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583,388 | 1,219,578 | 117,951 | 7 | sex , drugs and rock and roll | One of the cult-movies made in the nineties , often compared ( a bit wrongly ) to " A Clockwork Orange " ( 1971 ) , " Trainspotting " is the revelation of a new talented director : Danny Boyle . If his previous movie " Shallow Grave " ( 1994 ) was not accepted unanimously , " Trainspotting " was critically praised and ... |
584,819 | 1,219,578 | 39,806 | 7 | The green green grass of home . | In Michel Ciment's book " Kazan par Kazan " which is actually a very long interview ( à la " Hitchcock by Truffaut " ) , the director recalled how painful the filming of " sea of grass " was for him : first of all , he complained for a subject like that SHOULD have been filmed on location and we can find little fault w... |
582,498 | 1,219,578 | 60,645 | 7 | To die is to go away / Where ? / in another land . . . . . | The timing was not very good for " Madame X " . It was the sixties and melodrama was not as popular as it was in the previous decade when Douglas Sirk dominated the genre . David Lowell Rich seems to have studied Sirk's works ; by and large , he is a good student . The Sirkesque cast and credits , the huge desirable ma... |
582,455 | 1,219,578 | 104,025 | 7 | crisis , what crisis ? | On the same day , Victor ( Vincent Lindon ) loses both his wife and a very lucrative job in his firm . Miserable and hopeless he's looking for his friends and family in the country to tell his personal turmoil and hoping to find some relief . But he only receives indifference or misunderstanding . Only a little man Mic... |
583,627 | 1,219,578 | 417,071 | 7 | I will tell her the blue words , the ones you tell with your eyes | Alain Corneau has been occupying a steady surge in French cinema for more than thirty years now . Topnotch thrillers like " Police Python 357 " ( 1976 ) , " Série Noire " ( 1979 ) , ambitious works with " Nocturne Indien " ( 1989 ) or " Stupeur et Tremblements " ( 2003 ) reveal his strong ability at film-making . " Le ... |
583,785 | 1,219,578 | 74,812 | 7 | Run silent run deep . | SPOILERS " Logan's run belongs to the " old intellectual " sci-fi that will come to an end pretty damn quick with the " new harmless " sci-fi inaugurated by the " Star Wars saga " . Not that " Logan's run ' is that much " food for thought " but its spirit harks back to " planet of the apes " " on the beach " or " THX11... |
583,054 | 1,219,578 | 74,806 | 7 | Get out of my house ! | Nicolas Gessner is very special director : an Hungarian , he made most of his career in France where he is today virtually forgotten , although his sentimental series " le château des oliviers " was a smash some fifteen years ago . After directing Mireille Darc in " la blonde de Pekin " which is pleasant but not very a... |
584,159 | 1,219,578 | 278,504 | 7 | Al Pacino is so tired he can't sleep | Two policemen , Will Dormer ( Al Pacino ) and Hap Eckhart ( Martin Donovan ) are sent in Alaska to make an investigation around the murder of a high school girl . Convinced that the murder was committed by a serial killer , Dormer decides to organize a police raid in an isolated house where seems to live the suspected ... |
583,533 | 1,219,578 | 86,968 | 7 | 37 years after | This is the follow-up , so to speak , of Rouquier's " Farrebique " which he made at the end of WW2 . For that only , it is an unique film . Close to cinema verite , but do not panic , it's not Godardesque stodgy stuff , it's a simple depiction of country life circa 1980 just after the socialists rose to power . Anyway ... |
584,316 | 1,219,578 | 53,403 | 7 | How to get unnoticed | This is Fernandel's blockbuster . Even before the war , none of his movies had made so much money . Further detailed retrospection indicates that " La Vache et le Prisonnier " thoroughly deserved its success . Even today , when it is on TV , it attracts figures of million people . It is not certainly weaker than Renoir... |
585,494 | 1,219,578 | 53,473 | 7 | Mother and son . | Not a prequel to Psycho ; a sequel to " strangers on a train " or " notorious " more like ! The over possessive mother was present long before the 1960 masterpiece in Hitchcock's canon . Madeleine Robinson , more than Belmondo , is the stand-out . She won the Volpi Cup and she really deserved it . Her portrayal of the ... |
583,420 | 1,219,578 | 211,359 | 7 | Fin de decade depression blues . | A true anomaly in the French cinema , this despairing work has no equivalent in the contemporary production . One would rather have to look on the side of Louis Malle's " le feu follet " ( 1963 ) ( the fire within ) to find something not completely unlike Harel's effort . Wry and cynical , having lost all his illusions... |
