Excellent work, Kenji and Apur!
“L’Avventura (Antonioni) v A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Voyage in Italy (Rossellini) v A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
Stalker (Tarkovsky) v Through a Glass Darkly (Bergman)”
Figuratively cannot wait.
Awesome!
I’ve put them altogether rather than each group separately, to avoid interruptions.
Well, UK are taking chances, that should be very interesting group- UK opponents fielding strong teams against them whereas i’ve played safe (with favourite films, mind, and respecting my opponents), in the expectation of all possibly attacking me, but anyway set myself a very hard task for later. Trying to avoid just the usual suspects later, hope it’s not too boring at this stage but i didn’t want obscurity overload for group stage viewing either. We do want votes in all matches!
If any objections to selections, irregularites or errors noticed, please speak now. Bob for Australia picked another by Beresford but it wasn’t available for viewing so went for Black Robe, joint Canadian-Australian film, as late substitute and perfectly fine.
So get viewing! Managers will not be allowed to vote on matches in their own group, and also please be honest when voting later, not tactically over who future opponents might be.
Kick-off will be 1st September hopfully.
Can managers and others provide links for viewing, and can Auteurs help where possible please?
If there are viewing access problems, we’ll hopefully sort them out
I’ve got to go out (on my crutches), remember there will be further viewing breaks after each set of 16 films. we go down in order, 2 matches a day from each group, the first 2 matches from Group, then first 2 from group 2, first 2 from group 3, down to group 8, then a break and the next set of 16 in the same way
I hope we get a separate section on Auteurs, but anyway later i or Apursansar or manmagers can each list their directors separately, though they are alreday identified. I don’t anyone’s exceeded the limit of 6.
Finally. Let’s find these treasures!
Did the FTP idea go anywhere?
Glad you’re on the ball, it’s taken ages this morning to rearrange each manager’s selections into matches, and my internet connection’s been on the blink. Praying i’ve not messed up anything. Got to go, sorry
You have done great, Kenji. Go out without any apologies. (But do not drive pass your destination.)
>“L’Avventura (Antonioni) v A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Voyage in Italy (Rossellini) v A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
Stalker (Tarkovsky) v Through a Glass Darkly (Bergman)”
Figuratively cannot wait.
Taiwan vs. Italy will be really hard and amazing.
GROUP 1
USA V CZECH REPUBLIC
1.Goodfellas v Ucho/The Ear
2.Stagecoach v Neco z Alenky/Alice
3.The Trial v Postava k podpirani/ Josef Kilian
BELGIUM V SOUTH EAST ASIA
1.The Man who had his Hair Cut Short v Mysterious Object at Noon
2.Les Rendez-vous d’Anna v Nostalgia for the Countryside
3.Cleo from 5 to 7 v Insiang
USA V BELGIUM
1.Night of the Hunter v Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce..
2.Dr Strangelove v Le Bonheur
3.Faces v Malpertius
CZECH REPUBLIC V SOUTH EAST ASIA
1.Marketa Lazarova v Cyclo
2.Diamonds of the Night v When the Tenth Month Comes
3.Valerie and her Week of Wonders v Vive l’Amour
USA V SOUTH EAST ASIA
1.The Grapes of Wrath v Syndromes and a Century
2.Lady of Shanghai v Himala
3.Mean Streets v Rebels of the Neon God
CZECH REPUBLIC V BELGIUM
1.Udoli vcel/Valley of the Bees v Toto the Hero
2.Mucednici lasky/Martyrs of Love v La Promesse
3.Late August at the Hotel Ozone v Un Soir, un Train
Please feel very free to help out with the other groups. Your help is much appreciated.
How to aid everyone in 20 minutes:
1. Go to youtube.com
2. Search “[film title] part 1”.
3. Look at the the 1st page and see if you find anything. (Sometimes they may be in playlists which will promptly be displayed on the 1st page)
4. If there is a link, copy and paste it.
5. Repeat steps 2-5
Have to go to work but cannot wait to come home now that this is up!
After a quick glance, these are some of my favorite match-ups. All sorts of cognitive dissonance going on here.
