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583,979 | 1,219,578 | 61,398 | 5 | The circus is in town | In the wake of her brilliant " Whatever happened to Baby Jane " ( 1962 ) , with a pleasing grasp of continuity , Joan Crawford continued in the thriller vein . Unfortunately there is no Robert Aldrich here ( and no Bette Davis either ) . Actually we are closer to " Straight Jacket " ( 1964 ) which was a hilarious camp ... |
582,367 | 1,219,578 | 91,535 | 5 | Cold as a grave . | This movie enjoys a very good reputation in France . This is a bleak depressing dirge-like effort . A cop ( Marielle ) has lost his daughter ( killed by her mother , now in an insane asylum ) and he acts as if she's still alive , telling her about his investigation into a horrible murder . The last lines , when the det... |
584,343 | 1,219,578 | 318,773 | 5 | Prince Charming in reverse . | How tempting ! A serial killer which would not be like the other ones . Here the " criminal " does not kill himself , he invites his victims to read " Tristan and Iseut " ( a hardback edition is de rigueur ) , then to live with him a passionate affair like the two doomed lovers ; and as their love is " impossible " he ... |
585,242 | 1,219,578 | 116,445 | 5 | a disappointment in Patrice Leconte's work | After a series of movies all excellent since " Tandem " ( 1987 ) , " les grands ducs " is the first real disappointment from Patrice Leconte . Critics and public slagged it off when the movie was released in the beginning of 1996 . What to say about this film ? It isn't a really bad movie . What surprises is the rapidi... |
582,509 | 1,219,578 | 72,359 | 5 | Gabin wanted Sophia Loren . . . . | . . . . And he won the case . " Verdict " is however one Cayatte too many . Realism which saved " justice est faite " " les risques du metier " and solid screenplays which made " avant le deluge " or " le glaive et la balance interesting if overblown works became some kind of " enough is enough " . For the first time i... |
583,176 | 1,219,578 | 240,772 | 5 | Soderbergh's good movie | I think that " Ocean's eleven " is an overrated movie ( 7 . on imdb ) but it's nonetheless a pleasant movie . It goes down well thanks to a clever and often inventive directing , smart dialogs and a well-run troop of actors . George Clooney dominates the cast . Steven Soderbergh's movie also enjoys a screenplay that is... |
584,763 | 1,219,578 | 120,828 | 5 | holidays in the sun . . . | Do you know Francis Veber ? He's one of the most popular French film-maker . He owes his success thanks to a comic method which he knows the secret . It's the confrontation of two people who have got a different disposition but are compelled to cohabit together in an unfriendly environment . This situation is told in a... |
584,900 | 1,219,578 | 80,009 | 5 | Roman Polanski tried a new direction and it was the deadlock | When Roman Polanski begins to shoot " Tess " , he has behind him a prestigious filmography scattered with works which became landmark films in their respective categories . Thus , " Repulsion " ( 1965 ) and " Le Locataire " ( 1976 ) are half realist , half fantastic gems in which he demonstrated that ambiguity was his ... |
584,602 | 1,219,578 | 48,044 | 5 | Elephants walk . | Allan Dwan seems more interested in filming the elephants than he is in directing his actors . Most of the time , excellent actors such as Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Ryan are left to their own devices : it's obvious in their first meeting and in the intimate scenes . As for the story , if you have not guessed that Rya... |
583,297 | 1,219,578 | 39,179 | 5 | As the miller told his tale . . . . | . . . the viewer's face turned a whiter shade of pale ! The first film using the Rouxcolor process ( and also the last ) , the film was made to fight against American color movies which could attract the French audience to the detriment of their local production . Today the film has lost most of its pristine charm : it... |
583,938 | 1,219,578 | 65,462 | 5 | What lies beneath | Actually nothing extraordinary . Pierre Boulle's novel and Shaffner's movie had different endings , so you could not ask the French writer for a sequel . This one uses shots from the first one , and allows us to see the fascinating " discovery " scene once more . As for Ted Post's work , it's OK . Nothing extraordinary... |
583,643 | 1,219,578 | 240,709 | 5 | Fair adaptation of a childhood classic . | Almost all actor Jean-Claude Brialy ' s films revolve around childhood : " Eglantine " , his charming debut featured an old grandma ( Valentine Tessier ) who used to gather her grandsons and granddaughters in her mansion . The fact that he adapted the comtesse de Segur's works afterwards made sense : the world of this ... |
