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583,401 | 1,219,578 | 50,669 | 8 | Do not miss this gem ! | Jean Delannoy stands as one of the best ( if not simply the best ) Simenon adapters . In the short space of two years he made two gems , while the nouvelle vague was insulting him , and these two gems should not be missed : " Maigret tend un piège " and " Maigret et l'affaire Saint-Fiacre " ( 1959 ) , both absorbing , ... |
585,123 | 1,219,578 | 316,654 | 8 | I didn't see the first Spider-Man but I really enjoyed the second ! | Possible spoilers . . . As I wrote in the title , I didn't watch the first Spider-Man when it was released in 2002 . But a friend invited me to go and see " Spider-Man 2 " at the movies and I honestly don't regret it at all . I was surprised to discover that Sam Raimi made this sequel ( as well as the first Spider-Man ... |
582,989 | 1,219,578 | 39,155 | 8 | The ticket chase | Antoine et Antoinette is Jacques Becker's fourth movie and it takes place in a working-class milieu ; " Goupi Mains Rouges " was a rural thriller and " Falbalas " took us to the chic world of models and fashion . At first sight , " Antoine and Antoinette " could be looked upon as an update of René Clair's " le Millio... |
583,153 | 1,219,578 | 205,932 | 8 | A rendezvous I've been waiting so long for | While it is true that the interest for the New Wave has practically buried France's best films in a pile of neglect , it is not the purpose of this thread / comment to remind people of that sad fact . It would take at least a book to explain the history of neglect of French film classics during the last 30 years . ( Be... |
584,390 | 1,219,578 | 120,448 | 8 | never anything to do in this town . . . | With this first movie , the filmmaker Bruno Dumont signs a work of talent and establishes himself as a real author . It is all the more extraordinary as he never studied cinema and he doesn't belong to any film school . It doesn't prevent his movie from being reminiscent of the Dardenne brothers ' cinema in its treatme... |
584,286 | 1,219,578 | 89,860 | 8 | what lies beneath a cozy upper class mansion | Michel Deville is a French filmmaker known for his aesthetic refinement and " Péril en la Demeure " bears its author's trademark . It's filmed with elegance and everything from the scenery to the acting , the camera angles to the music without mentioning witty dialogs breathes the refined . One can't forget the neat li... |
583,568 | 1,219,578 | 39,135 | 8 | The ghost of Empress Elizabeth . | There's another side in Cocteau ' s movie : the political one . A character says something like that : a queen ' s got to be beautiful , so that she'll be able to conceal all that's ugly in the country , all the last lonely and wretched ones . The queen portrayed by Feuillère was a sovereign for democrats but she'd bee... |
585,138 | 1,219,578 | 39,111 | 8 | The " learning " | Nobody spoke of children like Clarence Brown , at least in America ! Remember " national Velvet " and the last minutes of " the intruder " , the long conversation between a lawyer and his son . . . " The yearling " is learning about life . A young boy in a hostile wilderness , his everyday life , his small joys and his... |
583,375 | 1,219,578 | 54,426 | 8 | Trois Petites Notes de Musique | Generally the simple name of Marguerite Duras makes me yawn my head off . But here , not at all . Released in 1960 , this little gem has almost sunk into oblivion , and for good reasons : Henri Colpi was not part of the Nouvelle Vague and it was a curse when His Majesty Godard's reign began . Hindsight displays the gre... |
584,330 | 1,219,578 | 52,698 | 8 | Better than Melville . | Classes tous risques is one of the best " gangsters " films noirs France has ever produced . Perfect cast : Lino Ventura , a young Jean - Paul Belmondo ( who made " a bout de souffle " , Godard's thing , the same year ) , Marcel Dalio and a fine supporting cast ; brilliant script by José Giovanni - who also wrote " l... |
583,725 | 1,219,578 | 327,369 | 8 | Literature chef-d'oeuvre ! | Les Thibault has been my bedside book for so many years ! I've read it so many times I can recite some of its lines by heart ! And it's an eight-volume 2 , 000 pages work ! A first miniseries was made in 1972 where Charles Vanel ( " Salaire de la Peur " " Diabolique " ) was an impressive Père Thibault . To people who... |
584,670 | 1,219,578 | 35,093 | 8 | We shall never be slaves | I had seen Wyler's film a long time ago and I saw it again yesterday . I was afraid I might be disappointed cause I had read so many bad reviews in my native France and elsewhere ! I was not . " Mrs Miniver " belongs to its era , it's a dated movie , a propaganda movie ( as were many Lang , Hitchcock , Powell and Borza... |