Stagecoach (Ford) v Neco z Alenky/Alice (Svankmajer)
The Grapes of Wrath (Ford) v Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
My Neighbour Totoro (Miyazaki) v Prisoner 13 (De Fuentes)
The Valiant Ones (King Hu) v Caché (Haneke)
To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch) v Wavelength (Snow)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai) v Kanal (Wajda)
Accident (Losey) v Earth/ Zemlya (Dovzhenko)
This one is just brutal;
The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky) v The Wind will Carry Us (Kiarostami)
And this is one…I wonder what the odds are…
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Paradjanov) v Shine (Hicks)
Law, that is awesome. Thanks for the links. I’ve got some serious searching to do for a lot of these, hell, maybe even most of them, so any help like that is much appreciated.
I’ll check for more links when I get home from work.
I’ve uploaded all my shorts for AUSTRIA on video streaming sites. Please see my profile page for links & more info etc.
Grey Daisies, I love your profile and what you are doing here. I will be seeing all the Austrian shorts as soon as possible.
i think the time limit won’t be so difficult,especially since YouTube could be a much more significant assistance than we’ve thought,hehe..well…speaking for my part at least :P
Kenji,i believe you are right,everything could go upside down…but damn,i knew you’d put that Mizoguchi film,i just knew it :P
throughout this weekend,i’ll be searching for any assistance for uploading some films which are hard to find…
kudos to Law for the first step of assistance…
Am I the only one who thinks it should have been 1 film vs. 1 film instead of 3 vs. 3 films per match? Can somebody explain the logic to me? Would it not be more fun and dramtic to have 1 vs 1?
Law,
Great job.
When did Phantom of the Opera become a New Zealand film? :|
Rupert Julian was born in New Zealand and i think most of the fellas here considered it as a New Zealand entry despite being made in the States…
Dimitris: That would explain why The Trial is an American film too. Thanks. :)
Berjuan, yes, 1 film vs 1 film certainly would be more dramatic, but I think the big drawing point of this whole event was that we get to see a lot of films that we wouldn’t otherwise.
OMFG!!1111oneone
Blue K,
I know, but thats 288 films for the first round… at some point its going to become diffucult to participate. I personally don’t think I will be able to find all 288 and I just won’t have the time to watch them. I guess I’ll just have to choose a group and vote on those films, but I would have liked to be able to participate more, and I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels that way.
Does this thread serve as a discussion thread too?
I have just seen Copy Shop, a black comedy short surrounding an identity crisis (my first impression), with much thanks to Grey Daisies. I loved the short. Next up will either be another Austrian short or Ucho.
It’s up against Pasolini. This might be immensely difficult.
That’s a valid point, Berjuan. But I’m sure you’ve seen a good chunk of these films already as have many people who are participating in this event as either managers and/or voters. We have allotted for an approximate 2-month period for watching the films, but maybe we can extend that as well. But watch what you can and please participate. If nothing else, the rosters of films can serve as future viewing guidelines. And thanks for the feedback, nothing is yet set in stone as far as scheduling is concerned, so the two main organizers—Kenji and Apursansar—will appreciate it as well.
Thanks to Grey Daisies for those shorts. Just watched them all and enjoyed every one of them, but absolutely loved Fast Film.
Wow,
this is so amazing
Can’t wait for some matches!
We should have a separate thread with links for the movies. This one will grow up very fast soon and so it will be impossible to parse over this to find if anyone as posted certain movies.
Perhaps we can keep a document with the page no. of each movies’ link? That way, if a link expires, we can just change the document, which shall be posted every page.
yes,Law and Andre do have a point,we need to secure a different thread alone in order to post every single film of the ones especially that will be difficult to find.
i doubt if the link will quickly expire,we’ll just go group by group and take it as the line-up suggests.
