
Author-1: Aharon Shabtai
Exhibit-1:
Even after the murder
of the child Muhammad on Rosh Hashanah,
the paper didn’t go black.
In the same water in which the snipers
wash their uniforms,
I prepare my pasta,
and over it pour
olive oil in which I’ve browned
pine nuts,
which I cooked for two minutes with dried tomatoes,
crushed garlic, and a tablespoon of basil.
As I eat, the learned minister of foreign affairs
and public security
appears on the screen,
and when he’s done
I write this poem.
For that’s how it’s always been –
the murderers murder,
the intellectuals make it palatable,
and the poet sings.
The poem is too long to be posted here. Preview it on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Ring-Fire-Salt-Modern-Poets/dp/1844710076/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1249072538&sr=8-2#reader
My cheerleaders are “Elton Motello” – one of the punk bands from Belgium of the 70s. Here’s “Jet Boy, Jet Girl”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KAXvTvO0TI
Against SE Asians:
1a) The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short – by André Delvaux
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4115780/
1b) Les rendez-vous d’Anna – by Chantal Akerman
http://www.torrentreactor.net/torrents/2392261/Chantal-Akerman-1978-Les-rendez-vous-d%27Anna
1c) Cléo de 5 à 7 – by Agnes Varda
http://www.theauteurs.com/films/244
Against Czechs:
2a) Toto le Hero – by Jaco Van Dormael
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4574595/Toto.Le.Heros-PAL-Audio.Fre_Subs.Eng-FLIpresentation
2b) La promesse – By The Dardennes
http://btjunkie.org/torrent/La-Promesse-Dardenne/4432975964a1c057c9be8ce5fb58bfbec1cca3ab4728
2c) Un Soir, Un Train – by Andre Delvaux
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4044070/Un_soir__un_train_—Delvaux(1968)
Against USA:
3a) Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles – by Chantal Akerman
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3746504/Chantal_Akerman_-Jeanne_Dielman_(1976)
3b) Le bonheur – by Agnes Varda
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4599195/Le_Bonheur_-Happiness_-Varda(1965)
3c) Malpertuis – by Harry Kumel
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4521620/Malpertuis.1971.HarryKumel.DirectorsCut.RipByDahlmann
Les rendez-vous d’Anna:
A kindred spirit in our community has done the hardwork of putting up Akerman’s film.
This is a follow up film to her jeanne diealman. I like this film because of trains! Though not only that, but because how Akerman has used trains to juxtapose them against the main driving point in the film. If I got the exhilarating feeling on watching Renoir’s “La Bete Humaine” of train’s in motion, then Akerman’s film provides the counterpoint. It symbolises the transition inherent. Transitional stages in life are hard fought through, toughed out like MegaWatts of power put into the running of the train. Take note on the exquisite symmetry present in the mise-en-scene. The color pallete of this film is excellent – pale colors with the red, blue and yellow hues tinging it. Notice how sound has been mixed in. Trains, automobiles are always being heard.
Akerman has taken stylized art to the next level with her films in the 70’s and early 80’s. “Je tu il elle”, her first film, has a true outsider edge in its making.
You guys need to watch this film!
Jeanne Diealman: Do I need to say anything? :)
The man who cut his hair short:
If you guys like Hong Sang-Soo’s films and especially his editing pattern, where events mix and match in such fluid manner, or even Weerasethakul (my contender, heh!), then consider this film a must see. Add a whiff of Antonioni’s stylized ennui in the mix and you have a winner here! (Did I seriously write that? I feel like the marketing department).
But, Andre Delvaux is a true find from Belgium. You have to see this film to understand its power!
Un Soir, Un Noir: If you liked the above, this one will be right up your alley.
Malpertuis:
Orson Welles. Susan Hampshire. A director that is not well known, but has consistently put up films that are a true spectacle. Not your Harry Potter spectacle kind. Ending is a bit off though, but overall, the film stands on both legs for me.
Toto le hero: This is a surrealist pleaser.
La Promesse: Dardenne’s brothers hard hitting realist drama. Arguably, the most consistent and important filmmakers in social-realist depictions.
Cleo de 5 to 7: Varda is a pleasure!