582,480 | 1,219,578 | 34,075 | 7 | All my sons | This movie shows a strong Duvivier influence : as Marie Bell , in " un carnet de bal " ( 1937 ) , was in search of her former beaus , Harry Baur , a man who is getting old , realizes how lonely he is and he decides to look for the sons he had with different women ( hence the title = youthful indiscretions ) . So this i... |
583,852 | 1,219,578 | 187,393 | 7 | the way that leads to freedom | This is the film-maker of " Independence Day " , Roland Emmerich who made this historic adventures movie which the action takes place in the eighteenth century during the Independence War of the United States . Emmerich manages rather well from this epic movie . Anyway , the result is better than the conceited " Indepe... |
583,826 | 1,219,578 | 58,283 | 7 | Panic room | For Olivia de Havilland's fans like me , " lady in a cage " is a delight . The actress , often alone on the screen , gives a brilliant tormented performance , just before her first " villain " part in " Hush hush sweet Charlotte " . From the very start , we feel something is wrong : this luxury house , with this son sa... |
584,539 | 1,219,578 | 115,649 | 7 | dancing on a volcano . | LE BEL ETE 14 : what an oxymoron ! That summer was anything but beautiful , and the characters of the movie do not know that all their hopes and plans will sink like Titanic - the picture of the ship comes back several times - . Claude Rich's last line is scary : " I hope they ' ll have the war ! " His world had alre... |
585,178 | 1,219,578 | 269,771 | 7 | on a cold wet December day . . . | Reines d'Un Jour is a film composed of 4 subplots . In the time of one hour and a half , the viewer will watch a day in the lives of 4 protagonists . There's Hortense ( Karin Viard ) , a speech therapist who spends the major part of the film with her mobile because she wants to spend the evening with one of her 2 lov... |
584,352 | 1,219,578 | 216,625 | 7 | unknown code = no access to any life | Paris , in the year 2000 . A thoughtless gesture ( a scrap of paper thrown in the hands of a beggar ) causes a general altercation . As a matter of fact , the Austrian film-maker Michael Haneke goes from this incident to relate bits of various characters ' lives . There's among others , Anne ( Juliette Binoche ) , an a... |
585,342 | 1,219,578 | 240,009 | 7 | a movie worth seeing for Daniel Prévost | Oddly , this movie reminded me of " mister Hire " by Patrice Leconte because it's nearly the same subject : a man called Jean ( Daniel Prévost ) is hated by everyone due to his despising and arrogant behavior . He lives alone and leads a mournful life . One day , he's meeting a young man which the temperament is on the... |
584,566 | 1,219,578 | 71,622 | 7 | Tavernier's tribute to the old wave . | Tavernier's treatment of Simenon takes us back to the veterans time , all those who made great adaptations just before the nouvelle vague and even during its heyday : " la mort de Belle " , Edouard Molinaro's most perfect flick was made in 1963 , at about the same time as François Truffault's " la peau douce " , whose ... |
582,683 | 1,219,578 | 73,540 | 7 | a weird and entrancing fantastic movie in spite of its weaknesses | This is a very original fantastic movie and it aims at showing that in fantastic cinema , horrible things don't happen only at night . They can also happen during the day and sometimes in completely unexpected circumstances . " Picnic at Hanging Rock " is like " the Blair Witch Project " . The two movies have got a lot... |
584,526 | 1,219,578 | 324,133 | 7 | Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier stripped bare . . . | In the guide of films by Jean Tulard , one of the very valuable bibles for any French cine buff , Claude Bouniq-Mercier had qualified " Swimming Pool " as " an accomplished work which intrigues and fascinates " . He should have been attributed these flattering words to François Ozon's previous work , " 8 Femmes " ( 200... |
583,444 | 1,219,578 | 48,696 | 7 | Spider , men . | Tarantula is a good entertaining movie , but it does not cut , however , Arnold's true masterpiece " The incredible shrinking man " . Nothing in this film , in spite of the giant spider , comes close to the scene of the fight between shrunk Grant Williams and the spider in the cellar . Nothing comes close to the scen... |
583,447 | 1,219,578 | 192,444 | 7 | Chimes of freedom | Although it happens in Flandres , in the sixteenth century , it is actually the occupied France in WW2 . During that period , the directors had to find their inspiration in the past as was so often the case with their movies of that era ( Carné's " Les Visiteurs Du Soir " ) . In 1945 , France was a free country again ,... |
585,056 | 1,219,578 | 64,225 | 7 | Endearing movie . | This might be my Jose Giovanni favorite . His third movie , it is perhaps his most endearing one . A really unusual thriller , which uses urban landscapes with great skill . We often seem to be lost in an ocean of windows , which makes sense , because the plot is actually a search . Two cops , a man and a woman , ( Ven... |