583,007 | 1,219,578 | 52,708 | 8 | The seeds . | Although it's Chabrol's second effort ( the first one being " le beau serge " featuring the same actors ) , this one is closer to Chabrol-as - we - know-him . The detective ending and the first steps in the bourgeois world of Brialy character herald Chabrol ' s heyday ( which begins with " les biches " , encompasses su... |
582,959 | 1,219,578 | 61,343 | 8 | laziness is happiness | Yves Robert passed away three years ago and any cine buff remembers him for his towering achievements that are : " la Guerre des Boutons " ( 1962 ) , an adaptation of Louis Pergaud's famous novel still fresh today as it was forty three years ago , " my Father's Glory " and " my Mother's Castle " ( 1990 ) , adaptations ... |
582,994 | 1,219,578 | 45,700 | 8 | Girls school | The last good adaptation of a Stanislas Andre Steeman novel ( " 18 Fantômes " ) for the screen , ( Clouzot's ones were the best : " Quai Des Orfèvres " " L'Assassin Habite Au 21 " ) , " Dortoir des Grandes " ( = - big - girls dormitory ) remains one of Henry Decoin's best movies in the fifties . The director is at ease... |
585,240 | 1,219,578 | 110,776 | 8 | taste of Yvonne | Adaptation of a novel by Patrick Modiano , " le parfum d'Yvonne " represents another Patrice Leconte's success . To make this film , the director drew from several elements dating from his previous movies . Thus , the doctor Meinthe ( excellent Jean-Pierre Marielle ) is very close to Michel Mortez in " Tandem " ( 1987 ... |
582,861 | 1,219,578 | 105,046 | 8 | . . . and a hutch full of rabbits | Of mice and men is one of these movies we definitely need in our times . Gary Sinise ' s directing is classic in the noblest sense of the term . The cinematography recalls some of those Ford ( who adapted " Grapes of wrath " , another Steinbeck's novel for the screen ) gems of the forties or fifties . It is heart-ren... |
583,993 | 1,219,578 | 99,266 | 8 | Childhood nostalgia . | Almost three decades later , Yves Robert comes back to what he does best : childhood movies . " La guerre des boutons " ( 1962 ) was the first work featuring almost only brats . It was a timeless blockbuster in France and an ( English or Irish ) remake was made a few years ago . Yves Robert tackles here Pagnol ' s auto... |
584,068 | 1,219,578 | 39,004 | 8 | Dreyeresque Delannoy | My title will enrage the highbrows , but , after reading the notorious " Cahiers du Cinema " who on earth ( and particularly in France ) is going to watch a Jean Delannoy film , cause it's " inevitably bad " cause Godard and co have decided it is so ? " La Symphonie Pastorale " is a marvelous black and white movie . A ... |
584,768 | 1,219,578 | 95,567 | 8 | A great movie a decade ! | George Lautner , a very prolific director has produced mediocre films by the dozen . And however , there are three works , in his monumental filmography , which indicates that he could have been so much more . In 1963 , " le septième juré " a film noir which is on a par with the best Clouzot and Duvivier . In 1970 , " ... |
582,425 | 1,219,578 | 120,382 | 8 | A true man shows | This is among Pete Weir's best , just a notch or two under " fearless " or " witness " and much more worthwhile than weepies like " dead poets society " . Jim Carrey is , relatively speaking , sparing of gestures and , hem ! grimaces . However , in my humble opinion , the best performance comes from Laura Linney , who'... |
584,757 | 1,219,578 | 28,356 | 8 | Rumours | I have a tendency , unlike the other users , to like the remake best ( made by Wyler too ) . Probably because Lilian Hellman's play included hints at lesbianism , a subject which could not be treated in the thirties , when Wyler was one of the specialists of the female melodrama . That's why I think that the 1963 movie... |
584,828 | 1,219,578 | 158,530 | 8 | Make way for tomorrow . . . . . | Comencini was some kind of Italian equivalent of American Frank Borzague . Like him , he displayed a humanism which was ( and still is ) rare . He had often tackled the children's condition with admirable works such as " incompreso " " Pinocchio " or " Cuore " . Here he broached the old people's plight . The viewer wil... |
584,788 | 1,219,578 | 307,987 | 8 | Father Christmas is a piece of trash | Willie ( Billy Bob Thornton ) got a raw deal . He's a badly shaved , alcoholic human wreck . Every year , he re-enlists for a job as a Father Christmas in a mall he hates and burglarizes the place with the help of his tiny accomplish Marcus . But the landing of a waitress and especially a little boy who thinks he is th... |
582,654 | 1,219,578 | 83,947 | 8 | Zinnemann's swansong is beautiful ! no , wonderful ! ! ! | When the movie was released in the early eighties , it was difficult to realize that the man who made this gem is the same that , many years ago , had done " high noon " " act of violence " or " from here to eternity " . It was also hard to accept Connery in such an intimate , sensitive part . Zinnemann , who was - unf... |