kenji
GROUP 1
USA JOSH DUSHANE
Czech Republic MARTIN
Belgium AR SH
S.East Asia BLUE K
USA V CZECH REPUBLIC
1.Goodfellas (Scorsese) v Ucho/The Ear (Kachyna)
2.Stagecoach (Ford) v Neco z Alenky/Alice (Svankmajer)
3.The Trial (Welles) v Postava k podpirani/ Josef Kilian (Juracek, Schmidt)
BELGIUM V SOUTH EAST ASIA
1.The Man who had his Hair Cut Short (Delvaux) v Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2.Les Rendez-vous d’Anna (Akerman) v Nostalgia for the Countryside (Dang Nhat Minh)
3.Clo from 5 to 7 (Varda) v Insiang (Brocka)
USA V BELGIUM
1.Night of the Hunter (Laughton) v Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce.. (Akerman)
2.Dr Strangelove (Kubrick) v Le Bonheur (Varda)
3.Faces (Cassavetes) v Malpertius (Kumel)
CZECH REPUBLIC V SOUTH EAST ASIA
1.Marketa Lazarova (Vlacil) v Cyclo (Tran Anh-Hung)
2.Diamonds of the Night (Nemec) v When the Tenth Month Comes (Dang Nhat Minh)
3.Valerie and her Week of Wonders (Jires) v Vive l’Amour (Tsai Ming-Liang)
USA V SOUTH EAST ASIA
1.The Grapes of Wrath (Ford) v Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2.Lady of Shanghai (Welles) v Himala (Ishmael Bernal)
3.Mean Streets (Scorsese) v Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-Liang)
CZECH REPUBLIC V BELGIUM
1.Udoli vcel/Valley of the Bees (Vlacil) v Toto the Hero (Van Dormael)
2.Mucednici lasky/Martyrs of Love (Nemec) v La Promesse (Dardenne bros)
3.Late August at the Hotel Ozone (Schmidt)v Un Soir, un Train (Delvaux)
GROUP 2
France LAW
South Korea RUMPLESINK
Hungary OZUFAN
New Zealand ELRIC KANE
FRANCE V SOUTH KOREA
1.Rules of the Game (Renoir) v Green Fish (Lee Chang-Dong)
2.Pierrot le Fou (Godard) v Rikidozan (Song Hae-Sung)
3.Pickpocket (Bresson) v Goryeojang (Kim ki-young)
HUNGARY V NEW ZEALAND
1.The Red and The White (Jancso) V Vigil (Ward)
2.Colonel Redl (Szabo) v An Angel at my Table (Campion)
3.Satantango (Tarr) v The Quiet Earth (Murphy)
FRANCE V HUNGARY
1.La Belle et la Bête (Cocteau) v Father (Szabo)
2.Une Femme est une femme (Godard) v Merry go Round (Fabri)
3.La Grande illusion (Renoir) v Adoption (Meszaros)
SOUTH KOREA V NEW ZEALAND
1.Failan (Song Hae-Sung) v Dead Alive/Brain Dead (Jackson)
2.Chihwaeson (Im Kwon-Taek) v Goodbye Porkpie (Murphy)
3.Bad Guy (Kim Ki-Duk) v Once were Warriors (Tamahori)
FRANCE V NEW ZEALAND
1.Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson) v The Piano (Campion)
2.Jules et Jim (Truffaut) v Heavenly Creatures (Jackson)
3.Le Cercle Rouge (Melville) v Phantom of the Opera (1925, Julian)
SOUTH KOREA V HUNGARY
1.Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring (Kim Ki-Duk) v Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr)
2.Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-Ho) v The Round Up (Jancso)
3.Oasis (Lee Chang-Dong) v Love (Makk)
GROUP 3
Japan KENJI
Denmark KAI WHITE
Mexico FILMBOT
Balkans DIMITRIS
JAPAN V DENMARK
1.Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) v Brothers (Susanne Bier)
2.Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi) v Kira’s Reason: A Love Story (Ole Christian Madsen)
3.Maborosi (Koreeda) v Epidemic (Von Trier)
MEXICO V BALKANS
1.Poison for the Fairies (Enrique Taboada) v Landscape in the Mist (Angelopoulos)
2.El Compadre Mendoza (Fernando de Fuentes) v The Danube Waves (Liviu Ciulei)
3.Place without Limits (Arturo Ripstein) v W.R.- Mysteries of the Organism (Makaveyev)
JAPAN V MEXICO
1.My Neighbour Totoro (Miyazaki) v Prisoner 13 (De Fuentes)
2.The Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi) v The Secret Formula (Ruben Gamez)
3.Tokyo Twilight (Ozu) v The Paper Man (Rodriguez)
DENMARK V BALKANS
1.Ordet (Dreyer) v Forest of the Hanged (Ciulei)
2.After the Wedding (Bier) v Young Aphrodites (Nikos Koundoros)
3.Reconstruction (Christoffer Boe) v Surogat (Dusan Vukotic)
