Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on November 30, 2012

Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa, 1975) The Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter. A few months after master director Akira Kurosawa attempted suicide, he went to Russia to make his film for Mosfilm studi   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on November 30, 2012

Killing Them Softly (Andrew Dominik, 2012) Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse. Being invited to a premiere is something, but like the last time I got into a premiere it...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on November 29, 2012

Yesterday evening I had the privilege to receive the setlist of the Soundtrack of Tarantino's next movie. Here I share it with everyone: DJANGO UNCHAINED IN THEATERS DECEMBER 25TH QUENTIN TARANTINO'S DJANGO UNCHAINED ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK - COMPLETE TRACK LIST   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on November 29, 2012

North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959) A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive. After the famous shower scene of Psycho, the scene of the chase...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on November 27, 2012

Dear Santa, I’m writing from Québec, near the North Pole, you know me, I like films, movies, talkies, well I’m passionate about Cinema. Above all that, there is a collection that I cherish more than any other: the Criterion one. In fact, they are the perfect Christmas gift for cineph   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on November 23, 2012

Atlantic City (Louis Malle, 1980) Lou is a small time gangster, who thinks he used to be something big. He meets up with a younger girl, Sally, who is learning to be a croupier. Her husband turns up with drugs he has stolen from the Mafia. Louis Malle once said...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on November 20, 2012

As the countdown to Quentin Tarantino’s new movie Django Unchained is getting near its end on Christmas day, let’s have a look at the best heroines of his filmography. QT’s films have been filled with superb mosaics of particular characters. With Reservoir Dogs the male only cast w   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on November 19, 2012

Angel (Ernst Lubitsch, 1937) Woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man. While in Paris, a lady named Mrs. Brown/Mrs. Barker/Angel (Marlene Dietrich) meets a man (Melvyn Douglas) with whom she falls in love. However, back in London she has a husband (   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on November 16, 2012

Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1956) Alcoholic playboy Kyle Hadley marries the woman secretly loved by his poor but hard-working best friend, who in turn is pursued by Kyle's nymphomaniac sister. Influencing some of the most respected directors (Jean-Luc Godard, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, T   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on November 15, 2012

F for Fake aka Vérités et mensonges (Orson Welles, 1973) A documentary about fraud and fakery. Throughout his career Orson Welles has been a director “maudit”. Just for his making of Othello and Falstaff for instance, he had to shoot during spans of months and years because of lack   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on November 14, 2012

Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, 1988) A tragic film covering a young boy and his little sister's struggle to survive in Japan during World War II. The Second World War has been such a huge inspiration for movies that it is almost impossible not to think of a War...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on November 13, 2012

Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) A US secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler. Dense, uncanny, avant-gardist, visionary, are some of the many qualities   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on November 12, 2012

The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg, 1941) A young woman, Poppy, out for excitement in Shanghai, enters a gambling house owned by "Mother" Gin Sling, a dragon-lady who worked herself up from poverty to buy the casino. Sir Guy Charteris, wealthy entrepreneur, has purchased a large area of Sh   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on November 9, 2012

Los olvidados (Luis Buñuel, 1950) A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, and the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others... Labelled as a surrealist, Luis Buñuel startles with this down to ea   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on November 8, 2012

The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952) A retired American boxer returns to the village where he was born in Ireland, where he finds love. The most celebrated director of all time, John Ford, had to find a studio ready to finance the project he cherished the most: The Quiet Man....   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on November 7, 2012

You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang, 1937) The public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control. Fritz Lang’s second American feature, the first being Fury, continues on building the   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on November 6, 2012

Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979) Brian is born on the original Christmas, in the stable next door. He spends his life being mistaken for a messiah. Often regarded as the best feature film of the Monty Python troupe, Life of Brian has been condemned for blasphemy in many countries....   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on November 5, 2012

The Descendants (Alexander Payne, 2011) A land baron tries to re-connect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident. Back in 2011, the first movie of Alexander Payne in seven years received mixed reviews and was more or less appreciated by movie goers. Sta   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on November 2, 2012

I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943) A young Canadian nurse (Betsy) comes to the West Indies to care for Jessica, the wife of a plantation manager (Paul Holland). Jessica seems to be suffering from a kind of mental paralysis as a result of fever. When she falls in...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on November 1, 2012

Since I put my hand on Andrew Sarris’ The American Cinema : Directors and Directions 1929-1968, my interest for completing a list I’ve been rambling about over and over here at the good old LMdC (short for Le Mot du Cinephiliaque), is TheyShoot Pictures Don’t They? 1000 Greatest Fi   read more