583,198 | 1,219,578 | 120,018 | 5 | The title is apt as far as the second part is concerned . | This Chabrol's movie begins well with funny characters , Michel Serrault cast as a bogus colonel , Huppert , as a bogus femme fatale , and FRançois Cluzet as a security guard working for shady guys . The scenes in the ski resort and on the plane , with a witty dialog including money , of course , gastronomy , army ( Ah... |
584,520 | 1,219,578 | 55,032 | 5 | menage à Trois | François Truffaut's third film is generally celebrated as a benchmark in his filmography but also in the Nouvelle Vague and even of the whole French cinema . Once again , such paeans of praise for this good but by no means extraordinary work go beyond me . A lot of viewers seemed to have been conquered by this story wh... |
582,920 | 1,219,578 | 315,152 | 5 | Ah ! I wish the French scriptwriters were a little more inspired ! | This is the story of Aldo Bonnard , a modest representative for a capillary products firm who's having a rough time : he's about to divorce his wife Alice and his new boss , Gérard is a hypocritical and despotic man . To crown it all , he discovers that his wife has a love affair with his boss ! But one day , he wins t... |
585,462 | 1,219,578 | 309,390 | 5 | When there's a will , there's a way ? ? | To get the custody of her child , Clarence , Bridget would do anything . The most interesting line of an uneven dialog is this strange lapsus when the woman speaks of her childREN . In her mind she's got two of them : the boy and her husband , a retarded man she married because his father promised her a lot of dough if... |
583,605 | 1,219,578 | 93,713 | 5 | In an Italian rural way . | In spite of the presence of Bergman's veteran Max Von Sydow , this movie harks back to the Italian rural cinema of the seventies , with a zest of " ladri di biciclette " thrown in . The very long Italian sagas of the seventies , " novecento " ( 1976 , Bertolucci ) and " l'albero degi zoccoli " ( 1978 , Ermano Olmi ) co... |
584,027 | 1,219,578 | 87,469 | 5 | the worst of the trilogy | the raiders of the lost ark was a huge commercial and critical success in 1981 . So it was almost inevitable that it was followed by a sequel . This sequel was " Indiana Jones and the temple of doom " and sadly this is a rather poor sequel . If Steven Spielberg takes back the good old recipes that made Indiana Jones'... |
585,232 | 1,219,578 | 51,103 | 5 | Five little Indians | This Decoin effort has still got a good reputation in France . It's far from perfect though and the problem is that the screenplay hesitates between pure film noir and comedy . Besides , writer Albert Simonin is not Georges Simenon ; nor is he Boileau-Narcejac or Frédéric Dard : the lines are witless and the suspense s... |
584,997 | 1,219,578 | 62,671 | 5 | The Taggart tag along . . . | Whatever happened to baby Jane was a turning point in Bette Davis's career . " Hush hush sweet Charlotte " was almost as good , and she got first-class support from De Havilland , Cotten and Moorehead . With " the nanny " , and without a Robert Aldrich to direct , the formula began to wear thin . " The nanny " is an ... |
585,427 | 1,219,578 | 80,761 | 5 | A blueprint for sequels - to-come . | The first " Friday ' retains a - relative - appeal ; it was filmed on location : the forest surrounding the fateful lake provides enough darkness and dangers to satisfy gore afficionados . There was a script , rudimentary admittedly , but a story anyway . The plot was inspired by Agatha Christie's " and then there were... |
584,093 | 1,219,578 | 98,238 | 5 | Part two . | Part two begins with the royal family's incarceration and ends with Robespierre's fall in the Summer of 1794 . Since Balmer ( Louis XVI ) disappears , and for a good reason , in the first half-hour , it's Klaus Maria Brandauer who walks away with the honors in this second episode . His Danton is a bon vivant , nice , a... |
582,958 | 1,219,578 | 109,386 | 5 | when war is at the gate of your holiday place | This Gérard Jugnot vehicle attests of his own approach of French comedy : to take a serious theme and move it in the domain of the comedy . In his previous effort , " une Epoque Formidable " ( 1991 ) , he had been interested by homeless people whom he introduced , with humor as deeply united and resourceful . In this "... |
584,387 | 1,219,578 | 22,215 | 5 | Propaganda now dates this movie . | The greatest silent movies are generally free of any propaganda . Such is not the case with " Odna " which was recently restored with a complete soundtrack . The last pictures are a paean to socialism which " everybody has got to build " in a country where we all stand together . And if the message is not clear enough ... |
585,404 | 1,219,578 | 254,686 | 5 | a few notches below the usual Michael Haneke production | Michael Haneke is one of the most innovative filmmakers of these last years and he must be given credit to take contemporary cinema in new territories . In a handful of films all disturbing which shatter our consciences and with a recognizable trademark , he created his own universe , a formidable one in which it is da... |