JAPAN V BALKANS
1.Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi) v Before the Rain (Manchevski)
2.High and Low (Kurosawa) v Montenegro (Makaveyev)
3.Japanese Girls at the Harbour (Shimizu) v Reconstruction (Angelopoulos)
DENMARK V MEXICO
1.The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer) v Deep Crimson (Ripstein)
2.Breaking the Waves (Von Trier) v Hasta el Viento tiene miedo (Taboada)
3.Haxan (Christensen) v Salon Mexico (Emilio Fernandez)
GROUP 4
Italy DREW
Taiwan DAN
Austria GREY DAISIES
Chile GREGORIO
ITALY V TAIWAN
1.L’Avventura (Antonioni) v A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
2.Voyage in Italy (Rossellini) v A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
3.I vitelloni (Fellini) v A Most Distant Course (Lie Jing-jie)
AUSTRIA V CHILE
1.Antares (Götz Spielmann) v El Topo (Jodorowsky)
2.The Seventh Continent (Haneke) v The Jackal of Nahueltoro (Littin)
3.Fast Film (Virgil Widrich) v La Buena Vida (Andrés Wood)
ITALY v AUSTRIA
1.Last Tango in Paris (Bertolucci) v Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (Tscherkassky)
2.Accattone (Pasolini) v Copy Shop (Widrich)
3.The Leopard (Visconti) v To the Happy Few (Draschan)
TAIWAN v CHILE
1.Raining in the Mountain (King Hu)) v Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky)
2.Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee) v The Promised Land/La Tierra Prometida (Littin)
3.A Brighter Summer Day (Yang)v El Bano (Gregory Cohen)
ITALY v CHILE
1.Amarcord (Fellini) v Machuca (Wood)
2.The Dreamers (Bertolucci) v Comedy of Innocence (Ruiz)
3.L’Eclisse/Eclipse (Antonioni) v The Moon in the Mirror/La Luna en el Espejo (Silvano Caiozzi)
TAIWAN V AUSTRIA
1.Flowers of Shanghai (Hou) v Outer Space (Tscherkassky)
2.Yi Yi (Yang)) v Revanche (Gotz Spielmann)
3.The Valiant Ones (King Hu) v Caché (Haneke)
GROUP 5:
Germany JUSTIN VICARI
Spain JORIAH GOAD
Brazil ANDRE
Canada GREG X
GERMANY V SPAIN
1.The Tin Drum (Schlondorff) v Spirit of the Beehive (Erice)
2.Sunrise (Murnau) v Blood Wedding (Saura)
3.Run Lola Run (Tykwer) v Belle de Jour (Bunuel)
BRAZIL V CANADA
1.Terra em Transe (Glauber Rocha) v Spider (Cronenberg)
2.To the Left of the Father (Fernando Carvalho) v Calendar (Egoyan)
3.Pixote (Babenco) v Léolo (Lauzon)
GERMANY V BRAZIL
1.Ninotchka (Lubitsch) v City of God (Meirelles)
2.Tabu: A Story from the South Seas (Murnau) v Kiss of the Spider Woman (Babenco)
3.Wings of Desire (Wenders) v How Tasty was my Little Frenchman (Nelson Pereira dos Santos)
SPAIN V CANADA
1.All about my Mother (Almodovar) v The Sweet Hereafter (Egoyan)
2.The Exterminating Angel (Bunuel) v Heart of the World (Maddin)
3.The Quince Tree Sun (Erice) v Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Kunuk)
GERMANY V CANADA
1.Yesterday Girl (Kluge) v Dead Ringers (Cronenberg)
2.Nosferatu (Murnau) v Careful (Maddin)
3.To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch) v Wavelength (Snow)
SPAIN V BRAZIL
1.Cria Cuervos (Saura) v Black God White Devil (Rocha)
2.Un Chien Andalou (Bunuel, Dali) v Carandiru (Babenco)
3.Sex and Lucia (Medem) v Vidas Secas (Nelson Pereira dos Santos)
GROUP 6
UK DAN/MARC-DAVID
India APURSANSAR
Caucasus + Ukraine S@MSON
Australia BOB STUTSMAN
UK v INDIA
1.A Matter of Life and Death (Powell) v Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
2.King And Country (Losey) v Subarnarekha (Ritwik Ghatak)
3.The Innocents (Clayton) v Nishant (Benegal)
CAUCASUS/UKRAINE V AUSTRALIA
1.Repentance/Monanieba (Abuladze) v The Year of Living Dangerously (Weir)
2.Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Paradjanov) v Shine (Hicks)
3.There was a Singing Blackbird (Iosseliani) v Strictly Ballroom (Luhrmann)
UK v CAUCASUS/UKRAINE
