Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on April 28, 2015

Music Review : Tribulation – The Children of the Night (2015, Century Media) Coming from Sweden, the black/death impersonating of progressive rock metal of Tribulation might be the next Ghost B.C. but with greater depth the quartet brings aggressivity and hanger to a genre that seemed to be   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on April 27, 2015

Come and See aka Idi i smotri (Elem Klimov, 1985) After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet Army and experiences the horrors of World War II. Often described as the most realistic War film ever made, Elem Klimov’s final film, Come and See is a tour...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on April 23, 2015

Music Review : The Mountain Goats – Beat the Champ (2015, Merge) With their indie rock infused with melancholy and a certain naive charm, The Mountain Goats released a new record based around wrestling and the ecosystem it is linked with. Scrumy basement rings and a respect for the discipli   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on April 22, 2015

Music Review : Lightning Bolt – Fantasy Empire (2015, Thrill Jockey) The noise rock duo of Lightning Bolt has done it again for a seventh time with their new album Fantasy Empire. Playing with high intensity and fast tempos it is at first almost exhausting to listen to their music....   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on April 21, 2015

Music Review : Alambik – Utopie (2015, Label For Rent) Rising from the country of Portneuf near Quebec City, the four-piece Alambik has recently released their second album Utopie. Working with Jef Fortin of thrash metal band Anonymus, the production has a contemporary sound and a nice feel   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on April 13, 2015

Analyzing Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining For The Great Villain Blogathon 2015 As anyone who followed this blog for many years, you can easily guess that Stanley Kubrick is my favorite movie director, it is also a given that The Shining is my favorite film from his filmography   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on April 10, 2015

The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel, 1962) The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave. Often described as the twin film to director Luis Buñuel’s own The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Exterminating Angel is a surrealist exercise of style and screenw   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on April 9, 2015

Beau travail (Claire Denis, 1999) This film focuses on an ex-Foreign Legion officer as he recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in Africa. This critically acclaimed film by Claire Denis is a beautiful tale of manhood in the 20th Century. A century that was punctuated by wars and the...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on April 7, 2015

India Song (Marguerite Duras, 1975) Poetical tale of Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in India in the 1930s. At 18 she had married a French colonial administrator and went with him on posting to Savannakhet, Laos. Visually stunning and populated with long shots of almost still l   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on April 3, 2015

Music Review : Viet Cong – Viet Cong (2015, Jagjaguwar) Playing noise rock, art rock, post-punk, indie rock, well rock infused with all those labels, Viet Cong’s self titled record goes and flows in seven songs with a sad hook like early Interpol or 1980’s The Cure. Only the nois   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on April 2, 2015

Él (Luis Bunuel, 1953) Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. After meeting Gloria by accident, he is suddenly intent on her becoming his wife and courts her until she agrees to marry him. With the important number of films by Luis Bunuel that are available...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on April 1, 2015

Music Review : Dodheimsgard – A Umbra Omega (2015) In the early to mid 1990’s a bunch of Norwegian musicians were a part of the rise of the second wave of black metal, one of the most infamous genre in music history. Of this bunch many disappeared after a few...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on March 31, 2015

Music Review : Enslaved – In Times (2015) Coming from a string of acclaimed albums from Below the Lights , ISA, Ruun, Vertebrae, Axioma Ethica Odini, and RIITIIR, the Norwegian progressive black metal masters of Enslaved have put in front their rock influences like Rush, Pink Flolyd and Le   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on March 30, 2015

Music Review : Melechesh – Enki (2015) Mostly known for being one of the most important Extreme Metal band coming from Israel, Melechesh who deported themselves in the Netherlands a few years ago claim to be playing Assyrian Metal mixing some elements of black, death, and middle eastern sono   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on March 27, 2015

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Luis Bunuel, 1955) The delirious journey of a mental disordered man, who is obsessed in making the perfect crime. Another film from Luis Bunuel’s Mexican period, The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz, works on many recurrent themes of the di   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on March 26, 2015

Here is a list of the 10 best edited films of all time from Rope of Silicon's list of the 75 best edited films of all time. Raging Bull (Thelma Schoonmaker, 1980) Citizen Kane (Robert Wise, 1941) Apocalypse Now (Lisa Fruchtman, Gerald B. Greenberg, Walter Murch, 1979) All That Jazz...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on March 25, 2015

Music Review : Young and in the Way – When Life Comes to Death (2014) Formed in Charlotte, North Carolina, YAITW are a blackened crust punk band or a crust punk band playing black metal. In fact, they are using various elements of each genre to form their own particular...   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on March 24, 2015

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Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on March 23, 2015

Music Review : Marduk – Frontschwein (2015) For 25 years Marduk is at the forefront of Extreme metal. At first, the Swedish outfit was playing death metal and progressively endorsed black metal elements such as fast uncompromising aggressive elements of the young genre. With Frontschwein, on   read more

Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on March 18, 2015

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (David Zellner, 2014) A jaded Japanese woman discovers a hidden copy of Fargo (1996) on VHS, believing it to be a treasure map indicating the location of a large case of money. Just like Fargo itself, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter is based on a true story....   read more