La Bonheur: I will let the name of the film describe it.
The Auteurs Film World Cup almost 3 years ago
I can take up Belgium, if its vacant and if you guys agree. (though I’m a newbie to the forum and have not yet set my profile). Akerman, Dardenne bros and Haneke are my favs.
And guys, talking about caucasus region, though I do not want to make this place politically charged, just want to say “OUT with the control freaks and fascists in Chechnya.” For more here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8156433.stm
// ok, i’m cool now. :)
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What Would Shohei Imamura Order Off Of The Arby's Menu? almost 3 years ago
Imamura would rebel with a vengeance and say, “Go Vegetarian!”; with a clash of cymbals and all sorts of vegetables flying in the air.
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Movie Posters almost 3 years ago
this might be a kiddie question, but do you have any movie posters hanging in your room?
I’ve JLG’s “In Praise for Love” and Pasolini’s “Mamma Roma”.
// my next thought is trading of posters, if anyone desires. Ofcourse, I will never trade my JLG. But the other might, just might, be a possibility. :)
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Godard Pick... almost 3 years ago
I’m a HUGE fan of “Made in USA”. I might have seen it 20 times by now! :)
2 or 3 things is JLG at his best, btw (60’s period).
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The Auteurs Film World Cup almost 3 years ago
Hi, could someone summarize for me a basic approach and rules for this “tournament”? I read the first thread, but there were recommendations for changes later on, I presume? So, it would be helpful to summarize. Thanks!
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Help make The Auteurs totally awesome almost 3 years ago
ok, I feel theauteurs forum does not have the “feel” of a forum. You know, the dirty, basic, low-end aspects that the forums present on the internet have. This website forum design looks too snazzy. Too “yuppie-fied”. Am I alone here?
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Help make The Auteurs totally awesome almost 3 years ago
ok, instead of speaking in generalities. Specifics:
Why not make use of the entire frame available on the screen? Here we have just less than 2/3rd of the screen being used. Which personally I feel is poor website designing. Wastage of space.
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The Auteurs Film World Cup almost 3 years ago
Hi,
Can we list out expectations from managers of each group? Like, in addition to selecting 3 films strategically for the initial phase, what else is expected of them? Thank you!
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Godard Pick... almost 3 years ago
I second “In Praise of Love” – though that is not a Criterion one for sale. // I’ve a huge poster of this film in my room.
Folks at the Criterion – Thou arth being partial to 60’s JLG. Why oh why. :P
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The Auteurs Film World Cup- Phase 2 almost 3 years ago
for me, as the belgium manager, the problem with providing rare and unknown films is almost next to impossible. Its neither available on torrent nor do I’ve time to buy the DVDs (almost all of them are R2, and none of them available in the States). I’d seen most of the unknown belgian films at film festivals.
how are people dealing with such scenarios?
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Godard Pick... almost 3 years ago
anyone here a fan of “Soigne ta droite”? If so, you might like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BggXhzUhZ94
Rock out!
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The Auteurs Film World Cup- Phase 2 almost 3 years ago
the way i’m going ahead with the availability factor towards a selection of a film: I’m going to give preference to availability of a film (in any form of media – legal or otherwise – heh) over a film that I love but is unavailable. Because, it defeats the purpose of selecting a film that is not available and asking for the public to vote.
hopefully, i’m able to find enough of them to stick around past the 1st round. I’m in a tough draw against the enigmatic Czechs, the active and minimalist south east asians, and the vigorous Americans! :P
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The Auteurs Film World Cup- Phase 2 almost 3 years ago
Am watching the “world football challenge” ( http://www.worldfootballchallenge.com ) – chelsea vs. club america going on right now. And I thought, how coincidental! So, i did a small writeup – a rousing – on what makes soccer close to movies. Its a bit over the top, at worse; without an ounce of lie, at best:
“We know it isn’t the truth.
There is an apparent randomness in the coordinated movements of soccer as in the set of images in a movie. The act kicking a ball with the foot looks so easily performed and facile as in the point-and-shoot effort of making a movie.
