Cinephile Alert

If you haven't come across it yet, I recommend that everyone check out the website entitled "The Auteurs" (www.theauteurs.com). What makes it particularly nice is that along with articles about new films and filmmakers, and a discussion forum for members of the site (with endless top ten lists), they also stream films, some for a small fee and some for FREE (including the films restored by the Scorsese sponsored non-profit organization, World Cinema Foundation). The emphasis throughout is on alternatives to mainstream film and, because it is an internationally run webpage, it allows the student of film to discover a number of works that previously may have escaped his or her attention. This month the free steaming films includes a number of remarkable debut feature films: Agnès Varda's La Pointe Courte (1956), sometimes referred to as the origin of the French New Wave; Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water (1962); Jane Campion's Sweetie (1989); and Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher (1999). It's a great website for current and future cinephiles. Join today!