584,775 | 1,219,578 | 52,295 | 8 | Fritz Lang's holiday homework part one . | Fritz Lang's last American work " beyond a reasonable doubt " was a commercial failure and it was panned at the time - nowadays , and mainly in Europe , critics are inclined to reverse their opinions . Actually " beyond a reasonable doubt " could easily be " remade " ( God preserve us ! ) today because its screenplay w... |
585,466 | 1,219,578 | 85,859 | 8 | a local hero in a happy place | A big American petrochemical company contemplates the construction of a oil refinery in a Scottish isolated fishing village . A young executive ( Peter Riegert ) from the Texas is sent there and with the Scottish representative of the company tries to negotiate with the local authorities to buy the ground . But things ... |
585,052 | 1,219,578 | 39,302 | 8 | Agnes Moorehead steals the show ! | Even if she has only two or three scenes she steals them all . And it speaks volumes when the stars are Bogart and Bacall . This is my favorite B / B among the four films they made together . " The big sleep " has a plot I've never understood - Hawks used to say it was the same to him - , " to have and to have not " fa... |
583,025 | 1,219,578 | 39,305 | 8 | Jump door | An excellent film noir , extremely well acted by Bogart and Lizabeth Scott who more than makes up for the absence of Lauren Bacall . When the film comes to an end , we still do not know if she is a femme fatale or a victim , a calculator or a puppet in the hands of her former husband . It begins with a long flashback w... |
582,460 | 1,219,578 | 35,001 | 8 | Quintet | Lumière d'Ete is probably Grémillon's most ambitious work . Made during the Occupation days , many people consider it his best . One should add it's also his less accessible . Although it's a Prévert / Laroche screenplay , the main influence here is Renoir's . All that concerns Paul Bernard's character and his fete i... |
585,050 | 1,219,578 | 54,743 | 8 | That horrid child . . . . | . . . an user mentions in his comment did exist . If you do not believe it , you probably never worked in a school . A child like that , I met one three or four years ago . The French title is " la rumeur " ( the rumor ) , and more than the right to be different , the main subject of " children's hour " ( check the tit... |
585,214 | 1,219,578 | 77,889 | 8 | The dummy and I | I saw " Magic " when it was theatrically released in 1978 , and I thought " average stuff " . I saw it today and I thought : " I was wrong ; this is well above average " . The fantasy and horror movie was a dominant genre in the seventies and Attenborough's sober style passed for lifelessness and his movie met mixed cr... |
585,577 | 1,219,578 | 41,555 | 8 | knockin ' on Hell's door ( Nick's movie ) | This is the first movie which is Rayesque to the core . One of his most obvious permanent feature really appears for the first time : the search for a father . The relationship Bogart / Derek is intense ( after the death of the biological one ) and predates those of " Run for cover " ( John Derek again playing opposite... |
582,329 | 1,219,578 | 91,588 | 8 | Ahead of its time | Mystere Alexina is a highly understated movie . Although it is a true story , the facts it depicts were risqué and its plea for the right to be different has a contemporary feel . René Féret's directing was certainly influenced by that of Robert Bresson , but he occasionally shows a certain warmth which the master ne... |
583,452 | 1,219,578 | 91,605 | 8 | a cursed abbey in the mountains . . . | Jean Jacques Annaud is a film-maker with a daring character . After he shot this medieval thriller and among the plans he made , he made " the Bear " ( 1988 ) with wild animals as stars and he got down to adapt the Marguerite Duras ' novel " the Lover " in 1992 and however , Duras ' works are difficult to adapt for the... |
584,648 | 1,219,578 | 93,505 | 8 | Chabrol puts on his Chabrol mask . | The eighties were not that much a great time for Claude Chabrol . Most of the works of this era , either have not worn very well ( les fantômes du chapelier , poulet au vinaigre ) or were not themes for him anyway ( le cheval d'orgueil , Patricia Highsmith's " le cri du hibou " ) " Masques " is probably his best since ... |
584,665 | 1,219,578 | 283,900 | 8 | an initiation to life | One of the biggest French success of the year 2002 , " l'auberge espagnole " was also very well greeted abroad which is quite extraordinary for a French film . It is not difficult to define the reasons of this success . This movie made by one of the most interesting French film-makers of these last years , Cédric Klapi... |
582,462 | 1,219,578 | 151,785 | 8 | And when the night is cloudy . . . . | Gabin won the Volpi Cup at the Venice film festival and he thoroughly deserved it . " La Nuit est mon Royaume " , in spite of occasional snatches of melodrama , is a strong film about blind people . The title tells the whole story : the night is my kingdom ( and not my hell ) . In the film , all the blind people lead a... |