582,577 | 1,219,578 | 46,798 | 7 | Did she jump or was she pushed ? | She was there one minute Lying in a pool of herselfAnd then she was gone the next With a twisted neck . O she fell from the roof to the ground . . . . A crowd gathers around the building as the cops shout " move along ! " . Someone fell from the terrace of " Larry " ' s luxury flat . Larry ( Michel Auclair ) had gather... |
584,663 | 1,219,578 | 209,280 | 7 | everything is alright when you are on the dole | Rien à faire is a watchable and enjoyable flick for one main reason . Marion Vernoux , the director had intuition by choosing Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi for the main role . It is a real joy to see fer acting on the screen and her big talent , her soft voice are widely sufficient to justify the vision of this film . It is... |
583,751 | 1,219,578 | 58,150 | 7 | From Ian Fleming novels to the screen . . | This is , along with " Thunderball " my all-time favorite Bond . These two movies were the last to follow just about Ian Fleming's plots . After his death , the writer asked the scenarists to write original screenplays while keeping his titles . This may account for the long and steady decline of the stories after " Th... |
583,154 | 1,219,578 | 51,679 | 7 | Business is business | Denys De La Patellière was never much of a director but , who could be wrong with a cast including Gabin , Pierre Brasseur , Jean Dessailly , Bernard Blier and many more ? The cast and credits introduce the characters , à la Sacha Guitry : these persons are VIPS , proud of their Legion D'Honneur or of being part of hig... |
583,881 | 1,219,578 | 265,285 | 7 | Loachesque . | Why is it rated so low ? Is it because it has no stars ? What's the problem ? " La ligne 208 " is a simple beautiful film , and despite its rather melodramatic ending , it has Kenneth Loach accents . Bruno is a bus driver in a working-class suburb , where a lot of Arabs live . He's himself married to the lovely Djamila... |
582,760 | 1,219,578 | 75,005 | 7 | the possessed child round 2 | For a lot of cine buffs , the masquerade of " the Exorcist " ( 1973 ) was deemed ground-breaking enough to consider this enticing fantastic film to be a benchmark in the horror / fantasy genre but I'm not one of them . Three years later , " the Omen " steps into the breach William Friedkin's standard ( for the ones who... |
582,453 | 1,219,578 | 102,168 | 7 | Twelfth night . | How unfair ! After this delightful comedy , Marie-Claude Treilhou could not direct another movie until recently , and anyway , that last effort is impossible to see . Not only MC Treilhou directed this gem , but she also wrote the witty lines . She had also a dream of a cast with such luminaries as Danielle Darrieux an... |
584,450 | 1,219,578 | 55,585 | 7 | The Red and the Black . | When I was a child , I saw the trailer : it was the story of a princess in love with a shepherd in my child's mind . And of course I did not know who Rossellini was . I had to wait twenty years or so to have the opportunity to see the film . The precedent user is completely right and his comment is more than useful : M... |
585,444 | 1,219,578 | 203,427 | 7 | when writer rhymes with killer | Possible Spoilers . . . Darius is a man of a theater with a strong taste for alcohol which enables him to write his plays and bear success . His last play was a triumph but his last fit of alcohol also destroyed him . So , he decides to undergo treatment for alcoholism . Six months later , by coming back to Paris , he ... |
583,145 | 1,219,578 | 102,116 | 7 | Old man inside a young one . | Penn was 30 when he made this movie , and it seems to be a mature director's work . Although it takes place in America , it has an European sensitivity ; in a nutshell , it recalls John Cassavetes ( to whom the film is dedicated ) and Kenneth Loach . Connection with John Cassavetes ? Penn refuses any dramatization ; th... |
583,246 | 1,219,578 | 298,130 | 7 | scary , thoughtful and satisfying which is fine with me | These last years , apart from the rendering of popular comic strips and the adaptation of TV series for the big screen , American cinema feels a vivacious interest for Oriental culture , especially the Japanese one . Quentin Tarantino's violent and hollow " Kill Bill " ( ) was supposed to be an homage to the samurai mo... |
585,397 | 1,219,578 | 53,671 | 7 | Pigalle blues . | François Truffaut's protégé directed by Julien Duvivier ! I was skeptical about it . I really hate Leaud's acting which represents for me the worst of the French cinema , the so called works reserved for the elite , the likes of Godard and Rivette . I've got to make amends : Jean-Pierre Léaud - who had just made " les ... |
585,513 | 1,219,578 | 27,515 | 7 | Pearls before fine ( people ) . | The first part will puzzle Borzage's fans because it's not his usual style : it's a comedy and the fans of " little man what now ? " " no greater glory " or " lucky star " may not get something out of it . Not that Borzage had not broached comedy before : one of his first talkies was " they had to see Paris " , a somet... |
