Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on May 9, 2014

Footloose (Herbert Ross, 1984) It tells the story of Ren McCormack (Kevin Bacon), an upbeat Chicago teen who moves to a small town in which, as a result of the efforts of a local minister (John Lithgow), dancing and rock music have been banned. For the thirty years of this...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on May 5, 2014

Body Double (Brian De Palma, 1984) A young man tries to make it as an actor in Hollywood but he struggles with his fear of confined spaces and his voyeuristic behaviors. This later vice will mix him with a mysterious murder of hitchcockian scape. Jake Scully (Craig Wasson) is our...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on May 2, 2014

Fair and square here are my complete predictions for Round 2 of the NHL Playoffs: Montréal vs. Boston: Mtl in 5 or 6 games. And yes it makes me sick to think of this but I think the Habs will go far this year. Pitssburgh vs. Rangers: Pit in 6...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on May 2, 2014

Sunn O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials In the vein of Godspeed You! Black Emperor!, Sunn O))) has always been a reference in Drone music exploring patterns, textures, sonorities, and the musical boundaries of sound and noise. On the other side, Ulver with an early Black Metal trilogie and a tri   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on April 30, 2014

My picks for tonight's games The epic best of seven series that the National Hockey League offers us every spring not often gives us series that goes into sudden death with an ultimate seventh game featuring two teams battling to get to the next round. With the same trepidation a...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on April 11, 2014

For the few of you who are wondering what happened lately to LMdC (short for Le Mot du Cinephiliaque) here are the latest news: First, my wife and I are waiting for a little baby girl to come to our lovely home by June 24th. I might have mentioned it...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on March 31, 2014

Starbuck (Ken Scott, 2011) David (Patrick Huard) is a delivery man for the family butchery. He is the black sheep and owes 80 000$ to a gang. He grows weed in his apartment and one day he learns that he is the father of 533 children. Having given more than...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on March 28, 2014

Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2002) The story of a love affair that begins during a picnic on the Thai-Burmese border. After watching Blissfully Yours from Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, which makes it the fourth of his films I’ve seen lately, I am even more con   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on March 26, 2014

The Ice Storm (Ang Lee, 1997) The film features an ensemble cast of Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood, and Sigourney Weaver. Set during Thanksgiving 1973, The Ice Storm is about two dysfunctional New Canaan, Connecticut families who are trying to deal with tumul   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on March 24, 2014

Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford, 1939) A family traveling through New Salem, Illinois in their wagon need groceries from Lincoln's store and the only thing of value they have is a barrel of old books including a law book, "Blackstone's Commentaries." After thoroughly reading the book, Abe (Henry Fon   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on March 21, 2014

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975) Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig) is a single mother and a six years widow with a teenage son. They live in the same apartment where she daily receives one man to subsists to their needs. The audience is asked to...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on March 19, 2014

The Tiger of Eschnapur (Fritz Lang, 1959) Fritz Lang returned to Germany to direct two films The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb, which together tell the story of a German architect (Paul Hubschmid), the Indian maharaja (Walter Reyer) for whom he is supposed to build schools and hospitals,   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on March 17, 2014

Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003) The film follows the story of one Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik), who is locked in a hotel room for 15 years without knowing his captor's motives. When he is finally released, Dae-su finds himself still trapped in a web of conspiracy and violence. His own quest...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on March 14, 2014

Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma, 1980) It centers on the murder of a housewife and an investigation involving a young prostitute who witnessed the murder, the victim’s teenaged son and her psychiatrist. Not admitting that Brian De Palma uses aesthetics and masters the thriller genre wou   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on March 12, 2014

The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984) In 2029, artificially intelligent machines are attempting to exterminate what is left of the human race. Two beings from this era travel back in time to 1984 Los Angeles: One is a Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a cyborg assassin programmed to kill a woman n   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on March 10, 2014

The Music Room aka Jalsaghar (Satiyajit Ray, 1958) Jalsaghar depicts the end days of a decadant zamindar or landlord (Chhabi Biswas) in Bengal, and his efforts to uphold his family prestige even when faced with economic adversity. Nowadays, Indian Cinema has been linked with Bollywood pictures   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on March 7, 2014

The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai, 2013) The film chronicles the life of the Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man from the 1930s in Foshan, his flight to Hong Kong after the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the events leading to his death. After a six year gap since his last film, My Blueberry...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on March 5, 2014

The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013) Based on Jordan Belfort’s memoir of the same name, it is an extravagant retelling of the rise and the fall of a young stockbroker who ruled the financial world. Optioned by its star Leonardo DiCaprio at the time the memoir was published,...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on March 4, 2014

Last year when I made my resolutions for 2013 I pretty much made a list of films that were films I wanted to watch in priority and some blindspot directors. Just look at my original post here. During the year, I modified those goals and I got circling around the...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on March 3, 2014

Here are my picks (in bold) (winners in green and my incorrect picks in red) for the 2014 Academy Awards: Best Picture American Hustle Captain Phillips Dallas Buyers Club Gravity Her Nebraska Philomena 12 Years a Slav   read more