584,324 | 1,219,578 | 91,616 | 8 | Beate Klarsfeld : a heroine of our time . | Directed by Lindsay-Hog many users know as the man who directed the ill-fated ( but absorbing ) " let it be " starring the Beatles . Based on Beate Klarsfeld's true story , an admirable woman who discovered the horrors of the holocaust . A lawyer , but a non-Jew , abetted by her ( Jewish ) husband , she would dedicate ... |
584,965 | 1,219,578 | 72,417 | 8 | Who is crazy ? | A woman under the influence is , along with " a child is waiting " and maybe " husbands " John Cassavetes's most accessible work . Accessible , but not necessary palatable for everyone . Improvisation has a large part , the spaghetti scene was probably filmed like that , that's why Cassavetes has his own actors troup... |
583,255 | 1,219,578 | 65,385 | 8 | A new genesis . | This is a fantasy film that should not be missed . Rarely shown on the screens , it's almost forgotten , even by French fantasy buffs . Christian de Challonges creates an unsettling scary atmosphere without using one single special effect . The animals , omnipresent , seem to watch the human , and to understand what el... |
583,606 | 1,219,578 | 50,367 | 8 | So ahead of its time it remains indecipherable today . | This is HG Clouzot's most ambitious work , one of the most demanding and complex movie of a soon-to-be - nouvelle-vague France . Let's put it straight : although modern to a fault , " les espions " has nothing to do with the nouvelle vague : no " " free " camera here " , a bunch of " old actors " , a very elaborate scr... |
582,854 | 1,219,578 | 363,163 | 8 | why so much fuss about this film ? | Hitler's last days in his underground bunker in Berlin in April 1945 and the fall of the Nazi Reich related from several standpoints including his secretary's . The Allies come on in leaps and bounds and are within an ace of the total victory but Hitler ( astounding Bruno Ganz ) is prisoner of his megalomaniac illusion... |
584,104 | 1,219,578 | 63,458 | 8 | The final thrust . | HG Clouzot whose best works ( " diabolique " " salaire de la peur " " le corbeau " and " quai des orfèvres " ) rank among the best French works of all time , had health problems after " la vérité " ( 1960 ) . Thus the eight - year gap , between that latter movie and his final opus " la prisonnière " . Between , there w... |
584,381 | 1,219,578 | 123,923 | 8 | love and only love . . . | With " Jeanne and the perfect guy " ( 1998 ) , we can be grateful to the duo Olivier Ducastel / Jacques Martineau for a thing : having lent credibility again to French musical . A cinematographic genre whose golden age was in the sixties but which had somewhat sunk into oblivion at the end of the twentieth century . It... |
582,582 | 1,219,578 | 37,300 | 8 | Do not break the spell . | Splellbinding , fascinating film , in a wintry snowy atmosphere which Christian-Jaque's camera perfectly captures . Wonderful pictures : the dead body in the snow raising a hand ; the dark horse , galloping in the mountains , as if this animal were demanding justice for his murdered master ; the fete , with the dance c... |
582,705 | 1,219,578 | 66,491 | 8 | The bell clapper . | It was the second time Bunuel had directed Deneuve and she was probably never better than when she was directed by the master . Like Juan Bardem's unfairly forgotten " calle mayor " , " Tristana depicts a small Spanish town still entangled in religion . But the times are changing . Don Lope ( Rey ) has become an hedoni... |
584,580 | 1,219,578 | 390,521 | 8 | super captivate us | As Morgan Spurlock announces it in the first minutes of his documentary film about the thumping phenomenon of the fast-food industry : " everthing is getting fat in the United States : firms , lands , fast-food restaurants , portions of the menus they offer and even ( it's sad to say ) millions of American people . To ... |
584,807 | 1,219,578 | 409,184 | 8 | life isn't a long quiet river | So , here's one of the most anticipated movies of the year 2005 and the sequel to one of the biggest French hits in 2002 : " l'Auberge Espagnole " which also acts as a commendable and valuable ambassador for French cinema abroad , " les Poupees Russes " . Lucid , the director Cédric Klapisch didn't opt for " l'Auberge ... |
583,940 | 1,219,578 | 43,606 | 8 | Cops and robbers , it's all the same . | I have always thought that Italian comedies were far superior to French ones . They all have a tragical side , which eludes the French directors . " Guardie e Ladri " is along chase between a two-bit crook and a cop with a tender heart . The first scene when the lad pretends he is a guide and shows to the naive tourist... |