583,876 | 1,219,578 | 119,715 | 7 | a successful tribute to Tex Avery | What a pleasant comedy ! Here's a movie that brings back a subject which was specific to the cartoons from the forties and fifties : the game of the cat and the mouse . Here , there's a real mouse and the cat is epitomized by the Schmuntz brothers who wish to get rid of her in order to sell an old but expensive house .... |
584,706 | 1,219,578 | 329,485 | 7 | the old man and the child | Julien ( Michel Serrault ) is a bitter old man in the midst of an emotional desert . His collection of butterflies constitutes his sole passion . One day , he makes his new little neighbor's acquaintance , Elsa ( Claire Bouanich ) , visibly neglected by her mother but looks unfavorably on her intrusion in his life . On... |
584,358 | 1,219,578 | 96,328 | 7 | this is a song Charles Manson stole from the Beatles and we're stealing it back ! | When U2 arrives in the fall 1987 to start the second leg of their American tour to promote " The Joshua Tree " ( 1987 ) , they already filled with enthusiasm millions of Americans with their masterpiece and they were showered with praise by virtually all musical critics but also important newspapers ( the magazine News... |
582,602 | 1,219,578 | 96,336 | 7 | Beyond any moral . | This is a true story and the heroine is not unlike Louis Malle's hero " Lacombe Lucien " . They are too coarse , too immature to realize what they are doing . Lucien could have opted for the Resistance , but he's deemed too stupid by the schoolteacher and he winds up in Collaboration . Chabrol's heroine only wants to "... |
582,903 | 1,219,578 | 92,521 | 7 | 50 dead people in a coach found at the bottom of a lake , Richard Borhinger who's running after Catherine Deneuve . What can it mean ? | With hindsight , " Agent Trouble " effortlessly stands out in Jean Pierre Mocky's copious filmography . The botched job that mares many of his efforts is virtually absent except in the tail end that smells alacrity . Instead , we are entitled to a story built and honed with clarity and even if the directive line is der... |
585,148 | 1,219,578 | 67,409 | 7 | The most sustained piece of Work of Sautet in the seventies . | Few people know it , but Claude Sautet was first a film noir connoisseur . His first work , " classes tout risques " was beating Jean - Pierre Melville at his own game ; the follow-up , " l'arme à gauche " , is difficult to see nowadays , but if you can , do not think twice . In the seventies , from " les choses de la ... |
585,492 | 1,219,578 | 75,082 | 7 | the wrong man | Like his elder brothers , Claude Sautet and Jean-Pierre Melville , Alain Corneau began to cut his teeth in French cinema with a series of fine thrillers : " la Menace " ( 1977 ) and " Série Noire " ( 1979 ) among others . " Police Python 357 " is a good example of how Corneau conceived and shot his works at this time o... |
584,033 | 1,219,578 | 119,773 | 7 | Loïc : an exterminating angel ? | Spoilers . . . " Dry cleaning " , that's what the title of this Anne Fontaine's effort means in English and it's a well-appropriated one to qualify the contents of the story she tells the audience . Its bulk essentially occurs in a dry-cleaner whose purpose is to clean the customers ' clothes but the director prefers t... |
583,510 | 1,219,578 | 42,621 | 7 | Visually beautiful but a bit cold . | Second effort in Carné ' s second career , this movie is all the same superior to the mediocre " la Marie du port " released the precedent year . At first sight , " Juliette " appears as a continuation of the ambitious ( and highly successful ) 1936-1946 period . The scenes in jail use almost the same thud in the sound... |
583,318 | 1,219,578 | 75,118 | 7 | It's hard to see this movie . | Because it deals with tortures in Algeria " la question " remains a movie few people know . Henri Alleg's small book was first sold on the sly , but by the end of the sixties you could find it anywhere : it was in the library of my teacher training college . The title ( " the question " ) is borrowed from the Middle Ag... |
584,116 | 1,219,578 | 57,988 | 7 | Abel Gance did never take the easy way out . | His " Napoleon " is admired by every director of the planet including FF Coppola . His " j'accuse " might be the strongest manifesto against war that had ever been . Meet Mister Abel Gance , the French DW Griffith . " Cyrano et d'Artagnan " is his final opus his third in color after " la tour de Nesles " and " Austerli... |
582,685 | 1,219,578 | 49,391 | 7 | The place is a real circus today . | ( the new barker to the acrobat ) - Can I have a trailer door key ? - What for ? There's nothing to steal in here ! The new barker is actually a gangster who has double-crossed his accomplices and has hidden a part of loot in the trailer . He has taken refuge in a seedy circus where a gypsy is spying on him . Besides h... |
