Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on September 13, 2013

Night Moves (Arthur Penn, 1975) Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman) is a retired professional football player working as a private investigator in Los Angeles. He is dedicated to his job, but is also following his wife Ellen (Susan Clark) because she and a man named Marty Heller (Harris Yulin) are having...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on September 11, 2013

Oz the Great and Powerful (Sam Riami, 2013) Far from his first inspired films, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Dark Man, The Quick and the Dead, and even Army of Darkness, Sam Raimi’s adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s Oz the Great and Powerful visually surpasses any other release in High...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on September 10, 2013

Sharknado (Anthony C. Ferrante, 2013) The fine folks over at Video Services Corp and The Asylum have granted me of a screener of the film. It is a very good quality DVD and the transfer is amazing. The Canadian release date is September 10 2013. Presented as the new B-movie...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on September 9, 2013

J’ai tué ma mère (I Killed My Mother) (Xavier Dolan, 2009) Considered as the young prodigy of Quebecois Cinema, Xavier Dolan’s first feature is a not so juvenile effort. Far from being the masterpiece that many chauvinist film critics of the Province of Québec shouted out loud, J’   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on September 6, 2013

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah, 1974) Director Sam Peckinpah often stated about Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia that it is his only film to have been released the way he intended it to be. As of today, The Wild Bunch and Pat Garrett and...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on September 4, 2013

Stalker (Andreï Tarkovsky, 1979) In a not so far dystopian future, a man called the stalker (Alexander Kaidanovsky) guides people to pass in an area called the Zone to access to a room where men attain their most cherished dreams. The Zone is a place where the laws of physics...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on September 2, 2013

Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011) This second collaboration of actor-director Michael Fassbender and Steve McQueen is a fascinating tale of the modern day sickness of sex addiction of the emptiness and the isolation of the post-modern world. Brandon (Fassbender) is a successful executive living in New Yo   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on August 30, 2013

The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk, 1957) Adapted from William Faulkner’s novel Pylon, Douglas Sirk’s lavish black and white film stars regular Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone. Reunited two years after the making of the masterpiece, yes I said it, Written on the Wind, this   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on August 29, 2013

With the third edition of the Festival de cinéma de la Ville de Québec coming September 19th to the 29th, it was recently released that the opening film this year will be Peter Landesman’s Parkland starring Paul Giamatti, Zac Efron, Billy Bob Thornton and Jacki Weaver. It is the first...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on August 28, 2013

The Best Film You’ve Never Seen: 35 Directors Champion the Forgotten or the Critically Savaged Movies They Love (Robert K. Elder, 2013) Published June 1st 2013, this series of lesser known or underground films gives even a path that even the initiated of movies haven’t taken. It is al   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on August 26, 2013

Bones Brigade: An Autobiography (Stacy Peralta, 2012) When six teenage boys came together as a skateboarding team in the 1980s, they reinvented not only their chosen sport but themselves too - as they evolved from insecure outsiders to the most influential athletes in the field. Directed by Sta   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on August 23, 2013

Obsession (Brian De Palma, 1976) The early career of Brian De Palma is filled with very inspired films that many filmmakers have cited as inspirations like Sisters, Dressed to Kill, Carrie, and Blow-Up. His 1976 film, Obsession is openly inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, De Palma’   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on August 21, 2013

What’s Up, Doc? (Peter Bogdanovich, 1972) Following his biggest hit The Last Picture Show that played as an homage to the old Hollywood of John Ford and Orson Welles, director Peter Bogdanovich teamed up with Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal to pay a tribute to Howard Hawks’ quint   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on August 19, 2013

 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World(Edgar Wright, 2010) Adapted from Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novels Scott Pilgrim, this Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) piece of cinematic extravagance has a certain appeal to the Y generation in its obvious use of sounds   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on August 14, 2013

This review is dedicated to the memory of Haji (born Barbarella Catton) who recently passed away August 9th 2013. She was born in my hometown, Québec City, and this film was chosen by me has our assignation for the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die Club for August...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on August 9, 2013

The African Queen (John Huston, 1951) This namesake adaptation of C.S. Forester’s novel of 1935 is an adventure movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. Robert Morley and Katharine Hepburn play Samuel and Rose Sayer, brother and sister British Methodist missionaries in the village   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on August 6, 2013

Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith, 1963) Filmed in black and white on a film that was probably intentionally scratched and used this one of a kind short film of 43 minutes was seized on the first day it was shown in Greenwich Village. Its director, Jack Smith an openly gay man...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on August 1, 2013

Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999) An insomniac office worker looking for a way to change his life crosses paths with a devil-may-care soap maker and they form an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more... From my generation, the 25-35 years old people of today, Fight Cl   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on July 16, 2013

Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse, 1973) Lee (Bruce Lee) is a Shaolin martial artist from Hong Kong who possesses great philosophical insight into martial arts as well as physical prowess. He receives an invitation to a martial arts competition on an island organised by the mysterious Mr. Han (Shih   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on July 9, 2013

Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001) After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality. In this brilliant and unsettling film from master direc   read more