1.Of Time and the city (Davies) V The Colour of Pomegranates/Sayat Nova (Paradjanov)
2.Accident (Losey) v Earth/ Zemlya (Dovzhenko)
3.The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Reisz) v The Wishing Tree/ Navris Khe (Abuladze)
INDIA V AUSTRALIA
1.Distant Thunder (Satyajit Ray) v The Last Wave (Weir)
2.The Terrorist (Santosh Sivan) v Black Robe (Beresford)
3.In Search of the Famine (Mrinal Sen) v Rabbit Proof Fence (Noyce)
UK v AUSTRALIA
1.The Pumpkin Eater (Clayton) v Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir)
2.Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment (Reisz) v My Brilliant Career (Armstrong)
3.Contraband (Powell) v Breaker Morant (Beresford)
INDIA V CAUCASUS/UKRAINE
1.The Adversary (Satyajit Ray) v Pirosmani (Shengelaya)
2.The Cloud-Capped Star (Ghatak) v Swan Lake: Zone (Ilyenko)
3.Rat-Trap (Adoor Gopalakrishnan) v Legend of the Suram Fortress (Paradjanov)
GROUP 7:
Russia JORGE
Sweden ALEX
Iran USER DE FAUX-FUYANTS
Argentina RALCH
RUSSIA v SWEDEN
1.Stalker (Tarkovsky) v Through a Glass Darkly (Bergman)
2.The Return (Zvysagintsev) v All Things Fair (Bo Widerberg)
3.Ivan the Terrible (Eisenstein) v The Emigrants (Troell)
IRAN V ARGENTINA
1.Under the Olive Trees (Kiarostami) v El Viaje (Fernando Solanas)
2.The Color of Paradise (Majidi) v A Place in the World (Adolfo Aristarain)
3.The White Balloon (Panahi) v Autumn Sun (Eduardo Mignona)
RUSSIA V IRAN
1.The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky) v The Wind will Carry Us (Kiarostami)
2.The Dawns Here are Quiet (Stanislav Rostotsky) v The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf)
3.Mother and Son (Alexandr Sokurov, 1997) v The Cyclist (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
SWEDEN V ARGENTINA
1.Together (Moodysson) v Sur (Solanas)
2.You, the Living (Roy Andersson) v Invasion (Hugo Santiago)
3.The Seventh Seal (Bergman) v Veronico Cruz (Miguel Pereira)
RUSSIA V ARGENTINA
1.Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein) v Hour of the Furnaces (Solanas)
2.Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov) v La Antena (Esteban Sapir)
3.Russian Ark (SokuroV) v El Faro (Eduardo Mignona)
SWEDEN V IRAN
1.Fucking Amal (Moodysson) v Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami)
2.Winter Light (Bergman) v The Circle (Jafar Panahi)
3.My Life as a Dog (Hallstrom) v The House is Black (Forough Farrokhzad)
GROUP 8
China MYRA
Poland CHRISTOPHER SEPESY
Turkey SERDAR
Africa BLUE K
CHINA V POLAND
1.To Live (Zhang Yimou) v Tango (Zbigniew Rybczynski)
2.Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen) v Tess (Polanski)
3.Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai) v Kanal (Wajda)
TURKEY V AFRICA
1.Uzak /Distant (Ceylan) v Cairo Station (Chahine)
2.Susuz Yaz/ Dry Summer (Erksan) v Hyenas (Mambety)
3.Sonbahar/ Autumn (Ozcan Alper) v Mandabi (Sembene)
CHINA V TURKEY
1.Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai) v Three Monkeys (Ceylan)
2.Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu, 1948) v Motherland Hotel/ Anayurt Oteli (Kavur)
3.The Blue Kite (Tian Zhuangzhuang) v The Edge of Heaven/ Yasamin Kiyisinda (Akin)
POLAND V AFRICA
1.Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski) v Waiting for Happiness (Sissako)
2.Europa Europa (Holland) v Yeelen (Cisse)
3.Danton (Wajda) v Wanderers in the Desert (Khemir)
CHINA V AFRICA
1.Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai) v Ceddo (Sembene)
2.The Goddess (Wu Yonggang) v The Wind (Cisse)
3.Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou) v Prince that Contemplated his Soul (Khemir)
POLAND V TURKEY
1.Three Colours Red (Kieslowski) v Iklimler/ Climates) (Ceylan)
2.Knife in the Water (Polanski) v Duvara Karsi/ Head On (Akin)
3.Pan Tadeusz (Wajda) v Yol/ The Way (Yilmaz Guney)