582,880 | 1,219,578 | 1,064,932 | 7 | naked Northern France | As a French film lover , I had to discover this little film which was surrounded by much hype and now ranks among the 5 most profitable movies launched in France . Otherwise , people would have told me : " what ? You haven't seen Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'Ti's ? Everyone's talking about it . It's terrific " . So terrific t... |
582,885 | 1,219,578 | 40,348 | 7 | A bad-tempered republican | Jean Devaivre , who had sunk into oblivion , gained fame again as one of the heroes of Bertrand Tavernier's " Laissez passer " which was based on his memoirs ( Jacques Gamblin played his part in this 2002 film ) . His career as a director was short-lived and only two of his movies are worth watching : " La Dame De Onze... |
583,801 | 1,219,578 | 179,096 | 7 | The biters bit | Richard Pottier had a good sense of humor which showed in the best of his comedies : " Fanfare d'Amour " ( remade as " some like it hot " ) " Caroline Chérie " and this " L'Aventure Commence Demain " which is much fun to watch . Two crooks team up : a buck ( Raymond Rouleau ) , the " brain " and a two-bit femme fatale ... |
584,170 | 1,219,578 | 109,579 | 7 | A return to form . | Polanski's career ran into difficulties after " Chinatown " . He made another great movie " le locataire " , easily his most underrated one , then he completely lost his identity . The highly praised " Tess " was a faceless work , although its cinematography was breath-taking . Then the slump began : " pirates " was hi... |
583,542 | 1,219,578 | 55,738 | 7 | Not all | All fall down has a dated screenplay but the cast makes it an eminently watchable movie ; this is a super quintet and it's difficult to tell who the best is : Angela Landsbury as the holier-than-thou over possessive mom in love with her eldest boy : a part she would take on in Frankenheimer's masterpiece " Manchouria... |
583,941 | 1,219,578 | 40,257 | 7 | The great sinner | This Robert Siodmak may seem derivative as another film noir . But he does not follow the rules . First the two leads are cast against type . We would expect Mature as Rome and Richard Conte as Candella . It increases the interest because we do not know how their characters will evolve . Then , and it was extremely unu... |
583,440 | 1,219,578 | 38,360 | 7 | Heartbreak hotel | What's lacking here is a great director , someone like Robert Siodmak ( " Phantom Lady " ) or Mitchell Leisen ( " No man of her own " ) . Who says Truffaut ? ( " the bride wore black " ) . Even flawed , " Black Angel " is far better than the two Truffaut movies ( the second being " La Sirene Du Mississipi " ) cause onl... |
584,724 | 1,219,578 | 368,447 | 7 | a forest . . . ( the Cure ) | SPOILERS . . . Because of great movies shot these last years such as the indispensable " the Sixth Sense " ( 1999 ) , a new film by M Night Shyamalan is always eagerly awaited . After " Signs " ( 2002 ) , " the Village " was launched in 2004 and oddly , it somewhat disappoints without we know very well why . You come o... |
582,874 | 1,219,578 | 445,570 | 7 | Tommy , Tuppence ( sorry Prudence ) , Rose and the queen of spade | Preceding the made-for - TV English version-which oddly also features Miss Marple ; anyway it's part of a Marple miniseries ; to my knowledge , Christie never put her three sleuths together in her novels or short stories - , this Pascal Thomas made-in-France Christie is much fun to watch . Tommy and Tuppence ( her name... |
583,797 | 1,219,578 | 244,071 | 7 | a pleasant but colorless movie | In France , wednesday is the day devoted to children because they don't go to school . The problem is that their parents aren't always there to take care of them . As a consequence , it's enough for their children to get into mischief or they're running away ( unwittingly or not ) . There's another solution : parents c... |
585,368 | 1,219,578 | 38,338 | 7 | The beast in me | One can regret the final " explanation " . A great fantasy and horror film does not need any " explanation " , particularly when they feature an actor as gifted as Peter Lorre . Lorre is a so great an actor he can make you believe the hand does not really exist , it's him and only him who cannot control himself when ma... |
585,461 | 1,219,578 | 77,147 | 7 | Rutle for your life . | It's impossible to love the Beatles - Is it possible not to adore the Beatles anyway ? - and not to enjoy this marvelous mad yet very precise spoof on their whole oeuvre . All along this " all you need is lo . . sorry cash " , you are treated to the delights of hilarious jokes ( we are more popular than God , sorry , R... |
584,654 | 1,219,578 | 22,765 | 7 | Before the full moon , the five of you will die . . . . . | . . . first you , then you , then . . . and you the last ! In Morocco where they spend their vacation , one of the five gentlemen of the title tries to take off a young Moroccan girl's veil : up comes the sorcerer ; he's cross and he curses the unfortunate young lads : before the full moon . . . . And they begin to die... |
