Three Monkeys Debuts on The Auteurs

"The Auteurs and Zeitgeist Films are celebrating Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan this month by showing his two newest films on The Auteurs for free.

Ceylan’s newest film, Three Monkeys, which garnered him the Best Director award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, will be debuting online and shown for free at The Auteurs on April 26, and the filmmaker’s previous movie, Climates (winner of FIPRESCI prize at Cannes in 2006) will be playing online for free from April 23 to May 3.

Three Monkeys will be also be opening theatrically in New York on May 1st. To find out more information, visit Zeitgeist Films."

The Auteurs Poll: My Submission

For The Auteurs Poll, which I have mentioned on this site before, I had to compile a top ten list of, what I think are, the ten greatest films. It wasn't easy. I've been working on my list since the beginning of February and have only just recently finished it. Currently, I'm working on counting everybody's lists (over 90 sent in so far), and will soon be publishing the results. In the meantime, here is my submission:

The 10 Greatest Films, listed in alphabetical order:

8 ½ – Federico Fellini (1963) Italy

2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick (1968) USA

Aguirre, the Wrath of God – Werner Herzog (1972) Germany

Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola (1979) USA

Citizen Kane – Orson Welles (1941) USA

The Decalogue – Krzysztof Kieslowski (1989) Poland

Fitzcarraldo – Werner Herzog (1982) Germany

Princess Mononoke – Hayao Miyazaki (1999) Japan

Seven Samurai – Akira Kurosawa (1954) Japan

Synecdoche, New York – Charlie Kaufman (2008) USA

The Auteurs "Sight & Sound" Poll

I've decided to bring some attention to a little project I have in the works.

Modeled after the famous "Sight & Sound" poll conducted every 10 years since 1952, I have begun a poll on the forums on theauteurs.com

The way the original poll works, 100 critics submit a list of, what is in their opinion, the 10 greatest films of all time. In the last 2 polls (1992 & 2002), Sight & Sound has also made a secondary list using the same format but with 100 directors. So, I thought it was only fair that non-professionals had their say. The online community on The Auteurs, is, to my knowledge, the most diverse and intelligent group of film lovers on the internet. There are users from all over the world, of every age, each with different but respectable and refined taste. It is my belief that the collective opinions of the users at The Auteurs is, at least almost, as trustable and important as the critics or the film makers. I am waiting in anticipation to see the final product, which I'm sure will be as quotable a top 10 as any.

As of right now there are already 78 registered voters, with 28 top 10 lists submitted. Voting closes on the first of March.

I am accepting registration from any users on the site, so if you are interested, sign up at theauteurs.com (which you should do anyways, as it is a brilliant site), and then go to the thread I created in the forums, and follow the instructions from there.