582,458 | 1,219,578 | 52,769 | 5 | a witness of the surge of French New Wave ( let ) | At the dawn of the sixties in France , the New Wave was like a tsunami on the shore of the domain of French cinema and even nowadays , it still fuels many movie-lovers ' bickering . Claude Chabrol shot two works in a row : " le Beau Serge " ( 1958 ) , " les Cousins " ( 1959 ) and they were the jewels of the New Wave cr... |
582,960 | 1,219,578 | 58,620 | 5 | Camp at its most hilarious ! | In 1960 , " Psycho " made Robert Bloch a famous horror writer . In 1963 , " whatever happened to Baby Jane ? " made Bette Davis and Joan Crawford potential actresses for horror flicks . Davis carried on with Aldrich in " Hush hush sweet Charlotte " while Crawford had to content herself with William Castle , not a bad c... |
583,960 | 1,219,578 | 397,065 | 5 | Waxing a movie . . . | The subject is not new , there were lots and lots of movie where people became waxworks in museums . Andre de Toth has an eponymous movie ( 1952 ) where the criminal was in love with a waxy Marie Antoinette . Okay the final special effects are quite impressive when the whole house is melting . But the best scenes are t... |
584,326 | 1,219,578 | 369,339 | 5 | Tom Cruise + Michael Mann = a tepid thriller | Max ( Jamie Foxx ) is a taxi driver in Los Angeles and works mainly at night . It's a nine to five work reversed as far as the time is concerned . A humdrum life which he dreams of escaping . One night , after he took a lovely black lawyer , he accepts the alluring offering of 600 dollars from a weird , cynical custome... |
584,563 | 1,219,578 | 265,086 | 5 | Ridley Scott + Jerry Bruckheimer : a so-so war movie | The third movie made by Ridley Scott in less than two years after " Gladiator " ( 2000 ) and " Hannibal " ( 2001 ) , " Black Hawk Down " is a movie too much for him just like it's a movie too much in the genre of the war movie . Yes , I know it enjoys a very good mark on this site ( 7 . ) but I don't think it is fully ... |
585,319 | 1,219,578 | 24,315 | 5 | Aristocracy vs manufacturers . | The cast and credits read " a film by Fernand Rivers supervised by Abel Gance " . Gaby Morlay in one of her countless melodramas . She plays a young aristocrat whose family is completely broke . Her fiancé , a duke marries her rival , a rich lumpish bourgeois . So she marries in money with a wealthy manufacturer but sh... |
582,993 | 1,219,578 | 136,912 | 5 | Blistering | Marcel Blistene was an odd-job man of the French cinema . His movies dealt with Edith Piaf , comics character Bibi Fricotin , saints ( " Le Sorcier Du Ciel " a biopic of the Curé D'Ars which I saw at Sunday school and which scared me to death ) and more . . " Le Feu Dans La Peau " got a PG 18 when it was released and v... |
584,986 | 1,219,578 | 133,093 | 5 | What the hell is the " Matrix ? " | Launched in 1999 and one of the most successful movies of the year , " Matrix " is an amazing movie . It ranks among the movies that leave the spectator bemused , even after several projections . In a way , it's very similar to Paul Verhoeven's movie " Total Recall " ( 1990 ) . The two movies have got a complicated but... |
584,836 | 1,219,578 | 57,216 | 5 | The second part . . . . | . . . . of an exotic adventure yarn . The French telly never bothered to show the first part , but fortunately , " mistero del tempo indiano " begins with a ten-minute summary of the precedent episode . Obviously intended to match the scale of Fritz Lang's two-part " Der Tiger von Eschnapur " ( 1959 ) , it cannot hold ... |
583,281 | 1,219,578 | 154,329 | 5 | Nous Avons Fait Un Beau Voyage . . . | Ciboulette is primarily an operetta so if your cup of tea is , say , Mozart , Miles Davis or the Beatles , this might possibly bore you . For they sing every five minutes . To my ears , the only tune I find palatable is the lovely " Nous Avons Fait un Beau Voyage " . The story : Ciboulette is a market gardener in lov... |
584,525 | 1,219,578 | 309,593 | 5 | death like time's got her own plans 2 | Many horror movie fans were pleasantly surprised by the discovery in 2000 of " Finale Destination " . Its author , James Wong who cut his teeth on the X-Files saga ( I'm not a fan at all of this series ) had made a killing with this classy B movie which encompassed teenage , slasher , fantastic and horror movie in the ... |
582,729 | 1,219,578 | 102,869 | 5 | What are these secrets ? | This is a sketches film introducing the Apfelglück doctor ( Thierry Lhermitte ) and four of his patients who are living each other a weird or embarrasing adventure . Among these patients , there is Jacques Villeret who's got to spend the night in a disturbing hotel . Philippe Bruneau , actor of a movie in which a cinem... |