584,950 | 1,219,578 | 94,226 | 7 | the untouchables revised and given a new treatment by Brian De Palma | The Untouchables is reckoned as one of the kingpins in Brian De Palma's filmography by the insiders and his devotees . I would tend to agree with them and to be conducive about this general contention with however certain reservations . This transposition of the well-known TV series is surely one of his less personal... |
584,446 | 1,219,578 | 64,423 | 7 | Fernandel says goodbye . . . | The ending of an extraordinary career which began at the beginning of the talkies . . . . He worked with the best directors ( Christian-Jaque , Julien Duvivier , Marcel Pagnol , Autant-Lara , Becker . . ) and with the not-so-great ones ( Verneuil , Grangier . . ) but he always remained himself , Fernandel . All he had ... |
582,698 | 1,219,578 | 96,386 | 7 | . . . . . but it can become a little funny film | June 1987 . Lille , in the North of France . Two families live in this big town . On one hand , the " Le Quesnoy " , a wealthy family . The father is the manager of " EDF " , the mother stays at home and the children are well brought up . On the other hand , the " Groseille " a poor family who lives in a small flat . T... |
583,086 | 1,219,578 | 370,531 | 7 | she's one of us | Christine Blanc ( Sasha Andrés ) is a young woman whose name answers to her personality . She's a stalwart temporary secretary who correctly earns a livelihood and however she looks absent to her surrounding . She's also well aware that her life is empty until the day she strikes up a friendship with Patricia ( Catheri... |
585,581 | 1,219,578 | 118,971 | 7 | Satan accepted Kevil Lomax's soul . . . | American justice has always been at the heart of many American films . A lot of them have showed lawyers as main protagonists who defend victims with respect of justice . " The Devil's Advocate " ( 1997 ) which presents a new and worthy variation on the myth of Faust exploits an idea we have rarely seen on the screen :... |
582,755 | 1,219,578 | 108,290 | 7 | can men and women live together and forever ? | It will certainly surprise Patrice Leconte's devotees if I tell them that Mick Jagger , the front man of the Rolling Stones is a professed fan of this French author . So , Sir Mick Jagger , if you haven't seen this one " Tango " , I can recommend it to you ( and of course to the aficionados of its creator ) with , howe... |
584,244 | 1,219,578 | 214,238 | 7 | Skeletons in the closet . | Because Delon's popularity was sinking fast and Jacques DEray was dismissed as unhip this deliciously old-fashioned film was unfairly unnoticed and nobody seems to care now . Jacques Deray ' s film is a wonderful tribute to old cinema , that cinema with strong screenplays which preceded the French new wave . It's inter... |
582,689 | 1,219,578 | 42,275 | 7 | Blame it on Cain ( e ) . | Nicholas Ray's heroes often have problems with their family : Plato ( " rebel without a cause " ) , Davey ( " Run for cover " ) and Turkey ( " Johnny Guitar " are in search of parents . Judy ( " rebel " ) has parents who do not care about her whereas Jim ( same film ) is ashamed of his father washing up . On the contra... |
585,504 | 1,219,578 | 354,836 | 7 | why can't I be you ? | Bernard Frédéric ( Benoît Poelvoorde ) devoted his life to his biggest icon Claude François , perhaps the most famous mainstream French singer in the seventies . To fully live his passion and his admiration for him , he organized provincial tours in which he sang with female dancers " Cloclo " ' s most popular songs , ... |
584,313 | 1,219,578 | 110,478 | 7 | a maverick main protagonist in a maverick western | In the nineties , western was somewhat ditched in the landscape of the American cinema in spite of commendable endeavors to renew it like Clint Eastwood's revisionist , dusky " Unforgiven " ( 1992 ) . " Maverick " hasn't got the pretensions to give the genre a new lease of life but is much fun to watch . It is one of R... |
582,563 | 1,219,578 | 44,476 | 7 | We are not helpless . | It's strange how this Wise movie influenced " Invasion of the body snatchers " . The construction is exactly the same : a car belting with a couple inside : close shots on their faces , full of fear . They take refuge in a police station , and the man begins his story which he records on a tape . Like in " body snatche... |
582,651 | 1,219,578 | 110,475 | 7 | When I wear this mask , I can be whatever I want . . . | A quite important number of movies paid a tribute to Tex Avery's cartoons like " who framed Roger Rabbit ? " . " The Mask " ranks among them and is a great success , although this movie takes back some characteristics suitable to American movies and particularly this one : the transition for a character from a low leve... |