Let the naysayers harp its not an art form. Let them say that the movies are a sell-out. We will stay the course, through the offsides, through the low blows, through the bad referring and critiquing, through the nights of butterflies in anticipation of a new movie as in the next match, feel the pain when our favorite filmmaker makes a bad movie, feel ecstacy when otherwise. We will endure it.
Because when it kicks off and the lights beam, we know this – the truth lies in the image."
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CAN ART FILMS BE JUDGED ON ONE VIEWING? almost 3 years ago
“I saw the film three times, which, in my case, is absolutely exceptional.” – Luis Bunuel in ‘My Last Sigh’
// and here’s a JLG wink (to be read between the lines):
“I prefer watching a bad american movie than a bad scandinavian one!” :)
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The Auteurs Film World Cup- Phase 2 almost 3 years ago
Divulgin’ ma’ strategies:
—> I’m the weak link in the group
—> I need to go all guns in order to atleast reach the next stage
—> I’ve found potential weapons to counter the American and SE Asian attacks, formidable as they are.
—> I need to find one for getting the Czechs.
what’s goin’ on in your noggin fellas?
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The Auteurs Film World Cup- Phase 2 almost 3 years ago
Its 11PM here. I’m planning on catching a film that has apparitions and ghosts in the plot. And my fastidious roomie has turned out all the lights in the house.
i’m still afraid of ghosts.
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Ozu = Evil? almost 3 years ago
As I understand, even Imamura, early on in his career, rebelled against Ozu’s portrayal of Japanese societal life. Imamura had the chops, though. I don’t know about Sono.
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Heads up!!!! 50% off Criterions almost 3 years ago
Got for meself “Made in USA”. Even though I’ve seen it like about 20 times.
I’m so f*ing happy!
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The Auteurs Film World Cup- Phase 2 almost 3 years ago
I’ll be submitting my selections sometime today or tomorrow.
I’m raring to put my films against the Americans and SE Asians. Looking forward to how the public will respond to the pairing of them.
Also, as managers, are you guys soliciting anybody out there yet? You know, “marketing” your teams. I will be starting mine soon! :)
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Godard is Weak almost 3 years ago
let me put in cliches here:
1) Godard’s films are meant to be lived.
Because
2) Its like poetry – a month down, you will get the significance of that monologue (or dialogue. heh). Still another month down, you look at it in a different sense.
Hence
3) It is existential in matter. (political (!) in form).
“Knowledge is always gained gradually.” – JLG (paraphrase)
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The Auteurs Film World Cup- Phase 2 almost 3 years ago
well, i meant informing others, who are not on this thread or are not aware, to vote.
“soliciting”: just me trying to give this game a rugged outlook. :)
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The New Rivette is 86 Minutes Long! almost 3 years ago
I heart Rivette!
But, I need to catch his mid-70’s films, post Out-1. Not seen Noroit, and others of 70s. (Have seen Out-1 and was deliriously gleeful after.)
// he is such a unique filmmaker with his ideas.
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The New Rivette is 86 Minutes Long! almost 3 years ago
Thinking about how much i loved that scene near the Moulin Rouge in Out-1. #goodtimes
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Who Was/Is The Most Beautiful Film Actor Ever? almost 3 years ago
Guru Dutt
Tony Leung!
Djimon Hounsou
Gene Hackman
Harvey Keitel
Amitabh Bacchan
Naseeruddin Shah
Daniel Day-Lewis
Robert Duvall
Jerry Lewis
Johnny Depp
Jacques Dutronc
Michel Piccoli
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Our Favourite Poems- for a site anthology almost 3 years ago
Poetry from this millenium:
2 authors that need to be read: one packs a solid punch with a quite understatement to his words, the other takes you through troughs and crests with wonderful amazement:
Author-1: Aharon Shabtai
Exhibit-1:
Even after the murder
of the child Muhammad on Rosh Hashanah,
the paper didn’t go black.
In the same water in which the snipers
wash their uniforms,
I prepare my pasta,
and over it pour
olive oil in which I’ve browned
pine nuts,
which I cooked for two minutes with dried tomatoes,
crushed garlic, and a tablespoon of basil.
As I eat, the learned minister of foreign affairs
and public security
appears on the screen,
and when he’s done
I write this poem.
For that’s how it’s always been –
the murderers murder,
the intellectuals make it palatable,
and the poet sings.