584,565 | 1,219,578 | 73,685 | 5 | A true story . . . | . . . but time has not treated Jacques Rouffio's flick kindly . Two stories within fifteen years of one another , two surgeons who committed suicide because of a an old doctor ( Charles Vanel ) and his offprings who could not stand competition . Using gossips , false rumors and slander , the clique gets away unharmed a... |
583,356 | 1,219,578 | 119,432 | 5 | another pointless remake | Rare are the French comic movies that succeed in attracting attention to the USA . When it's the case , the concerned movie can be successful in Uncle Sam's country and sometimes , American film-makers feel like making a remake . It happened with the French movie : " un indien dans la ville " . In general , these remak... |
583,069 | 1,219,578 | 51,477 | 5 | A " liebelei " remake | Liebelei was one of Max Ophuls's triumphs in the thirties . One should notice it was Romy's mother ( Magda Schneider ) who was the lead . The first thing to bear in mind is that " Liebelei " was BARELY a romantic story . A harsh tale , more like , where princes do not generally marry shepherdesses . For the young her... |
582,508 | 1,219,578 | 76,960 | 5 | You'll cry for mercy and still there'll be more ! ( Keith Reid ) | A chacun son enfer ( everyone has his cross to bear ) is a horrible story , in which a mother discovers that , after the worst ( her daughter is kidnapped , then killed ) , there can be something even worse . You do not believe me ? Well see yourself . Annie Girardot gives an over-the-top performance which never give... |
583,076 | 1,219,578 | 58,323 | 5 | Not enough Winton ! | This is the film Guy Hamilton made just before the blockbuster of his career " Goldfinger " - which , although very different from " Man in the middle " , remains one of the best ( who says best ? ) Bond ever made - . The problem with " man in the middle " is that there's not enough scenes with Keenan Wynn . We would l... |
584,449 | 1,219,578 | 37,973 | 5 | The darker side of man . . . | Ambitious but only moderately successful . The first lines promised great things : every man has a secret garden , the dark side of his mind , you never know who he really is , blah blah blah . . . It seems that Delannoy had a film / symphony in mind . What Frank Borzage ( " I'll always love you " ) and Abel Gance ( " ... |
584,815 | 1,219,578 | 172,907 | 5 | Front window | This is the contemporary French thriller : all form and no substance ; flashy pictures , disturbing characters and poor screenplays . The director obviously relied on his cast : Jean-Louis Trintignant and Stefania Sandrelli were once in Bertolucci's critically-acclaimed " il conformista " ; both are very talented actor... |
584,787 | 1,219,578 | 86,984 | 5 | the son of " Vertigo " ( 1958 ) | An unemployed actor , Jake accepts the offer from a friend to put him up in a luxurious flat where with a telescope , he can admire and fantasize about a female neighbor who languorously takes her clothes off . It's the same " show " every night . But it's the start of a perverse game which will prove to be infinitely ... |
584,334 | 1,219,578 | 84,589 | 5 | . . . . and another remake in disguise . | A man suffering from amnesia coming back from war to be confronted with a wife and child . . . Well we've seen this before and long ago . . . To be precise in 1938 , when Curtis Bernardt - who continued his career in America afterward - directed his " carrefour " starring the excellent Charles Vanel and Jules Berry . H... |
582,592 | 1,219,578 | 49,602 | 5 | Going my way . . . | And as far as Marcel Carné is concerned , going down . . " Le Pays D'ou Je Viens " should be reserved for Gilbert Bécaud's fans , and for them only . As Bécaud is a singer , Carné is compelled to bestow on the audience a song every fifteen minutes . As I'm not a fan of Becaud's kind of music , the only palatable song i... |
583,052 | 1,219,578 | 62,106 | 5 | Spy thriller , French style . | Does it deserve such a low rating ? Frankly , no . There were , in the wake of James Bond , so many dismal spy thrillers that you've got to be kind to " peau d'espion " . Anyway , it's not James Bond style : no gadgets , no high budget . The plot might repel some , since it remains almost indecipherable till the scene ... |
585,259 | 1,219,578 | 146,316 | 5 | the moral is : rush on the video games , they're much better | To adapt a video game for the screen is like adapting a comic strip to the screen : the result is rarely convincing . " Lara Croft : Tomb Raider " isn't an exception to the rule . When the film was launched in June 2001 , it was announced as one of the biggest commercial successes of the summer in France but it didn't ... |
583,441 | 1,219,578 | 49,632 | 5 | The visitor | A parboiled cross between " rose tattoo " and " a streetcar named desire " , both Tennessee Williams ' plays . A hunky man ( Vallone ) comes to a farm in Italy on the Goats island ( ? ) . There are three women who live on the farm : the mother ( Madeleine Robinson , one of my favorite French actresses in one of her wor... |