584,444 | 1,219,578 | 335,245 | 7 | the lady who must be killed | The Coen brothers are among the darlings of French press specialized in cinema and throughout the years I have warmed to their quirky universe either it is " Barton Fink " ( 1991 ) and its unusual climate , this sparkling black diamond that is " Fargo " ( 1996 ) or the zany transposition of the Odyssey at the time of t... |
582,504 | 1,219,578 | 82,085 | 7 | conspiracy theory | Amid a patchy filmography cluttered with works besmirched with extreme visual effects " Carrie " ( 1976 ) , " Scarface " ( 1983 ) , " Body Double " ( 1984 ) , " Blow Out " effortlessly takes its place in the category of winners in Brian De Palma's work . It means that the filmmaker managed to refrain its penchant for t... |
584,571 | 1,219,578 | 123,808 | 7 | Le Festin De Pierre | In France , every Moliere lover remembers the sixties MTV version featuring Michel Piccoli's memorable performance . The " modern " ending which broke with Molière's " hullabaloo " did not satisfy everybody though . Jacques Weber's ending is even more disturbing : Don Juan's screams turn into a whisper ; ditto for Sgan... |
582,567 | 1,219,578 | 44,486 | 7 | the missing link between Stahl and Sirk . | Melodrama had come a long way between the thirties austere black and white Stahl tear-jerkers to the fifties flaming Sirk extravaganzas , which were often remakes of the first director's works ( " when tomorrow comes " " imitation of life " " magnificent obsession " ) At the beginning of the fifties , Wyler - who had a... |
584,575 | 1,219,578 | 249,124 | 7 | A black cat crossed my path . . . | A sailor says : " it will be a bad voyage " . " Eight of hearts and Nine of spades " says another one " I don't see any good coming out of it " . " la Rose des Mers " is an old ship whose two owners are a wicked sinister-looking uncle and his loyal nephew . The old captain claims he carries spare parts of agricultural ... |
583,912 | 1,219,578 | 383,025 | 7 | the existentialist crisis of a ghost writer in his early thirties . . . | Raphaël Jullian ( Edouard Baer ) is a specialist when it comes to pen biographies of trendy celebrities . But the least glorious part of his job is that he doesn't sign them when these books are published . As he's hired to write the life of a famous football player , Kevin ( Clovis Cornillac ) , he discovers that the ... |
583,113 | 1,219,578 | 118,976 | 7 | not bad . . . | Alain Chabat is a very popular French actor . This movie constitutes his first transition behind the camera . Far from being a perfect success , " Didier " remains a fair and honest comedy . Alain Chabat adopted a correct making that contains interesting clever visuals and ringing brainwaves . It succeeds in compensati... |
584,723 | 1,219,578 | 247,199 | 7 | God said to Abraham : kill me a son ! | Antisemitism has come a long way since " gentleman's agreement " ( 1947 ) . Kazan's attempt seems rather timid and tame today . " The believer " sets the record straight . It's one of the most convincing works in the field . It's all the more disturbing as the hero is a Jew joining the neonazis . And his behavior stems... |
584,214 | 1,219,578 | 118,978 | 7 | only God can see you Denis and only love can break your heart | Since " Versailles Rive Gauche " ( 1992 ) , the Podalydès brothers rank among the darlings of the French press and critic specialized in cinema . This movie " Dieu seul me voit " ( 1998 ) confirms it . It achieved a huge success more critic than commercial and it won the Oscar for the Best First Work in France in 1999 ... |
584,668 | 1,219,578 | 304,417 | 7 | molded doll , my role is to serve you . . . | This first movie of a woman directly come from French television is based on comparatively classic basis . Albert Dupontel plays the role of Max , a man who has everything to be happy : a stable job as a photograph , a ravishing wive ( Marianne Denicourt ) but little by little , depression overcomes him so much so that... |
583,417 | 1,219,578 | 162,661 | 8 | another Tim Burton winner | The strange , the bizarre , old legends have always fed Tim Burton's imagination and so , he had to discover and to get enthusiastic about the legend of the Headless Horseman . At the very end of the eighteenth Century , Ichabot Crane ( Johnny Depp ) is a young inspector who only trusts rationality to clarify the numer... |
585,403 | 1,219,578 | 28,216 | 8 | Nearer to thee my God . . | The granddaddy of all the disaster movies which thrived during the seventies but much different and much better than any of them . Actually , " San Francisco " might look like an update version of " the last days of Pompei " by Bulwer Lyton . . . Or some update of those Genesis pages which deal with those doomed Sodom ... |