583,965 | 1,219,578 | 105,260 | 8 | the department store around the corner | Prior to treasures like " un Air De Famille " ( 1996 ) or " l'Auberge Espagnole " ( 2002 ) and for his very debut movie , Cédric Klapisch chose to plump for the world of work and to illustrate this statement : how to put forward the human dignity of workers in an economical world driven by the laws of supply and demand... |
585,575 | 1,219,578 | 54,605 | 8 | Deut and schland | It was a long way from " Menschen am Sonntag " ( Germany , 1929 ) to " Die Ratten " ( Germany , 1955 ) . It was a long way from " La Crise Est Finie " ( France , 1934 ) to " L'affaire Nina B . " ( France , 1961 ) . Anyway , although a FRench production , " l'Affaire Nina B . " is definitely a German movie , even if the... |
583,531 | 1,219,578 | 143,170 | 8 | We're captive on the carousel of time . . . . . ( Joni Mitchell ) | . . . . we can't never return , we can only look behindFrom where we came And go round and round and round in the circle game . When I began to watch " La Cavalcade des Heures " , I was not expecting much ! I was almost immediately enthusiastic about it . La Cinémathèque Française owns a copy and it's really too bad th... |
584,810 | 1,219,578 | 66,534 | 8 | Bunuel's road movie ! | - He who commits sacrilege with an impious movie . - Let him be an anathema ! By the late sixties , Louis Bunuel , who was an atheist , thanks to God , did not take himself seriously anymore . However this work , " Le Charme Discret de la Bourgoisie " " Le Fantome de la Liberté " or " Cet Obscur Objet du Désir " were n... |
583,196 | 1,219,578 | 74,152 | 8 | Children's realm . | When this film was released , one French critic , Gilles Colpart wrote that TRuffaut did better when he focused on a main character , Antoine Doinel , for instance . At least here , we do not have to stand Jean-Pierre Léaud's mannerism . The people who watch Léaud's movies dubbed in English cannot imagine how lucky the... |
583,935 | 1,219,578 | 41,615 | 8 | Flaubert revisited by Hollywood . | Three versions stand out as far as Flaubert's classic is concerned : the Jean Renoir one , with Valentine Tessier , which has not worn well , the acting has become unconvincing and almost lurid when you see it today , Minelli's version and Claude Chabrol's starring Isabelle Huppert , which doesn't avoid totally academi... |
584,537 | 1,219,578 | 56,732 | 8 | An explanation ? There is none . | That was what Luis Bunuel used to answer when asked about the meaning of one of his least accessible works . Much less linear than " Viridiana " - featuring the same actress Silvia Pinal-which precedes it , " El Angel exterminador " can be looked upon as an allegory . We find a lot of permanent features of the Bunuel c... |
582,472 | 1,219,578 | 243,195 | 8 | Love story | This is the only movie by Serge Debecque , and against all odds , it's a really worthwhile effort ; too bad he did not continue . A rich girl ( Suzanne Bara ) is in love with her father-in-law ' s ( Pierre Renoir ) librarian ( Serge Reggiani ) . The wealthy man wants her to marry a military man but she's not prepared t... |
584,672 | 1,219,578 | 47,925 | 8 | Leaving the bourgeoisie and its discreet charm . . . . | This must be one of Bunuel's most accessible works . It's often hard to find the master's touch but , although it sometimes recalls Italian neorealism ( all that concerns Sandro's family ) , the picture of the Christ - the only element of surrealism in the whole work - signals Bunuel's inimitable talent . Georges March... |
585,179 | 1,219,578 | 477,284 | 8 | ten years later . . . | Ten years ago , the Cure issued their first compilation , " Staring at the Sea : the Singles " ( 1986 ) accompanied by a video encompassing their hits . Ten years later , in October 1997 , Robert Smith's band released their second collection of hits : " Galore : the Singles 1987-1997 " with the eponymous video . Betwee... |
582,878 | 1,219,578 | 43,459 | 8 | Somewhere a place for us ? | Those were the outcasts of WW2 . German war prisoners who decide to rebel against their country . Karl-aka " Happy " - agrees to become a spy in the " pay " of Americans at the end of WW2 in his country . A country in ruins . The " Third Reich " which should have lasted one thousand years was collapsing . Oskar Werner ... |
584,251 | 1,219,578 | 43,465 | 8 | Detective stories | French critic and director Bertrand Tavernier wrote : how can somebody find interest in cheesy theater à la Jean Delannoy like " detective story " ? ( in " 50 ans de cinéma américain " ) He was twice wrong 1 ) Jean Delannoy is , although academic , a very competent director . 2 ) " detective story " is a very absorbing... |
585,481 | 1,219,578 | 56,921 | 8 | The gall of human unkindness . | In France , nobody did film noirs like Duvivier . They say he invented the genre with his " Pepe le Moko " ( 1937 ) . Duvivier's films noirs are as pessimistic as it can be . His characters are pitiful at best or evil . All along his brilliant career , from " Poil de Carotte " to " La fin du Jour " to " voici le temps ... |