584,717 | 1,219,578 | 358,735 | 5 | Henry James's classic | Directed by Raymond Rouleau , a man who had practical experience ( he had directed Signoret and Montand in " Les Sorcières de Salem " , Miller's classic ) , with a cast including Suzanne Flon as the lead and Robert Hossein and Marie - Christine Barrault supporting ( but as ghosts , they don't have much to do ) , we cou... |
584,660 | 1,219,578 | 183,790 | 5 | a lackluster parody | The year 2001 wasn't a good one for American comedies . " Legally Blonde " starring Reese Witherspoon was spoiled by a cock and bull story , " Evolution " showed an Ivan Reitman who was running out of ideas and with the horrible " Freddy Got Fingered " , we had touched the bottom . I watched " A Knight's Tale " a coupl... |
582,475 | 1,219,578 | 69,243 | 5 | Everyone ' s bleeding . | It is to my knowledge the only novel by the great Richard Matheson to have been transferred to the screen by a French director . Georges Lautner , who made Mireille Darc a star in the sixties was responsible for ponderous comedies . From time to time , he would come up with an intriguing offbeat work . So were the high... |
583,108 | 1,219,578 | 354,448 | 5 | ethereal | Like so many contemporary French thrillers , " cette femme-là " is no substance and all atmosphere . Josiane Balasko portrays a cop down in the dumps , desperate because of her only son's death on the 29 th of February . Every four year , when the fatal date gets closer , she begins to have awful nightmares all about s... |
583,089 | 1,219,578 | 22,924 | 5 | A coarse comedy . . . . | It was a genre which was very popular in the early thirties in France . Two other good examples are " Les Dégourdis De La Onzième " and " Ignace " where Fernandel was featured too . Here he is only supporting as is Jean Gabin . The " crazy barracks " style is really an acquired taste . This kind of comedy is terribly d... |
582,440 | 1,219,578 | 218,922 | 5 | When paths of fear and alibis are black . . . | . . . And the nightmare is hung on your tree When an after dinner party's in the back Will you waltz into darkness with me ? ( Paul R . Michaud , 1980 ) First adapted for the screen by Truffaut in 1969 ( " la sirène du Mississipi " ) , with pretty good results . Although Woolrish's ( Irish's ) tragic side eludes the Fr... |
584,613 | 1,219,578 | 194,157 | 5 | Si tu m'aimes . . . | This 1937 movie , which has become very hard to see nowadays , is actually entitled " si tu m'aimes " ( = if you love me ) but the IMDB title is more appropriate considering what the story is about . A young girl ( Aubert ) in love with an electrician engineer ( Barrault ) becomes a celebrated chanteuse in les folies b... |
583,258 | 1,219,578 | 107,969 | 5 | Rising . ? | The best moments are the ones which deal with video manipulations . That's typically Crichtonesque : in " mondwest " , which he directed , he created a fake world , in " coma " , things are not what they seem . " Looker " reveals a threatening side of advertising , and advertising is par excellence manipulation . Let's... |
582,858 | 1,219,578 | 216,740 | 5 | Stan flies away , the film doesn't | This first effort from Steve Suissa has certainly a biopic whiff because it originates from some vivid memories . Prior to this very so-so film , he cut his teeth in cinema as an actor , in many cases in small parts . And before this , he went assiduously to the movies like his main protagonist , Stan ( Clément Sibony ... |
584,237 | 1,219,578 | 33,858 | 5 | A belle and her beaus | When the film was finally released in Duvivier's native France , it did not meet critical favor . I personally find little fault with the opinions expressed . " Lydia " is a confused cold work . Duvivier's great American movies are not " Great Waltz " or " Lydia " . They were yet to come : " tales of Manhattan " and " ... |
583,470 | 1,219,578 | 53,695 | 5 | Swashbuckler ! | The 1955-65 era was the French swashbuckler heyday and Jean Marais was the hero of that generation . He had given up his artistic ambitions of the Cocteau period ( " la Belle et la Bete " " les parents terribles " ) , but his panache and his charisma remained intact . Pierre Gaspard-Huit is not much of a director , but... |
584,938 | 1,219,578 | 194,484 | 5 | Parrots and slogans | In France it is often mooted that Marcel Carné without Jacques Prevert was nothing or almost nothing . But when you watch Prevert's screenplays which were not directed by " Le Jour se Lève " director , you're compelled to admit that all was not gold . And Richard Pottier is not that much bad a director as " Caroline Ch... |
582,443 | 1,219,578 | 107,520 | 5 | ah ! the family . . . | Elie Chouraqui isn't a remarkable figure in the French cinema . After , a little convincing attempt in the comedy with " Paroles et Musique " ( 1984 ) and a failed incursion in the thriller with " Man on Fire " ( 1987 ) which made the object of an American remake in 2004 , he chose to tell the story of a family with nu... |