582,732 | 1,219,578 | 167,404 | 8 | I see dead people . . . . | Here comes Bruce Willis again in the skin of a rescuer ! But unlike " the fifth element " and " armageddon " , he mustn't save the whole wide world . Neither , must he save a group of persons from a terrorist threat as it was the case with " die hard . No , he simply must save a little boy called Cole , haunted by morb... |
583,092 | 1,219,578 | 50,655 | 8 | Dance with she-wolves | Aside from Hitchcock's " Vertigo " and Clouzot's " Diaboliques " which are still unsurpassed , the best adaptation of a Boileau-Narcejac novel for the screen . Whereas the two masters completely rewrote the stories , the screenplay of " les Louves " was reworked by the novelists themselves . This is an absorbing suspen... |
583,003 | 1,219,578 | 47,811 | 8 | . . you've got to take it . | You do not change a winning team : the trio Hudson-Wyman-Moorehead is reunited again after the success of the remake of Stahl's " magnificent obsession " . And however , these two Sirk works are completely different . The first one is full of unlikelihoods , the plot is so maudlin that , had Wyman not recovered sight ,... |
585,246 | 1,219,578 | 102,926 | 8 | the intense humming of evil | With " Silence of the Lambs " ( 1991 ) , Jonathan Demme achieved a masterstroke and his movie became one of the landmark movies made in the nineties . The reward of his efforts were the following ones : 5 Oscars in 1992 including Best Movie and a widely deserved blockbuster . This is a movie that enjoys a performance o... |
582,904 | 1,219,578 | 273,069 | 8 | this is a lie | A first rate actress , Nicole Gacia also produced films of varying quality : " Un Week-End Sur Deux " ( 1990 ) was a estimable piece of work but its follow-up " le Fils Préféré " ( 1994 ) got bogged down in a river of clichés . These two works revealed Garcia's strong interest for the family and " L'Adversaire " revive... |
584,765 | 1,219,578 | 97,576 | 8 | the best Indiana Jones movie ever ? | The third and the best of the adventures of Indiana Jones . In this new film , the famous archeologist is searching for a mythical object : " the Graal " . This is the glass in which the Christ would have drank during the last meal with his apostles . His father assists him in his investigations because he's got precio... |
582,739 | 1,219,578 | 124,314 | 8 | Swing low , sweet chariot . | That was Duvivier's last work before WW2 , and a remake of Victor Sjostrom's eponymous movie , adapted from Selma Lagerlof . I've not seen the silent movie so I will avoid any comparison . . Duvivier's precedent movie " la Fin du Jour " still compares favorably to " Sunset Blvd " when it comes to depicting the aging th... |
584,239 | 1,219,578 | 80,355 | 8 | Do or die . | After several indifferent movies , Boisset came up in 1981 with his best film since " Dupont-Lajoie " ( 1974 ) . " Allons z'enfants " is Boisset doing what Boisset does best : activist militant cinema . Yves Gibeau's novel was tailor-made for him . Anti-militarism is the keyword . Rarely ( with the exception of " RAS "... |
584,839 | 1,219,578 | 56,412 | 8 | Fine acting , strong directing , splendid landscapes . | In the late fifties / early sixties , the crepuscular western appeared . " Ride the high country " epitomizes the genre . It keeps the old values of the old guard ( Daves , Mann , Ford ) while opening new doors ( the last scenes predate Sergio Leone style and the future Peckinpah , even if I must confess that I do not ... |
585,210 | 1,219,578 | 23,876 | 8 | Twentieth century blues . . . . | . . . Or no news is good news . ( or is it ? ) A chronicle from 1900 to 1933 ( then the present time ) . The last pictures are a terrifying warning : who could have thought that the storm that would happen at the end of that decade would dwarf all the disasters depicted in " Cavalcade " ? When the old couple celebrates... |
582,463 | 1,219,578 | 39,040 | 8 | Each to his own . . . | . . . and I know that people will say it's soap opera ! But to make that kind of soap opera , as Stahl , Minnelli and Sirk showed it through the years , it takes some kind of genius ! First the structure : first a prologue , then flashbacks and an epilogue , which while going back to the present , connects all the link... |
583,412 | 1,219,578 | 193,239 | 8 | Green card . | France to the French ! A new law - which is not irrelevant today in some people's mind - stipulates that the aliens gotta get away . Then begins another crazy Guitry film , another reductio ad absurdum that tends to show that " being honest " cannot be a job , so you've got to live outside the law to be a good man , ... |
585,358 | 1,219,578 | 89,960 | 8 | mindless drifter on the road carrying such an easy load | Agnès Varda is commonly associated with the Nouvelle Vague and more than François Truffaut , Jean-Luc " God Ard " or Eric Rohmer , she delivered some of the jewels of this French trend with " Cléo De 5 à 7 " ( 1961 ) . It doesn't mean that everything she made turned into gold . One can skip " les Créatures " ( 1966 ) w... |
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