584,110 | 1,219,578 | 96,163 | 8 | A serial killer not like the other ones . . . | Raymond Lemorne gives the image of a model man . He lives in the south of France in a country house , he's married and has two children . He's also a chemistry teacher . In short , he's a respectable and respectful man . But , he leads a double life . He's also a serial-killer who lures women into a trap to kill them .... |
585,318 | 1,219,578 | 30,100 | 8 | Louis Jouvet : : what a teacher ! | Although Louis Jouvet remains in the periphery , the film belongs to him . More than to the director himself . He portrays a dramatic art teacher - which he was in real life - and when he gives a piece of advice to his " students " - who are , ironically , already professionals : Odette Joyeux , Bernard Blier-the film ... |
583,628 | 1,219,578 | 206,396 | 8 | Le Visiteur du Soir | Immediate background : Dréville's 1944 weepie " la Cage aux Rossignols " was a blockbuster in the Occupation years . It featured the boys choir " les Petits Chanteurs A La Croix de Bois " playing boarders in a reformatory . It was such a huge success it was remade some years back as " les Choristes " . " Le Visiteur " ... |
583,432 | 1,219,578 | 175,503 | 8 | The shameless old lady | Although Pierre Fresnay is at the top of the bill , the actual star of " Le Briseur de Chaines " is sixty-year-old Marcelle Geniat portraying a centenarian with a lot of make - up and an absolutely extraordinary talent . A lady the average viewer of French oldies has seen many many times without perhaps noticing her ( ... |
583,977 | 1,219,578 | 55,019 | 8 | Adam raised Cains | First shock : When Wiliam Shattner appears , very handsome , suave and polite , I thought he would be the righter of wrongs , some kind of white MLK . When we discover who he really is , it packs a real wallop ! Second shock : the long speech which he delivers in front of a crowd ready to follow the first to come , pro... |
583,702 | 1,219,578 | 64,541 | 8 | Kes or when childhood is stolen . | From the start , the hero's future is at a complete standstill . His familiar background - an indifferent mother and a brute of a brother-leaves him no hope . His school seems an alien world , of which he cannot take advantage , where the adults are hostile . The gymnastics teacher is a failed football player , and now... |
582,850 | 1,219,578 | 45,122 | 8 | Mother , I needed you ! You didn't need me ! | . . . so I . . I just got to tell you : Goodbye ! goodbye ! ( John Lennon ) A prostitute is going up the mountain . Up there , lives her son she left to a shepherd to take care of him . These first minutes are perhaps the best : the mother brings toys to her child but he cannot play , " playing " is a thing he's never ... |
583,142 | 1,219,578 | 24,418 | 8 | Only melodrama but I like it ! | SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS Full bore melodrama ! Everything you expect from the genre is here ! You will cry a river , feel for the heroine and her little boy , Stahl was the prince of the melodrama during those days . This movie is a long flashback : It's black Thursday , the hive of activity is blighted , people are ... |
583,835 | 1,219,578 | 154,389 | 8 | Cynical | Writer Reign shows one more time his insightful knowledge of the old French cinema when he hints at Ginette Leclerc and " Le Corbeau " . In fact , both these works were very risqué , osé , taking cynicism to new limits . Noel Roquevert , cast against type , portrays a wicked unscrupulous swindler , far from his usual g... |
583,310 | 1,219,578 | 32,022 | 8 | A second chance . | A beautiful film . John Garfield's character is a distant relative of " Les Miserables " ' s Jean Valjean while detective Rains recalls Victor Hugo's Javert , the ruthless arm of law . Like in many films noirs , the city epitomizes evil whereas the country and the nature represents sanctuary , redemption , and a second... |
584,962 | 1,219,578 | 80,798 | 8 | Conventional Cassavetes . | Can such an epithet be attributed to such a director ? You can say that " Woman under the influence " " A child is waiting " and " husbands " are accessible movies . But " Gloria " does not belong to this group . The question of accessibility has not to be mooted here . It's a real thriller , and it's very hard to disc... |
584,629 | 1,219,578 | 319,061 | 8 | how to embellish and tell a fulfilled life through the prism of the imaginary . . . | In his life , Will Bloom has grown up with his father's extravagant stories with which he could never separate the parts of reality and imaginary . One more zany story featuring a big fish led him to a feud with him and a break up which lasted three years . He comes back at his bedside for his father is sorely ill . Fo... |