584,714 | 1,219,578 | 168,270 | 5 | Another prison movie . . | Zonzon means " Prison " . This is a movie which takes place in jail and one cannot say it renews a genre which has produced few masterpieces ( " Le trou ' by Jacques Becker ) . There's the obligatory violent scene in the showers , there's the obligatory body search and the obligatory beating up , there are the obliga... |
583,456 | 1,219,578 | 274,309 | 5 | I wish I could love this movie . . . | As I am a big fan of the bands who secured the glory of Factory Records , especially Joy Division and Durutti Column , I was quite impatient to discover " 24 Hour Party People " . I watched it last night and the first thing i will say will be the following one : how disappointed I was ! The scriptwriter Frank Cottrell ... |
583,998 | 1,219,578 | 58,003 | 5 | spleen . . or tedium ? | After a neorealist period ( Il grido ) , Antonioni begins his movies dealing with incommunicability with " l'avventura " in 1960 , continues with " la notte " ( 1961 ) and " l'eclisse " ( 1962 ) . This trilogy is in black and white and features Monica Vitti , his favorite actress - although in " la notte " she's only s... |
582,411 | 1,219,578 | 259,340 | 5 | him against the world | If I had to give my opinion about this movie , I would say this : it is the meeting between " Amélie Poulain " ( 2001 ) and the Podalydès brothers ' cinema . A shy and unassuming man would like to charm a woman , Odile . For this , he stole her wallet so as to arrange a date with her . She accepts . But what Grégoire d... |
584,887 | 1,219,578 | 40,284 | 5 | Its days are numbered . | One more time , Bulwer-Lytton's book was cheapened in this movie which was to be L'Herbier's next-to-last one . It ' s got a good beginning and a good ending but what remains is a muddled story , not faithful to the original plot , saved by the magnitude of the actors ( Georges Marchal , Micheline Presles and Marcel He... |
582,771 | 1,219,578 | 329,717 | 5 | a buddy movie . . . | . . . like apparently all the ones you could have watched before . This effort cranked out by Ron Shelton rests on basic bases . Two cops from Los Angeles are compelled to work together . There's Joe Gavilan ( Harrison Ford ) , a seasoned policeman who has recourse to unconventional methods to do his job . He has to te... |
582,423 | 1,219,578 | 118,972 | 5 | Alan J Pakula's disappointing swan song | Alan J Pakula made a name for himself thanks to the stunning thrillers he made in the seventies such as " Klute " ( 1971 ) , " the Parallax View " ( 1974 ) , " All the President's Men " ( 1976 ) . Alas ! More than twenty years after the release of these movies and at the screening of " the devil's own " , this director... |
583,495 | 1,219,578 | 102,930 | 6 | A mere mortal thinks he's God ? | This is the second Pierre Jolivet movie I see ; the first one I saw a couple of years ago ( " force majeure " ) was marred by a happy end which made the story null and void ( not to mention a very poor cast : Patrick Bruel ) . " Simple mortel " is a different matter , simply because it goes to the very end . And it all... |
582,446 | 1,219,578 | 286,009 | 6 | a lacklustre comeback from " the Inconnus " but an entertaining comedy | In the French movie " the three brothers " ( 1995 ) , one of the characters says to the three members of the Inconnus : " Eh ! . . . Hurry up the Three Kings or it will cool down ! " It is to believe that this cue firmly fixed in their minds and gave them the idea to shot a movie . " The Three Kings " constitutes the I... |
584,274 | 1,219,578 | 109,040 | 6 | The animal lover | 1994 was a beneficial year for Jim Carrey for three movies revealed him to the general public and lined his pockets : " the Mask " , " Dunb and Dumber " and " Ace Ventura " . At the level of quality , " Ace Ventura " finds itself between the two movies . It is better than the " dumb " movie made by the Farrelly brother... |
584,631 | 1,219,578 | 288,477 | 6 | an honest horror movie . Starring Gabriel Byrne | The third movie produced by the production company " Dark Castle " and managed by Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis , " Ghost Ship " ( 2002 ) marks a step forward and constitutes a neat improvement in comparison with the two previous movies , " the House on the Haunted Hill " ( 1999 ) and " 13 Ghosts " ( 2001 ) . This ca... |
582,871 | 1,219,578 | 23,840 | 6 | Childhood's end . | Robert Siodmak's first German career was about to come to an end . " Brennendes Geheimnis " was to be his last before Goebbels drove him away from his land . The last pictures have become prophetic : a woman draws the curtains , a very poetic scene in a story which was filmed several times , in the silent era and then ... |