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Our Favourite Poems- for a site anthology almost 3 years ago
Author-2: Lisa Jarnot
The poem is too long to be posted here. Preview it on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Ring-Fire-Salt-Modern-Poets/dp/1844710076/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1249072538&sr=8-2#reader
Delicious!
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The New Rivette is 86 Minutes Long! almost 3 years ago
backstage rivette, via kasman tweet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qXEAUHpVmY
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The Auteurs Film World Cup- Phase 2 almost 3 years ago
My cheerleaders are “Elton Motello” – one of the punk bands from Belgium of the 70s. Here’s “Jet Boy, Jet Girl”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KAXvTvO0TI
Go Belgium! :)
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WORLD CUP FILM LINKS almost 3 years ago
Against SE Asians:
1a) The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short – by André Delvaux
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4115780/
1b) Les rendez-vous d’Anna – by Chantal Akerman
http://www.torrentreactor.net/torrents/2392261/Chantal-Akerman-1978-Les-rendez-vous-d%27Anna
1c) Cléo de 5 à 7 – by Agnes Varda
http://www.theauteurs.com/films/244
Against Czechs:
2a) Toto le Hero – by Jaco Van Dormael
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4574595/Toto.Le.Heros-PAL-Audio.Fre_Subs.Eng-FLIpresentation
2b) La promesse – By The Dardennes
http://btjunkie.org/torrent/La-Promesse-Dardenne/4432975964a1c057c9be8ce5fb58bfbec1cca3ab4728
2c) Un Soir, Un Train – by Andre Delvaux
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4044070/Un_soir__un_train_—Delvaux(1968)
Against USA:
3a) Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles – by Chantal Akerman
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3746504/Chantal_Akerman_-Jeanne_Dielman_(1976)
3b) Le bonheur – by Agnes Varda
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4599195/Le_Bonheur_-Happiness_-Varda(1965)
3c) Malpertuis – by Harry Kumel
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4521620/Malpertuis.1971.HarryKumel.DirectorsCut.RipByDahlmann
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The Auteurs' World Cup - Managers, Introduce Your Team Rosters! almost 3 years ago
Belgium:
Les rendez-vous d’Anna:
A kindred spirit in our community has done the hardwork of putting up Akerman’s film.
This is a follow up film to her jeanne diealman. I like this film because of trains! Though not only that, but because how Akerman has used trains to juxtapose them against the main driving point in the film. If I got the exhilarating feeling on watching Renoir’s “La Bete Humaine” of train’s in motion, then Akerman’s film provides the counterpoint. It symbolises the transition inherent. Transitional stages in life are hard fought through, toughed out like MegaWatts of power put into the running of the train. Take note on the exquisite symmetry present in the mise-en-scene. The color pallete of this film is excellent – pale colors with the red, blue and yellow hues tinging it. Notice how sound has been mixed in. Trains, automobiles are always being heard.
Akerman has taken stylized art to the next level with her films in the 70’s and early 80’s. “Je tu il elle”, her first film, has a true outsider edge in its making.
You guys need to watch this film!
Jeanne Diealman: Do I need to say anything? :)
The man who cut his hair short:
If you guys like Hong Sang-Soo’s films and especially his editing pattern, where events mix and match in such fluid manner, or even Weerasethakul (my contender, heh!), then consider this film a must see. Add a whiff of Antonioni’s stylized ennui in the mix and you have a winner here! (Did I seriously write that? I feel like the marketing department).
But, Andre Delvaux is a true find from Belgium. You have to see this film to understand its power!
Un Soir, Un Noir: If you liked the above, this one will be right up your alley.
Malpertuis:
Orson Welles. Susan Hampshire. A director that is not well known, but has consistently put up films that are a true spectacle. Not your Harry Potter spectacle kind. Ending is a bit off though, but overall, the film stands on both legs for me.
Toto le hero: This is a surrealist pleaser.
La Promesse: Dardenne’s brothers hard hitting realist drama. Arguably, the most consistent and important filmmakers in social-realist depictions.
Cleo de 5 to 7: Varda is a pleasure!
La Bonheur: I will let the name of the film describe it.
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