582,902 | 1,219,578 | 390,808 | 8 | Cops Au Vin | For several years , the thriller genre has been rather tarnished in France and mainly survives by imitating American thrillers which make them downright inferior to their American big brothers . But sometimes , some pieces of works are drawn from the American source and can emulate their American companions . With its ... |
584,011 | 1,219,578 | 1,155,621 | 8 | Defiant , pacifist , witty . . . . | . . . . Arletty was all this and more ; my favorite French actress , she possesses a voice you cannot mistake for another one . I second to everything my good friend writer's reign wrote . This Docu focuses on Arletty's salad days and on the war years followed by the sad days of the " epuration " . Only five minutes we... |
583,341 | 1,219,578 | 37,469 | 8 | Every man is Cain . | SPOILERS SPOILERSFritz Lang had always thought that man was a potential criminal . He ran the whole gamut , showing psychokillers ( M ) , who killed because they could not help it , neurotics ( " secret beyond the door " ) who could easily act , and the guy next door who could be part of the club too . Edward G . Robin... |
582,532 | 1,219,578 | 54,949 | 8 | Tribute to Yves Robert . | Yves Robert died a few days back and I write this comment as a tribute to him : " la guerre des boutons " is a timeless brats movie , which can be watched forty years after with the same pleasure : a blockbuster when it was released in France in 1961 , French kids enjoy it at least as much as their parents or grandpare... |
584,814 | 1,219,578 | 41,430 | 8 | Numbers theory | Even when he adapts Dostoievski , Robert Siodmak's fondness for film noir can be felt . In the first scene , when Fedor meets Pauline , how not to think of that scene in " the killers " when Swede sees Kitty for the first time ? In both films , Ava Gardner is the femme fatale . Ditto for the last scene in the pawn shop... |
584,284 | 1,219,578 | 53,230 | 8 | A cinema which sells out . . . . | That ' s what Truffaut wrote about " Rue des Prairies " when it was released . Instant karma : as everything Truffaut and his clique used to slag off was to be dismissed by the " true " French cine buffs , " Rue des Prairies " sank without a trace . I must admit I'm far from being a Denys de la Patellière's fan . One c... |
584,322 | 1,219,578 | 113,247 | 8 | the most important thing isn't the fall but the landing | La Haine , probably one of the most momentous French movies of the nineties caused a stir when it opened in 1995 so much so that it became a big social phenomenon . It heralded a genre : the " film De Banlieue " whose backdrop is high-risk French suburbs and in its wake , other movies emerged like " Bye-Bye " ( 1995 ... |
583,073 | 1,219,578 | 384,177 | 8 | Bertrand Tavernier's 2004 vintage | Doctor Pierre Sézac ( Jacques Gamblin ) and his wife Géraldine ( Isabelle Carré ) a childless couple leave for Cambodgia to adopt one . When they arrive there , a real obstacle course awaits for them . Countless , various problems surface , wanderings from orphanages to orphanages amount to nothing and the courage and ... |
584,162 | 1,219,578 | 51,055 | 8 | Written on the sky | After two undistinguished movies ( " Battle Hymn " and " interlude " ) , Sirk teamed up again with three actors of the fabulous quartet who made " written on the wind " a classic of the fifties . Robert Stack told once Sirk was his favorite director and Rock Hudson was never better than with Sirk with whom he made 8 mo... |
583,002 | 1,219,578 | 47,203 | 8 | Melodrama prototype . | Douglas Sirk is known as the melodrama man , but all his movies are not exactly what we call melodrama : " All that heaven allows " and " tarnished angels " are closer to realist stories ; " A time to love and a time to die " transcends melodrama to become a tragedy . Three major movies seem to belong to the genre : " ... |
583,316 | 1,219,578 | 62,467 | 8 | Excellent | Excellent , very underrated suspense where Audrey Hepburn shows how mucheclectic she was from psychological dramas ( children's hour ) to musicals ( My fair lady ) to thrillers " in camera " like this absorbing exciting " wait until dark " . Directed by Terence YOung ( who directed the best James Bond bar one - Goldfin... |
583,662 | 1,219,578 | 154,509 | 8 | A saint in Hell . | Those were the dark hours of the Occupation in France . The sinister Gestapo was torturing prisoners - some of whom were still almost children-in a jail where a German priest was trying to ease their terrible pain . This man was a Franciscan Brother ( hence the title ) but he was above all a man for whom all are brothe... |
584,017 | 1,219,578 | 47,195 | 8 | Ludwig , Wagner and Sissy . | Helmut Kautner's biopic of the famous king was dwarfed by Visconti's four-hour mammoth magnum opus ( 1972 ) . It did not deserve to fall into oblivion though . Of course people will complain because the writers passed over in silence the fact that this king was gay . In 1954 , what else could they do ? When they filmed... |