583,489 | 1,219,578 | 75,931 | 6 | Proteus Generation or the years to come . | When we realize today how the computers changed our life , " demon seed " can easily be looked upon as a film ahead of its time . A bizarre cross between " Rosemary's Baby " and " 2001 " ' s " Hal 9000 " , one feels ill-at-ease after the viewing . The screenplay may seem far-fetched but today it can become a transparen... |
584,377 | 1,219,578 | 191,254 | 6 | L'Eternel Retour . | Another movie of the Occupation days . There are harsh words said of this film , although it retains a small cult among horror and fantasy buffs . First of all , it's an escapism movie , like so many others in occupied country : " Les Visiteurs du Soir " , although it did include veiled hints at the country's plight , ... |
582,619 | 1,219,578 | 321,440 | 6 | a couple of roses under a glass bell | In his first long-feature movie , " Sitcom " ( 1998 ) the nasty piece of work François Ozon exploded a middle-class household with the intrusion of a rat that set the libido of the family free . In this flick directed by Francis Palluau , we will also watch a middle-class breaking into pieces . But the disruptive eleme... |
583,598 | 1,219,578 | 112,769 | 6 | Is it Ruth Rendell or Claude Chabrol work ? | Chabrol's plan was similar in " la ceremonie " to that of " la rupture " ( 1971 ) . Take a detective story ( Charlotte Armstrong for " la rupture " ( the balloon man ) , Ruth Rendell for " la ceremonie " ( A judgement in stone ) , then give it a " social satire " flavor . He did it all right in Armstrong's case which w... |
584,583 | 1,219,578 | 66,132 | 6 | Ghosts story | When Michèle Mercier appears in the sequence when she's still " alive " and puts on a necklace , it is obvious that the director was thinking of her " Angelique " character . The scene looks like an outtake of the Bernard Borderie's saga . " Nella . . . " is certainly an underrated work : it does not rely on special ef... |
582,759 | 1,219,578 | 466,909 | 6 | the omen thirty years later | The block Hollywood has been going through for several years must be big enough to prompt producers to produce remakes of successful films and " the Omen " is one of them . This remake opened on the 06th June 2006 , a beautiful date to serve the publicity campaign to promote the film . By the way , what's its contents ... |
584,100 | 1,219,578 | 56,345 | 6 | Only a woman could direct it . | Jacqueline Audry is France's Ida Lupino : she was a director when women were only meant to be actresses , film editors or script girls . Her work begins to surface again , but really little by little . Some critics said that the laurels Agnès Varda won were actually Jacqueline Audry's . She had only one subject : woman... |
582,501 | 1,219,578 | 136,500 | 6 | A short story by Guy de Maupassant . . . . . | . . . . . Marcel Pagnol wrote the dialog and provided the movie with his own wife Jacqueline . Both him and Jean Boyer wanted Bourvil to play the lead . But the actor was reluctant , knowing Fernandel had created the role in the thirties . " But said Pagnol , you will be a better Normand than him cause you are Normand ... |
583,402 | 1,219,578 | 52,528 | 6 | Entertaining B-movie . | Gilles Grangier was never looked upon as an auteur and a lot of his sixties movies are really bad . But the fifties display a more interesting choice of movies : Bertrand Tavernier , a famous FRench director and a very demanding critic , admires " le sang à la tête " , " gasoil " and " le désordre et la nuit " , the la... |
585,177 | 1,219,578 | 103,011 | 6 | the creation and the evolution of " Sushi Express " | who has ever dreamed of jettisoning one's stale living standards and to start again a new life on a new basis ? Such is the case in this film with Mathias ( André Dussollier ) , a disillusioned professor who is sick of the world which surrounds him . To provide him solace , one night one of his Japanese students offers... |
585,310 | 1,219,578 | 36,951 | 6 | Uncertain glory . . . . | If you've seen Raoul Walsh's " Uncertain glory " , the resemblance of the beginnings of the two films will strike you . In both work , Errol Flynn ( Walsh ) and Gabin ( Duvivier ) are about to be guillotined but a bombing destroys everything , and they are free . So to speak . For France is either occupied ( Walsh ) or... |
583,841 | 1,219,578 | 54,374 | 6 | Tomboy | Based on American novel called " Tomboy " , which makes sense cause the leader of the pack is a girl who , like the precedent user pointed out , resembled French pop singer France Gall . Daniele Gaubert would continue her career through the sixties , her most celebrated part was " lonesome the she wolf " a failed attem... |
584,073 | 1,219,578 | 66,229 | 6 | Historically , the first commercial movie dealing with the colonial war . | Claude Berri became famous worldwide with " Jean de Florette " and his remake of Pagnol's " Manon des sources " but his career had begun long before , in the early sixties when he was lucky to direct the great Michel Simon in " le vieil homme et l'infant " ( an old man and a Jewish child during WW2 ) . " Le pistonné " ... |
583,823 | 1,219,578 | 160,639 | 6 | Ship of pools | The luxury liner " Normandie " is to sail across the Atlantic ocean . Destination New York . And I mean luxury : they have a nice swimming-pool I'd love to dive in . The passengers : the who's who of the French cinema of the forties : Gaby Morlay , Michel Simon , Claude Dauphin , Jules Berry . . . . Like in the disaste... |
583,825 | 1,219,578 | 297,284 | 6 | And then there were . . . . | In wikipedia , you can read at the end of the long " And then there were none " entry : " although not a direct adaptation , " mindhunters " closely follows the storyline of the book " . It's true that some scenes bear more than a distant resemblance with Christie's classic thriller , but it is not the only one . It's ... |
584,064 | 1,219,578 | 156,248 | 6 | Fin Août Début Septembre | Simone ( Pascale Bussières ) is a young Canadian fashion model who is on the brink of a brilliant career . But this bright future could be thwarted due to a serious car accident of which she miraculously survives . In the aftermath , she decides to put an end to her professional life and becomes obsessed with the idea ... |
583,359 | 1,219,578 | 124,198 | 6 | Walking down the aisle . . . | . . . is the heroine's obsession , idée fixe . She would do anything for it . This subject , which takes a back seat to the boys ' wild time is nevertheless much more interesting than the very bad things the guys do behind her back . The idea of turning Cameron Diaz into a hateful shrew is sheer genius : her angelic lo... |
582,439 | 1,219,578 | 118,744 | 6 | Hush hush sweet Gwen ! | If you take it for what it is , a feast of camp , then this movie ( and particularly Lange ) is much fun to watch . Probably influenced by Davis's ( see " hush hush sweet Charlotte " ) and Crawford's end of career ( see " straitjacket " ) , Jessica Lange gives an over the top performance of the bitchiest mother-in-law ... |
585,199 | 1,219,578 | 160,589 | 6 | Some are born to sweet delight . . . . . . | . . . Some are born to endless night . A Parisian is arriving in a small village . In the French cinema before the war and even in the years which followed , a Parisian was something special for country people , a " person who is not like us " , almost an ET . More than Renoir's " Toni " , " La Nuit Sans Fin " ( Endles... |
584,661 | 1,219,578 | 112,682 | 6 | the dream catcher | Jean Pierre Jeunet ranks among a handful of French film-makers known and appreciated abroad . With his first feature-length film , " Délicatessen " ( 1991 ) , he had established himself as a real author with an original talent . Although I agree that his cinema appears as innovatory , I am not really fond of it . I hat... |
583,150 | 1,219,578 | 136,603 | 6 | The diary of a ladykiller . | La Vie En Rose , in spite of its title , has nothing to do with Edith Piaf . Released the same year as " The secret life of Walter Mitty " , it may be considered its French counterpart , but not nearly as good . Actually it was probably inspired by previous experiments of very underrated Albert Valentin : a story tol... |
583,314 | 1,219,578 | 23,942 | 6 | Orphans of the storm talkie | That was the story which DW Griffith had already transferred to the screen in the silent era . The great American director transposed Adolphe d'Ennery's tear-jerker , one of the many melodramas which thrived in the French nineteenth century , during the revolution , which led the scriptwriters to staggering scenes wher... |
584,138 | 1,219,578 | 118,685 | 6 | More Polanskian than Hitchcockian . | Beware of neighbors ! That's Rosemary's story , and that's the tenant's story , two great Polanski films . The camera tricks recall the Pole's style too . " Barracuda " could have been filmed stage drama , since we do not go out of Rochefort's flat , but the director manages to give a cinematographic feel to it . Cleme... |
583,050 | 1,219,578 | 52,644 | 6 | The hunchback | A new version in the late nineties was released featuring Daniel Auteuil as the hero ; it was entertaining but the actor was overshadowed by Lucchini's portrayal of the wicked cousin . In the 1960 version , , there's not such a problem . Jean Marais was par excellence the swashbuckler hero and , like in " le capitan " ... |
583,060 | 1,219,578 | 309,872 | 6 | ready for anything to be successful ? | Either it is in France , Great-Britain or in the USA , nearly every big actor felt one day or another to take a turn behind the camera to show their potential as a director . Guillaume Canet , a young charismatic actor added his name to this list which keeps on extending . With " mon idole " ( 2002 ) , his first long f... |
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