583,342 | 1,219,578 | 43,362 | 8 | The crowning version . | I do not think the 1994 remake is so appalling . But it cannot hold a candle to this one , for sure , though . Part of the reason can be found , IMHO , in how the two directors deal with the main character . THe color version gambles on Albert Finney's performance and overlooks the rest of the cast which is not that mu... |
584,845 | 1,219,578 | 87,365 | 8 | not the Tarzan you think of . . . . . . | SPOILERS Edgar Rice Burroughs's famous character was adapted thousand of times for the screen til one's thirst is quenched , notably during the thirties and the forties by Hollywood . Its productors made Tarzan one of the most successful cinema characters . Several years later , Hugh Hudson decided to make a more ambit... |
583,305 | 1,219,578 | 47,172 | 8 | How could she bridge the gap ? | Die Letzte Brücke was the movie which put Maria Schell on the map : it is probably her best part : emotion to the fore , sentimentality kept to economical levels - which was not always so in her later films . Her portrayal of a German doctor kidnapped by Yougoslavian partisans is unforgettable . At the beginning , th... |
583,719 | 1,219,578 | 27,818 | 8 | The first link on the chain . | Jenny inaugurates the famous series of movies which made Marcel Carné one of the most brilliant directors of the era . From 1936 to 1946 , with scenarist Jacques Prévert ( and once with Henri Jeanson ) he created what the critics called the " réalisme poétique " . One should note that Carné himself used to hate this ... |
582,552 | 1,219,578 | 39,512 | 8 | They were meant for each other , but . . | Whadaya say Jean Delannoy ain't high culture ? This is Jean-Paul Sartre ! Will this director suffer for eternity from the reputation he got from the " nouvelle vague " clique ? At least an user without bias has already written to tell his admiration for " les jeux sont faits " . " Les jeux sont faits " is an unfairly a... |
584,152 | 1,219,578 | 119,842 | 8 | their mummy's dead . . . | When I checked this film on IMDB , I was surprised . Not by the popular rating , 6 . 7 out 10 is a good mark but by the number of votes . Only , 368 votes ! How can such a good movie by largely ignored by the public ? Peter Mullan in the world of British cinema is especially known as an actor . We remember his performa... |
582,717 | 1,219,578 | 30,062 | 8 | Schoodays were the best days of our life . | This movie was made for all these who feel nostalgic for their schooldays : an insert at the beginning of the movie tells us so . . So it may have been , and if so then , it magnificently succeeds in its purpose . Pierre Very , the scenarist , worked wonders here . Saint-Agil is a boarding - school where three pals hav... |
582,581 | 1,219,578 | 53,168 | 8 | pickpockets of the Parisian unite | The year is 1959 and a bunch of aspiring filmmakers reunited under the sign of the New Wavelet plans to rejuvenate French cinema . To achieve their goals , one of the advocated solutions is to shoot their works in the street on natural location . One of their darlings Robert Bresson has the same idea but with one major... |
584,074 | 1,219,578 | 58,700 | 8 | A vampire's nightmare | Richard Matheson's " I am legend " is , along with " The incredible shrinking man " , his finest hour . His decline is all the more blatant in " stir of echoes " . " I am legend " features three parts ( January 1976 , March 1976 , June 1978 ) and an epilogue ( January 1979 ) . Do not let the titles fool you : it's a ti... |
585,365 | 1,219,578 | 154,609 | 8 | Adventure likes darkness | One of the 30 ( or 31 depending on whom you ask ) produced by the Continental German firm during the occupation days in France ; the most prominent example is HG Clouzot's " le Corbeau " . Why such a title ? ( Man from London ) at a time when the German censorship was adamant : no hints at England ! It was the reason w... |
582,373 | 1,219,578 | 56,966 | 8 | A fairy tale in reverse . . | Two brothers ; one of them , after his mother's death ( she died during the birth ) is taken in by a rich man , the other has to manage . But things will not turn out as expected . The movie is a long flashback , Enrico's somber meditation on his young brother's fate , whom he only saw sporadically . There are a lot of... |
583,559 | 1,219,578 | 53,131 | 8 | A woman's story | This is one of Audrey Hepburn's finest performances . With a lesser talent , the three parts would not hang together well . One must notice she is given strong support by Dame Peggy Ashcroft and Peter Finch . 1 . The community : the depiction of the life in the convent is depicted as no one did before and no one would ... |
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